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London, 20 October 2020 – Atos has been awarded a leading role on a new cloud computing initiative to help deliver operational efficiencies and enhance customer service for Northumbrian Water, one of the UK’s leading utility providers. With its Microsoft Azure expertise, Atos is working alongside Northumbrian Water to migrate the first wave of three […]The post Atos Wins Northumbrian Water Cloud Computing Transformation project appeared first on insideHPC.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it was awarded a $48 AUD million contract to build a new supercomputer for Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, one of Australia’s leading national supercomputing centers, located in Western Australia. The new supercomputer is part of the Pawsey Capital Refresh Program, which is a $70 AUD million program funded by the Australian government to […]The post HPE to build Australia’s No. 1 Supercomputer at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre appeared first on insideHPC.

In the weeks leading to today’s Exascale Day observance, we set ourselves the task of asking supercomputing experts about the unique challenges, the particularly vexing problems, of building a computer capable of 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second. Readers of this publication might guess, given Intel’s trouble producing the 7nm “Ponte Vecchio” GPU for its delayed Aurora system for Argonne National Laboratory, that compute is the toughest exascale nut to crack. But according to the people we interviewed, the difficulties of engineering exascale-class supercomputing run the systems gamut. As we listened to exascale’s daunting litany of technology difficulties....The post Getting to Exascale: Nothing Is Easy appeared first on insideHPC.

This special research report sponsored by Tyan discusses practical hardware design strategies for modern HPC workloads. As hardware continued to develop, technologies like multi-core, GPU, NVMe, and others have allowed new application areas to become possible. These application areas include accelerator assisted HPC, GPU based Deep learning, and Big Data Analytics systems. Unfortunately, implementing a general purpose balanced system solution is not possible for these applications. To achieve the best price-to-performance in each of these application verticals, attention to hardware features and design is most important.The post Practical Hardware Design Strategies for Modern HPC Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

Four new supercomputers backed by a pan-European initiative will use Nvidia data center accelerators, networks and software for AI and high-performance computing. They include a system dubbed Leonardo, unveiled today at Italy’s CINECA research center, using Nvidia technologies to deliver what the company said is the world’s most powerful AI system. The four systems are […]The post EuroHPC: 4 Nvidia-based AI Supercomputers Coming from Atos, HPE; 4 More on Way appeared first on insideHPC.

The company that built the world’s nos. 2 and 3 most powerful supercomputers is to all appearances backing away from the supercomputer systems business. IBM, whose Summit and Sierra CORAL-1 systems set the global standard for pre-exascale supercomputing, failed to win any of the three exascale contracts, and since then IBM has seemingly withdrawn from the HPC systems field. This has been widely discussed within the HPC community for at least the last 18 months. In fact, an industry analyst told us that as long ago as the annual ISC Conference in Frankfurt four years ago, he was shocked when IBM told him the company was no longer interested in the HPC business per se....The post Where Have You Gone, IBM? appeared first on insideHPC.

Oct. 15, 2020 — Canonical today announced autonomous high availability (HA) clustering in MicroK8s, the lightweight Kubernetes. Already popular for IoT and developer workstations, MicroK8s now gains resilience for production workloads in cloud and server deployments. High availability is enabled automatically once three or more nodes are clustered, and the data store migrates automatically between nodes to […]The post Canonical Launches HA MicroK8s, Minimal Kubernetes appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, our friends over at Lenovo and Intel highlight how Lenovo is doing some exciting stuff with Intel’s DAOS software. DAOS, or Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage, is a scale-out HPC storage stack that uses the object storage paradigm to bypass some of the limitations of traditional parallel file system architectures.The post Lenovo Offers Optimal Storage Platform for Intel DAOS appeared first on insideHPC.

Singapore, 15 Oct. 2020 — Using a brain-inspired approach, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a way for robots to have the artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize pain and to self-repair when damaged. The system has AI-enabled sensor nodes to process and respond to ‘pain’ arising from pressure exerted by a physical […]The post NTU Singapore Scientists Develop ‘Mini-brains’ to Help Robots Recognize Pain and to Self-repair appeared first on insideHPC.

Oct. 15, 2020 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced the latest version of t|ket〉(pronounced “ticket”), its high-performance quantum software development kit (Q-SDK), which now enables quantum circuit execution on Amazon Braket, a fully managed quantum computing service from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and IonQ quantum computers as well as application development on the Windows […]The post Cambridge Quantum Computing Announces Update to t|ket⟩ Quantum Software Development Kit (Q-SDK) appeared first on insideHPC.

A new method to make non-volatile computer memory may have unlocked a problem been holding back machine learning and has the potential to revolutionize technologies like voice recognition, image processing and autonomous driving, according to a team of researchers at Sandia National Laboratories. Working with collaborators from the University of Michigan, the Sandia team published […]The post Sandia: Material in House Paint Could Spur ‘Technology Revolution’ appeared first on insideHPC.

Oct. 14, 2020 — The National Center for Supercomputing Application’s (NCSA) Director and Chief Scientist William “Bill” Gropp has been voted IEEE Computer Society 2021 president-elect and will serve as president in 2022. The president oversees IEEE CS programs and operations and is a nonvoting member of most IEEE CS program boards and committees. The IEEE CS is the […]The post NCSA’s Bill Gropp Voted IEEE CS 2022 President appeared first on insideHPC.

As Exascale Day (Oct. 18) approaches, we thought it appropriate to post a recent article from Scott Gibson of the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), an overview of the anticipated advances in scientific discovery enabled by exascale-class supercomputers. Much of this research will focus on atomic physics and its impact on such areas as catalysts used in industrial conversion, molecular dynamics simulations and quantum mechanics used to develop new materials for improved medicines, batteries, sensors and computing devices.The post What May Come from Exascale? Improved Medicines, Longer-range Batteries, Better Control of 3D Parts, for Starters appeared first on insideHPC.

Berlin, Oct. 14, 2020 – The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) has announced it is repeating its role as sponsor of undergraduate students participating in the Student Cluster Competition at next month’s Supercomputing Conference 2020 (SC20). In an effort to get young and enthusiastic talent interested in the world of high-performance computing (HPC), GCS continues […]The post GCS Supports University Team deFAUlt in SC20 Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

It’s Exascale Awareness Week, the lead-up to Exascale Day this Sunday, Oct. 18 (1018), and while we mainly hear about the anticipated benefits of exascale-class computing for scientific discovery, there is also the economic competitiveness motive for exascale as well. In this video produced by DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), Goodyear’s Chief Technology Officer Chris […]The post Exascale Day: Goodyear’s CTO Talks Exascale’s Coming Industrial Design Advantages appeared first on insideHPC.

Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 13, 2020 — Sandia National Laboratories Fellow Gil Herrera has been appointed to the newly established U.S. National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee. Herrera is one of two committee members representing the Department of Energy national laboratories. He joins 20 others from government, industry and academia tasked with advising the nation’s highest offices on […]The post Sandia Labs Fellow Named to Quantum Computing Advisory Committee appeared first on insideHPC.

Sunnyvale, CA, Oct. 12, 2020 – UberCloud will present this virtual event on October 27 (Americas), October 28 (EMEA) and October 29 (Asia), focusing on UberCloud’s novel CAE Simulation Platform on Azure. UberCloud is providing enterprises with ‘Cloud with One Click’ – a secure, on-demand, self-service, automated, and fully customizable platform for complex engineering simulations. […]The post UberCloud Announces Oct. 27-28-29 CAE Webinars on UberCloud/Azure appeared first on insideHPC.

High performance storage vendor DDN, provider of AI and data management software and hardware solutions, today announced Brookhaven National Laboratory has selected DDN’s A3I AI400X all-NVME flash appliance storage for fast optimum experimental design for its Computational Science Initiative (CSI). Brookhaven National Laboratory plans to use DDN products along with the Nvidia DGX-2 AI supercomputer to expand its project […]The post Brookhaven’s Advanced Computing Lab Expands with DDN A3I Storage and Nvidia DGX-2 appeared first on insideHPC.

Lake Forest, CA , Oct. 13, 2020 — PSSC Labs, a developer of high performance computing (HPC) and big data computing solutions, announces today that a new release of CBeST Cluster Management v 5.0 Software Stack will be available. The newest version of CBeST will add support for the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux / […]The post PSSC Labs Announces CBeST Cluster Management Software Stack v5 Release with Red Hat Support appeared first on insideHPC.

We have our full staff for this show – first time in a long time. We start out with introductions….Henry still lives in a survivalist compound in Las Cruces, NM, Jessi is still on crutches, and Shahin is still living in the smokie Silicon Valley. Download the MP3 Jumping right into our topic: DOD is getting two […]The post Radio Free HPC: Liqid Gets Hot, NSF Billion for AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Thierry Pellegrino is vice president and general manager of HPC at Dell Technologies, putting him in a leadership position of a vendor whose servers are used in some of the world’s most powerful HPC clusters. In this interview, Pellegrino explains Dell’s three-pronged HPC strategy (“democratize, optimize, advance HPC and AI”). He also talks about how […]The post The Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Dell HPC Leader Thierry Pellegrino Talks Collaborative Inspiration and Why ‘the Whole World Is Morphing into HPC’ appeared first on insideHPC.

Oct. 13, 2020 — New Mexico is launching a new ‘smart infrastructure’ and carbon-neutral energy era on a grand scale, after its 2019 Energy Transition Act (ETA) positioned the US state as a global leader to fight Climate Change. Its ambition will be enabled by partnership between The Agile Fractal Grid (AFG), developing a new integrated power […]The post Digital Twin Platform Powers New Mexico to Carbon Neutral Future appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE – Oct. 13, 2020 – Alkira, Inc., the network cloud company, announced today a $54M Series B funding led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) with participation from Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and others. Alkira has raised $76M to date. The new funds will be used to scale the company […]The post Alkira Raises $54M Series B for Network Cloud Offering appeared first on insideHPC.

London – Oct. 13, 2020, VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), London’s leading data centre company and part of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres Group, announced today that it is embarking on further expansion of its West London campus in Slough. With LONDON3, LONDON4, LONDON9 and LONDON10 already live, or in the final stages of construction, VIRTUS […]The post Virtus Expands Slough Data Centre with Addition of London11 appeared first on insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS (Oct. 12, 2020) – AFWERX, the U.S. Air Force’s innovation catalyst will host an informational webinar (register here) on the Reimagining Energy Challenge for the Department of Defense (DoD) tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 13 at 2 pm ET. The webinar will discuss the details of Reimagining Energy Challenge on the type of innovative and technologically advanced solutions […]The post AFWERX to Host ‘Reimaging Energy’ Webinar Tomorrow for DoD appeared first on insideHPC.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) have named Vivek Sarkar of Georgia Institute of Technology winner of the 2020 ACM/IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. Sarkar is recognized for “foundational technical contributions to the area of programmability and productivity in parallel computing, as well as leadership contributions to professional service, mentoring, […]The post Georgia Tech’s Vivek Sarkar Wins 2020 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award appeared first on insideHPC.

Submissions are now open for the ISC High Performance (ISC 2021) Research Paper Sessions. These sessions offer engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government the opportunity to share their latest research in the fields of HPC, networking, storage, machine learning and data analytics with the ISC audience. Submissions will be accepted through December 10, […]The post ISC 2021 Calls for HPC Research Papers by Dec. 10, 2020 appeared first on insideHPC.

This sponsored post from our friends over at Dell Technologies discusses a study by Hyperion Research finds that approximately 20 percent of HPC workloads are now running in the public cloud. There are many good reasons for this trend.The post Why HPC and AI Workloads are Moving to the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that AMD is in “advanced talks” to buy FPGA chip maker Xilinx, a deal valued at approximately $30 billion that would signify another step in the rise of Intel chip rivals. The news follows a string of moves that will have profound impact on the HPC industry. Last […]The post Report: AMD in Xilinx Acquisition Talks appeared first on insideHPC.

As Exascale Day (October 18) approaches, U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar has commented on the hottest exascale question of the day: which of the country’s first three systems will be stood up first? In a recent, far-reaching interview with us, Dabbar confirmed what has been expected for more than two months, that the first U.S. exascale system will not, as planned, be the Intel-powered Aurora system at Argonne National Laboratory. It will instead be HPE-Cray’s Frontier, powered by AMD CPUs and GPUs and designated for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.The post DOE Under Secretary for Science Dabbar’s Exascale Update: Frontier to Be First, Aurora to Be Monitored appeared first on insideHPC.

London – 8 October 2020 – Verne Global, provider of sustainable data center solutions for HPC, today announced it has achieved the exceptional status of Platinum Partner in the Dell Technologies Partner Program. This partnership makes it easier for Dell’s growing community of innovative HPC and AI users – together with consultancies and systems integrators […]The post Verne Global Announces Dell Technologies Platinum Partner Status appeared first on insideHPC.

AMD and Supermicro have upgraded the “Corona” cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for COVID-19 drug discovery and vaccine research. The addition of nearly 1,000 AMD Radeon Instinct MI50 GPU accelerators to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Corona system (named for the solar eclipse of 2017) increases the throughput of the cluster from about 4.5 […]The post Nearly 1000 AMD GPUs Added to NNSA’s ‘Corona’ Cluster for COVID-19 Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Calgary, AB. Oct 7, 2020 – CoolIT Systems, Inc. (CoolIT), maker of energy efficient liquid cooling technologies for HPC, cloud and enterprise markets, has expanded its Rack DLC™ Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) product line with the release of the new Rack DLC CHx200 CDU (CHx200). The CHx200 is the future of high-density rack based CDUs. […]The post CoolIT Systems Launches the Rack DLC CHx200 CDU appeared first on insideHPC.

Irene Qualters, a senior-level manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been at the forefront of the convergence of supercomputing and science for decades, extending back to joining Cray as one of that company's first 100 employees. Few members of the HPC community can match her wealth of experience and wisdom regarding the future of scientific computing and its "no-analog" physics-informed AI exploration of problems confronting our planet, such as climate change.The post The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Irene Qualters’ Long View of HPC, from a Start-up Called Cray to Today’s ‘No-Analog’ Research at Los Alamos appeared first on insideHPC.

Oct. 6, 2020 – DDN, provider of AI and data management software and hardware solutions, announced its A3I all-flash and hybrid storage system alongside Nvidia’s DGX POD will help amplify capabilities at CMKL University, Thailand (CMKL), the number-one AI University in Southeast Asia, to support an increasingly diverse set of research projects spanning from machine learning, connected and automated transportation, […]The post CMKL University, Thailand, Deploys Nvidia and DDN for AI Supercomputing and Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Dell EMC today announced new PowerEdge XE servers, updated its OpenManage systems management and monitoring software and revealed a code collaboration with Splunk for Redfish protocol telemetry data ingestion and analytics. The company said the new PowerEdge XE7100 is the industry’s highest-density 5U storage server with flexible configuration options engineered for video analytics, media-streaming and […]The post Dell EMC Unveils New PowerEdge XE Servers, Updates OpenManage Systems Management appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Alamos, NM, Oct. 6, 2020 — Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced a partnership with HPE and Nvidia intended to deliver HPC technologies to accelerate scientific computing that advance greater performance efficiency, workflow efficiency and analytics. Additional details on the collaboration will be unveiled this fall. “We are excited to be part of this […]The post Los Alamos, HPE, Nvidia Form HPC Scientific Computing Partnership appeared first on insideHPC.

New York, Oct. 6, 2020 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, will hold the inaugural ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), virtually from October 14-16. Advances in artificial intelligence are having significant impacts on finance, including financial markets, financial services, and the global financial system more broadly. ICAIF is a new scholarly conference to […]The post ACM To Hold AI in Finance Conference October 14-16 appeared first on insideHPC.

Geetika Gupta, senior product manager at Nvidia, is a veteran of the company’s drive to bring GPU processing power to the data center. In this conversation, part of our Dell Technologies HPC Community series of interviews, Gupta talks about her work in product management of multiple generations of Nvidia GPUs – including Kepler, Pascal and […]The post Dell Technologies HPC Community Interviews: Nvidia’s Geetika Gupta on a Decade of Driving GPUs into the Data Center appeared first on insideHPC.

SC20 has announced its keynote speaker, Prof. Bjorn Stevens of the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology in Germany, who will speak on Monday, November 16, starting a day of plenary talks and panels at the virtual conference. Prof. Stevens will discuss how exascale computing is impacting two opportunities that are changing the face of climate science — […]The post SC20 Keynote: Climate Science in the Age of Exascale with Dr. Bjorn Stevens appeared first on insideHPC.

London and Reading, UK; Paris, France; Bologna, Italy – October 5 2020 – Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, and the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), today announce a new Center of Excellence in HPC, AI and Quantum computing for Weather & Climate. The Center will be based at ECMWF’s headquarters in Reading, UK, where […]The post Atos and ECMWF Launch Center of Excellence in Weather and Climate Modelling with HPC, AI and Quantum appeared first on insideHPC.

A $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will continue a lab-computer collaboration that accurately simulated communications between nerve cells and muscle cells. The project has immediate applications in treating a type of neurological disease called Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS). It also offers fundamental insights into how nerve cells communicate with muscle cells in health […]The post $750,000 Grant to Research of Nerve-Muscle Communication at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pitt appeared first on insideHPC.

Here is a summary of today’s news and announcement released by Nvidia at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC), this year held virtually: Data Center and Networking New Family of BlueField DPUs for Center Networking, Storage and Security Performance – The company announced a new kind of processor — the DPU, or data processing unit — featuring DOCA, […]The post GTC: A Summary of Today’s Announcements from Nvidia appeared first on insideHPC.

FORT COLLINS, CO – October 6, 2020 – DH2i, a provider of multi-platform Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) and Smart Availability software, today announced the launch of DxOdyssey for IoT. The new edge-optimized Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) solution, ensures end-to-end Zero Trust IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity, for the highest possible levels of security for IoT data, communications, and […]The post DH2i Launches DxOdyssey for IoT, Edge-Optimized Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) Solution appeared first on insideHPC.

Today at Nvidia’s virtual GTC event, the company announced what it said will be the United Kingdom’s most powerful supercomputer, to be made available by the end of this year to UK healthcare researchers using AI to solve medical challenges, including COVID-19. Powered by 80 Nvidia DGX A100 GPU-based Systems connected by Nvidia Mellanox InfiniBand, […]The post Nvidia Says It’s Building UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer, Targeting AI Research in Healthcare appeared first on insideHPC.

Nvidia today announced at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) the Nvidia DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise, the world’s first turnkey AI infrastructure, making it possible for organizations to install incredibly powerful AI supercomputers with extraordinary speed — in many cases in just a few weeks’ time. Available in cluster sizes ranging from 20 to 140 […]The post Nvidia Announces DGX SuperPODs for AI, Available in 20-Node Increments appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special edition of Radio Free HPC, we interview Mark Himelstein, RISC-V International Chief Technical Officer, looking at RISC-V from all angles, discussing how the open source ISA is used today and how it might be used tomorrow. And there’s a lot to consider. The European Processor Initiative has selected RISC-V as their accelerator of choice for their first exascale machines. The first system is expected in the 2022-2023 timeframe and will couple RISC-V accelerators with Arm processors.The post Radio Free HPC: RISC-V Deep Dive, CTO Interview appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, our friends over at Dell Technologies highlight a compelling case study: the University of Pisa gains greater flexibility and value from its IT infrastructure with widespread virtualization of resources, including high performance computing systems.The post Taking Virtualization to a Higher Level at the University of Pisa appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose – Oct. 1, 2020 – HPE today announced it is delivering the highest level of security for a growing number of U.S. federal and public sector customers that prefer U.S. sourced products with verifiable cyber assurance by expanding and further securing its supply chain. HPE is the only major server manufacturer to produce made-in-USA […]The post HPE Announces End-to-End Supply Chain for Hardened Data Protection During Manufacturing Process appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has announced a contract for a new HPE supercomputer to be installed in spring of 2022 with quadrupled performance over the existing system for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The $105 million HPE Cray EX supercomputer, called Crossroads, will replace Cray’s Trinity system and will be […]The post NNSA Purchasing $105M HPE Cray EX Supercomputer, to be Sited at Los Alamos appeared first on insideHPC.