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The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) has announced the formation of the OCP Future Technologies Initiative, a formal project within the Foundation whose mission is to build a future-focused Community within OCP to serve as forward-looking funnel for ideas and technologies three-to-five years into the future. In 2019, the Foundation initiated the OCP Future Technologies […]The post Open Compute Project Foundation Announces the OCP Future Technologies Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE — February 25, 2021 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based lasers, modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high speed communications networks, today announced availability of its extended case temperature QSFP-DD 400G ZR modules. These 400G ZR modules utilize NeoPhotonics’ industry leading coherent optical components […]The post NeoPhotonics 400G ZR Modules Support Extended Operation up to 80C Case Temperatures appeared first on insideHPC.

SARATOGA, Calif. – Feb. 25, 2021 — RSTOR, a software defined cloud platform provider that enables enterprises to manage data across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures, has announced a series of customer website enhancements that simplify and integrate data mobility and storage management. “After our new branding was announced, RSTOR took a fresh look at what customers need from […]The post RSTOR Updates Software Defined Cloud Platform for Hybrid, Multi-Cloud Infrastructures appeared first on insideHPC.

Supercomputing Frontiers Europe’s annual conference will be a free, online event and is scheduled for July 19-23, 2021. Featuring virtual ICM seminars on HPC and computational science, it will be broadcast from Warsaw, Poland. Topics for SCFE21 will be: special architectures, storage class memory, hybrid cloud/HPC, smart systems, hybrid quantum computing and HPC, omics and […]The post Supercomputing Frontiers Europe Announces Virtual Event July 19-23 appeared first on insideHPC.

Currently in position as providing the world's fastest analytics database, according to an independent benchmark, Brytlyt offers accessible GPU solutions to any business aiming to accelerate their data analytics and take their competitive insights to the next level.The post How GPU Acceleration is Fueling Modern Insights appeared first on insideHPC.

Paris – February 25, 2021 – Scaleway, an alternative European infrastructure and platform as-a-service provider, has announced “the Breakathon” centered on its container orchestrator, Kubernetes Kapsule. On March 25, developers and user communities are invited to test the limits of Kubernetes Kapsule clusters, and put their skills to the test, combining web development, multi-cluster management, […]The post Scaleway to Hold Breakathon March 25, Stress-test Kubernetes Kapsule’s Performance appeared first on insideHPC.

SINGAPORE – Quantum computing systems, software and services company D-Wave Systems Inc., has announced the introduction of Leap quantum cloud service to Singapore. Developers, researchers, and businesses in Singapore can now access D-Wave’s Advantage™ quantum computer, hybrid quantum/classical solvers, and the Quantum Application Environment (QAE) in real time via Leap to drive the development of business-critical, […]The post D-Wave Introduces Leap Quantum Cloud Service to Singapore appeared first on insideHPC.

This update is from Aaron Dubrow, science and technology writer, TACC. Frontera — the 9th fastest supercomputer in the world, deployed at The University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) — has expanded thanks to a supplemental award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), which funded the system, and a substantial contribution from […]The post TACC, with NSF, Dell and Intel, Expands Frontera for Urgent Computing appeared first on insideHPC.

BURNABY, British Columbia — D-Wave Systems Inc., the quantum computing systems, software and services company, has published a milestone study in collaboration with scientists at Google, demonstrating a computational performance advantage, increasing with both simulation size and problem hardness, to over 3 million times that of corresponding classical methods. Notably, this work was achieved on a practical […]The post D-Wave Demonstrates Performance Advantage in Quantum Simulation of Exotic Magnetism appeared first on insideHPC.

Dell Technologies has announced its new HPC and AI leadership, a management group likely to be unfamiliar to many in the HPC community. But this may say something about the evolution of HPC as well as Dell's vision of HPC's broadening role across IT. The leadership group is comprised of Pete Manca, SVP for integrated solutions engineering; Caitlin Gordon, VP of product management, Integrated Solutions; and Ihab Tarazi, SVP CTO Office, Integrated Solutions and Technology Ecosystems.The post Dell Names New HPC Leadership Team appeared first on insideHPC.

AUSTIN, TX – February 24, 2021 – Katana Graph, the high-performance scale-out graph processing, AI and analytics company, announced today that it has completed a $28.5 million Series A financing round led by Intel Capital with participation from existing and new investors including WRVI Capital, Nepenthe Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, and Redline Capital. Intel Capital […]The post Katana Graph Secures $28.5 Million Series A Financing Round Led by Intel Capital appeared first on insideHPC.

MAISONS-LAFFITTE, France — SiPearl, designer of high-performance, energy-efficient microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer and Open-Silicon Research, the India-based entity of OpenFive, a leading provider of custom silicon solutions with differentiated IP, today announced a multi-year joint collaboration to enable expansive development of innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. Specifically, SiPearl is relying on Open-Silicon […]The post SiPearl and Open-Silicon Research Team to Accelerate Custom Silicon for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC Guide, “10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI,” our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically planning for success beyond the initial stages of a project. Reasons given for these failures include not having a plan ahead of time, not getting executive or business leadership buy-in, or failing to find the proper team to execute the project. Chasing the hot technology trend without having a proper strategy often leads companies down the path of failure.The post 10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 3 appeared first on insideHPC.

Suggestions from Tim Mercer, founder of IBOXG, which provides technology services and solutions to government agencies and corporations. Cybersecurity breaches have become all too common, putting public health, individuals’ private information, and companies in jeopardy. With cloud computing prevalent in business as a way to store and share data, workloads and software, a greater amount of sensitive material is potentially […]The post 5 Cloud Risk To-do’s appeared first on insideHPC.

SEOUL — Feb. 24, 2021 — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. today announced it has begun mass producing its most advanced line of data center SSDs, the PM9A3 E1.S. The new PM9A3 fully complies with the Open Compute Project (OCP) NVMe Cloud SSD Specification to satisfy the rigorous demands of enterprise workloads. Defined by leading data center […]The post Samsung Begins Mass Production of Data Center SSD for Hyperscale Environments appeared first on insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, CA and CAMBRIDGE, UK, February 24, 2021 – Crown Bioscience (CrownBio), JSR Life Sciences and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) today announced a partnership agreement to explore the application of quantum technology to drive the identification of multi-gene biomarker discovery for oncology drug discovery. The partnership will combine CrownBio’s domain expertise and vast data sets generated […]The post CrownBio and JSR Life Sciences Partner with Cambridge Quantum Computing to Leverage Quantum Machine Learning for Novel Cancer Treatment Biomarker Discovery appeared first on insideHPC.

Paris and Madrid, February 23, 2021 – Atos announced it has been selected by the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) to supply and install its computing and storage technology, through the tender “Contracting of Supply through leasing without the option to purchase a Supercomputing System for the AEMET”. Based on the BullSequana supercomputing architecture from Atos, […]The post Atos Boosts Supercomputing Power for Spanish State Meteorological Agency AEMET appeared first on insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Feb. 23, 2021 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management solutions company, today announced record-breaking annual revenue of $400 million and its highest ever profitability in 2020. With an install base of more than 11,000 customers and a loyal global network of resellers and distributors, the company delivered 52 percent in revenue […]The post DDN Global Leader in Intelligent Infrastructure and Technology Announces Record Breaking Revenue of $400 Million in 2020 appeared first on insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan, Feb 23, 2021 – Rackmount server and storage manufacturer, Chenbro (TWSE: 8210), has announced a new line of updates to its open-bay server chassis products. Joining Chenbro’s existing open-bay products, the new family of chassis includes the RM23800, RM23804, RM24500, and RM24504 SKUs and have been designed to bring them in line with […]The post Chenbro Unveils Update to Open-Bay Product Line with New Server Chassis Models appeared first on insideHPC.

23 February 2021 – Oxford, UK: The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) will provide machine learning guidance to Microsoft Azure users via the new Azure HPC & AI Collaboration Centre. In partnership with NVIDIA, this new centre will develop best practices for the deployment of scalable machine learning in the Cloud. “Microsoft and NVIDIA innovation around […]The post NAG Delivers Machine Learning Guidance via New Azure HPC + AI Collaboration Centre appeared first on insideHPC.

Industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has completed its latest study of high performance computing buyers and users, it’s first since 2017, and the report reveals a quickly evolving and innovating industry in which, among other findings, end users are figuring out how to leverage the variety of compute architectures while also calling for HPC systems […]The post Hyperion HPC User Study: Demand for Sim-Analytics Systems, a Throughput Boom, AMD GPUs and FPGAs on the Move and Other Findings appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 23, 2021 – Addressing the demands of the modern data center, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced a range of new data center products and solutions, including a new family of Alveo SmartNICs, Smart World AI video analytics applications, an accelerated algorithmic trading reference design for sub-microsecond trading, and the Xilinx App […]The post Xilinx Alveo Platform for Networking and AI Video Analytics appeared first on insideHPC.

Zurich – Feb. 23, 2021 – RISC-V International, a non-profit corporation controlled by its members to drive the adoption and implementation of the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), unveiled its Fast Track Architecture Extension Process (Fast Track) that streamlines the ratification of small architecture extensions. ZiHintPause is the first extension to be ratified under […]The post RISC-V International Unveils Fast Track Architecture Extension Process and Ratifies ZiHintPause Extension appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMARILLO, CA, Feb. 23, 2021 –Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, today announced sampling of a new solution (GN2255), Semtech’s Tri-EdgeTM CDR to enable emerging 50Gbps PAM4 5G front haul deployments. Based on the proven Tri-Edge CDR platform qualified in data center applications, the new solution […]The post Semtech to Enable 50Gbps PAM4 Front Haul 5G Wireless Deployment with 5G Front Haul Tri-Edge CDR IC Solution appeared first on insideHPC.

Reston, Virginia – February 23, 2021 – ScienceLogic, provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management, announced today that it has raised $105 million in growth financing. Silver Lake Waterman led the company’s Series E round with participation from existing investors Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and NewView Capital. The investment will support the company’s […]The post AIOps Company ScienceLogic Raises $105M from Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital and NewView Capital appeared first on insideHPC.

Tel Aviv – February 22, 2021 – Octopai, the leader in Automated Data Lineage and Data Discovery, announced today its support and analysis of Snowflake, the fastest-growing cloud-based database in the industry. This follows a recent announcement of its support of Microsoft Azure Data Factory. Octopai’s mission is to provide organizations the intelligence they need to […]The post Octopai Announces Support of Snowflake appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances, WekaIO, explores “storage as a service” in using AWS, and how this is made possible with Weka’s Limitless Data Platform. And you can plan your cluster on Amazon EC2 with Weka’s self-service tools that help you configure the most cost-efficient Amazon EC2 instance based on the storage and performance requirements of your application.The post Storage as a Service in AWS appeared first on insideHPC.

A team led by C.S. Chang at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has used the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) 200-petaflop Summit and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF’s) 11.7-petaflop Theta supercomputers, together with a supervised machine learning program called Eureqa, to find....The post Summit and Theta Supercomputers Power ML Models for Fusion Energy Research appeared first on insideHPC.

This ebook from our friends over at Rescale, shows that by adopting a platform solution and retiring the fixed capacity, on-premises infrastructure model, companies can significantly reduce capital expenditures, dramatically increase productivity, and develop next-generation innovative products at a pace that surpasses their competition.The post HPC Buyers Guide appeared first on insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan, February 19th 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced the G262-ZR0 for HPC, AI, and data analytics. Designed to support high-level of performance in GPU computing, the G262-ZR0 incorporates fast PCIe 4.0 throughput in addition to NVIDIA HGX technologies and NVIDIA® NVLink® to provide industry leading […]The post GIGABYTE Releases 2U Server: G262-ZR0 with NVIDIA HGX A100 4-GPU appeared first on insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, CA—February 18, 2021— HPC and hyperscale analyst firm Intersect360 Research will present its latest research and insights on technology trends in the HPC and AI market at a free webinar on Tuesday, March2 at 12pm EST / 9am PST. The webinar will include data and insights from the firm’s latest HPC Technology Survey, spanning trends […]The post Intersect360 Research Announces March 2 HPC/AI Technology Trends Webinar appeared first on insideHPC.

Samsung is claiming progress on the ages-old compute-memory bottleneck inherent in the classical von Neumann computing architecture. The company has announced what it said is the industry’s first High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) integrated with artificial intelligence (AI) processing power — the HBM-PIM. The company said the processing-in-memory (PIM) architecture brings AI computing capabilities inside high-performance […]The post Roll Over von Neumann? Samsung Claims Progress on the Compute-Memory Divide for HPC, AI Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

REDWOOD CITY, CA – Feb. 17, 2021 – TigerGraph, graph analytics platform provider, today announced it has raised $105 million in Series C funding, which the company said is largest funding round to date within the graph database and analytics market. The round was led by Tiger Global and brings TigerGraph’s total funding raised to over […]The post TigerGraph Raises $105 Million to Accelerate Graph Analytics in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Southampton, UK and MWC Shanghai, China – 18th February 2020: AccelerComm, the channel coding specialist, has announced Physical Layer IP for 5G NG designed to increase spectral efficiency and reduce latency. The company’s 5G NR PUSCH (Physical Uplink Shared Channel) Decoder and PDSCH (Physical Downlink Shared Channel) Encoder is for customers who want to maximize the efficacy […]The post AccelerComm Unveils Integrated PUSCH Decoder for 5G NR appeared first on insideHPC.

This ebook from our friends over at Rescale, "HPC Cost Modeling: Defining the Modern HPC Experience," focuses on why the historical methodology for determining cost, price per core hour is at best incapable of providing effective cost optimization for HPC workloads. At worst, it could increase your overall cost of ownership and slow innovation and productivity.The post HPC Cost Modeling appeared first on insideHPC.

Western Digital today said it has partnered with the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center to provide the storage infrastructure for from mammography scans cancer detection. The center’s AI Precision Health Institute (AI-PHI) has deployed the company’s Ultrastar Data60 Hybrid Storage Platform with 720TB of hard disk drives (HDDs) in support of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning […]The post University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, Western Digital Leverage AI and Big Data in Fight Against Breast Cancer appeared first on insideHPC.

Industry analyst Shahin Khan, founding partner of OrionX.net, here talks about the strategic shift among core-cloud-edge and why compute at the edge, HPC at the edge, will seize the ascendancy in 2021. It all plays into Khan’s longer term vision for advanced computing in which IoT is the fountain of data, 5G is how the […]The post In the Core-Cloud-Edge Triad, Why Edge Is Coming to the Fore in 2021 appeared first on insideHPC.

LEESBURG, VA – February 17, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI), whose mission is to bridge classical and quantum computing, today announced the commercial availability of Qatalyst, a quantum application accelerator. Qatalyst delivers the power of quantum techniques and classical computing into the hands of non-quantum experts for solving critical business problems today. […]The post QCI Launches Qatalyst, Quantum Computing Application Accelerator appeared first on insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — February 16, 2021 — Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), specialist in storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced updates to its industry-recognized Purity software for FlashBlade and FlashArray. Today’s news is designed to expand Pure’s market reach and further the company’s vision for a Modern Data Experience. The Modern Data Experience vision changes […]The post Pure Announces FlashBlade and FlashArray Updates appeared first on insideHPC.

February 15, 2021 – A new AI model that harnesses the power of the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fugaku, is targeting tsunami flooding prediction in coastal areas before the tsunami reaches land. The development of the new technology was announced as part of a joint project between the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IREDeS) at […]The post Fugaku Leverages AI for Tsunami Flood Prediction appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Feb. 16, 2021 — Quantum Corporation. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced its ActiveScale S3-compatible object storage system has achieved Veeam Ready qualification for Object and Object with Immutability, extending Quantum’s security capabilities for enterprises storing and managing unstructured data. With this achievement for Quantum ActiveScale object storage, alongside Active Vault for its Scalar tape libraries and the forthcoming snapshot feature for its DXi backup appliances, […]The post Quantum Corp. Partners With Veeam on Ransomware Protection appeared first on insideHPC.

February 15, 2021 — From the vastness of neutron-star collisions to the raw power of incoming tsunamis to the tiny, life-and-death details of how COVID-19 progresses, the Bridges platform at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has seen it all. Now Bridges has taken its final bow, ceding the title of PSC’s flagship high-performance computing (HPC) […]The post PSC’s Big Data and AI Supercomputer Replaced by New Bridges-2 Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

This week Jessi, Henry, and Dan discuss computer-brain interfaces and how Elon Musk’s Neuralink has recently done this with a pig. Surprisingly, we have some concerns about this, primarily security and control... Our next topic is how Oracle is adding a bunch of new hardware to their HPC cloud, including Arm powered servers, Nvidia Ampere GPUs, and a new processor also called Ampere. The new gear is plenty sporty, listen to the pod to hear our discussion and evaluation.The post Radio Free HPC: Musk and Computer-Brain Interfaces; Oracle Adds Arm Servers to its HPC Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Feb. 5, 2021 — Thirty-two Oak Ridge National Laboratory employees were named among teams recognized by former U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette with Secretary’s Honor Awards as he completed his term. DOE’s site manager for ORNL, Johnny O. Moore, also is among those honored. The annual awards recognize the achievements of those who […]The post ORNL Employees Recognized with DOE Secretary’s Honor Awards appeared first on insideHPC.

This whitepaper, "Hybrid Cloud with Bright Cluster Manager," from our friends over at Bright Computing discusses how hybrid cloud infrastructures allow organizations to strategically manage their compute requirements from core data center to public cloud and edge, but they are very complex to build and manage. Automation is essential, and verifying your staff’s abilities to work with your tool of choice is mandatory.The post Hybrid Cloud with Bright Cluster Manager appeared first on insideHPC.

February 15, 2021 — Advanced Clustering Technologies is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Founded on Feb. 14, 2001, the company was originally billed as “Your source for peak performance computing.” The company’s mission – to build cost-effective high performance computing solutions backed by customer service that is second to none – has remained its […]The post Advanced Clustering Technology’s Celebrates 20 Years in Business appeared first on insideHPC.

New York – February 15, 2021 – Altran, part of the Capgemini Group, announced plans today for its pre-integrated and validated 5G NR (new radio) software offering on the Qualcomm 5G RAN platform for small cells (FSM100xx), in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. This solution is designed to accelerate development time and lower development cost […]The post Altran Collaborates With Qualcomm to Deliver 5G NR Software for Enhanced Public & Private 5G Network Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Programmers cannot blindly guess which sections of their code might bottleneck performance. This problem is worsened when codes run across the variety of hardware platforms supported by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP). A section of code that runs well on one system might be a bottleneck on another system. Differing hardware execution models further compound the performance challenges that face application developers; these models can include the somewhat restricted SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) and SIMT (Single Instruction Multiple Thread) computing for GPU models and the more complex and general MIMD (Multiple Instruction Multiple Data) for CPUs. New software programming models, such as Kokkos, also introduce multiple layers of abstraction and lambda functions that can hide or obscure the low-level execution details due to their complexity and anonymous nature. Differing memory systems inside a node and differences in the communications fabric that connect high-performance computing (HPC) nodes in a distributed supercomputer environment add even greater challenges in identifying performance bottlenecks during application performance analysis.The post Spotting HPC and Exascale Bottlenecks with TAU CPU/GPU/MPI Profiler appeared first on insideHPC.

On the heels of an announcement by Arm Holdings yesterday that its silicon partners in the third quarter of 2020 shipped 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, news stories from CNBC and Bloomberg report that Google, Microsoft and Qualcomm are filing complains to U.S. antitrust regulators about Nvidia’s intended acquisition of Arm from Softbank for $40 billion, […]The post Google Microsoft and Qualcomm Protest Nvidia-Arm Acquisition appeared first on insideHPC.

Though years from potential fruition, quantum computing and its control has emerged as an issue among technology ethicists. But if a YouTube video released last week voicing the concerns of six quantum experts is any indication, the level of discourse is at an early and amorphous stage, with only vague notions of solutions. This is […]The post The Quantum Comprehension Gap and the Emergence of Quantum Ethics appeared first on insideHPC.