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Jacqueline Chen, whose work on fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions in combustion helped advance the design of automotive, gas turbine and jet engines, was selected by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science as a distinguished scientist fellow — one of only eight researchers in the nation to hold the distinction. Chen, a senior scientist in the […]The post Combustion Pioneer Jacqueline Chen Named Department of Energy Fellow appeared first on insideHPC.

Reston, VA – Sept. 10, 2020 – ScienceLogic, provider of monitoring solutions for multi-cloud management and hybrid IT infrastructure, has been recognized for AIOps leadership in Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) AIOps Radar Report. From among 17 AIOps vendors, EMA ranked ScienceLogic no. 1 “Value Leader” in Incident, Performance, & Availability Management for Product Strength and “Strong Value” […]The post ScienceLogic Named Top AIOps Provider by EMA appeared first on insideHPC.

Cloud data analytics specialist Teradata has released collaborative features to its Vantage platform designed to reduce the friction between data scientists, business analysts, data engineers and business managers – some of whom may use different tools and languages. Enhancements include expanded native support for R and Python, with the ability to call more Vantage-native analytic […]The post Teradata Expands Data Science Collaboration Capabilities appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco, Sept. 10, 2020 — Rescale Inc., the leader in enterprise big compute, today announced the appointment of two new senior executives, underscoring the company’s commitment to accelerate global science and engineering breakthroughs through high performance computing. Industry leader Edward Hsu joins Rescale as the company’s first Vice President of Product, where he will […]The post Rescale Announces Appointments to its Executive Ranks appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, our friend John Spiers, Chief Strategy Officer at Liqid, discusses how resource utilization and the soaring costs surrounding it are a constant push and pull issue for IT Departments. Now with the emergence of AI and machine learning, resource utilization is far more front and center than it has ever been. Managing legacy hardware in a hyperconverged environment just as you always have is not going to cut it, because the people and hardware costs associated with these extremely heavy workloads are tremendous. Intelligent fabrics and composable infrastructure software deliver a solution to the problem that allows IT providers the ability to pool and deploy their hardware resources to adapt to the workload at hand, then re-deploy as required for a balanced system that can address the demands of AI and machine learning.The post Intelligent Fabrics for the Next Wave of AI Innovation appeared first on insideHPC.

The MVAPICH User Group Meeting (MUG ’20), built around an implementation of the MPI standard developed by Ohio State University, has posted videos and slides from presentations on a variety of topics at its recent annual conference. The program included keynote talks from Brian van Essen from Lawrence Livermore National Labs and Michael Norman from San Diego Supercomputing […]The post Videos, Slides from MUG ’20 Now Available appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE — Sept. 9, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO), a global leader in unstructured data and video solutions, today announced that LTO Ultrium format generation 9 technology will be available in its Scalar i6 and Scalar i6000 tape libraries, and StorNext AEL archive systems beginning in December 2020. By combining the high capacity of LTO-9 tape technology with Quantum Scalar tape libraries, […]The post Quantum Makes LTO-9 Tape Drives Available for Scalar Tape Libraries appeared first on insideHPC.

The Army Research Office is funding a $617,000 grant for a multi-institutional, majority-female research team for technology-enhanced intelligence analysis led by Dr. Susannah B.F. Paletz, research professor at the University of Maryland (UMD) College of Information Studies. The ARO said the team will soon recruit additional project support from undergraduate students. The research team also includes […]The post Woman-led Team to Research Human-AI Collaboration in Army Intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.

In this interview, GigaIO CEO Alan Benjamin talks about systems performance problems and wasted compute resources when implementing ML, HPDA and other high demand workloads that involve high data volumes. At issue, Benjamin explains, is today’s rack architecture, which is decades old and unsuited for combinations of CPUs, GPUs and other accelerators needed for advanced computing strategies. The answer: the “composable disaggregated infrastructure.”The post Video: GigaIO on Optimizing Compute Resources for ML, HPDA and other Advanced Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

Santa Clara, CA – Insilico Medicine, a leader in artificial intelligence for drug discovery and development, announced the launch of a system for COVID-19 basic and clinical research. COVIDomic is a foundational technology that enables scientists to use anonymized patient data to integrate with a variety of existing data sets. Bioinformatics and AI tools can […]The post Insilico Medicine Launches AI-powered COVIDomic for COVID-19 Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Bloomington, IN — The Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University has been awarded nearly $700,000 from the National Science Foundation to fund the Jetstream cloud computing system’s sixth project year. This brings the total of NSF funding for Jetstream to nearly $14.5M. These funds will allow for a seamless transition from Jetstream to Jetstream2, recently […]The post NSF awards $696K for Jetstream Project Year 6 appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE –– Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in enterprise cloud computing, today announced a new partnership with Microsoft that will enable both companies to deliver a hybrid solution with seamless application, data, and license mobility as well as unified management across on-premises and Azure environments, using Nutanix Clusters on Azure. “With this partnership, Microsoft and Nutanix show […]The post Nutanix Partners with Microsoft Azure for a Seamless Hybrid Experience appeared first on insideHPC.

LOS ANGELES/Tel Aviv, Sept. 9, 2020 – Q-CTRL, a startup that applies the principles of control engineering to accelerate the development of quantum technology, and Quantum Machines, creator of the first complete hardware and software solution for the control and operation of quantum computers, today announced a global commercial partnership to integrate Q-CTRL’s firmware into […]The post Q-CTRL and Quantum Machines Partner to Accelerate Quantum Computing Development appeared first on insideHPC.

Donna J. Cox, director of NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL), was recently awarded the International Planetarium Society’s 2020 Technology Innovation Award. This is just the eighth time since the society’s founding in 1958 that this honor has been bestowed. It is only awarded when a recipient is identified as meeting the award criteria: an individual with “a broad, deep […]The post NCSA’S Donna J. Cox Wins IPS Technology Innovation Award appeared first on insideHPC.

We start out with our personal pledge that all of our content is new and not pre-recorded. That’s our gift to you – no recycled, reused or Amazon Renewed content. Jumping into our first topic, Risc-V IP and silicon purveyor SiFive earned a $61 million investment from a group of high-end investors including SK Hynix, Qualcomm […]The post Radio Free HPC: SiFive’s Big Score, Will Nvidia Buy Arm? appeared first on insideHPC.

A popular application that simulates climate change is the Weather and Research Forecasting (WRF) model. This white paper discusses how QCT can work with leading research and commercial organizations to lower the Total Cost of Ownership by supplying highly tuned applications that are optimized to work on leading-edge infrastructure.The post insideHPC Special Report Optimize Your WRF Applications appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, our friends over at Lenovo and Intel explain how High-Performance Computing (HPC) has gone mainstream and forever changed the world of engineering and design. The adoption of HPC systems with Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) software for high-fidelity modeling and simulation is on the rise among the automotive, aerospace, discrete manufacturing, and healthcare robotics industries, to name a few.The post The Future of HPC for Manufacturing appeared first on insideHPC.

High performance vendor Panasas today announced that COO Tom Shea has succeeded Faye Pairman as president and chief executive officer and member of the board of directors, effective immediately. Shea has more than 20 years of business and engineering experience in the storage industry, including tenures as CEO of Gear6 and Mirra, Inc. He has […]The post Panasas Names Tom Shea President/CEO, Succeeds Faye Pairman appeared first on insideHPC.

New compute architectures, with the potential to propel systems power forward even as Moore’s Law winds down, are emerging — a phenomenon sometimes referred to as “technology disaggregation.” Hence the explosive growth of accelerated CPU/GPU-based computing within the von Neumann domain and the intensive activity and investment in quantum. While classical von Neumann computing will […]The post Video: Former IBMer Dave Turek Explains DNA-based Storage and its Place in the Compute Landscape to Come appeared first on insideHPC.

Troy, Mich., Sept. 3, 2020 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high performance computing (HPC), and data analytics, extended its multi-year OEM agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to offer the newly enhanced version of Altair® PBS Professional® workload manager and job scheduler across HPE’s industry-leading HPC systems, including HPE Apollo Systems and […]The post Altair Extends Strategic HPC OEM Agreement with HPE appeared first on insideHPC.

David Martin manages the Industry Partnerships and Outreach program at Argonne National Laboratory, and in this interview he talks about the never ending, always expanding demand for more power from HPC users – and the potential for the upcoming exascale systems, including Argonne’s Aurora, may be more accessible than might be expected. “I think that […]The post The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Argonne’s David Martin Talks Industrial HPC and Accessible Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

A class of 26 future high-performance computing (HPC) leaders is enrolled at U.S. universities this fall with support from the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF). Including the new fellows, the program has sponsored more than 500 students at more than 65 universities since it was launched in 1991. Only about 5 […]The post Class of 26 joins DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship appeared first on insideHPC.

Sept. 3, 2020 – Research Triangle Park, NC – Today, Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) announces a range of new and updated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions and Lenovo Cloud Services to enable customers to keep pace with evolving business needs. As remote work becomes the new, smarter normal, businesses need to adapt their hybrid cloud […]The post Lenovo Data Center Group Releases Cloud-Based Business Agility Solutions for the New, Smarter Normal appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE — Sept. 2, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO), a global leader in unstructured data and video solutions, today announced that the Joint Network Center (GNZ) at the Fritz Haber Institute (FHI) reduced its backup window by 50 percent, ensured the long-term integrity of vital data, and gained scalability to support fast-growing scientific […]The post The Joint Network Center Archives Scientific Data for Max Planck Society with Quantum appeared first on insideHPC.

Altair® PBS Professional® is the industry-leading workload manager that’s been an HPC workhorse for decades, enabling efficient job scheduling, management, monitoring, and reporting with reliable scaling from small clusters to the world’s biggest data centers. Altair CTO Sam Mahalingam shared details about some of the new features in a Q&A session.The post Altair CTO Interview: PBS Professional Gets a Major Upgrade appeared first on insideHPC.

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), Ireland’s high-performance computing authority, today, Wednesday 2nd September launched Ireland’s Euro-HPC Competence Centre, which is hosted at ICHEC. ICHEC analyzes complex data to provide intelligent solutions that deliver effective policy change, providing solutions to some of the toughest challenges across public, academic and enterprise sectors in Ireland. 1 […]The post New Competence Centre to Fast-Track Academic and SME Participation in EU Supercomputing Initiative appeared first on insideHPC.

Roy Chartier, founder and CTO of Cancer Computer, Ottawa, with more than 25 years in HPC, HPDA and AI, has assembled a team of volunteers who support cancer researchers by connecting them with the computer hardware, processing capacity and IT support they need to save lives. During this pandemic year, the organizations has expanded its mission to support COVID-19 researchers. A member of the Dell Technologies HPC Community, Chartier in this interview talks about Cancer Computer’s work, its partnership with Dell and the value of cross-discipline meetings, such as those held organized by Dell for its HPC community members.The post Dell Technologies HPC Community: Cancer Computer Founder Roy Chartier Talks HPC in Support of Cancer, COVID Research appeared first on insideHPC.

New York — September 2, 2020 —GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, the fastest in-memory data and analytics processing platform, announced today the release of GigaSpaces InsightEdge version 15.5, to simplify and scale hybrid and multi-cloud deployments to empower digital transformation initiatives. GigaSpaces version 15.5 adds new efficiency and automation capabilities to its Ops Manager module for easier […]The post GigaSpaces Announces Version 15.5 for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments to Empower Digital Transformation Initiatives appeared first on insideHPC.

Those predicting another “AI winter” will have a quarrel on their hands with industry analyst firm International Data Corp., which forecasts global spending on AI will more than than double over the next four years, from $50.1 billion in 2020 to more than $110 billion in 2024. According to IDC’s Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending Guide, AI […]The post IDC: Led by U.S., Global AI Spending Will More than Double by 2024 appeared first on insideHPC.

Summer inventory clearance days for Radio Free HPC! In this episode, we talk about the spate of MLperf benchmarks and how AMD hit it out of the park on their most recent quarterly earnings.The post Radio Free HPC: MLperf Wars and AMD’s Gawdy Earnings appeared first on insideHPC.

From the front lines of this year’s ModSim conference, Charity Plata, Computational Science Initiative, Communications, Brookhaven National Laboratory, send this report: Recently, the ninth annual Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Systems and Applications, known as ModSim 2020 — usually a 2.5-day event held amid the picturesque backdrop of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens in […]The post Taking a Virtual Turn, ModSim 2020 Focuses on the AI Era appeared first on insideHPC.

In this contributed article, Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing, discusses how the HPC industry has entered an era of change in the past few years. New technologies, cloud, edge, and a broadening set of commercial use cases in the areas of data analytics and machine learning have set in motion a tsunami of change for HPC. This is no longer a tool for rocket scientists and the research elite. HPC is quickly becoming a strategic necessity for all industries that want to gain a competitive advantage in their markets, or at least keep pace with their industry peers in order to survive.The post Managing Complexity in the New Era of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

At this point in the career of HPC luminary Simon Burbridge of the University of Bristol, he’s focused on HPC system design based on ARM-designed processors. Citing the world’s top ranked supercomputer, Japan’s Fugaku, Burbridge says in this interview: “If you redesign your CPUs to have the capability of doing the amount of math that you need and if you have, for example, the memory bandwidth to get those vectors and matrices in and out of the memory, then why wouldn’t they be better than a GPU?”The post The Hyperion-insideHPC Interviews: Simon Burbridge Gives ARM a Hand – ‘Maybe We Don’t Need to Have Accelerators’ appeared first on insideHPC.

Due to reporting error, insideHPC yesterday ran an article mistakenly reporting that supercomputers at the National Energy National Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab had recently been the target of hacker activity, resulting in a guilty plea by the accused hacker. This incident happened in 2013 and Berkeley Lab systems were not compromised. insideHPC regrets […]The post Article Retraction appeared first on insideHPC.

Technologists from the national labs, universities, federal agencies and industry have been named by the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee (NQIAC). Announced today, the NQAIC’s mission is to “counsel the Administration on ways to ensure continued American leadership […]The post DOE, White House Announce Members of U.S. Quantum Advisory Committee appeared first on insideHPC.

A guilty plea was entered today by a hacker, allegedly a member of the hacking group Underground Intelligence Agency, for tying to sell access to supercomputers at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. According to an online story in Wired magazine today, Andrew J. Miller, 24, of Pennsylvania, […]The post NERSC Supercomputers Targeted by Hacker: Guilty Plea in Attempted Sale of Access appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose – August 27, 2020 – Enterprises are struggling with their IT performance, as almost half (47%) admitted they lack visibility and insight into their systems in a recent survey. In response, Virtana, a leader in enterprise hybrid cloud migration and optimization today announced an integration with Pure Storage, an IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a […]The post Virtana Integrates with Pure Storage for Real-Time IT Intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.

The RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Kobe, Japan, owner of the world’s no. 1-ranked supercomputer, Fugaku, has chosen Oracle Cloud as the public cloud provider for its elastic HPC storage and to enable universities and research organizations to connect through Japan’s Science Information Network (SINET). Performing at 415 quadrillion computations a second, or 415 petaFLOPS, Fugaku […]The post RIKEN’s Fugaku to Connect via Oracle Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers, led by DOE’s National Laboratories, including Q-NEXT, led by Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Ill. Q-NEXT will be funded by DOE at $115 million over five years, with $15 million in fiscal […]The post DOE Launches $115M, 5-Year Effort to Create 5 Quantum Research Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – August 25, 2020 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today announced enhancements to FlashArray//C, delivering the industry’s only all-QLC storage array, built on Pure’s DirectFlash technology and designed to cost-effectively meet the performance requirements of a broad set of high-capacity enterprise […]The post Pure Storage FlashArray//C Extends QLC with First Enterprise-grade All-QLC Array appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Q&A, SDSC Chief Data Science Officer Ilkay Altintas explains the rationale for composable systems and the approach taken with the new Expanse supercomputer. With its new Expanse supercomputer, San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) is pioneering composable HPC systems to enable the dynamic allocation of resources tailored to individual workloads. One of the critical innovations in the SDSC’s new Expanse supercomputer from Dell Technologies, is the ability to support composable systems with dynamic capabilities.The post Composable Computing at SDSC appeared first on insideHPC.

Long-time IBM HPC strategist David Turek has left the company after 25 years and has joined Catalog, which calls itself the world’s first DNA-based platform for massive digital storage and computation. He will serve as CTO of the start-up. Catalog also announced today $10 million Series A funding in a round led by Horizons Ventures. […]The post Long-time IBM HPC Strategist Dave Turek Named CTO of DNA-based Storage Start-up appeared first on insideHPC.

The University at Buffalo has chosen Panasas ActiveStor Ultra HPC data storage for the university’s Center for Computational Research (CCR), a supercomputing center serving the 64 campuses of the State Universities of New York (SUNY) network and affiliated partners, including industry. In its announced, the university (UB) said it moved to Panasas because it was challenged by higher […]The post Panasas Picked for SUNY Supercomputing Center appeared first on insideHPC.

The Department of Defense has made HPC news twice in the last few days – in one, the Army will spend $32 million on supercomputing technology from composable infrastructure vendor Liqid; in the other, DOD will partner with the Department of Energy and Microsoft to develop AI algorithms to support natural disaster first responders. In […]The post DOD Inks $32M HPC Deal with Liqid; Forms AI Partnership with DOE, Microsoft appeared first on insideHPC.

Hosted by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) in collaboration with the HPC-AI Advisory Council, the HPC-AI Advisory Council 2020 Australia Conference brings together leaders from academia, government and industry to explore the innovative research, techniques, tools and technologies that are fueling economies, productivity and progress globally.The post HPC-AI Advisory Council 2020 Australia Conference Features Inspired Experts & Works appeared first on insideHPC.

The show starts on a high note, with Henry’s audio being amazingly echo free. Usually we hear a lot of echo as Henry talks, which is due to the rammed earth walls of his new abode, plus the fact that there isn’t any carpeting or anything else to absorb his nasal tones. But somehow Henry […]The post Radio Free HPC: Is Amazon’s Graviton2 Ready for Prime (Time)? appeared first on insideHPC.

The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (ACM SIGKDD) will hold its flagship annual conference, KDD 2020, virtually, August 23-27. The KDD conference series, started in 1989, is the world’s oldest and largest data mining conference, and is the venue where concepts such as big data, data science, […]The post KDD 2020 Data Mining Conference Goes Virtual Aug. 23-27 appeared first on insideHPC.

Arm and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have announced a three-year partnership agreement to “enable the research community that supports DARPA’s programs to quickly and easily take advantage of Arm’s leading IP, tools and support, accelerating innovation in a variety of fields.” Under the auspices of DARPA’s Electronics Resurgence Initiative, the agreement establishes […]The post Arm and DARPA Announce 3-Year Development Agreement appeared first on insideHPC.

By supercomputing standards, Argonne National Lab’s Bebop (stood up in 2017, 1.75 teraflops, bumped off the Top500 list after the June 2019 ranking) seems something of a second-tier player. But veteran, formerly non-Top500 systems like Bebop can still take a star turn, as shown by the results of a research team from Northern Illinois University […]The post Veteran Argonne System Helps Find Method to Convert CO2 into Ethanol appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post by Adam Marko, Director of Life Science Solutions – Panasas, Inc., we look at what we are calling Research Cost of Ownership (RCO) and the effect of HPC storage downtime and reduced productivity on the overall scientific mission.The post I Really Don’t Care About TCO … It’s RCO I am Worried About appeared first on insideHPC.