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The U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) program, consisting of two subprograms — for manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) and for materials (HPC4Mtls) — is now open to companies seeking access to HPC resources. DOE said companies can apply for dedicated supercomputing time and help from Argonne scientists to address their manufacturing and materials […]The post DOE’s HPC4EI Program, HPC for Manufacturing and Materials Development Companies, Opens to Applicants appeared first on insideHPC.

Heavy-duty diesel engines power most large vehicles used in the construction, mining and transportation industries in the United States. To tackle problems of fuel efficiency and pollution, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory joined forces with Caterpillar Inc., manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, using Argonne’s HPC resources, to develop designs […]The post Caterpillar and Argonne Use HPC to Simulate Better Efficiency, Reduced Emissions in Diesel Engines appeared first on insideHPC.

FRANKFURT, Germany, May 3, 2021 – The organizers of ISC 2021 Digital would like to remind everyone in the high performance computing (HPC) community that early bird registration will end this Thursday, May 6. The conference and exhibition will be held virtually from June 24 – July 2. Over 3,500 attendees are expected to participate, making […]The post ISC 2021 Early Bird Registration Ends May 6 appeared first on insideHPC.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty member and computer scientist George Slota has been granted a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to work on the problem of enabling exascale-class system to handle gigantic, petascale-class volumes of data. “How do we best understand and get insight from this kind of data? To do that, […]The post RPI Computer Scientist Wins NSF Award to Match Exascale Systems with Petascale Data Volumes appeared first on insideHPC.

May 4, 2021 – Red Hat today introduce the StackRox community, the upstream project that will work to open source and manage the code that powers Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes. The goal is to support innovation within an industry traditionally dominated by proprietary security solutions. “Customers, partners and other interested contributors can learn […]The post Red Hat Introduces Open Source StackRox Community – Cluster Security for Kubernetes appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, UK, May 4, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a developer of quantum software and algorithms, today announced that Strangeworks, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based company focused on making quantum computing more accessible, will integrate CQC’s quantum software platform – tket – into the Strangeworks Quantum Computing ecosystem. tket (pronounced “ticket”) will be part of […]The post Cambridge Quantum Computing Integrates tket Platform with Strangeworks Ecosystem appeared first on insideHPC.

Amsterdam – Tuesday, May 4th – Bright Computing, a global leader in automation and management software for edge-to-core-to-cloud high-performance computing, today announced that Bright Cluster Manager has been selected to support the new artificial intelligence supercomputer to be installed at National Supercomputer Centre (NSC) at Linköping University. Named Berzelius after Swedish scientist Jacob Berzelius, NSC’s supercomputer is set to […]The post Bright Cluster Manager Picked for Sweden’s Fastest HPC System at LinköpingUniv. appeared first on insideHPC.

London – May 4, 2021 – SoftIron Ltd., maker of purpose-built data center solutions, today announced the introduction of their Ceph-optimized, software-defined storage appliance family, HyperDrive Performance+. Leveraging the AMD EPYC 3000 processor, the new Performance+ family debuts the company’s first x86 CPU and NVMe SSD-based designs to be introduced in its HyperDrive series of […]The post SoftIron Announces HyperDrive Performance+ Family appeared first on insideHPC.

Garching/Munich – May 4, 2021 – The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) will expand its flagship HPC system SuperMUC-NG, which is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). In addition to performance in simulation and modelling, phase 2 of SuperMUC-NG will integrate artificial intelligence (AI) methods of computation. The system will be equipped with Intel […]The post LRZ Expanding Flagship HPC System to Integrate AI appeared first on insideHPC.

With the first EU supercomputer now operational, the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is ready to accept applications to access Vega’s HPC system computing power. Access time is allocated to European scientific, industrial and public sector users, matching application requirements, according to the principles stated in the EuroHPC JU Council Regulation and the […]The post EuroHPC Opens Access to Atos ‘Vega’ Supercomputer, More HPC on Way appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC technology guide, “How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment,”we will present things to consider when building a customized supercomputer-in-a-box system with the help of experts from Silicon Mechanics.The post insideHPC Guide to How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment – Part 2 appeared first on insideHPC.

On Thursday, May 6 and Friday, May 7, the AI Policy Forum – a global effort convened by researchers from MIT – will present their initial policy recommendations aimed at managing the effects of AI and building AI systems that better reflect society’s values. Recognizing that there is unlikely to be any singular national AI […]The post May 6-7: AI Policy Forum to Present Proposals for Managing Impacts, Building More Equitable Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan — Chenbro (TWSE: 8210) announced its reference motherboard program, launching in collaboration with Ma Labs (USA), which will provide pre-tested 3 rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable (codename ‘Ice Lake’) server barebone solutions for the North American market. Chenbro’s new reference motherboard program launches with Gold and Silver tiers of pretesting depth. The program […]The post Chenbro Announces Chassis Reference Motherboard Program for Intel Ice Lake Processor Platform with Ma Labs appeared first on insideHPC.

RALEIGH, N.C. — May 3, 2021 — Open source solutions provider Red Hat, Inc. today announced GA of OpenShift GitOps and OpenShift Pipelines, new features of the Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform. These capabilities are intended to help organizations reduce friction between development and operations teams by streamlining application development and deployment across hybrid cloud environments. DevOps […]The post Red Hat Announces New OpenShift DevOps Features appeared first on insideHPC.

From data centre infrastructure efficiency (DCIE) to power usage effectiveness (PUE) there are many considerations for data centre providers that impact the cost to build, operate and scale a facility. However, while many strive to become more effective, efficient and environmentally responsible, not all providers look holistically at optimising data centre lifecycle end-to-end. To achieve optimum performance, providers must embark on a journey from design and construction through to deployment, operation and optimisation, leveraging emulation, automation and analytics to ensure their customers’ needs are met. This is particularly crucial for operators seeking to harness high performance computing (HPC) to cope with a rapidly growing influx of data.The post Holistic Data Centre Design and Operation – Considerations for HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO. – A CyberAmbassadors workshop focusing on communication, teamwork and leadership tools designed for Research Computing Facilitators will open the 11th Annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium on Tuesday, May 18. The 90-minute workshop will be led by Dylan Perkins of the Advanced Research Computing Center at the University of Wyoming […]The post RMACC to Open HPC Symposium with CyberAmbassadors Workshop for Research Computing Facilitators appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco – April 20, 2021 – Today, Pinnacle Imaging Systems, a developer of Image Signal Processors (ISP) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) video solutions, announced it will offer its proprietary Denali 3.0 HDR ISP along with a new HDR sensor module for the just-launched Xilinx Kria K26 SOM and KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit. The new KV260 Vision AI […]The post Pinnacle Imaging Systems Announces Denali 3.0 Soft ISP & HDR Sensor Module for Xilinx Kria SOM Platform and Vision AI Starter Kit appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) has announced a new StorNext architecture and line of StorNext appliances that simplify how organizations manage, store and protect their video content, imagery, and business critical data. In this new architecture, StorNext 7 file and block services, along with other data services, run virtually on a single software-defined platform. […]The post Quantum Launches Video and Unstructured Data Solutions with StorNext Converged Architecture and Appliances appeared first on insideHPC.

London – 29 April 2021 – Atos UK and Ireland has again been recognised as a leading employer of women by its inclusion in the Times Top 50 Employer for Women 2021. Run by the charity Business in the Community – The Prince’s Responsible Business Network, the award recognises Atos actions in areas such as approach to […]The post Atos UK and Ireland Named a Times Top 50 Employer for Women for 3rd Year appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, UK, April 29th, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has partnered with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt; DLR) to explore how quantum computing could help create better simulation models for battery development to aid future energy utilisation. The collaboration will see DLR – the national aeronautics and space research centre of […]The post German Aerospace Center and Cambridge Quantum Partner to Use Quantum to Build Battery Simulations appeared first on insideHPC.

ARMONK, N.Y., April 29, 2021 — IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire Turbonomic, an Application Resource Management (ARM) and Network Performance Management (NPM) software provider based in Boston. The acquisition will provide businesses with full stack application observability and management to assure performance and minimize costs using AI to optimize resources – such as containers, VMs, servers, […]The post IBM to Acquire Turbonomic AIOps for Hybrid Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

MONTREAL, April 29, 2021 — infinityQ Technology, Inc., a women-led, engineered and managed startup, today announced its new computer, infinityQube. The Montréal-based startup has coined its approach “quantum analog computing,” introducing a novel paradigm in the quantum space. The device is compact, energy-efficient and operates at room temperature, relying on established chip technologies. “We wanted […]The post infinityQube Announces Room Temperature ‘Quantum Analog Computing’ Using Established Chip Technologies appeared first on insideHPC.

LISLE, IL – April 29, 2021 – Molex, a leading global connectivity and electronics solutions provider, is scaling global deployments of its high-speed copper and optical interconnects and modules to help customers better address demands for higher bandwidth. Molex’s broad portfolio of next-generation connectivity solutions leverage the latest advancements in copper and optics to deliver high signal integrity, lower […]The post Molex Scales Deployments of High-Speed Interconnect for Hyperscale and Data Centers appeared first on insideHPC.

As a result of the high demand for HPC, we’re seeing private and public sector organizations pursue hardware solutions architected with innovative high performance and high efficiency server technology. Hardware vendors that develop and offer end-to-end green computing solutions for use in the data center – HPC, AI, cloud computing, enterprise IT, big data, IoT, and embedded markets – are primed to reap the benefits of this upswing in demand.The post Supermicro AMD A+ Servers Meeting the HPC Challenge appeared first on insideHPC.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), IBM and Red Hat are combining to develop best practices for interfacing high-performance computing (HPC) schedulers and cloud orchestrators, an effort designed for supercomputers that take advantage of cloud technologies. Under a recently signed memorandum of understanding (MOU), the organizations said researchers aim to enable next-generation workloads by integrating LLNL’s […]The post LLNL, IBM and Red Hat to Explore Standardized Resource Management Interface for Cloud HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Open Source + Embedded Linux Conference 2021 has been moved from Dublin, Ireland to Seattle, Washington, USA, due to the current state of COVID-19 vaccination rates in Europe and upon review of past attendee survey results regarding where and when they would feel comfortable traveling this year. “We are very excited to announce that Open […]The post Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference 2021 Moved from Dublin to Seattle, September 27-30 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC technology guide, "How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment,"we will present things to consider when building a customized supercomputer-in-a-box system with the help of experts from Silicon Mechanics.The post insideHPC Guide to How Expert Design Engineering and a Building Block Approach Can Give You a Perfectly Tailored AI, ML or HPC Environment appeared first on insideHPC.

Tewksbury, MA., April 28, 2021 — Avery Design Systems, a functional verification solutions company, today announced that Astera Labs, a connectivity solutions for intelligent systems specialist, successfully used Avery’s Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0 and PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 Verification IP (VIP) and services in developing its Aries Smart Retimer portfolio. The Avery CXL 2.0 and PCIe […]The post Astera Labs and Avery Design Partner on CXL 2.0 Verification for Smart Retimer Portfolio appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, April 28, 2021 – Excelero, a disruptor in software-defined storage for IO-intensive workloads such as GPU computing for AI/ML/DL, commercial HPC and data analytics, has added public cloud storage support to its flagship NVMesh elastic NVMe software-defined storage solution. Available first for the Microsoft Azure platform, and later for other major public clouds, NVMesh expands public […]The post Excelero Launches NVMesh on Azure, Addressing Public Cloud Storage for IO-Intensive Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

April 27, 2021 — PRACE announced that its 22nd Call for Proposals for PRACE Project Access received 61 eligible proposals, of which 43 were awarded, a total of 1.92 billion core hours. This brings the total number of Project Access projects awarded to 873 since 2010. Taking into account the seven multi-year proposals from calls […]The post PRACE 22nd Call for Proposals Results in 43 Awards Totaling 1.9B Core Hours appeared first on insideHPC.

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, April 27, 2021 – If you aren’t already one of the more than 1,200 HPC experts worldwide who lend their special expertise by completing brief, anonymous surveys as part of Hyperion Research’s HPC Advisory Panel, we invite you apply to join this diverse group of HPC users and vendors. Hyperion Research is […]The post Hyperion Research Invites Applications to Expand HPC Advisory Panel appeared first on insideHPC.

Düsseldorf, 22 April, 2021 – NEC Deutschland GmbH has announced that the Technische Universität Dresden has taken a new High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster into full operation. The new HPC cluster is operated by the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) at TU Dresden for the German wide AI competence centre ScaDS.AI […]The post New NEC AI Supercomputer at Technische Universität Dresden appeared first on insideHPC.

IBM has announced innovations across its storage product line designed to improve management of data across complex hybrid cloud environments with the goal of improving data availability and resilience. The company announced plans to launch container-native software defined storage (SDS), IBM Spectrum Fusion, in the second half of 2021 designed to combine IBM’s parallel file system […]The post IBM Launches Storage for Data Management across Hybrid Clouds appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, April 27, 2021 – Adaptive computing company Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that its Versal AI Core and Versal Prime series devices are now shipping to customers in full production volumes. Additionally, the third series in the Versal portfolio, Versal Premium, has now shipped to tier-one customers through the company’s early access program. Versal is the […]The post Xilinx Announces Shipments of 7nm Versal AI Core and Versal Prime Series Devices appeared first on insideHPC.

Arm Holdings this morning released information on two new compute platforms and an interconnect for HPC, machine learning and other workloads introduced last September: The Arm Neoverse V1 platform is a new computing tier for Arm and the first Arm-designed core to support Scalable Vector Extension (SVE), delivering 50 percent more performance for HPC and […]The post Arm Releases Details on 2 Neoverse Platforms and Mesh Interconnect for HPC, ML appeared first on insideHPC.

Sunnyvale, Calif. – April 27, 2021 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that it has entered into joint research agreement with Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) to develop applications for the Coherent Ising Machine (CIM). The two targeted applications for the CIM, an information processing platform based on quantum […]The post NTT Research and Tokyo Institute of Technology Target Two Applications for CIM appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO – April 27, 2021 – Scality today introduced ARTESCA, a lightweight, enterprise-grade, cloud-native object storage solution designed for the Kubernetes era. Supported on HPE all-flash and hybrid data storage servers, ARTESCA addresses use cases from the edge to the core to the cloud, with emphasis on cloud-native, AI/ML, big data analytics and in-memory […]The post Scality and HPE Launch Object Storage Software for Kubernetes appeared first on insideHPC.

The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation has announce that the fourth Future Technologies Symposium will be located at the 2021 OCP Global Summit, taking place in person on November 8 – 10, 2021 in San Jose, CA, and virtually! The Symposium will be held on Monday November 8, 2021 as a full-day track on day […]The post Call for Papers for Nov. 8 OCP Future Technologies Symposium appeared first on insideHPC.

BOULDER, CO. – Getting started on a high performance computing cluster can be a daunting task for the uninitiated, but a hands-on free-of-charge “beginners’ tutorial” as a lead-in to the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) 11th Annual High Performance Computing Symposium could help smooth the pathway. The two-hour on-line session has been scheduled for Tuesday, […]The post RMACC Offers Free Tutorial for HPC Newcomers May 18 appeared first on insideHPC.

Ames, Iowa — April 26, 2021 — Jeffrey A.F. Hittinger, a computational scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is the 2021 recipient of the James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication from the Krell Institute. Hittinger, who earned his doctorate in aerospace engineering and scientific computing from the University of Michigan in 2000, […]The post Lawrence Livermore Computational Scientist Jeffrey A.F. Hittinger Wins 2021 Corones Award appeared first on insideHPC.

In this contributed article, Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing, discusses how the definition of “edge computing” has solidified as “compute at the network edge” and has become inextricably tied to IoT and 5G. Yet there’s a much bigger and broader reality of edge that organizations are now facing.The post Unify Your HPC Computing Infrastructure from Edge-to-Core-to-Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

First developed in 1998, the hypre team has adapted their cross-platform high performance library to support a variety of machine architectures over the years. Hypre supports scalable solvers and preconditioners that can be applied to large sparse linear systems on parallel computers.[i] Their latest work now gives scientists the ability to efficiently utilize modern GPU-based extreme scale parallel supercomputers to address many scientific problems.The post New Hypre Library Approach Brings GPU-Based Algebraic Multigrid to Exascale and HPC Community appeared first on insideHPC.

Reports are circulating in AI circles that researchers from Rice University claim a breakthrough in AI model training acceleration – without using accelerators. Running AI software on commodity x86 CPUs, the Rice computer science team say neural networks can be trained 15x faster than platforms utilizing GPUs. If valid, the new approach would be a double boon for organizations implementing AI strategies: faster model training using less costly microprocessors.The post Rice Univ. Researchers Claim 15x AI Model Training Speed-up Using CPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

As widely reported in February, the UK Met Office and Microsoft have come to an agreement to provision a £1.2 billion (over 10 years) supercomputer the Met Office said will be the world’s most powerful weather and climate forecasting system. The agreement, announced on Earth Day, will be in the top 25 of the Top500 […]The post Super-expensive Supercomputers: UK Met Office in £1B+ Deal for Microsoft Weather System; $3B System in China on Way appeared first on insideHPC.

Nominations are open for the ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWL/TC), a biennial award open to any woman who has engaged in HPC and technical computing research, education or practice for five to 15 years since receiving her highest degree. This ACM SIGHPC award is presented every two years during the annual […]The post ACM SIGHPC’s Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award: Call for Nominations appeared first on insideHPC.

Washington, DC — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation Initiative will issue a Spring 2021 solicitation in May 2021 covering the High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) program. HPC4Mfg is funded with support from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office. HPC4EI programs are designed […]The post DOE Issues Funding Opportunity for HPC4EI appeared first on insideHPC.

AI continues to change the way many organizations conduct their work and research. Deep learning applications are constantly evolving and organizations are adapting to new technologies, improving their performance and capabilities. Companies that fail to adapt to these emerging technologies run the risk of falling behind the competition. At PSSC Labs we want to make sure that doesn’t happen to you. There is a lot going on in the world of AI and even more to think about when building a GPU-heavy AI server or cluster system. This article offers five essential elements to an AI/GPU computing environment.The post 5 Considerations When Building an AI / GPU Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.

Millions of people have seen footage of the famed Arecibo radio telescope’s collapse – due to various hurricanes and other natural disasters – in December 2020. What they would not have seen from those videos was Arecibo’s data center, located outside the danger zone. It stores the “golden copy” of the telescope’s data — the original tapes, hard drives, and disk drives of sky scans since the 1960s. Now, a new partnership will make sure that about 3PB of telescope data is securely backed up off-site and made accessible to astronomers....The post Continuing Arecibo’s Legacy – A Partnership to Save Telescope Data at TACC appeared first on insideHPC.

April 21, 2021 — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, as part of the Bay Area Lab Innovation Networking Center (LINC), will showcase partnership mechanisms at a three-day event specifically designed for businesses. The series, dubbed “Open the Door to Partnerships,” takes place April […]The post HPC Part of Bay Area National Labs Business Partnership Event Series appeared first on insideHPC.

What has become Nvidia’s regular romp through MLPerf AI benchmarks continued with today’s release of the latest performance measurements across a range of inference workloads, including computer vision, medical imaging, recommender systems, speech recognition and natural language processing. The latest benchmark round received submissions from 17 organizations and includes 1,994 performance and 862 power efficiency […]The post Nvidia Romps in Latest MLPerf AI Benchmark Results appeared first on insideHPC.