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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.

Feb. 12, 2021 – Today, IQM announced a quantum project consortium that includes Europe’s leading startups (ParityQC, IQM), industry leaders (Infineon Technologies), research centers (Forschungszentrum Jülich), supercomputing centers (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre), and academia (FreieUniversität Berlin) has been awarded € 12.4 Million from the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The scope of the project […]The post New EU Consortium Awarded €12.4M by German Ministry of Education and Research appeared first on insideHPC.

New York – February 12, 2021 – Altran, part of Capgemini, and Blue Planet, a division of Ciena, today announced a collaboration to provide network operators with intelligent automation solutions. This collaboration will support operators that are grappling with increasingly complex requirements across physical and virtual domains driven by 5G, cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT). As a […]The post Altran Collaborates With Ciena’s Blue Planet Division on Virtualization and Orchestration for 5G appeared first on insideHPC.

Tokyo, February 12, 2021 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) put an NEC SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer into service. The newly deployed HPC solution is used for high-resolution regional climate modelling. The SX-Aurora TSUBASA supercomputer was delivered by NEC Deutschland GmbH in September 2020 and operational readiness was […]The post Czech Hydrometeorological Institute Puts NEC SX-Aurora Tsubasa Supercomputer into Operation appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco, Feb. 11, 2021 – CHIPS Alliance, a consortium advancing common and open hardware for interfaces, processors and systems, has added Antmicro and VeriSilicon to the company’s platinum membership level. Antmicro, one of the initial members of the CHIPS Alliance, has upgraded to the platinum level. VeriSilicon is new to the CHIPS Alliance, although […]The post CHIPS Alliance Adds Antmicro and VeriSilicon appeared first on insideHPC.

Bellevue, WA – Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for artificial intelligence and blockchain, today announced a partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver its software solutions in the new HPE GreenLake cloud services for high performance computing (HPC). HPE GreenLake cloud services for HPC will allow customers to combine the power of an agile, […]The post Core Scientific Partners with HPE on Greenlake HPC-as-a-Service Offering appeared first on insideHPC.

February 11, 2021 — Arm reported today that its silicon partners in the third quarter of 2020 shipped a record 6.7 billion Arm-based chips, which equates to ~842 chips shipped per second. To date, Arm partners have shipped more than 180 billion Arm-based chips. Arm said it continues to be the leading architecture for IoT and […]The post Arm Ecosystem Reports Record 6.7B Arm-based Chips Shipped in Q3 2020 appeared first on insideHPC.

Even though computational chemistry represents a challenging arena for machine learning, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) may have made it easier. Using Comet at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego and Bridges at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, they succeeded in developing an artificial intelligence (AI) approach to detect electron correlation – the interaction between a system’s electrons – which is vital but expensive to calculate in quantum chemistry.The post MIT Researchers Develop Neural Networks for Computational Chemistry Using SDSC, PSC Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco – Feb. 11, 2021 – Scality announced today that Opus Interactive, a cloud, colocation and IT services company, is using Scality RING and Zenko to deliver enhanced services, including data management across multicloud infrastructure, backup-as-a-service and more. Opus Interactive sought a solution that could meet increased customer demand for more flexible, highly available and secure storage […]The post Opus Interactive Expands Multicloud Services across AWS, GCP and Azure with Scality RING and Zenko Open Source appeared first on insideHPC.

February 11, 2021 — CHIPS Alliance, a consortium advancing common and open hardware for interfaces, processors and systems, today announced the appointment of Rob Mains as the organization’s executive director. Mains has more than 35 years of experience in software engineering and development, with 25 years of experience as an EDA software architect focused on […]The post CHIPS Alliance Appoints Rob Mains as Executive Director appeared first on insideHPC.

Boulder, CO – Feb. 10, 2021 — Dr. Amy McGovern, the Lloyd G. and Joyce Austin Presidential Professor in the School of Computer Science and School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, will be the second day keynote speaker for the 11th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium, May 19-20. […]The post AI and Weather Expert Amy McGovern to Keynote RMACC’s HPC Symposium appeared first on insideHPC.

February 10, 2021 – Deep technology Finland-based company Unikie Inc. has joined the worldwide Edge AI and Vision Alliance industry partnership. Unikie is specialized in demanding device-edge-cloud-based software and aims to serve the global market. The company’s spearhead is Unikie AI Vision, a comprehensive Edge-AI/ML solution. The Edge AI and Vision Alliance provides the leading […]The post Unikie Joins the Edge AI and Vision Alliance to Advance Its Offering to the US Market appeared first on insideHPC.

Tel Aviv – Feb. 10, 2021 – NeuReality, an Israeli startup developing high performance AI compute for cloud data centers and edge nodes, emerges from stealth today with $8M seed from Cardumen Capital, OurCrowd and Varana Capital to fuel the growth of real-life AI applications running at scale. NeuReality will introduce its first AI platform […]The post NeuReality Out of Stealth with $8M Seed for AI Compute Infrastructure appeared first on insideHPC.

San Francisco —February 10, 2021—RapidAPI, a platform to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs, announced today the acquisition of Paw, a leading API design and collaboration tool. The acquisition enables RapidAPI to extend its open API platform across the API development lifecycle, across multiple clouds and gateways, according to the company. Additionally, RapidAPI and […]The post RapidAPI Acquires Paw, Extends API Development Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE has delivered a two-systems-in-one supercomputer to support weather modeling and forecasting for the U.S. Air force and Army. The HPC system, powered by two HPE Cray EX supercomputers, is now operational at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where it is managed by ORNL. HPE said that at 7.2 petaflops peak performance, the combined systems are […]The post HPE Supercomputer Installed at Oak Ridge for U.S. Air Force appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, The Khronos Group, an open consortium of companies creating advanced interoperability standards, announces the ratification and public release of the SYCL 2020 final specification—the open standard for single source C++ parallel programming. A milestone encompassing years of specification development, SYCL 2020 builds on the functionality of SYCL 1.2.1 to provide improved programmability, smaller code size […]The post Khronos Releases SYCL 2020 Specification — Closer Alignment with ISO C++ appeared first on insideHPC.

oneAPI Data Parallel C++ (DPC++) features are included in the SYCL 2020 final specification, released today by The Khronos Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards. Since its launch in 2019, DPC++ has progressed significantly, building cross-architecture and cross-vendor support from the oneAPI Centers of Excellence and now successfully upstreaming features to […]The post oneAPI DPC++ in SYCL 2020 Final Spec appeared first on insideHPC.

Amsterdam — February 8, 2021 – Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) announced it will deliver high-performance computer (HPC) infrastructure for SURF, the ICT cooperative for education and research in the Netherlands. The €20 million project, which begins in early 2021, will result in the creation of the largest and most powerful supercomputer in the country. […]The post Lenovo to Power SURF Dutch National Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory is now accepting abstracts for the 2021 Smoky Mountains Computational Sciences and Engineering Conference (SMC 2021), a premier event for discussing the latest developments in computational sciences and engineering for high-performance computing (HPC) and integrated instruments for science. Specifically, ORNL is seeking revolutionary and visionary ideas in […]The post ORNL Now Accepting Abstracts for SMC 2021 appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose — Jan. 9, 2021 — Inspur Information, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, announced the Inspur NF8480M6, a high-end 4-socket rackmount server, achieved record power and performance evaluation, carried out by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse standardized benchmarks. Inspur NF8480M6 shows a performance-to-power ratio that […]The post Inspur: 4-Socket Server Achieves SPECpower Benchmark Record, Performance-to-Power Ratio up by 52.4% appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Angeles, Feb. 10, 2021 – An AI-based toolset developed by scientists at Q-CTRL enables quantum computers to optimize their own performance autonomously without user intervention, the company said. The building blocks of quantum algorithms are extremely susceptible to errors, posing the most substantial barrier to progress in quantum computing. Q-CTRL’s new tools use custom AI agents […]The post Q-CTRL: AI-Based Tools Enable Quantam Computers to ‘Self-Tune’ appeared first on insideHPC.

Data researched by Trading Platforms indicates that the top four cloud infrastructure vendors accounted for 67 percent of the market share during Q4 2020. Amazon Web Services had the largest share at 32 percent, followed by Microsoft Azure at 20 percent. Google Cloud had 9 percent, while Alibaba Cloud accounted for 6 percent. During Q3 2020, […]The post 4 Cloud Vendors Held 67% of $129B Market in Q4 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today it was announced that Andreas Weber has been appointed CEO of EvidentIQ, the newly formed life science group from the merger of clinical software vendors XClinical and Fortress Medical with social platform Carenity. The company said Weber brings more than 20 years of industry experience after management positions at ERT, Bioclinica and Oracle Health Sciences. The EvidentIQ offering brings […]The post EvidentIQ: Data Science Group Created from XClinical, Carenity and Fortress Medical appeared first on insideHPC.

Chatsworth, Calif. – Feb. 9, 2021 – DDN, an artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions company, today announced Amy Medeiros has been named SVP, corporate Marketing and inside sales. She will be responsible for both DDN and Tintri strategic and creative marketing and sales initiatives, with a focus on increasing the profitability of channel partners and enhancing […]The post DDN Appoints Amy Medeiros SVP Corporate Marketing and Inside Sales for DDN and Tintri appeared first on insideHPC.

Argonne National Laboratory said today it has established a March 1 deadline to apply for an opportunity to learn the tools and techniques needed to carry out research on the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Applications are now being accepted for ATPESC 2021 — a two-week training program designed to teach the skills, approaches and tools to design, implement and execute […]The post ATPESC – Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing – Sets March 1 Application Deadline appeared first on insideHPC.

Women in Data Science (WiDS) will host its fourth WiDS Livermore regional event “to encourage our community of women in computing.” Attendees will watch WiDS Stanford Livestream as well as feature Lab-focused technical talks, mentoring breakout sessions and a career panel. The program for this one-day virtual technical conference is an opportunity to hear about the latest data science-related research […]The post Women in Data Science to Host March 8 Virtual Regional Event Hosted by WiDS Livermore appeared first on insideHPC.

This episode of Let’s Talk Episode from DOE’s Exascale Computing Project is the first in a series on best practices in preparing applications for the upcoming Aurora exascale supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. In these discussions, the emphasis will be on optimizing code to run on GPUs and providing developers […]The post Let’s Talk Exascale: Getting Applications Aurora-Ready appeared first on insideHPC.

In this case study whitepaper, PSSC Labs, provider of custom, on-premise high performance computing HPC systems designed to meet clients’ unique enterprise computing challenges, shows how an on-premise HPC cluster can take your business to the next level. The whitepaper discusses how client firm Shearwater Technology quadrupled its capabilities with the help of PSSC Labs hardware solutions.The post Case Study: How Shearwater Technology Quadrupled its Capabilities with PSSC Labs appeared first on insideHPC.

Our main topic today is Intel, with the bulk of the discussion surrounding the return of Pat Gelsinger as Intel’s new CEO. Pat was a 30-year veteran of Intel before he left to pursue other, well, pursuits – most notably as CEO of VMware. While at Intel, Pat spearheaded the development of the 486 architecture […]The post Radio Free HPC – Big Changes at Intel: Gelsinger Takes the Helm appeared first on insideHPC.

Los Altos, Calif. & Edinburgh, UK — Cerebras Systems, the high performance artificial intelligence (AI) compute company, and EPCC, the supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh, today announced the selection of what Cerebras said is the world’s fastest AI computer, the Cerebras CS-1, for EPCC’s new international data facility for the Edinburgh and southeastern […]The post EPCC Selects Cerebras Systems AI Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Grad students wanting to focus on their research have a new opportunity to do just that. The New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Fellowships provide PhD students with a year of full-time research support, including a $38,000 stipend, up to $12,000 in tuition allowance, and an allocation up to 100,000 node-hours on the powerful Blue Waters petascale […]The post Applications Open for New Frontiers Initiative Graduate Research Fellowships appeared first on insideHPC.

The RIKEN Center for Computational Science (RIKEN R-CCS) will hold its third annual international symposium on Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 15 and 16 focusing on HPC and Fugaku, the world’s top-rated supercomputer, and its role in enabling “Society 5.0,” a future in which cyberspace is integrated with the physical world. Speakers at the online conference […]The post RIKEN Center to Hold Annual Symposium on Fugaku and ‘Society 5.0,’ Feb. 15-16 appeared first on insideHPC.

Brighton, UK, 4th February 2021 – Hyve Managed Hosting, a UK cloud hosting provider, has launched a new high performance computing (HPC) cloud solution designed to offer prime performance at an affordable price. Hyve’s cloud-based HPC solution will allow users to access on-demand technology, to run their most demanding workloads with increased flexibility and scalability. […]The post Hyve Managed Hosting Launches HPC cloud solution appeared first on insideHPC.

Tübingen, Germany and Los Altos, California – February 03, 2021 – NI SP GmbH and The UberCloud Inc. have announced a strategic partnership combining NI SP’s 3D VDI and high performance computing (HPC) solutions with UberCloud’s HPC container technology and Engineering Simulation Cloud Platform. The partnership’s intent is to deliver cloud services for CAE, life […]The post UberCloud and NI SP in HPC Partnership appeared first on insideHPC.

Intel and Google Cloud have joined the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us research program, designed to improve population health by making biomedical data from underrepresented groups available to COVID-19 researchers nationwide via the Researcher Workbench. With a goal of recruiting 1 million U.S. participants from different backgrounds, the mission of All of Us is to build the […]The post Intel and Google Cloud Join NIH’s ‘All of Us’ Medical Data Research Program appeared first on insideHPC.

A European consortium has been launched with the goal of scaling silicon quantum technologies. Named QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon), it’s a four-year four-year, €15 million ($17.7 million) EU project coordinated by CEA-Leti, the Grenoble, France-based electronics and IT research institute, and it aims to lay the foundation for industrial-scale semiconductor quantum processors. The […]The post New EU Consortium Launches 4-year Quantum Scaling Project appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose – February 4, 2021 – Bright Computing, focused on automation and management software for edge-to-core-to-cloud high-performance computing, today announced record revenues and milestones achieved in 2020 despite the on-going challenges presented by the global pandemic. Bright Computing is active in next-generation computing infrastructure with commercial enterprise-grade software for building and managing distributed clusters […]The post Bright Computing Announces Record Revenues and Bookings in 2020 appeared first on insideHPC.

Seattle, Feb. 4, 2021 — Iteratively, a SaaS tool that helps data and product teams define, instrument and verify their analytics tracking, announces today that it has secured $5.4 million in new capital led by Google’s AI-focused venture fund, Gradient Ventures, with participation from Fika Ventures and early investor PSL Ventures. Zach Bratun-Glennon, Partner at Gradient Ventures, joins the board. […]The post Iteratively Raises $5.4 Million to Address Trust in Data appeared first on insideHPC.

FPGA chip maker Xilinx, whose acquisition by AMD was announced last October, and Fujitsu, developer along with Japan’s RIKEN Center for Computational Science of Fugaku, the world’s no. 1 supercomputer, today announced plans to collaborate on 5G development in the U.S. Xilinx said it is supplying its UltraScale+ technology to Fujitsu for its O-RAN 5G […]The post Xilinx in 5G Partnership with Fujitsu appeared first on insideHPC.