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The PRACE DECI programme provides cross-national access to European Tier-1 HPC resources (national systems). Access will be awarded for a period of 12 months, beginning 1 June 2021. More information is available here. For this call additional resources and services are available from EUDAT for data management. Details: Opening date: 16 December 2020, 12:00 UTC […]The post PRACE: Call for Proposals for HPC Compute Resources from DECI-17 and EUDAT appeared first on insideHPC.

Cambridge, UK, December 16, 2020 — Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a specialist in quantum software and quantum algorithms designed to leverage quantum hardware, today announced it will apply much of its recent fundraise on helping clients achieve near-term quantum solutions in their businesses. Last week the company announced a $45 million financing, the largest private investment ever announced […]The post Cambridge Quantum Computing Investing in Cybersecurity, Other Near-Term Quantum Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

This ESG Technical Validation documents remote testing of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage with a focus on the ease of use and breadth of data services. Containers have become an important part of data center modernization. They simplify building, packaging, and deploying applications, and are hardware agnostic and designed for agility—they can run on physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure and can be moved around as needed.The post Simplifying Persistent Container Storage for the Open Hybrid Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

CAMPBELL, Calif. – December 16, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), specializing in high-performance and scalable NVMe-optimized file storage, today announced that Weka File System (WekaFS), with its Kubernetes Container Storage Interface (CSI) plug-in, has completed interoperability testing with Rancher Labs’ Kubernetes management platform. Together, the companies will offer enterprises an integrated, end-to-end tested solution for DataOps. […]The post WekaIO and Rancher Labs in Alliance to Simplify Kubernetes Deployments appeared first on insideHPC.

CEA, the French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission, today presented what it said is a path to European exascale utilizing technologies that combine “finer 3D interconnect paths for greater bandwidth between chiplets” within heterogenous nodes made up of generic processors. In an invited paper released at the IDEM 2020 (International Electron Devices Meeting) conference […]The post CEA Outlines Indigenous Path to European Exascale appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose — Dec. 15, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced the expansion of its Executive Leadership Team with the appointment of Brian Pawlowski as Chief Development Officer, alongside two senior executives to accelerate Quantum’s software-defined infrastructure and international growth. With more than 35 years of technical development and leadership experience, Pawlowski will drive software innovation […]The post Quantum Corp. Names Brian Pawlowski Chief Development Officer appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose – December 15, 2020 — The TrueNAS Open Storage portfolio was expanded today with the addition of TrueCommand Cloud – a cloud-based service for 24×365 TrueNAS management. An upgrade to the iXsystems Channel Partner Program, the cloud-based management software for TrueNAS deployments enables services for partners moving into managed storage service delivery. The […]The post iXsystems Introduces TrueNAS Hybrid Cloud SaaS for MSPs appeared first on insideHPC.

London, December 15, 2020 – Kao Data, developer and operator of advanced, carrier neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has today announced two senior director appointments to underpin its next phase of campus growth and bolster its leadership team. Following the recent appointment of CEO Lee Myall, Rod Faul joins as Senior Client Director […]The post Kao Data Announces Two Senior Director Appointments appeared first on insideHPC.

Boulder, Colo. – December 15, 2020 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that XenData has joined the organization, promoting modern strategies to solve data growth challenges. XenData joins a growing number of industry-leading storage and IT vendors that together support the use of active archive solutions for data lifecycle management. “We’re pleased to welcome XenData to the Active Archive Alliance,” said […]The post XenData Joins Active Archive Alliance appeared first on insideHPC.

Dec. 15, 2020 — The Open Eye Consortium (Open Eye MSA) announced two new specifications targeted for 50Gbps per lane applications: LR1 and LR4 for 10 kilometers, based on the CWDM4 wavelength grid, over a single mode fiber. These new specifications complement the Open Eye MSA’s previously released single and multi-mode specifications. The Open Eye […]The post Open Eye Consortium Announces 50Gbps LR1 and LR4 Specs for 5G appeared first on insideHPC.

Herndon, VA, – December 15, 2020 – ​EdgeConneX​, developer of edge data centers, has announced Bandwidth Infrastructure Group (Bandwidth IG) is now available at its Atlanta data center campus, ATL01 and ATL02. This addition increases high capacity connectivity options for enterprises and service providers, offering them more speed and scalability to meet their expanding network needs. […]The post EdgeConneX Increases Interconnection Options at Atlanta Data Center Campus with Bandwidth IG appeared first on insideHPC.

Mountain View, Calif. – December 15, 2020 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) today announced the availability of Pure as-a-Service in AWS Marketplace and a new Cloud Block Store Efficiency Guarantee program. Pure Storage works with AWS to drive applications that run across AWS Regions and AWS Outposts and leverage the agility and innovation of private, edge, SaaS and clouds simultaneously. Today’s announcements are […]The post Pure Storage Announces Pure as-a-Service in AWS appeared first on insideHPC.

Dec. 14 – A memorandum of understanding between ICM University of Warsaw, Poland and Tokyo based The Systems Biology Institute (SBI) which was signed recently signals a beginning of a research and development collaboration between the two entities. The main areas of interaction will be the collaboration on and the use of scientific software platforms, […]The post ICM and SBI to Collaborate on Use of Garuda, Other Scientific Software Platforms appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose, — Dec. 14, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced it has acquired Square Box Systems Ltd, a specialist in data cataloging, user collaboration, and digital asset management software. The acquisition builds on Quantum’s recently expanded portfolio that classifies, manages, and protects data across its lifecycle by adding technology advancements to further enrich video, digital images and […]The post Quantum Acquires Digital Asset Management Specialist Square Box Systems appeared first on insideHPC.

Southampton, UK – 14 December 2020: AccelerComm, the 5G spectrum efficiency IP specialist, today announced that it has joined The O-RAN ALLIANCE, an industry association with a mission to re-shape mobile networks to be more intelligent, open, virtualized and fully interoperable without compromising performance. AccelerComm will contribute to the technical development of O-RAN standards, bringing its […]The post AccelerComm Joins The O-RAN Alliance for Interoperability and Spectral Efficiency for Open 5G Networks appeared first on insideHPC.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following today, an update by staff science writer Coury Turczyn, on progress made in the construction of a data center capable of supporting ORNL’s Frontier exascale system, scheduled for installation next year. When the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) new exascale supercomputer, Frontier, completes installation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory […]The post Building an Exascale-Class Data Center for ORNL’s Incoming Frontier Supercomputer appeared first on insideHPC.

Cambridge, UK – December 14, 2020 – Arm today announced that Telechips, a fabless semiconductor company specializing in automotive applications, has selected a leading-edge suite of Arm IP for its next-generation automotive system-on-chip (SoC), the Dolphin5, which is designed for applications such as Advanced Driver-assistance Systems (ADAS) and digital cockpit, including IVI Systems. To meet Telechips’ high performance, […]The post Telechips Picks Arm IP for Automotive SoC appeared first on insideHPC.

Add the High Performance Computing Center at the University of Stuttgart (HLRS) to the list of supercomputing organizations going from CPU-only to CPU-GPU architectures. HLRS announced this morning it will add Nvidia graphic processing units to its Hawk supercomputer, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Apollo system installed last February. One of Europe’s most powerful HPC systems, […]The post University of Stuttgart’s Hawk HPC System to Go CPU-GPU for Deep Learning Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.

In this whitepaper, "Deep Learning GPU Cluster," our friends over at Lambda walk you through the Lambda Echelon multi-node cluster reference design: a node design, a rack design, and an entire cluster level architecture. This document is for technical decision-makers and engineers. You’ll learn about the Echelon’s compute, storage, networking, power distribution, and thermal design. This is not a cluster administration handbook, this is a high level technical overview of one possible system architecture.The post Deep Learning GPU Cluster appeared first on insideHPC.

Sunnywale, CA — The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), in collaboration with the ISC Group, organizers of Europe’s premier HPC forum, today announced the annual team selections for the 2021 ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC). Challenging international students in a real-time contest, the competition is a key component of HPCAIAC’s mission to extend knowledge and education […]The post HPC-AI Advisory Council Announces Student Teams Competing in the 11th Annual ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition appeared first on insideHPC.

Seattle – Amazon Web Services has announced that Arm, a global leader in semiconductor design and silicon intellectual property development and licensing, will leverage AWS for its cloud use, including the vast majority of its electronic design automation (EDA) workloads. Arm is migrating EDA workloads to AWS, leveraging AWS Graviton2-based instances (powered by Arm Neoverse […]The post AWS and Arm Demonstrate Electronic Design Automation in the Cloud appeared first on insideHPC.

San Jose — Dec. 10, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced that its ActiveScale object storage platform automatically complies with the new strong consistency requirements for compatibility with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) applications. To claim AWS S3 compliance following the recent S3 update, object storage systems must ensure strong consistency. Strong consistency refers to the availability of data […]The post Quantum Corp. Says ActiveScale Meets Consistency Requirements for Amazon S3 Compatibility appeared first on insideHPC.

December 11, 2020 – Coordinated by the ETP4HPC, the TransContinuum Initiative (TCI) is the union of related digital technologies which offers solutions for the operation of complex data workflow systems. In this continuum, HPC plays a central role as the engine propelling AI, Big Data, IoT, Cybersecurity, and Mathematical components to work together. TCI is developing […]The post 8 European Associations Commit to TransContinuum Initiative for EU R&D Cross-domain Collaboration appeared first on insideHPC.

Valencia, Spain — Cobham Gaisler, a leading space design center of Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions (CAES), announced that fent Innovative Software Solutions (fentISS), a developer of software solutions specifically designed for critical real-time embedded partitioned systems, has agreed to mutually promote flagship products NOEL-V and LEON5 processors and the XtratuM Next Generation (XNG) hypervisor. Promoting […]The post Cobham Gaisler and fentISS Deepen Collaboration around RISC-V appeared first on insideHPC.

In this insideHPC technology guide, “insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads,”as we’ll see, by relying on open source software and the latest high performance/low cost system architectures, it is possible to build scalable hybrid on-premises solutions that satisfy the needs of converged HPC/AI workloads while being robust and easily manageable.The post insideHPC Guide to QCT Platform-on-Demand Designed for Converged Workloads – Part 3 appeared first on insideHPC.

UK-based Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC), a quantum software and algorithm specialist, today released researcher papers on its use of quantum computing to develop intuitive, “meaning-aware” natural language processing (QNLP).A focal point of artificial intelligence inquiry, NLP that is contextual, that comprehends emotion, nuance, even humor, is NLP’s most advanced and challenging form.The post Cambridge Quantum Reports Progress toward ‘Meaning Aware’ NLP appeared first on insideHPC.

London – 10 December 2020 – Quantum software company Phasecraft today closed what it said is a record seed round for a quantum computing company in the UK. Its new £3.7m in funding is led by VC firm LocalGlobe, along with Episode1 and previous investors. Phasecraft previously raised a £750,000 pre-seed round led by UCL […]The post UK Quantum Company Phasecraft Announces Seed Funding Round appeared first on insideHPC.

In this contributed article, Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing, discusses how as more organizations take the leap into HPC, Bright Computing aims to be the company that helps solve the challenge of complexity within the industry and replace it with flexibility, ease of use, and accelerated time to value.The post Overcoming the Complexities of New Applications & Technologies in the New Era of HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

For decades, one material has so dominated the production of computer chips and transistors that the tech capital of the world — Silicon Valley — bears its name. But silicon’s reign may not last forever. MIT researchers have found that an alloy called InGaAs (indium gallium arsenide) could hold the potential for smaller and more […]The post MIT Researchers: Promise for Nonsilicon Computer Transistors appeared first on insideHPC.

Boulder, Colo. – December 9, 2020 – The Active Archive Alliance today announced that Object Matrix has joined the organization, which promotes modern strategies to solve data growth challenges. Object Matrix joins a growing number of industry-leading storage and IT vendors that support the use of active archive solutions for data lifecycle management. “We’re pleased to welcome Object Matrix to […]The post Object Matrix Joins the Active Archive Alliance appeared first on insideHPC.

Palo Alto, CA, Dec. 9, 2020 — SambaNova Systems, builder of systems platform for artificial intelligence and data-intensive applications from the data center to the cloud and the edge, today announced SambaNova Systems DataScale. Built on SambaNova Systems Reconfigurable Dataflow Architecture (RDA), SambaNova DataScale is optimized for dataflow from the algorithms to the silicon, enabling […]The post SambaNova Systems Announces SambaNova DataScale — Built for AI appeared first on insideHPC.

Tel Aviv and San Jose — December 9, 2020 — Xsight Labs announced today the sampling of X1, the industry’s first 25.6T and 12.8T Data Center Switch with 100G SerDes, to its alpha customers. Xsight Labs’ X1 is the industry’s lowest power 25.6T and 12.8T fully programmable data center switch, according to the company. X1 […]The post Xsight Labs Announces Sampling of 25.6T Data Center Switch with 100G SerDes appeared first on insideHPC.

HPE this morning announced an HPC-as-a-service offering that sits at the confluence of two well-established market trends: broadening adoption of HPC in the enterprise, and accelerating demand for cloud-based HPC. The pay-per-use HPE GreenLake cloud services for HPC runs on-premises or in a colocation facility and is designed to avoid the complexity and cost of […]The post HPE Launches HPC-as-a-Service via Greenlake Cloud Platform appeared first on insideHPC.

In this sponsored post, Michael St-Jean from Red Hat advises that there's no need to fear the data tsunami we’ve long been approaching. Today’s new tools and architectures will help you tame the ebb and flow of object data and weather the storm. As a recent analyst study shows, object data is not only highly scalable, it can deliver deterministic performance at massive scale—more than 10 billion objects.The post Fear Not the Data Tsunami—Object Storage is Here appeared first on insideHPC.

Letting the workload take the lead in drawing on the hardware, networking and software resources it needs, and doing this dynamically – that’s what composable infrastructure vendor Liqid is all about. In this virtual SC20 interview, we sat down with Liqid Vice President of Public Sector Sales Eric Oberhofer, and Vice President of Advanced Computing […]The post After Virtual SC20: Liqid Talks Composable Infrastructure at HPC Scale and Recent DoD HPC Deployments appeared first on insideHPC.

Campbell, CA – December 8, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), the high-performance and scalable NVMe-optimized file storage company, today celebrated the success of its Weka Innovation Network (WIN), a Global Partner Program, enabling channel partners to sell WekaFS in such markets as life sciences, financial services, and GPU-accelerated technical computing in the enterprise. Launched in November 2019, WIN […]The post WekaIO Provides Update on its Global Partner Program appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN DIEGO — December 8, 2020 — NFINIT, a provider of hybrid cloud solutions, connectivity and colocation, announces its new suite of object storage solutions: NFINIT AO (Active Object) and NFINIT Object LS (LightSpeed). The new offerings provide storage at a competitive cost per gigabyte, and introduce NFINIT’s new Free-gress model, which eliminates variable charges for egress […]The post NFINIT Launches AO (Active Object) & Object LS (LightSpeed) Storage Solutions with ‘Free-gress’ Payment Model appeared first on insideHPC.

Dallas – Southern Methodist University’s Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security has received more than $1 million in new research grants for quantum-related research from Anametric, Inc., an Austin-based company developing new technologies and devices for chip-scale quantum photonics with a focus on cybersecurity. SMU researchers Dr. Mitch Thornton and Dr. Duncan MacFarlane will use the grants to investigate new […]The post SMU Lands $1M for Quantum-related Cyber Research appeared first on insideHPC.

The Center for Data Innovation (CDI), a non-profit think tank that studies the intersection of data, technology and public policy, has gone to bat for increased federal funding for ‘center class’ and mid-range HPC systems, contending that “a decade of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has left the United States with an […]The post The Case for ‘Center Class’ HPC: Think Tank Calls for $10B Fed Funding over Five Years appeared first on insideHPC.

Dell Technologies has long partnered with university-led supercomputing centers, working side-by-side with world-class researchers and scientists to develop, test and tune HPC systems for their workloads. This work often includes incorporating the newest processing technologies from AMD, such as second-generation AMD® EPYC™ processors.The post Higher Education HPC Harnesses Increasing Data Sets to Unlock New Discoveries appeared first on insideHPC.

In this new edition of “Let’s Talk Exascale” from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project, the ECP’s Scott Gibson talks with Jim Ahrens of Los Alamos National Laboratory about the project’s data and visualization portfolio. As Ahrens said in this interview, “We can compute much faster than we can save and store data these […]The post ‘Let’s Talk Exascale’: Storing and Managing Exa-class Data Volumes appeared first on insideHPC.

Rich Brueckner was one of the most influential (and beloved) figures in high performance computing. As editor-in-chief of insideHPC, he touched thousands of lives in our industry. He was a fixture at every HPC event as he walked the show floor in his trademark red hat or held court at a nearby watering hole. “Rich […]The post Announcing The Rich Brueckner Scholarship Awards and GoFundMe Account appeared first on insideHPC.

Santa Clara, CA, Dec. 2, 2020 –Ayar Labs announced it has successfully demonstrated its patented monolithic electronic/photonic solution on GlobalFoundries’ (GF) next generation photonics technology based on its 45nm platform. This is an industry first and key milestone in providing chip-to-chip optical connectivity at scale, according to Ayar Labs, and is suited for data-hungry applications […]The post Ayar Labs Demonstrates Optical Interconnect Solution on GlobalFoundries’ Silicon Photonics Manufacturing Process appeared first on insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO – Dec. 3, 2020 – Today, open engineering consortium MLCommons launched an industry-academic partnership to accelerate machine learning innovation and broaden access to this critical technology for the public good. MLCommons will focus on: Benchmarks and Metrics – that deliver transparency and a level playing field for comparing ML systems, software, and solutions, e.g., MLPerf, […]The post Creators of MLPerf Launch MLCommons Consortium for Machine Learning Benchmarks, Metrics, Datasets, Models and Best Practices appeared first on insideHPC.

Lenovo Data Center Group today launched edge-core-cloud data management solutions with a single set of tools and capabilities. Part of the Lenovo DM Series of storage systems, the ThinkSystem DM5100F is designed to brings high-performance, low-latency all-NVMe storage for analytics, AI deployments and accelerated access to data. The DM Series now includes AWS S3 object support, […]The post Lenovo Launches Storage Array, Data Management Solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

This white paper describes that with the latest Precision models, Dell continues to pioneer smarter thermals for mobile workstations that allow processor and GPU innovations to evolve so you can be more productive. To get the peak performance your demanding workloads require in easily portable sizes, Dell Technologies has Precision mobile workstations that best meets your needs.The post Smaller, faster and cooler: Innovations in Dell Precision mobile workstations surmount the latest thermal challenges appeared first on insideHPC.

In this interview, Inspur’s Global AI and HPC Director Vangel Bojaxhi sat down with us after virtual SC20 to give us an HPC- and AI-oriented update on the company. Noting that Inspur is a top three server manufacturer in the world, Bojaxhi added that the company is no. 1 in GPU servers. At SC20, Inspur […]The post After Virtual SC20: Inspur Update Focuses on Staying Ahead in HPC and AI appeared first on insideHPC.

From the perspective of Nvidia-Mellanox’s Senior Vice President Marketing, Gilad Shainer, virtual SC20 “for us was a great week.” In this video, Shainer discusses the company’s conference highlights, including the introduction of the new generation of InfiniBand high performance network technology, the NDR 400G, which he said delivers 400GB/second performance while adding more in-network computing […]The post After Virtual SC20: Mellanox’s Gilad Shainer Talks New-Gen InfiniBand’s Performance and Growing Top500 (and Top10) Presence appeared first on insideHPC.

SaaS and subscription revenue of its VMware surpassed its on-premises license revenue for the first time in its Q3 fiscal year 2021 which ended in October 2020. According to the research data analyzed and published by Comprar Acciones, VMware’s SaaS and subscription revenue for Q3 FY21 totaled $676 million. That marked an increase of 44% year-over-year […]The post VMware’s SaaS and Subscription Revenue Up 44% appeared first on insideHPC.

In this technology guide sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a deep dive into how the team of Dell Technologies and AMD is working to provide solutions for a wide array of needs for more strategic cultivation of oil and gas energy reserves. We’ll explore how the dynamic confluence of HPC and AI is now considered essential to any organization involved in energy exploration and the process of bringing the resulting energy resources to market.The post insideHPC Guide to HPC/AI for Energy – Part 5 appeared first on insideHPC.