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The high bandwidth and low latency of 5G is truly transformational for the enterprise. Private 5G networks will enable business to offer new services through connected devices on the Edge and entirely new revenue streams. "Advantech Networks & Communications Group is driving innovation in next-generation network solutions with their High Performance Servers. The systems are cost effective, highly available and optimized to meet next generation networking and media processing needs."The post Transforming Private 5G Networks appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, Todd Gamblin from LLNL describes how the Spack flexible package manager helps automate the deployment of software on supercomputer systems. "After many hours building software on Lawrence Livermore’s supercomputers, in 2013 Todd Gamblin created the first prototype of a package manager he named Spack (Supercomputer PACKage manager). The tool caught on, and development became a grassroots effort as colleagues began to use the tool."The post Podcast: Spack Helps Automate Deployment of Supercomputer Software appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Supermicro introduced multiple systems tailored to work with a leading open, hyperconverged software offering, Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure. Supermicro collaborated with Red Hat to develop advanced configurations based on industry-leading Supermicro servers featuring the latest technologies. These systems, available now, give customers new options when architecting infrastructure.The post Supermicro Powers Red Hat Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Virtualization appeared first on insideHPC.

Shahin Khan from OrionX gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "We will discuss the digital infrastructure of the future enterprise and the state of these trends. OrionX works with clients on the impact of Digital Transformation on them, their customers, and their messages. Generally, they want to track, in one place, trends like IoT, 5G, AI, Blockchain, and Quantum Computing. And they want to know what these trends mean, how they affect each other, and when they demand action, and how to formulate and execute an effective plan. If that describes you, we can help."The post Video: Major Market Shifts in IT appeared first on insideHPC.

Atos reports that the company is bringing its technology leadership, skills and innovation resources to the global fight against Covid-19. Through several direct and partner-led initiatives across the globe, Atos is engaged on multiple fronts, providing solutions and computing power to help contain the spread of the virus, support the scientific community, accelerate vaccine research and ensure business continuity for critical activities.The post Atos engages in the fight against Covid-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Cortical.io announced Message Intelligence, an out-of-the-box solution that filters, classifies, and routes streams of messages in real time at a massive scale. "Combining the Cortical.io proven Semantic Folding method with FPGA-powered acceleration from Xilinx, Cortical.io Message Intelligence is a purpose-built appliance, easily installed and configured. It provides human-level accuracy in filtering and classifying messages, enabling businesses to more quickly process and respond to messages of any kind and also mitigate legal risks."The post Cortical.io Taps FPGAs for Message Intelligence appeared first on insideHPC.

The Hot Interconnects Conference has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place Aug. 19-20 in San Jose, California. "Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, data centers, and clouds. This yearly conference is attended by leaders in industry and academia. The atmosphere provides for a wealth of opportunities to interact with individuals at the forefront of this field."The post Call for Papers: Hot Interconnects Conference appeared first on insideHPC.

PRACE is joining the battle against COVID-19 by providing huge computational power – 195 Million core hours – to the first ten projects awarded under the Fast Track Call for Proposals to support the mitigation of the impact of the pandemic. "These projects will provide new lead compounds and targets for further in vitro and in vivo studies of SARS-CoV-2 (virus strain causing coronavirus disease COVID-19), new insights for those drugs currently undergoing clinical studies and also possible new strategies for drug repositioning to treat SARS-CoV-2 infections."The post PRACE Awards 195 Million Core Hours to fight Coronavirus appeared first on insideHPC.

Thomas Thurston from WR Hambrecht Ventures gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "For a century, corporate innovators, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have had to rely on their instincts when deciding which strategies to pursue, and where to invest for growth. Now data science is turning human instinct on its head with powerful decision technologies that are giving rise to counter-intuitive discoveries about market behavior and predicting innovation success. Learn how venture capital firm WR Hambrecht is using big data and machine learning to better identify growth opportunities, predict new business success and rewrite the rules of innovation."The post Surprising Mechanical Lessons About Predicting Innovation Success appeared first on insideHPC.

This white paper by Advantech, "Rugged COTS Platform Takes On Fast-Changing Needs of Self-Driving Trucks" discusses how the fast-changing needs of autonomous vehicles are forcing compute platforms to evolve. Advantech and Crystal Group are teaming up to power that evolution based on AV trends, compute requirements, and a rugged COTS philosophy converging for breakthrough innovation in self-driving truck designs.The post Rugged COTS Platform Takes On Fast-Changing Needs of Self-Driving Trucks appeared first on insideHPC.

Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing and accessing it. In this technology guide, insideHPC Special Research Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure, we’ll see how in this environment, different applications and workflows will always have data storage and access requirements, making it critical for planning to understand that a heterogeneous storage infrastructure is needed for a fully functioning organization.The post Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 3 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Chip Chat podcast, Trish Damkroger from Intel describes HPC’s relevance in today’s society, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. "The podcast covers how Intel’s HPC solutions offer computing resources to researchers and scientists to better understand the underlying characteristics of COVID-19, to help limit the spread of the virus, and to advance the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Today’s episode also discusses various HPC workloads that are being used and Trish’s observations on the HPC community’s positive responses and contributions."The post Podcast: Trish Damkroger on HPC’s Role in the fight against COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today, the Khronos Group consortium released the OpenCL 3.0 Provisional Specifications. OpenCL 3.0 realigns the OpenCL roadmap to enable developer-requested functionality to be broadly deployed by hardware vendors, and it significantly increases deployment flexibility by empowering conformant OpenCL implementations to focus on functionality relevant to their target markets. Many of our customers want a GPU programming language that runs on all devices, and with growing deployment in edge computing and mobile, this need is increasing,” said Vincent Hindriksen, founder and CEO of Stream HPC. “OpenCL is the only solution for accessing diverse silicon acceleration and many key software stacks use OpenCL/SPIR-V as a backend. We are very happy that OpenCL 3.0 will drive even wider industry adoption, as it reassures our customers that their past and future investments in OpenCL are justified.”The post Khronos Group Releases OpenCL 3.0 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Hyperion Research released its updated analysis of the potential impact areas of the covid-19 pandemic on the HPC market based on recent discussions with HPC system vendors and buyers. There is a large variation in the impacts of the virus for different segments of the HPC market. Hyperion Research is developing a detailed analysis of these impacts in order to create updated forecasts for HPC servers, AI, ML, DL, and public cloud spending for running HPC workloads.The post Hyperion Research Forecasts Widespread Covid-19 Disruption to HPC Market appeared first on insideHPC.

NVIDIA today announced the completion of its acquisition of Mellanox for a transaction value of $7 billion. “With Mellanox, the new NVIDIA has end-to-end technologies from AI computing to networking, full-stack offerings from processors to software, and significant scale to advance next-generation data centers. Our combined expertise, supported by a rich ecosystem of partners, will meet the challenge of surging global demand for consumer internet services, and the application of AI and accelerated data science from cloud to edge to robotics.”The post NVIDIA Completes Acquisition of Mellanox appeared first on insideHPC.

Thomas Francis from the UberCloud and Mohan Potheri from VMware gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "In this solution we combine the capabilities of the VMware platform, with the solution provided by UberCloud which leverages the automation capabilities of Terraform with the unique packaging and distributing capabilities of docker-based HPC containers to dynamically deploy HPC applications on the vSphere platform."The post Agile HPC with VMware Cloud Foundation & UberCloud appeared first on insideHPC.

Arizona State University has added to its international reputation for innovation, being named a Dell Technologies HPC and AI Center of Excellence. This recognition provides ASU with access to a worldwide program that facilitates the exchange of ideas among researchers, computer scientists, technologists and engineers for the advancement of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence solutions.The post Arizona State University becomes Dell Technologies HPC & AI Center of Excellence appeared first on insideHPC.

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Honeywell’s Trapped Ion Quantum computing initiative. Quantum computing initiative. "Shahin gives us a good overview of digital vs. analog and classical vs. quantum science. The Honeywell system is in the ‘quantum-gate’ quadrant of Shahin’s model, suspending ions in space through magnetics and then hitting them with lasers to produce entanglement. The Honeywell system is interesting because it is scoring well on the emerging Quantum Volume metric – showing very high fidelity for its qubit count. This system is the culmination of over 10 years of R&D and should be on the market later on this year."The post Podcast: Honeywell Traps, Zaps Ions for Science appeared first on insideHPC.

"We are seeking an HPC Tools Software Engineers for our Engineering Support team on the HPC contract. Lockheed Martin provides High Performance Computing services throughout the HPC lifecycle for computational requirements, architecture, acquisition, and operations to federal government customers. The program provides key supercomputing capabilities for solving important problems in science and technology. The program is involved in efforts to develop scientific software and libraries for HPC platforms. This work involves working on cutting edge HPC technologies to ensure that scientists and engineers will be able to fully utilize modern HPC systems."The post Job of the Week: Mid-Career Software Engineer at Lockheed Martin appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Sponsored Post, our friends over at Altair explain that to keep the world’s weather sites running smoothly, Altair and the Cylc open source community have packaged an industry-leading workload manager, Altair PBS Professional™, together with the Cylc workflow engine plus other helpful plug-ins to create the Altair Weather Solution.The post Altair and Cylc Take Weather Prediction by Storm appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Ian Finder from Microsoft Azure writes that GPU VMs with Riskfuel's derivatives models based on artificial intelligence are much faster than previous methods. "Using conventional algorithms, real-time pricing, and risk management is out of reach. But as the influence of machine learning extends into production workloads, a compelling pattern is emerging across scenarios and industries reliant on traditional simulation. Once computed, the output of traditional simulation can be used to train DNN models that can then be evaluated in near real-time with the introduction of GPU acceleration."The post Azure Looks to Real-Time Derivatives Pricing using Riskfuel AI Technology on GPUs appeared first on insideHPC.

NVIDIA will post its GTC 2020 keynote address by CEO Jensen Huang on YouTube on May 14, at 6 a.m. Pacific time. "Huang will highlight the company’s latest innovations in AI, high performance computing, data science, autonomous machines, healthcare and graphics during the recorded keynote. Participants will be able to view the keynote on demand at www.youtube.com/nvidia. Get amped for the latest platform breakthroughs in AI, deep learning, autonomous vehicles, robotics and professional graphics."The post GTC 2020 Keynote with CEO Jensen Huang Set for May 14 appeared first on insideHPC.

Researchers are using TACC supercomputers to power the Galaxy Bioinformatics Platform for COVID-19 analysis. More than 30,000 biomedical researchers run approximately 500,000 computing jobs a month on the platform. "Since 2013, TACC has powered the data analyses for a large percentage of Galaxy users, allowing researchers to quickly and seamlessly solve tough problems in cases where their personal computer or campus cluster is not sufficient."The post TACC Powers Galaxy Bioinformatics Platform for COVID-19 Analysis appeared first on insideHPC.

This presentation describes Storage capabilities that HPE has added to its High Performance Compute portfolio through the Cray acquisition. It looks at how these capabilities prepare and support the needs of the exascale era that requires unprecedented requirements of storage capacity that needs to be accessed with unprecedented speeds. "Data growth far exceeds price/ performance improvements in existing media storage technologies. As a result, sticking with your current storage infrastructure will leave you unable to keep up."The post Video: The Impact of the Cray Acquisition on HPC Storage appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Astera Labs announced that it has closed its Series B funding with renowned technology investors including Sutter Hill Ventures, Intel Capital, Avigdor Willenz, and Ron Jankov. This investment round, along with a strategic collaboration with TSMC for manufacturing, positions Astera Labs to rapidly scale production of its Aries Smart Retimer, the world’s first Smart Retimer Portfolio for PCI Express (PCIe) 4.0 and 5.0 solutions, and to accelerate development of additional product lines for Compute Express Link (CXL) solutions. "We are very proud of the significant industry traction for our Aries Smart Retimer Portfolio which has been extensively tested with all major CPU, GPU and PCIe 4.0 endpoints,” said Jitendra Mohan, CEO, Astera Labs. “We look forward to accelerating this momentum by partnering with such a distinguished group of technology and manufacturing heavyweights to develop purpose-built connectivity solutions for data-centric systems.”The post Astera Labs lands funding for purpose-built connectivity solutions appeared first on insideHPC.

Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "As the global shutdown continues, inquiring minds want to know what the effects will be on the HPC and AI market. Intersect360 Research has released a new report guiding its clients that the market for HPC products and services will fall significantly short of its previous 2020 forecast, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. The newly-revised forecast predicts the overall worldwide HPC market will be flat to down 12% in 2020."The post Video: HPC and AI Market Update from Intersect360 Research appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Altair updated Altair Inspire, the company’s fully-integrated generative design and simulation solution that accelerates the creation, optimization, and study of innovative, structurally efficient parts and assemblies. The latest release offers an even more powerful and accessible working environment, enabling a simulation-driven design approach that will cut time-to-market, reduce development costs, and optimize product performance. "Inspire enables both simulation analysts and designers to perform ‘what-if’ studies faster, easier, and earlier, encouraging collaboration and reducing product time to market."The post Altair Inspire update accelerates simulation-driven design appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Rod Burns from Codeplay writes that the company has made significant contributions to enabling an open standard, cross-architecture interface for developers as part of the oneAPI industry initiative. Software developers are looking more than ever at how they can accelerate their applications without having to write optimized processor specific code. […]The post Codeplay implements MKL-BLAS for NVIDIA GPUs using SYCL and DPC++ appeared first on insideHPC.

Today LeapMind announced Efficiera, an ultra-low power AI inference accelerator IP for companies that design ASIC and FPGA circuits, and other related products. Efficiera will enable customers to develop cost-effective, low power edge devices and accelerate go-to-market of custom devices featuring AI capabilities. "This product enables the inclusion of deep learning capabilities in various edge devices that are technologically limited by power consumption and cost, such as consumer appliances (household electrical goods), industrial machinery (construction equipment), surveillance cameras, and broadcasting equipment as well as miniature machinery and robots with limited heat dissipation capabilities."The post LeapMind Unveils Efficiera Ultra Low-Power AI Inference Accelerator IP appeared first on insideHPC.

Today the InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) announced the public availability of the InfiniBand Architecture Specification Volume 1 Release 1.4 and Volume 2 Release 1.4. With these updates in place, the InfiniBand ecosystem will continue to grow and address the needs of the next generation of HPC, artificial AI, cloud and enterprise data center compute, and storage connectivity needs.The post IBTA Updates InfiniBand Architecture Specifications for Next-Gen HPC appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order for a supercomputer system from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Powered by the Arm-based A64FX processor, the system will contribute in improving the international competitiveness of aerospace research, as it will be widely used as the basis for JAXA's high performance computing. "Scheduled to start operation in October 2020, the new computing system for large-scale numerical simulation, composed of Fujitsu Supercomputer PRIMEHPC FX1000, is expected to have a theoretical computational performance of 19.4 petaflops, which is approximately 5.5 times that of the current system."The post Arm-Powered Fujitsu Supercomputer to fuel Aerospace Research at JAXA in Japan appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from Forbes, Horst Simon from LBNL describes how supercomputers are being used for coronavirus research. "Computing is stepping up to the fight in other ways too. Some researchers are crowdsourcing computing power to try to better understand the dynamics of the protein and a dataset of 29,000 research papers has been made available to researchers leveraging artificial intelligence and other approaches to help tackle the virus. IBM has launched a global coding challenge that includes a focus on COVID-19 and Amazon has said it will invest $20 million to help speed up coronavirus testing."The post Video: Why Supercomputers Are A Vital Tool In The Fight Against COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video from the Stanford HPC Conference, Surya Sanjay and Tanay Bhangale from Troy High School in Michigan describe how their proposal on combatting prion-based disease resulted in their first experiences with HPC at the Stanford High Performance Computing Center. "Using a model of the infectious murine prion and many mutagenized variants of the benign murine prion as PrPX, created with Rosetta’s ab initio software, we plan to perform molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with GROMACS 2020 to determine the success of models based on the described criteria."The post High Schoolers from Michigan Step Up to High Performance Computing at Stanford appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Zapata Computing announced an Early Access Program to Orquestra, its end-to-end platform for quantum-enabled workflows. Providing the most software- and hardware-interoperable, enterprise quantum toolset, Orquestra enables advanced technology, R&D and academic teams to accelerate quantum solutions for complex computational problems in optimization, machine learning and simulation across a variety of industries. "Orquestra is the only system for managing quantum workflows. By providing frictionless collaboration and rapid iteration, it helps Zapata and our entire community accelerate the discovery and development of near-term quantum algorithms and applications."The post Zapata Computing opens early access to Orquestra for quantum-enabled workflow appeared first on insideHPC.

Today SiPearl, the company that is designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, has signed a major technological licensing agreement with Arm, the global semiconductor IP provider. The agreement will enable SiPearl to benefit from the high-performance, secure, and scalable next-generation Arm Neoverse platform, codenamed ‶Zeusʺ, as well as leverage the robust software and hardware Arm ecosystem.The post European SiPearl Startup Licenses Arm for First-Generation Microprocessor appeared first on insideHPC.

Today BittWare introduced their new TeraBox 200DE edge server. The TeraBox series of certified server platforms feature the latest FPGA accelerators enabling customers to develop and deploy quicker with reduced risk and cost. "Working with Dell OEM for many years, we learned about the PowerEdge XE2420 and jumped at the chance to qualify our latest generation of FPGA accelerators. The combination has resulted in the TeraBox 200DE, the first enterprise-class FPGA edge server purpose-built for harsh environments and complex, compute-intensive workloads.”The post BittWare Introduces New TeraBox FPGA Accelerated Edge Server appeared first on insideHPC.

Today Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Penguin Computing, and AMD announced an agreement to upgrade the Lab’s unclassified Corona HPC cluster with AMD Instinct accelerators, expected to nearly double the peak performance of the machine. The system will be used by the COVID-19 HPC Consortium, a nationwide public-private partnership that is providing free computing time and resources to scientists around the country engaged in the fight against the coronavirus.The post AMD and Penguin Computing Upgrade Corona Supercomputer to fight COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

Today WekaIO introduced Weka AI, a transformative storage solution framework underpinned by the Weka File System (WekaFS) that enables accelerated edge-to-core-to-cloud data pipelines. Weka AI is a framework of customizable reference architectures (RAs) and software development kits (SDKs) with leading technology alliances like NVIDIA, Mellanox, and others in the Weka Innovation Network (WIN). "GPUDirect Storage eliminates IO bottlenecks and dramatically reduces latency, delivering full bandwidth to data-hungry applications," said Liran Zvibel, CEO and Co-Founder, WekaIO.The post New Weka AI framework to accelerate Edge to Core to Cloud Data Pipelines appeared first on insideHPC.

In this video, Philip Harris from MIT presents: Heterogeneous Computing at the Large Hadron Collider. "Only a small fraction of the 40 million collisions per second at the Large Hadron Collider are stored and analyzed due to the huge volumes of data and the compute power required to process it. This project proposes a redesign of the algorithms using modern machine learning techniques that can be incorporated into heterogeneous computing systems, allowing more data to be processed and thus larger physics output and potentially foundational discoveries in the field."The post Video: Heterogeneous Computing at the Large Hadron Collider appeared first on insideHPC.

Setting the stage for the Stanford HPC Conference this week, Gilad Shainer describes how the HPC AI Advisory Council fosters innovation in the high performance computing community. "The HPC-AI Advisory Council’s mission is to bridge the gap between high-performance computing and Artificial Intelligence use and its potential, bring the beneficial capabilities of HPC and AI to new users for better research, education, innovation and product manufacturing, bring users the expertise needed to operate HPC and AI systems, provide application designers with the tools needed to enable parallel computing, and to strengthen the qualification and integration of HPC and AI system products."The post Update on the HPC AI Advisory Council appeared first on insideHPC.

The DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Dan Martin, a computational scientist and group lead for the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division, as team lead for their Earth and Space Science portfolio within ECP Application Development focus area. Martin replaces Anshu Dubey, a computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. "I am confident that Dan’s technical expertise and deep experience with the codes that are relevant to the ECP portfolio make him a good fit to replace me at ECP. Not only is he highly respected for his work, but his management style will mesh very well with the leadership team,” said Dubey of Martin’s appointment.The post Dan Martin from Berkeley Lab takes on new role at Exascale Computing Project appeared first on insideHPC.

In this time lapse video, technicians build the new Attaway supercomputer from Penguin Computing at Sandia National Labs. In November 2019, the Attaway was #94 on the TOP500 Supercomputers list. "On February 28, 2019, Sandians lost a long-time colleague and friend, Steve Attaway. Steve spent over thirty years at Sandia, and during that time he helped bring big, seemingly impossible ideas into realization. The Attaway supercomputer is named after him."The post Time Lapse Video: Building the Attaway Supercomputer at Sandia appeared first on insideHPC.

Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing and accessing it. In this technology guide, insideHPC Special Research Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure, we’ll see how in this environment, different applications and workflows will always have data storage and access requirements, making it critical for planning to understand that a heterogeneous storage infrastructure is needed for a fully functioning organization.The post Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 2 appeared first on insideHPC.

AMD has announced a COVID-19 HPC fund to provide research institutions with computing resources to accelerate medical research on COVID-19 and other diseases. The fund will include an initial donation of $15 million of high-performance systems powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs to key research institutions. "I’m also proud that AMD last week joined the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium," writes AMD CEO Lisa Su.The post AMD Donates HPC Systems to fight COVID-19 appeared first on insideHPC.

In this Let's Talk Exascale podcast, researchers from LBNL discuss how the WarpX project are developing an exascale application for plasma accelerator research. "The new breeds of virtual experiments that the WarpX team is developing are not possible with current technologies and will bring huge savings in research costs, according to the project’s summary information available on ECP’s website. The summary also states that more affordable research will lead to the design of a plasma-based collider, and even bigger savings by enabling the characterization of the accelerator before it is built."The post Podcast: WarpX exascale application to accelerate plasma accelerator research appeared first on insideHPC.

The most powerful supercomputer in the world for academic research has established its mission for the coming year. "The NSF has approved allocations of supercomputing time on Frontera to 49 science projects for 2020-2021. Time on the TACC supercomputer is awarded based on a project's need for very large scale computing to make science and engineering discoveries, and the ability to efficiently use a supercomputer on the scale of Frontera."The post NSF awards compute time on Frontera Supercomputer for 49 projects appeared first on insideHPC.

In this special guest feature, Tim Miller, VP of Product Marketing at One Stop Systems (OSS), writes that his company is addressing the common requirements for video analytic applications with its AI on the Fly® building blocks. AI on the Fly is defined as moving datacenter levels of HPC and AI compute capabilities to the edge.The post Intelligent Video Analytics Pushes Demand for High Performance Computing at the Edge appeared first on insideHPC.

The Center for Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (CGCA) at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee is seeking a Scientific Data Application Developer in our Job of the Week. "Successful candidates will be part of a large and diverse team in the CGCA that works on a wide variety of computing infrastructure for astronomical and astrophysics problems. Team members interact daily with the physicists, astrophysicists and astronomers in the CGCA and at partner institutions. The CGCA at UW-Milwaukee also offers an exciting and friendly environment in which to work and play. With almost forty faculty, staff, postdocs, and students, the Center is a fun and vibrant place to work."The post Job of the Week: Scientific Data Application Developer at CGSA in Milwaukee appeared first on insideHPC.

Today quantum startup Q-CTRL announced a strategic investment by In-Q-Tel (IQT), the not-for-profit strategic investor that identifies innovative technology solutions to support the national security communities of the U.S. and its allies. "The company’s practice in quantum computing solves the Achilles heel of this new technology – hardware error and instability – by delivering a set of techniques that allow quantum computations to be executed with greater success."The post Q-CTRL to Accelerate Quantum Technology Solutions for National Security Applications appeared first on insideHPC.