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Dec. 4, 2024 - MLCommons today released AILuminate, a safety test for large language models. The v1.0 benchmark - which provides a series of safety grades for the most widely-used LLMs - is the first AI safety benchmark designed collaboratively by AI researchers and industry experts, according to MLCommons. It builds on MLCommons' track record [...]The post MLCommons Launches LLM Safety Benchmark appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 -- At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling customers to train ....The post AWS Announces EC2 UltraCluster and GA of Trainium2 Instances appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - December 3, 2024-Hammerspace announced contributions to the Linux kernel designed to transform standard Linux servers into platforms for enterprise, AI and HPC file and object storage. These contributions - engineered by Hammerspace and available as part of standard Linux distributions - enable enterprises to achieve unprecedented performance and scalability with trusted, [...]The post Hammerspace Announces Contributions to the Linux Kernel for Enterprise and HPC-AI Storage appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Valvoline Global has taken its engine cooling and lubrication heritage going back more than a century and announced at SC24 its HPC-AI liquid cooling debut. In this interview, we spoke with Samuel Raudales, Valvoline Global's ....The post At SC24: Valvoline Global Revs up HPC-AI Liquid Cooling with Debut in Atlanta appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 2, 20224 - For applicants and recipients of Department of Energy (DOE) financial assistance and loan funding, a newly published Research Technology and Economic Security Framework" highlights DOE's goals, process, high-level risk factors, and commitment to mitigation when assessing RTES risk. This framework codifies a harmonized approach across all DOE/NNSA funding offices, while also [...]The post DOE Announces Research, Technology and Economic Security Framework appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 2, 2024 -- The Julich Supercomputing Centre(JSC) at Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany received a 100-qubit quantum computer from neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal in mid-November.The post Pasqal 100-Qubit Quantum Computer Shipped to Julich Supercomputing Centre appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RALEIGH, N.C.-Dec. 2, 2024 - Red Hat, Inc., open source solutions provider, today announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale availability of Red Hat open source solutions in AWS Marketplace, building upon the two companies' long-standing relationship. Red Hat intends to help organizations with leading hybrid cloud platforms, [...]The post Red Hat Signs Agreement with AWS for Virtualization and AI in Hybrid Cloud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amsterdam, December 2, 2024 - Nebius Group N.V.; NASDAQ:NBIS), an AI infrastructure company, today announced s definitive agreements for a USD 700 million private placement financing from a group of institutional and accredited investors, including participation from Accel, NVIDIA, and certain accounts managed by Orbis Investments. The financing supports Nebius' previously announced plans to further [...]The post Nebius Announces $700M Equity Financing for AI Infrastructure Rollout appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 2, 2024, Santa Clara, CA: Tenstorrent said it closed over $693M in its Series D funding round at a pre-money valuation of $2B. Samsung Securities and AFW Partners led the oversubscribed round.In addition to the leads, other investors joined the round including XTX Markets, Corner Capital, MESH, Export Development Canada, Healthcare of Ontario Pension [...]The post Tenstorrent Closes $693M+ Series D Round appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dec. 2, 2024, SANTA CLARA, CA -- Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced that Pat Gelsinger, the company's CEO since February 2021, has retired from the company after a 40-plus-year career and has stepped down from the board of directors, effective immediately.The post Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In our continuing series on HPC-AI Vanguards, in which we recognize young members of the HPC-AI community showing potential to become industry leaders of tomorrow, we here profile Si Hammond, Federal Program Manager at the National ....The post insideHPC Vanguard: NNSA's Si Hammond and the Almost Impossible' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 26, 2024: AMD today announced the release of ROCm Version 6.3 open-source platform, introducing tools and optimizations for AI, ML and HPC workloads on AMD Instinct GPU accelerators. ROCm 6.3 is engineered for a range of organizations, from AI startups to HPC-driven industries, and is designed to enhance developer productivity Features of this release [...]The post AMD Releases ROCm Version 6.3 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PARIS, 26th November 2024 - Alice & Bob, a fault-tolerant quantum computing company, today announced Felis 1.0, its toolbox with logical qubit emulator designed to help users prepare for quantum computing by facilitating the transition from NISQ to fault-tolerant algorithms. Many business leaders have yet to realize that the quantum algorithms their teams develop will [...]The post Quantum: Alice & Bob Announce Logical Qubit Emulator appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 20, 2024: The National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsandVAST Dataare giving supercomputing systemDeltaand thenewly launched DeltaAIa boost in their storage and application performance. NCSA launched Harbor, a service that provides fast storage for global home and software directories across all NCSA open-science resources. Its deployment has led to a 400 percent increase in application launch [...]The post Harbor Service, VAST Data Provide Storage Upgrade for NCSA Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We sat down with DDN co-founder and CEO Alex Bouzari at SC24 to discuss new trends in high performance storage - or, as Bouzari refers to DDN's core offering, its data intelligence platform. Bouzari is a stalwart of modern HPC ....The post At SC24: Alex Bouzari on HPC-AI Trends Driving DDN's Data Intelligence Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy Thanksgiving week to you Americans and a happy last week of November to the rest of the world. Here's a rapid (6:43) run-through of recent news and trends from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC24 in Atlanta ....The post HPC News Bytes 20241125: SC24 Hit Show in Atlanta, Hyperion's Booming Market Update, Report: TSMC Tech in Huawei AI Chips appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar at 11 am Central Time on Wednesday, Dec. 11 covering remote workflows at ALCF. Registration is here. HPC resources like those at ALCF are increasingly becoming integrated with distributed workloads involving data movement and remote orchestration. In this webinar, ALCF's Christine Simpson will discuss how ALCF [...]The post Webinar: ALCF Developer Session on HPC Workflows to Be Held Dec. 11 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Taipei, Taiwan, 25thNovember2024 - The Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute (TSRI) under the National Applied Research Laboratories today announces the procurement of its first full-stack quantum computer from IQM Quantum Computers (IQM). The delivery and installation of the system at TSRI's premises will take place in the second quarter of 2025. Both TSRI and IQM aim [...]The post Taiwan Semiconductor Research InstituteSelects IQM Spark Quantum Computer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ATLANTA, Nov. 22, 2024 -The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge 2025 (ASC25) kicked off its inaugural briefing session at SC24, unveiling a timeline for the upcoming competition. Aspiring undergraduate teams from around the world are encouraged to register by January 5, 2025, through the official website. (http://www.asc-events.net/StudentChallenge/ASC25/Register.php) ASC25 will uphold its renowned format, featuring three key [...]The post Jan. 5 Registration Deadline for ASC25 Student Supercomputer Challenge appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At SC24 this week in Atlanta, we caught up with Lenovo's Moritz Manthey, Senior Manager of HPC Products and Solutions, for an update on Lenovo HPC-AI class servers built to address the emerging requirements for compute, data access ....The post At SC24: Lenovo Update on Meeting New HPC-AI Demands - From Exascale to Every Scale' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Yorktown Heights, New York, and Paris, Nov. 21, 2024- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Pasqal today announced an update to their intendedcollaboration to build new, integrated frameworks for quantum-centric supercomputing with Qiskit quantum software. The two companies will soon begin developing a unified programming model to facilitate seamless interoperability across different types of quantum computing hardware. [...]The post IBM and Pasqal Expand Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Initiative appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 -ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named an eight-member team drawn from Australian and American institutions as the winner of the2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prizefor the project,Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-ScaleAb InitioMolecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials." The members of the team are Ryan Stocks, Jorge L. Galvez Vallejo, [...]The post Exascale: Gordon Bell Prize TeamPresents Record-Breaking Algorithm for Chemistry and Biology appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ST PAUL, Minn., Nov. 21, 2024 - Hyperion Research today announced the recipients of the 20th round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. Since 2011, these semi-annual innovation excellence awards have been recognized globally as the touchstone for outstanding achievements that were supported by the use of high performance computing. Winners have ranged from government and [...]The post Hyperion Announces 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 - ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 12-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modellingfor their projectBoosting Earth System Model Outputs And Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators."The award recognizes innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis. The members [...]The post ACM Presents Winners of Gordon Bell Climate Modelling Prize appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 21, 2024 - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $31 million in funding for 42 projects to 36 institutions in 24 states to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at academic institutions. Total funding is $31 million for projects lasting up to three years in duration. The list of projects [...]The post DOE Office of Science Funds $31M for Research Capacity at Academic Institutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn.,Nov. 21, 2024 - C1, a global technology solution provider, today published a report titled The Era of AI-Powered Connected Human Experience is Underway. The report details how organizations across multiple industries are rapidly integrating generative AI to improve automation, create new products and services, software development, and collaboration. The report features insights from [...]The post C1 Edge Research: 99% of Organizations Accelerating Gen AI Adoption appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - November 21, 2024 - Data orchestration platform company Hammerspacehas unveiled groundbreaking MLPerf1.0 benchmark results that highlight the unmatched capabilities of its revolutionary Tier 0 technology, a new tier of ultra-fast shared storage that uses the local NVMe storage in GPU servers. Designed to eliminate storage bottlenecks and maximize GPU performance, Tier [...]The post Hammerspace Reports Records in MLPerf1.0 Benchmark with Tier 0 Storage appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ATLANTA - November 18, 2024 - SC24 - As high performance computing teams move more workloads to cloud-native environments to take advantage of scale and agility, orchestration of jobs across on-premises and cloud environments slows progress. CIQFuzzball Federate, unveiled today in early access atSC24, addresses these challenges and enables researchers to use a comprehensive management [...]The post CIQ Demos Preview of Fuzzball Federate' to Streamline HPC Workflows appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Delft, 20th November 2024: In a bid to accelerate the transition to clean energy in the fight against climate change, VSParticle (VSP) - a Dutch nanotechnology engineering company - today announced the first results from a collaboration with Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, and the University of Toronto (UofT). The collaboration brings together VSP's [...]The post Meta FAIR and VSParticle Launch Catalyst Database Designed to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Atlanta- SC24 - Nov 19, 2024 - MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, a server platform design manufacturer and a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings (TSE:3706), has unveilws its new server lineup at SC24 (booth #2543). MiTAC Computing's servers integrate the latest AMD EPYC 9005 Series CPUs, AMD Instinct MI325X GPU accelerators, Intel Xeon 6 processors, and professional [...]The post MiTAC Computing Unveils AI/HPC Servers at SC24 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

November 19, 2024 - Quantum computing company Atom Computing announced that together with Microsoft they have entangled 24 logical qubits, which they said sets a world record. The companies also jointly demonstrated error detection, correction, and computation with 28 logical qubits on Atom's flagship systems. More information on this work can be found in [...]The post Quantum: Atom Computing and Microsoft Report Entangling 24 Logical Qubits appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Round Rock, TEXAS - November 19, 2024 -Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) introduced AI offerings designed to help Dell and Microsoft customers simplify AI adoption, speed deployment and power demanding workloads in multicloud environments. Data protection, cyber resiliency and security advancements help joint customers strengthen their cybersecurity posture. Organizations modernizing their IT strategies to support emerging [...]The post Dell Expands AI Factory in Collaboration with Microsoft appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nov. 19, 2024 - NVIDIA today announced an NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint that enables industry software developers to help their computer-aided engineering (CAE) customers in aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, energy and other industries create digital twins with real-time interactivity. Software developers such as Altair,Ansys, Cadence and Siemens can use theNVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time computer-aided engineering digital [...]The post NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Real-Time Physics Digital Twins With Industry Software Companies appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18, 2024 - Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced results of the largest Fluent CFD simulation run on NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips. The technology collaboration accelerated simulation by 110x, reducing the overall run time from four weeks to six hours. The accomplishment reflects Ansys' commitment to pushing the boundaries of innovation and amplifying [...]The post Ansys Reports 110x Fluent CFD Simulation Acceleration with NVIDIA GH200 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RALEIGH, N.C.-November 19, 2024 - Open source company Red Hat, Inc., today announced an extended collaboration with Microsoft to streamline and scale artificial intelligence and generative AI deployments in the cloud. With this collaboration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI)will be available on Azure Marketplace as an optimized and validated foundation model platform to [...]The post Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI for GenAI on Microsoft Azure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SC24 here in Atlanta is off to a great start with more than 17,000 attendees (a 21 percent increase over 2023), 480 exhibitors from 29 countries and a new TOP500 list that features a new champion supercomputer!The post @HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List of Top Supercomputers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, CA (November 18, 2024) - Luminary Cloud today announced that it is demonstrating an interactive virtual wind tunnel that combines its cloud-native NVIDIA CUDA-X-accelerated CFD SaaS with the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time computer-aided engineering digital twins. The AI-powered virtual wind tunnel demonstrates how design engineers of physical products in the automotive, aerospace [...]The post Luminary Cloud Uses NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Real-Time CAE Digital Twins appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers reports that El Capitan, the HPE-Cray/AMD supercomputer at Lawrence ....The post TOP500 at SC24: El Cap on Top, U.S. Now Has 3 Exascale Supercomputers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good morning to you from SC24 in Atlanta. Here's a quick (5:33) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: The SC24 conference starts today; TSMC, the CHIPS Act and semiconductor demand; Sandia National Labs teams with Cerebras.The post HPC News Bytes 20241118: On the Scene at SC24, TSMC and the CHIPS Act, Cerebras at Sandia appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SC24, ATLANTA - November 18, 2024 - Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced its new AI portfolio designedto make enterprise AI adoption easier with the Dell AI Factory, for AI workloads and data management. Getting AI up and running across a company can be a real challenge," said Arthur Lewis, president, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. [...]The post Dell Technologies: AI for Enterprises with Dell AI Factory appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Fremont, Calif., - November 18, 2024-Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG), today announced its collaboration with Dell Technologies to deliver AI solutions designed to accelerate customers' time to value through validated, high-performing AI infrastructure. These end-to-end Penguin OriginAIsolutions combine Dell PowerEdge AI-optimized servers, Dell PowerScale storage and Dell PowerSwitch data center switches with Penguin's validated solution architectures. [...]The post Penguin Solutions Accelerates Time to Value for AI Factories appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HELSINKI Nov. 18, 2024: Algorithmiqtoday announced a venture to accelerate error mitigation techniques for near-term quantum devices. Algorithmiq's quantum software solutions, paired with NVIDIA-accelerated supercomputing, are aimed at dramatically speeding up the timeline for achieving practical quantum advantage. This offers the potential to overcome current limitations in quantum computing, paving the way for more stable, [...]The post AlgorithmiqPaired with Nvidia on Quantum Computing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

November 17, 2024, ATLANTA: The PESO Project, a community-driven effort to promote the development and use of scientific software as an ecosystem, and the Extreme Scale Scientific Software (E4S) development and support team, today announced the release of E4S 24.11. Following is a partial list of highlights in this release: E4S includes 132+ HPC-AI packages [...]The post New Update of the Extreme Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Canberra, Australia and Stuttgart, Germany - Nov. 18, 2024 - Quantum Brilliance (QB), a diamond-based quantum technology company, today announced the first purchase of a room temperature quantum accelerator in the European market by Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF (Fraunhofer IAF) following the company's participation in a public tender. QB's quantum accelerators [...]The post Quantum Brilliance Announces Purchase of Room-Temp Quantum Accelerator, Powered by NVIDIA CUDA-Q appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - November 18, 2024 - Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore Computing (LC) high performance computing center. The rack-scale Oxide Cloud Computer is intended to allow LLNL to improve the efficiency of operational workloads and provide LC [...]The post Livermore Lab and Oxide Computer Team on Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, CA - Nov 18, 2024 - Cloudian, the global leader in secure S3-compatible AI data lake platforms, today announced its integration with NVIDIA Magnum IOGPUDirectO Storage technology, delivering breakthrough performance of over 200GB/s from a HyperStore system. Cloudian HyperStore(R) with GPUDirect access simplifies the management of AI training and inference datasets - at [...]The post Cloudian Announces Support for NVIDIA GPUDirect Acceleration for Object Storage appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Special guest and a leading light of the HPC community, Prof. Torsten Hoefler of ETH-Zurich, joins Shahin and Doug for a lively discussion on his vision of HPC-AI's present and future, which he calls The Age of Computation." For Torsten this is an umbrella term covering all ....The post @HPCpodcast: Torsten Hoefler on the Present and Future of HPC-AI - The Age of Computation' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.