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June 3, 2024 -The Government of British Columbia and the Digital Research Alliance of Canad are investing over $81M into the supercomputers at Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria. SFU will use a combined investment of over $66M to renew the infrastructure of its Cedar system, which is an academic supercomputer that is [...]The post Supercomputer Funding for BC Universities in Canada for Research in Health Care and More appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LONDON and AUSTIN, June 5, 2024 - ORCA Computing, a quantum computing company, has been selected by Montana State University (MSU) to supply two PT-1 quantum photonics systems, advancing distributed quantum computing and critical quantum capabilities. Funded by the U.S Air Force as part of a new Applied Quantum CORE grant, the ORCA systems will [...]The post Montana State Selects ORCA Computing for Distributed Quantum Computing and Communications appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK & LAS VEGAS - June 4, 2024 - AI data platform company VAST Data today at Cisco Live 2024 announced it is collaborating with Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in enterprise networking and security, and NVIDIA on a solution to offer enterprises high performance AI infrastructure coupled with an Ethernet-based AI fabric to [...]The post VAST Data to be Data Platform for Cisco Nexus HyperFabric for GenAI with Nvidia appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Frankfurt/Main - 3 June 2024 - Northern Data Group (German stock market:NB2, ISIN:DE000A0SMU87), a provider of HPC solutions, today announces the launch of its inaugural AI Accelerator, designed to fast-track AI innovation. Selected startups will be able to establish or scale a proof of concept for their AI concepts. Selected startups will receive complimentary access [...]The post Northern Data Group Launches Nvidia-based AI Accelerator Powered by Carbon-Free Energy appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A good June day to you! What follows is a rapid (7:59) run-though of the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: At Computex 2024: Nvidia Rubin and Vera ....The post HPC News Bytes 20240603: New Nvidia, AMD Chips at Computex, Industry Heavies Back UALink, Europe's 2nd Exascale, Approaching AI Bubble? appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SEATTLE - June 3rd, 2024 - Today, data storage and management company Qumulo said it achieved the industry's fastest and most cost-effective cloud-native storage solution, as demonstrated by the latest SPECstorage Solution 2020 AI_IMAGE Benchmark results. Qumulo's Azure Native Qumulo (ANQ) achieved an Overall Response Time (ORT) of 0.84ms with a total customer cost of [...]The post Qumulo Announces AI Infrastructure Benchmark Results with Azure Native Qumulo appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK, June 3, 2024 - Vector database AI company Pinecone today announced that Lauren Nemeth and Bob Muglia have joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) and board member, respectively. This comes as Pinecone celebrates its five-year anniversary and the GA of its flagship offering, Pinecone serverless, a vector database designed to make [...]The post Pinecone Names Lauren Nemeth COO and Bob Muglia as Board Member appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Single-phase direct-to-chip liquid cooling, particularly effective with microjet impingement," targets coolant directly at the hottest chip parts, managing high heat loads while boosting silicon performance. This method, which can cool chips over 2,000W ....The post Microjet Impingement' Liquid Cooling Advances as AI Heat Rises appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DENVER- May 31, 2024 - CEA-Leti scientists have reported three projects at ECTC 2024 that they say are steps to enabling CMOS image sensors (CIS) that can exploit image data to perceive a scene, understand the situation and intervene in it - capabilities that require embedding AI in the sensor. Demand for smart sensors is [...]The post CEA-Leti Reports 3-Layer Integration, Progress toward AI-Embedded CMOS Image Sensors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST WHITE PAPER] This white paper spotlights Eviden's Center for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP), which empowers organizations to ....The post Eviden's Center for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP) - Accelerate Workloads, Add Value to Simulation! appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

May 30, 2024 - Lenovo and Cisco today unveiled a partnership intended to deliver fully integrated infrastructure and networking solutions designed to accelerate digital transformation for businesses of all sizes. The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to jointly establish design, engineering, and execution plans for accelerating digital transformation with turnkey [...]The post Lenovo and Cisco Announce AI Partnership appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

VANCOUVER, BC, May 30, 2024-Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing in silicon company, today announced what the company said is a milestone on the path to commercial quantum systems. While many existing quantum architectures achieve entanglement within modules, Photonic has demonstrated entanglement between modules. In this way, Photonic's architecture provides a unique solution to one [...]The post Quantum: Photonic Demonstrates Distributed Entanglement between Modules appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - May 30, 2024 - Eviden today announces that it has been selected by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA) to supply the university with a new supercomputer for its Regional Computing Center ROMEO ....The post Eviden to Deliver Supercomputer for University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BEAVERTON, Ore.- AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Intel, Meta and Microsoft today announced they have aligned to develop a new industry standard dedicated to advancing high-speed and low latency communication for scale-up AI systems linking in data centers. Called the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink), this initial group will define and establish an [...]The post Ultra Accelerator Link Group for Data Center AI Connectivity Formed: AMD, Broadcom, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ASML, whose chip manufacturing machines produce advanced microprocessors used for HPC and AI, says it has set a new chipmaking density record with its new High-NA machine, breaking the previous record set ....The post Report: New ASML Machines Could Produce Denser, Cheaper Advanced Chips appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - May 29, 2024- Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced the launch of a block storage appliance as part of itsVirtual Storage Platform Onehybrid-cloud data platform. The new offerings include three dedicated models providing businesses with a common data plane [...]The post Hitachi Vantara Announces Block Storage Appliance for Virtual Storage Platform One Portfolio appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

May 29, 2027 - Xinnor, a provider of high-performance data storage solutions, announced its inclusion in the Arm Partner Program. This collaboration is intended to place Xinnor among a range of industry leaders to enhance its ability to deliver solutions across various markets and geographies. As a qualified Arm partner, Xinnor has access to the [...]The post Storage Company Xinnor Joins Arm Partner Program appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Cambridge, Paris, Boston, 29th May: Quantum error correction technology company Riverlane and fault tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob have signed an agreement to work on the integration of Riverlane's quantum error correction (QEC) stack within the larger quantum computing system based on cat qubit technology that Alice & Bob is developing. Qubits, the [...]The post Riverlane Partners with Alice & Bob on Quantum Error Correction appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Not until the ISC 2024 conference earlier this month had we heard that HPE is active in quantum computing -- since then, we've heard they're active in two ways. Today, quantum software company Classiq announced it has developed a method for solving ....The post Classiq and HPECollaborate on Quantum-HPC Integration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LOS ALTOS, Calif. - Simr, formerly known as UberCloud, has unveiled Simulation Operations Automation (SimOps), making best practices in computer simulations implemented by the majority of the design engineers at three of the Magnificent Seven companies available to design engineers. The company also announced that it has secured $20 million in Series A funding led [...]The post Simr (Formerly UberCloud) Announces SimOps for Product Development appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

An invasion of Taiwan by China is unthinkable in multiple ways: it could lead to a regional war between China, U.S. allies in southeastern Asia and possibly the U.S. itself. It would be tragic for the people of Taiwan. It would be ....The post Report: TSMC's ASML Chip Machines Can Be Remotely Shut Down if China Invades Taiwan appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland - May 24th, 2024 - Nordic colocation, HPC and AI service provider atNorth announced it has been awarded the Colocation Provider of the Year award at the Electrical Review & Data Centre Review Awards. atNorth has undertaken an expansion strategy in recent years, that has ensured that the business can offer high performance [...]The post atNorth Wins Colocation Provider of the Year and Digital Infrastructure Project of the Year appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TORONTO - May 23, 2024 - Agnostiq today announced an update to Covalent, its advanced computing platform. With the release of new capabilities called Function Serve, Covalent becomes an enterprise-grade solution for AI development and productionalization that provides serverless AI model training, tuning and inference in a single platform. Customers can now take any open-source [...]The post Agnostiq Introduces AI Model Training and Serving Capabilities in Covalent Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SILICON VALLEY, Calif., May 21, 2024 - The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs),Hewlett Packard Enterprise,International Business Machines CorporationandQuantum Corporation, today released their annual tape media shipment report, detailing year-over-year shipments through the fourth quarter of 2023. The report reveals a record 152.9 exabytes (EB) of total tape capacity (compressed) shipped in 2023, with a [...]The post IBM, HPE and Quantum Corp. Report LTO Tape Capacity Shipments Grew 3.14% in 2023 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - May 23, 2024- AI and multi-cloud data management company DDN today announced a partnership with Ooredoo, a telecommunications operator and information and communications technology (ICT) provider. Through this strategic alliance, Ooredoo will adopt DDN's AI infrastructure, including sovereign AI capabilities, to drive innovation and improve operational efficiencies across its networks. DDN's proven [...]The post DDN andOoredooForm AI Digital Transformation Partnership appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At ISC 2024, we spoke with Andrew Richards, CEO of Codeplay Software, an Intel company based in Edinburgh. Richards tells us about Codeplay's role in supporting the ecosystem for oneAPI, Intel's unified programming model ....The post At ISC 2024: Intel's Open Software Strategy for HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At ISC 2024, we spoke with Kirk Bresniker, chief architect of Hewlett Packard Labs. Bresniker is closely involved in directing HPE's supercomputing vision, and he provides a glimpse ....The post At ISC 2024: Chief Architect Kirk Bresniker on HPE's Quantum - and Overall Heterogenous - Vision appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At ISC 2024, we caught up with AMD's Daniele Piccorozzi, senior market development manager for EMEA, to discuss AMD's strides with its Instinct GPU accelerator and EPYC CPU product lines, how they impact AI and how it all relates ....The post At ISC 2024: AMD's Recent and Upcoming Milestones in AI and HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At ISC 2024 we caught up with Andrew Whitmore, Vice President of Sales at Motivair, whose cooling technology is at the heart of the first three U.S. exascale-class systems: Frontier, Aurora ....The post At ISC 2024: Andrew Whitmore on Motivair, Exascale Cooling and Innovations in Thermal Management appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Meta (formerly Facebook) has a corporate culture of aggressive technology adoption, particularly in the area of AI and adoption of AI-related technologies, such as GPUs that drive AI workloads. Members of a virtual reality research project were in need of greater GPU-driven compute ....The post Meta VR Project Developers Turn to Liqid UltraStack for NVIDIA GPU-Packed Dell Servers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WASHINGTON, DC. - The recently established Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) has announced 11 virtual sessions on scientific software, scheduled for June 11 - 13, 2024. Thevirtual sessions, labeledthe2024 CASS Community Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Days, are sponsored by CASS and hosted by thePartnering for Scientific Software Ecosystem Stewardship (PESO)project, a member team of [...]The post Consortium for Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) to Hold 11 Virtual Sessions June 11-13 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intersect360 Research Senior Analyst Steve Conway talked with us at the recent ISC 2024 conference in Hamburg on the struggles organizations around the world are having putting in place the right hardware-software ....The post At ISC 2024: Steve Conway of Intersect360 on Navigating HPC-AI Whitewater appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2024 - Energy and chemicals company Aramco has signed an agreement with neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal to install what the companies said is the first quantum computer in Saudi Arabia. Pasqal will install, maintain and operate a 200-qubit quantum computer, which is scheduled for deployment in the second [...]The post Pasqal Signs Quantum Computing Agreement with Aramco appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The ISC supercomputing conference announced that Torsten Hoefler (pictured here) will be program chair for ISC 2025, to be held in Hamburg next June 10-13. Well-known throughtout the HPC-AI community, Hoefler is a Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich and leader of the Scalable Parallel Computing Lab at the university. He is currently chief [...]The post Torsten Hoefler Named ISC 2025 Program Chair appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy May morning to you! In the aftermath of ISC 2024 in Hamburg, we offer this quick (6:21) run-through of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including ....The post HPC News Bytes 20240520: Expanding Exascale Club; Nvidia Paints It Green' at ISC; Specialty AI Chip News; Student Cluster Competition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We caught up with industry analyst firm Hyperion Research's Bob Sorensen (SVP of Research) about HPC-AI trends and developments that were highlighted at the recently completed ISC 2024 conference. Hyperion studies ....The post At ISC 2024: Hyperion's Bob Sorensen on HPC-AI Complexities in a Time of Rapid Transition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

May 17, 2024 - Open source AI platform companyClearML today announced the release of an AI orchestration and compute management capabilities, making it the first AI platform to support Kubernetes, Slurm, PBS and bare metal for seamless orchestration of AI and machine learning workloads. ClearML now offers the broadest support for AI and HPC workloads [...]The post ClearML Announces AI Infrastructure Orchestration and Compute Management appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - May 16, 2024:At its annual general meeting on May 15, 2024, shareholders approved the resolution to change CGG's corporate name to Viridien. The new ticker symbol for Viridien shares listed on Euronext Paris will be VIRI", effective May 21. Sophie Zurquiyah, CEO, Viridien, said: Our new name, Viridien, connects our company's history to [...]The post CGG Changes Name to Viridien appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LITTLETON, Mass. - May 16, 2024-JetCool, a liquid cooling company for AI-driven and high-density data centers, today announced its expansion into the European and Asian markets. This significant development is due in part to a collaboration with Dell Technologies and Unicom, combining Dell PowerEdge server technology with Unicom's extensive service and support network, to facilitate [...]The post JetCool Expands into European and Asian Markets appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The ISC 2024 Student Cluster Competition welcomed 19 virtual and eight in-person teams. The in-person teams competed at ISC 2024, while the virtual teams competed using the Bridges-2 supercomputersat the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh), as well as the supercomputerHLRE-4 Levanteat Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ). The online competition winning teams [...]The post ISC 2024 Annouces Winners of Student Cluster Competition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - May 15, 2024 - Accelerated generative AI chip company Cerebras Systems, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, said it has acheved a breakthrough in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the second generation Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2). Researchers performed atomic scale simulations at the millisecond [...]The post Cerebras: Wafer Scale Engine Outperforms Frontier Supercomputer on Molecular Dynamics Simulations appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Kissimmee, Florida, May 6, 2024 - GigaIO and SourceCode today announced the launch of the Gryf mobile AI platform for tactical edge environments. The system is designed to engineer complex customer solutions, combining GigaIO's open workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing with SourceCode's co-designed, compliant IT systems for intelligent infrastructure. Gryf sets a new [...]The post GigaIO and SourceCode Launch Suitcase-sized Edge AI System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At ISC 2024, we were given a tour of the DDC booth with the Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Chris Orlando, an evangelist for DDC's hybrid air-liquid cooling cabinets designed for data centers handling high-density HPC and AI ....The post At ISC 2024: DDC's Chris Orlando on Air-Liquid Hybrid Cooling for High Density Infrastructures appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HAMBURG - At ISC High Performance 2024,Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced that it has delivered the world's second exascale supercomputer, Aurora, in collaboration with Intel for the United States Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory. Aurora has reached 1.012 exaflops on 87 percent of the system, making it the world's second-fastest supercomputer as verified [...]The post HPE Delivers 2nd Exascale Supercomputer, Aurora, to Argonne National Laboratory appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intended to make it easier for developers to create AI-powered applications with world-class performance, NVIDIA and Google today announced three new collaborations at Google I/O '24. UsingTensorRT-LLM, NVIDIA is working with Google to optimize two new models it introduced at the event: Gemma 2 and PaliGemma. These models are built from the same research and [...]The post NVIDIA and Google DeepMind Collaborate on LLMs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands - May 15th, 2024 - Datacentre thermal management specialistAsperitas announced a partnership with Kiturami Bumyang Air Conditioning Co. Ltd, a technology company based in South Korea. This partnership marks the beginning of a reseller agreement whereby Kiturami Bumyang will represent Asperitas' immersion cooling solutions within the South Korean market. Kiturami Bumyang specializes [...]The post Asperitas Announces South Korea Immersion Cooling Partnership with Kiturami Bumyang appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., - AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased itsongoing high performance computing (HPC) capabilities at ISC High Performance 2024.For the third year in a row, the Frontier supercomputer housed at Oak Ridge National Lab- powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs - remains the fastestsupercomputer in the world with a High-Performance Linpack (HPL) [...]The post AMD Showcases HPC at ISC High Performance 2024 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Carlsbad, California - GigaIO, provider of open workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing, today announced that its flagship product, the 32-GPU single node server SuperNODE, is now shipping with AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators. MI300X series accelerators are designed for generative AI workloads and HPC applications. The MI300X's massively memory capacity, combined with the SuperNODE's [...]The post GigaIO Launches SuperNODE with AMD MI300X GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.