March 17, 2024 — The HPC User Forum has updated its agenda spotlighting speakers at its upcoming meeting, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, VA. The full agenda and registration information can be found here. Register at: https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-spring-2024/ “The forum is a meeting place for the HPC community to […]
HPC User Forum Updates Speaker Lineup for April 9-10 Meeting in Reston, VA
Ardian Acquires Verne Global
London – 15 March 2024 – Private investment firm Ardian has completed the acquisition of the entire share capital of Verne (formerly Verne Global), a data center platform headquartered in the UK, from Digital 9 Infrastructure plc (D9), an investment company listed on the London Stock Exchange. Founded in 2012, Verne addresses northern European market […]
DOE Awards $5.2M to HPC for Energy Projects, Announces Intent for Spring 2024 Solicitation
March 11, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $5.2 million federal investment for 13 projects that will tap into the DOE national laboratories’ high performance computing (HPC) resources to help industry partners improve material performance, advance manufacturing processes, and reduce industrial emissions. These collaborative projects will address manufacturing and materials challenges […]
HPC News Bytes: IndiaAI Mission, New Fabs around the World, Atos-Eviden
A happy mid-March day to you. Last week in the world of HPC-AI the emphasis was on the latter, including: the expanding IndiaAI Mission will include a 10,000-GPU supercomputer, TSMC’s biggest customers, countries court chip manufacturers for local fabs….
Argonne: ATPESC Training Application Deadline Extended to March 10
The application deadline for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) program has been extended to Sunday, March 10. This year marks the 12th year for ATPESC, which provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems […]
Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip
An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient AI inference processing. AI technology company EnCharge AI has announced a partnership with Princeton University supported….
Exascale’s New Software Frontier: ExaSGD
“Exascale’s New Frontier,” a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The Scientific Challenge As more renewable sources of energy are added to the national power grid, it becomes more complex to manage. That’s because renewables such as wind […]
LiquidStack Opens Manufacturing Facility and Global HQ in Texas
CARROLLTON, TX–March 5, 2024– Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced its new U.S. manufacturing site and headquarters in Carrollton, Texas. The new facility supports LiquidStack’s mission to deliver liquid cooling solutions for high performance data center and edge computing applications. With an uptick in liquid cooling demand associated with Generative AI scaling, the […]
AMD Hires Former Oak Ridge Director Thomas Zacharia
AMD today announced that Thomas Zacharia, former director of Oak Ridge National Laborary, has joined AMD as senior vice president of strategic technology partnerships and public policy. Zacharia spent 35 years at Oak Ridge, leaving there after the organization developed and….