ISC 2024’s Wednesday Keynote: Two Trends Transforming HPC

Overarching both themes is the slowing of Moore’s Law, the deceleration of improvement in HPC performance combined with increasing costs for new generations of systems. In addition, implementing and realizing the benefits of new systems is slowing as supercomputers grow in size and complexity, including those handling AI, AI for science, traditional HPC simulation ….

INCITE Proposal Writing Webinar May 7

May 2, 2024 — The Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is the principal means for the scientific community gains access to DOE’s leadership-class supercomputers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The next INCITE Proposal Writing Webinar will take place on May […]

Durham University Cosmologists, DiRAC and Dell Improve HPC Energy Efficiency without Sacrificing Performance

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]  Since the beginning of human existence, people have looked into the night sky and wondered how the universe began. Cosmologists using the UK’s Memory Intensive DiRAC HPC service at Durham ….

HPE Launches 35 Pflops ‘Helios’ HPC at Centre Cyfronet AGH in Poland

KRAKOW, Poland – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced that it built a new supercomputer for the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet of the AGH University of Krakow, making it Poland’s fastest system based on the latest TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers1. The new system, called Helios, is Cyfronet’s fifth-generation supercomputer and will be […]

Duke Researcher Dr. Amanda Randles Wins ACM Prize in Computing for Medical Diagnostics

The Association for Computing Machinery, named Amanda Randles of Duke University the recipient of the ACM Prize in Computing for groundbreaking contributions to computational health through innovative ….

CINECA Selects E4 Computer with Dell and Vast for Galileo 100 HPC Upgrade

April 23, 2024 — E4 Computer Engineering has won the contract to upgrade Galileo 100, CINECA Interuniversity Consortium’s supercomputer and Tier-1 cloud system for public scientific research capable of serving over 5000 users. Among the requirements for the new HPC infrastructure are increasing the number of vCPUs for VM services by at least 10 times, […]

Eviden Delivers 104 Pflops Nvidia-Powered EXA1-HE Supercomputer for CEA

Paris – April 17, 2024 – CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and Eviden, the Atos advanced computing business unit, today announce the delivery of the EXA1 HE supercomputer, based on Eviden’s BullSequana….

Stanford AI Index: Lax LLM Reponsibility, AI for Science Accelerates, Impact on Workers, US Leads China in Models

The AI Index Report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI is out, it’s an annual,  thoroughgoing snapshot of the state of AI begun by the HAI in 2019. This year’s edition presents new estimates on AI training….

Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Partner on Drug Development

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA and TEL AVIV, ISRAEL | April 04, 2024 — Quantum computing software company Classiq and Quantum Intelligence Corp. today announced the launch of joint research for drug development by applying quantum computing to pharmacology. The collaboration is under the auspices of Classiq’s Quantum Computing For Life Sciences & Healthcare Center, launched with NVIDIA […]

SK hynix to Invest $3.9B in Indiana HBM Fab and R&D with Purdue

Memory chip company SK hynix announced it will invest $3.87 billion in West Lafayette, Indiana to build an advanced packaging fabrication and R&D facility for AI products. The project, which the company said is the first of its kind in the U.S., will be an advanced….