@HPCpodcast: John Shalf on the ‘Attack of the Killer Chiplets’ and the Future of HPC

Special guest and last year’s ISC program chair John Shalf joins Shahin and Doug in this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, to discuss the rise of specialized architectures to boost HPC performance in the post-Moore’s Law era. This is a topic John will discuss during Wednesday night’s keynote at ISC 2024 in Hamburg next week. Reminiscent of the so-called “Attack of the Killer Micros” heralding the arrival ….

Lenovo Is on a Mission to Transform HPC & AI for All

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE]   High performance computing (HPC) systems run workloads to perform complex calculations to get answers to some of humanity’s toughest questions. The output from these calculations can result in game changing and life saving measures. HPC systems are used in weather forecasting to predict dangerous floods ….

CGG Launches AI Cloud Solution with Nvidia for AI and HPC Workloads

Paris, May 9, 2024 — Technology and HPC company CGG has announced the launch of its AI Cloud, designed for data-intensive industries, including life sciences, digital media, manufacturing and geoscience, that seek to optimize and accelerate their demanding and resource-heavy AI workloads. CGG’s new AI Cloud solution combines the latest high-performance architecture, including cutting-edge Nvidia […]

DOE Announces $60-70M Quantum Information Science Funding Opportunity

May 9, 2024 — The DOE SC program in High Energy Physics (HEP) announced its interest in receiving interdisciplinary applications for open scientific research on Quantum Information Science (QIS) Enabled Discovery (QuantISED) to further the HEP mission to understand how the universe works at its most fundamental level. More about this opportunity can be found […]

Financial Services Company Optiver Selects AMD for Data Center, AI

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 07, 2024 — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that Optiver – a market maker trading on 100+ exchanges – is using AMD chips for its new data center infrastructure. Using AMD EPYC processors, AMD Solarflare Ethernet adapters, AMD Virtex FPGAs and AMD Alveo adaptable accelerators, Optiver is addressing technical challenges in capital markets […]

Preparing for ISC 2024: HPC Luminaries on Sessions, Trends and News to Watch for in Hamburg

The center of the HPC-AI world shifts next week to Hamburg and the ISC 2024 Conference, Sunday, May 12 – Thursday, May 16. The theme of this year’s event is “Reinventing HPC,” and indeed, HPC has been made over ….

Atlan’s Control Plane for Data and AI Governance Attracts $105M Series C

San Francisco — May 8, 2024 — Data and AI governance company Atlan today announced a $105 million Series C funding round, led by GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund with over $700 billion in assets, and Meritech Capital, early backers of disruptors like Snowflake and Datadog. Existing investors Salesforce Ventures and PeakXV participated in the round, bringing Atlan’s total raised to more than […]

Nvidia NIM Integrated Support on Red Hat OpenShift AI

DENVER – May 7, 2024 — Open source solutions company Red Hat today announced coming integration support for Nvidia NIM microservices on Red Hat OpenShift AI to enable inferencing for artificial intelligence (AI) models backed by a consistent, open source AI/ML hybrid cloud platform. Organizations will be able to use Red Hat OpenShift AI with Nvidia NIM […]

Panasas Is Now Vdura for AI and HPC Data Storage

Long-time HPC data storage company Panasas (formed 1999) is now Vdura. The new brand “signifies the company’s shift to a software company operating under a software subscription-based business model,” Vdura said in its announcement. The focus on software will enable ….

Cabinet Technology is Bridging the Efficiency of Air Cooling with the Performance of Liquid Cooling for HPC and AI Workloads

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Data center operators need to modernize and future-proof their facilities, so they don’t get left behind as AI and HPC deployments expand. While the industry is exploring several liquid cooling ….