Microsoft is Making Progress on Quantum Computing as a Service
Just one year after launch, Microsoft is touting their progress towards building Quantum Computing as a Service. "The Microsoft Quantum Development Kit is the fastest path to quantum development. Available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows, you now are just a few steps away from accessing local quantum simulators or in Azure." [READ MORE...]
Featured Stories
Noctua Supercomputer Inaugurated at Paderborn University
A new supercomputer called “Noctua” was inaugurated recently at Paderborn University. The high-performance computing system is expected to be one of the ten most powerful university installations within Germany. "Integrating a high ratio of state-of-the-art FPGAs in an advanced supercomputer cluster system will provide a remarkable heterogeneous computing platform that enables researchers to perform a new dimension of experiments." [READ MORE...]
Rescale Partners Program to Deliver Big Compute to Enterprise Customers
Last week, Rescale announced the launch of its Powered by Rescale program with IBM as its first partner. "With the Powered by Rescale program, partners can deliver their product and/or service to customers as part of an end-to-end solution under their brand. This allows partners in the simulation and HPC space to participate in net-new cloud business opportunities while maintaining focus on their core technology and competency." [READ MORE...]
Video: End to End Needs for Autonomous Vehicles
Norm Marks from NVIDIA gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "Fueled by advances in artificial intelligence, cars are getting smart enough to begin to drive themselves. But autonomous vehicles will do more than change how we get around. They have the potential to dramatically reduce the number of car crashes, shrink carbon emissions, and provide mobility to people who can’t drive." [READ MORE...]
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High Performance Computing with Intel and AWS
AWS and Intel allow your engineers and scientists to innovate and accelerate results on virtually unlimited HPC infrastructure. Download the new solution brief from Intel that offers an overview of the AWS-Intel HPC solution and how it can help your teams collaborate securely.
Industry Perspectives
Can we use Machine Learning to Learn about Machines?
In this special guest feature, Ellexus CEO Rosemary Francis writes that the convergence of HPC and Ai is already changing the landscape in the world of supercomputing. "It is only as machines get faster that they are able to get cleverer. This means that more and more industries are becoming interested in making supercomputers even more powerful and investment in the exascale goal will increase." [Read More...]
Video: Leading the charge for ARM in HPC
Andy Warner from HPE gave this talk at the ARM Research Summit. "The Arm HPC user Group hosted by going Arm workshop, will enable attendees to take in technical presentations by fellow applications programmers and tool authors who are currently using the Arm platform. This workshop is all about sharing experiences and knowledge. Attendees will gain from the first-hand knowledge of experienced scientific application programmers writing for the Arm platform, including topics such as: optimizing for 64-bit Arm, memory systems, scalability and vectorization." [Read More...]
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Editor’s Choice
Debugging for Success and Accelerated Platform Bring-Up
Debugging can prove a substantial challenge, even for experienced engineers. In this video, Soflen Shih, a technical consulting engineer at Intel, discusses the benefits of Intel System Studio and how its built-in functionality can make the debugging process much easier. "Intel System Studio contains libraries, performance analyzers, and compilers as well as profiling and debugging tools. The combination of these elements provides a complete developer solution to assist with platform bring-up, power optimization, thermal tuning, and system performance profiling." [Read More...]
Survey Foretells Explosive Growth in Machine Learning Projects Over Next Two Years
Over at the Univa Blog, Gary Tyreman writes that the company sponsored an industry-wide survey to better understand what key challenges our HPC users are currently facing that are preventing them from moving their machine learning (ML) projects into production. "Our goal is to use this data to help guide our customers and recommend the right set of tools and migration options needed to accelerate value in machine learning." [Read More...]
Video: 1 Year Later, the HPE Spaceborne Supercomputer Keeps on Trucking
Mark Fernandez from HPE gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "It’s been almost 12 months since HPE and NASA sent the first ever commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) computer system — the Spaceborne Computer — to the International Space Station (ISS). As part of an experiment to operate seamlessly in the harsh conditions of space for one year – about the amount of time it will take to travel to Mars — Spaceborne is literally going faster and further than any other COTS supercomputer has been before." [Read More...]
Video: NVIDIA Rolls out TensorRT Hyperscale Platform and New T4 GPU for Ai Datacenters
This morning at GTC Japan, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a set new products centered around Ai and accelerated computing. Targeting Hyperscale datacenters looking to run Ai workloads, NVIDIA continues to innovate Machine Learning technologies at an unprecedented pace. "There is no question that deep learning-powered AI is being deployed around the world, and we’re seeing incredible growth here,” Huang told an audience of more than 4,000 press, partners, academics and technologists gathered on the latest stop in a GTC world tour. [Read More...]
Video: Suitability of Commercial Clouds for NASA's HPC Applications
Bob Hood from InuTeq gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "NASA’s High-End Computing Capability Project is periodically asked if it could be more cost effective through the use of commercial cloud resources. To answer the question, HECC’s Application Performance and Productivity team undertook a performance and cost evaluation comparing three domains: two commercial cloud providers, Amazon and Penguin, and HECC’s in-house resources—the Pleiades and Electra systems." [Read More...]
