New Open Source Event: AI.dev, Dec 12-13 in San Jose, Co-located with Cassandra Summit

Oct. 3, 2023 — The McEnery Convention Center in San Jose will be the site of a new conference, the AI.dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 12-13 in San Jose and co-locating with Cassandra Summit. Presented by the Linux Foundation and the LF AI & Data Project, AI.dev is a nexus for developers, […]

Bito Launches AI that Understands Developers’ Codebase

October 3, 2023 — Bito, an AI software platform designed to improve developers’ productivity, said it has launched AI that can understand a developer’s code. Bito said the new super-personalized functionality helps developers write, refactor and explain their code. It also helps them with debugging and generating test cases.   AI, like ChatGPT, only provides […]

IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and ISC Join on Access to ISC Research Papers

By Nages Sieslack, ISC Communications Team Oct. 2, 2023 — I had the opportunity to talk with Prof. Michela Taufer, the ISC 2024 Program Chair, to get an update on the event’s progress. Prof. Taufer has been in this position for three months and has significantly contributed to the ISC technical program. I was impressed […]

HPC News Bytes 20231002: Lisa Su on AMD-NVIDIA GPU Competition; ASML EUV at Intel Fab in Ireland; AI Job Elimination; SC23 Coming up

A happy October morning to you! Our lineup of quick (4:36) commentary on recent HPC news includes: AMD’s Lisa Su on the AMD-NVIDIA GPU competition; ASML EUV at Intel-4 fab in Ireland starts volume production; AI’s job elimination impact; SC23 is coming Nov 12-17….

HPC, AI, ML and Edge Solutions Drive Duos Railcar Inspection System Powered by Dell Technologies and Kalray

Industries such as railways are moving from traditional inspection methods to using AI and ML to perform automated inspection of railcars. Data streaming from the edge at high rates requires the compute power of a HPC cluster, storage and advanced analytics to return results in real time. The system also must effectively enable remote administration and management to ensure reliable….

DOE: $500M Funding Opportunity for Basic Research to Advance Science

Sept. 29, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $500 million in funding for basic research in support of DOE’s clean energy, economic, and national security goals. The Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), informally known as the “Open Call,” is issued annually at the beginning of each Fiscal Year (FY).  It provides […]

Quantum Exponential Group Announces Copenhagen Headquarters

Sept. 29, 2023 — Quantum technology investment company Quantum Exponential Group plc (AQUIS: QBIT) announced it has established a European entity with headquarters in Copenhagen. The headquarters will be situated within Copenhagen’s Quantum Deep Tech Lab, adjacent to the recently founded Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Foundry, the Danish NATO Centre for Quantum Technology (part of […]

San Diego Supercomputer Center Names Rick Wagner CTO

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego has Rick Wagner chief technology officer. Wagner served as HPC Systems Engineer and then HPC Systems Manager at SDSC between 2010 and 2016 before joining the University of Chicago as a member of the Globus management team. At Globus, Wagner oversaw the Professional Services group, working….

Women in HPC to Hold Annual Workshop at SC23 on Nov. 13

sEPT. 29, 2023 — Women in HPC will hold its 16th annual workshop at SC23 on Monday, Nov. 13 from 9am-5pm MT in room 710 of the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street, Denver. More information can be found here. The WHPC workshop aims to raise awareness and address issues around diversity and inclusion within […]

NTT Research Scientific Teams Name 9 New Hires

Sunnyvale, Calif. – Sept. 26, 2023 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that it has named Timothée Leleu as Senior Research Scientist and a Group Head in the Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab. It has also named Victor Bastidas and Maya Okawa as Research Scientists in the PHI Lab; Abhishek Jain, Senior Scientist in […]