SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 24, 2023 – Ayar Labs, a developer of silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, today announced it has raised an additional $25 million in Series C1 funding, bringing its total Series C raise to $155 million. The oversubscribed up round was led by new investor Capital TEN. VentureTech Alliance also entered the […]
At ISC 2023: Nordic Colo Provider atNorth Discusses Reduced Power Consumption Combined with Maximized HPC-AI
May 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment
At ISC 2023 we caught up with HPC Operations Manager Rui Gomes of atNorth, the Iceland-based Nordic colocation and HPC & AI-as-a-service provider, which has been expanding its footprint not only in Iceland but across Scandinavia. In this interview, Gomes reviews atNorth’s overall HPC-AI mission, how its colo solutions address current trends, needs and customer […]
Dell and NVIDIA in Generative AI Initiative
May 24, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) have announced a joint generative AI initiative designed to make it easier for businesses to build generative AI models on premises. Project Helix will offer various solutions with technical support and pre-built tools based on Dell and NVIDIA infrastructure and software. It includes a blueprint to help […]
At ISC 2023: Lenovo Discusses a Decade-Plus of Delivering Sustainable HPC
May 23, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In this interview at ISC 2023 with Lenovo’s Rick Koopman, EMEA Director HPC and AI Emerging Markets, we discuss Lenovo’s mission to stay at the leading edge of sustainable HPC hardware solutions. Lenovo has built out a comprehensive green HPC strategy that extends from liquid cooled HPC servers to carbon-offset programs to Asset Recovery Services […]
AMD-Powered LUMI Supercomputer: In the Vanguard of HPC Performance and Energy Efficiency
May 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] LUMI is a model for both world-class supercomputing and sustainability. It also embodies Europe’s rise on the global HPC scene in recent years. The AMD-powered, HPE-built system, ranked no. 3 on the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, also ranks no. 7 on the GREEN500 list of the most […]
@HPCpodcast: A Breakdown of the ‘Treasure Trove’ TOP500 List
May 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
We release this special edition of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, from the ISC conference in Hamburg with a detailed discussion of the new TOP500 list, issued this morning. Shahin, a list advocate, notes that it contains 30-plus years of system data showing the convolutions and evolution of the highest performing HPC architectures – “a treasure trove,” as he puts it. We offer top-line insights from the new list, not just the TOP500 but also the GREEN500, the High-Performance Conjugate Gradient (HPCG) benchmark, and the AI-inspired, mixed-precision HPL-MxP benchmark.
New TOP500 HPC List: Frontier Extends Lead with Performance Upgrade
May 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
After a flurry of new competitors in 2022 at the top of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the first list of 2023 – issued here in Hamburg this morning at the ISC conference – reveals the same top 10 systems in the same order. Still, the HPC community will no doubt […]
D-Wave Reports First Quarter Results
May 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
BURNABY, B.C. & PALO ALTO, Calif. – May 19, 2023 – D-Wave Quantum Inc., (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”) a commercial quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2023. “Our first quarter results reflect our continued measured progress across key business initiatives including commercial customer […]
From 24 Hours to 7 Minutes, Huawei OceanStor Pacific Accelerates Genome Sequencing
May 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is an annual conference that showcases the key technologies in the supercomputing field. It brings together experts from multiple specialist fields, including research into life sciences and genetics to shed light on the origins and mysteries in our lives. HPC, or high-performance computing, is making breakthroughs in supercomputing technologies and is catalyzing genome sequencing research.
ISC 2023: HPC Experts’ Thoughts on Making the Most of the Conference
May 19, 2023 by 1 Comment
ISC 2023, one of the biggest supercomputing confabs of the year, will be held May 21-25 in Hamburg, and for those days the conference will be the place to be in HPC. If last year’s ISC marked a big step in coming out from under the pandemic shadow, let’s hope this year’s event leaves it completely behind us. ISC 2023 will have 147 exhibitors, 15 percent more than last year, along with hundreds of items on the conference’s extensive agenda: keynotes, sessions, off-site events – all that. Getting the most of the conference calls for good time management and good judgment. As an assist to attendees we spoke with three industry thought leaders – Katie Antypas of NERSC, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research – about conference events, keynotes and potential news developments they think will be worthy of your attention.
