Calgary, Alberta. September 22, 2021 – Privately held CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable liquid cooling technology for desktop and data centers, today reported 43 percent YTD revenue growth in HPC markets. CoolIT Systems said it expects to achieve over 100 percent growth in 2021 compared to the previous year. This follows an average YoY growth rate […]
DOE Funds $17.5M for 3 ORNL-led Quantum Research Projects
September 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment
September 22, 2021 — Of the $61 million recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy for quantum information science studies, $17.5 million will fund research at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. These projects will help build the foundation for the quantum internet, advance quantum entanglement capabilities — which involve sharing information through paired particles of light […]
MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v1.1 Results
September 22, 2021 by Leave a Comment
San Francisco – September 22, 2021 – Today, MLCommons, an open engineering consortium, released new results for MLPerf Inference v1.1, the organization’s machine learning inference performance benchmark suite. MLPerf Inference measures the performance of applying a trained machine learning model to new data for a wide variety of applications and form factors, and optionally includes […]
NNSA in $40M Deal for 40PFLOPS of Dell HPC Clusters
September 21, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Sept. 21, 2001 — The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA’s) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced the awarding of a subcontract to Dell Technologies for additional supercomputing systems to support NNSA’s nuclear deterrent mission. In partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), the second Commodity Technology Systems […]
LLNL Reports on Inaugural ML for Industry Forum
September 21, 2021 by Leave a Comment
LLNL held its first-ever Machine Learning for Industry Forum (ML4I) on Aug. 10-12. Co-hosted by the Lab’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) and Data Science Institute (DSI), the virtual event brought together more than 500 participants from the Department of Energy (DOE) complex, commercial companies, professional societies and academia. Industry sponsors included ArcelorMittal, Cerebras Systems, Ford Motor Company, […]
Analytical Biosciences Named Finalist in IDC’s Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure North America Awards
September 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO – Analytical Biosciences today announced it has been named a finalist in the inaugural IDC Future Enterprise Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure North America Awards in the Cloud-Centric Computing category. The new awards were designed to highlight companies that demonstrate innovation and excellence in using cloud-centric computing to enable digital infrastructure resiliency, ensure consistent and […]
NEC and Aramco Enter Into HPC R&D Collaboration for Joint Application
September 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Düsseldorf, 20 September, 2021 – NEC Deutschland GmbH announced a collaboration with Aramco Europe with the aim of joint development and optimization of various applications for resource exploration and seismic imaging. Aramco Europe is a subsidiary of Aramco, one of world’s largest global integrated energy and chemicals companies, headquartered in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The Aramco Research […]
TACC’s Stampede2 HPC Simulations Reveal How Cells Regulate Themselves
September 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Supercomputer simulations run on the Stampede2 system of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) have helped scientists studying how cells work understand the way in which protein molecules in a sense dance with a partner to respond to signals and regulate each other’s activities. Crucial to giving cells energy for life is the migration of […]
Pawsey Offers 1st Look at ‘Setonix’ $48M HPE Cray EX Supercomputer
September 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Perth, Australia — The first phase of what the Pawsey Supcomputer Centre said will be the fastest public research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere has been unveiled at its new home at the Pawsey Centre in Western Australia, “resplendent in artwork that reflects the skies it will help researchers to unlock,” Pawsey said. Stage 1 […]
Taking Altair Structural & CFD Analysis to New Heights with the 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors
September 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment
At the recent ISC 2021 virtual event in June, I sat down with Kevin Mayo of AMD and InsideHPC’s Doug Black. We discussed how the latest AMD EPYC™ processors are helping accelerate Altair applications for the most demanding engineering workloads. AMD and Altair have been busily collaborating to deliver better performance for resource-intensive FEA and CFD applications. In this sponsored post, we share some benchmarks resulting from these efforts below.
