April 19, 2022 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $10 million for basic research in the design, development, and scalability of randomized algorithms for scientific computing. The funding opportunity announcement, sponsored by the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program within the Department’s Office of Science, can be found here. “Randomized algorithms are accelerating the time to […]
DOE Announces $10M for Novel Algorithms for Understanding Energy Systems and Processes
April 19, 2022 by
AMD: EPYC Delivers Edge to Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One
April 19, 2022 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — April 19, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One (F1) Team today showcased how AMD EPYC processors improved aerodynamics testing capacity, contributing to the Mercedes-AMG Petronas team winning its eighth Constructors’ Championship in the 2021 racing season. By using AMD EPYC processors, the team was able to achieve […]
Facial Recognition, Video Analytics, Geospatial and Other AI Techniques Aiding Ukraine’s Investigations of Russian War Crimes
April 12, 2022 by
…. investigators in Ukraine are engaged in the grim task of gathering evidence for possible war crime trials of Russian soldiers. For that, the investigators are aided by advanced machine learning technology, including facial recognition, geospatial data analytics, image analysis and analysis of streaming video from security cameras.
Altada Partners With Data Management Platform SlyceData
April 12, 2022 by
CORK, Ireland & NEW YORK — Apr 12, 2022: Altada Technology Solutions, a global provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that supercharge data-driven decision making in the financial services, travel/security and healthcare sectors, today announced a strategic partnership with SlyceData, a data management platform for investment researchers that automates the data wrangling process and provides tools […]
DOE: $84M Funding Opportunity for Urban Climate Research
March 25, 2022 by
March 25, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide $84 million for new observational, modeling, and simulation studies to improve the accuracy of community-scale climate research and inform equitable climate solutions to minimize adverse impacts caused by climate change. Research will focus on three tightly related scientific topics—atmospheric and environmental […]
NVIDIA Announces DGX H100 ‘AI Infrastructure’ Systems
March 22, 2022 by
San Jose, March 22, 2022 — NVIDIA today announced the fourth-generation NVIDIA DGX system, which the company said is the first AI platform to be built with its new H100 Tensor Core GPUs. DGX H100 systems deliver the scale demanded to meet the massive compute requirements of large language models, recommender systems, healthcare research and climate science. […]
HEAVY.AI Introduces Capabilities for Growing Data Sets and Decision-Quality Information
March 22, 2022 by
SAN FRANCISCO – March 22, 2022 – Advanced analytics company HEAVY.AI today announced the limited release of HEAVY.AI 6.0, with general availability to follow in April. The new capabilities, such as HeavyConnect, deliver improved analytics performance and faster time to decision-quality information, allowing organizations to immediately extract value from their data. HEAVY.AI 6.0 empowers stakeholders to learn and make […]
NVIDIA at GTC: 60+ Updates to CUDA-X Libraries for Accelerated Computing
March 22, 2022 by
As NVIDIA kicked off virtual GTC this morning, the company unveiled more than 60 updates to its CUDA-X libraries, tools and technologies for developers building accelerated applications in HPC-related fields such as 6G, quantum computing, genomics, drug discovery and logistics optimization, as well as robotics, cybersecurity and data analytics. NVIDIA also said the CUDA platform […]
PNNL and Micron Partner to Push Memory Boundaries for HPC and AI
March 8, 2022 by
Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Micron are are developing an advanced memory system to support AI for scientific computing. The work is designed to address AI’s insatiable demand for live data — to push the boundaries of memory-bound AI applications — by connecting memory across processors in a technology strategy utilizing the […]
@HPCpodcast: Argonne’s Rick Stevens Surveys Trends and Technologies Driving AI for Science — Part 1
March 5, 2022 by
If HPC had a band of rock stars, Rick Stevens might well be lead guitarist and do the vocals. The associate lab director and Exascale Computing Initiative leader at Argonne National Lab (and professor at the University of Chicago) has one of the most impressive records of sustained achievement in the HPC community. Here, in part one of a two-part episode of the @HPCpodcast, Stevens takes up the topic of AI is changing the face of science from the points of view of a scientist and a computer scientist.
