DOE Issues $75M SciDAC Funding Opportunity

Washington, DC, Dec. 20, 2024The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (SC), under the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, is announcing that $75 million is available to support large multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional teams for the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) Institutes, as part of the SciDAC Program. Learn more about this opportunity […]

DOE Releases Report on Data Center Electricity Demand

WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 20, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the publication of the 2024 Report on U.S. Data Center Energy Use produced by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) which outlines the energy use of data centers from 2014 to 2028. The report estimates that data center load growth has tripled […]

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Siva Rajamanickam — AI for Science That ‘Outpaces Predictions’

“I am passionate about working in the broad areas of machine learning for science, codesign of algorithms and architectures, performance portable algorithms, and combinatorial scientific computing. I focus on ….”

NASA Awards Quantum Computing Inc. Contract for Phase Unwrapping Using Dirac-3 Photonic Optimization Solver

HOBOKEN, N.J., Dec. 17, 2024 — Quantum Computing Inc. ((Nasdaq: QUBT), a photonics and quantum optics technology company, today announced that the company has been awarded a prime contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (“NASA”) Goddard Space Flight Center. The company said it will apply its entropy quantum optimization machine, Dirac-3, to support NASA’s […]

Eaton Announces Data Center Battery Backup

Dec. 17, 2024 — Power management company Eaton today announced the launch of its Eaton Samsung Gen 3 lithium-ion battery system, battery backup for data center, medical and industrial customers. It provides power for energy storage and emergency backup power for uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) for IT infrastructure. The rise of AI and cloud computing […]

DOE: 10 National Labs to Establish Semiconductor Manufacturing Institute

WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 17, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that 10 of its national labs will establish the Semiconductor Manufacturing and Advanced Research with Twins USA (SMART USA) Institute, a manufacturing institute intended to support domestic semiconductor production through advanced digital twin technology. SMART USA will leverage the digital twin, or […]

NSF Launches 6 Quantum Pilot Projects

Dec. 16, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation has launched six pilot projects “to bridge scientific gaps between current quantum technological capabilities and those needed to fully harness quantum properties of energy and matter for practical uses,” the NSF said. Click HERE to learn more. The six projects join five others that the agency announced in […]

Castrol Announces New Direct-to-Chip Cooling Fluid for HPC and AI

PANGBOURNE, UK, 13 December 2024:Castrol has announced the launch of Castrol ON Direct Liquid Cooling PG 25, a propylene glycol-based cooling fluid designed for direct-to-chip cooling applications in high-performance data centres. The ready-to-use solution helps meet the complex thermal management needs of today’s high-performance computing, while offering protection against corrosion and bacterial growth. Castrol ON […]

HPE to Build €250M Liquid Cooled HPC at Leibniz Supercomputing Center

The Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany has commissioned Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) to build an Nvidia-powered €250 million high-performance computer, “Blue Lion.” The system will utilize the HPE Slingshot ….

Introducing the insideHPC Vanguards: Tomorrow’s HPC-AI Leaders Taking on Today’s Big Challenges

With this profile of Argonne’s Bethany Lusch, insideHPC begins a new series called The Vanguards, intended to spotlight up-and-coming thought leaders, creative thinkers and innovators in HPC-AI, in scientific and technical ….