Today the University of Bristol announced an initiative to accelerate the adoption of
ARM-based supercomputers in the UK. “HPE is excited to work with Arm, SUSE, and other key partners to offer the HPC community a fresh alternative for high performance computing which we believe will stimulate the industry to develop increasingly performant and efficient supercomputing solutions. By investing in this deployment through the Catalyst UK programme, HPE and our partners will drive both digital transformation and sustainable economic growth through new innovation and scientific discovery.”
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre teams with NSCC Singapore to Accelerate Science
April 5, 2018 by Leave a Comment
The National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate in the fields of supercomputing, networking, data analytics, scientific software applications and visualization. “With our national petascale HPC platform, NSCC’s collaboration with international supercomputing centres such as the Pawsey, will benefit and bring together people and researchers with different skillsets and expertise to solve problems of a scale previously not possible,” said Professor Tan Tin Wee, NSCC’s Chief Executive.”
Asperitas and Boston Collaborate on Immersed Cooling for Datacenters
April 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Today Dutch cleantech company Asperitas announced it is partnering with Boston Ltd on Immersed Computing technologies. “Our partnership with Asperitas ushers in an exciting new chapter for our business and for our customers delivering radically improved datacenter cooling solutions coupled with intelligent energy recovery and reduced operational costs.”
Video: Liqid Teams with Inspur at GTC for Composable Infrastructure
April 3, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In this video from GTC 2018, Dolly Wu from Inspur and Marius Tudor from Liquid describe how the two companies are collaborating on Composable Infrastructure for AI and Deep Learning workloads. “AI and deep learning applications will determine the direction of next-generation infrastructure design, and we believe dynamically composing GPUs will be central to these emerging platforms,” said Dolly Wu, GM and VP Inspur Systems.
Video: IBM Brings NVIDIA Volta to Supercharge Discoveries
March 30, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In this video from GTC 2018, Adel El-Hallak from IBM describes how IBM and NVIDIA are partnering to build the largest supercomputers in the world to enable data scientists and application developers to not be limited to any device memory. Between IBM and NVIDIA, you can capitalize on the Volta 32GB memory and the entire system as a whole.
Univa partners with UberCloud
March 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Today Univa announced a new global partnership and reseller agreement with UberCloud. Under terms of the agreement, UberCloud, a leading HPC cloud provider, will resell Univa Grid Engine and related Univa products to UberCloud’s growing community of HPC customers. “By deploying packaged HPC applications in containers, and managing them with Univa Grid Engine, users become productive immediately. They can focus on their work rather than spending time troubleshooting complicated HPC software stacks.”
Asetek Announces Ongoing Collaboration with Intel on Liquid Cooling for Servers and Datacenters
March 16, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In anticipation of forthcoming product announcements, Asetek today announced an ongoing collaboration with Intel to provide hot water liquid cooling for servers and datacenters. This collaboration, which includes Asetek’s ServerLSL and RackCDU D2C technologies, is focused on the liquid cooling of density-optimized Intel Compute Modules supporting high-performance Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
Bright Computing adds support for OpenHPC
March 7, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Today Bright Computing announced it has joined the Linux Foundation and will participate in the OpenHPC Community project. “Many of our HPC customers incorporate both commercial and open source management regimens on clusters based on Intel Xeon Scalable processors,” said Trish Damkroger, Vice President and General Manager, Technical Computing Initiative at Intel Corporation. “By supporting OpenHPC packages in their software, Bright Computing will help enable HPC practitioners assemble the ideal management framework for their needs.”
NSF Sponsors EPiQC ‘expedition’ for Practical Quantum Computing
February 28, 2018 by Leave a Comment
University of Chicago computer scientists will lead a $10 million “expedition” into the burgeoning field of quantum computing, bringing applications of the nascent technology for computer science, physics, chemistry, and other fields at least a decade closer to practical use. Called EPiQC, the $10 million NSF ‘expedition’ for practical quantum computing is designed to help scientists realize the potential of quantum computing more rapidly.
Gen-Z Consortium Announces the Public Release of Its Core Specification 1.0
February 13, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Today the Gen-Z Consortium released the Gen-Z Core Specification 1.0 on its website. As an open systems interconnect, Gen-Z is designed to provide memory semantic access to data and devices via direct-attached, switched or fabric topologies. “The release of core specification 1.0 today is a significant step towards realization of new architectures and evolution of existing technologies to expand into new roles. Samsung is excited to be a member of the Gen-Z Consortium and is committed towards industry open standards.”
