DOE/ASCR Picks 3 National Labs for HPC and Post-Exascale Software Sustainability

April 3, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science today announces the selection of six collaborations focused on scientific-software sustainability. DOE said the collaborations will explore the stewardship and improvement of the software ecosystem for high-performance and scientific computing, including the software ecosystem developed through the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), in order […]

Quantum on Wall Street: JPMorgan Chase and QC Ware Report on ‘Deep Hedging’ with Quantum-Classical

New York and Palo Alto, CA — March 30, 2023 — JPMorgan Chase and quantum and classical computing software and services company QC Ware announced today they have completed a study of quantum “deep hedging” that they say “(paves) the way for future increased risk mitigation capabilities in financial services.” A paper released today describes […]

Quantum Brilliance Announces Software for Compiling Programs Written in CUDA Quantum

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, March 21, 2023 — Quantum Brilliance, a developer of quantum computing products and solutions, has released a new version of its open-source Qristal software able to compile quantum programs written in CUDA Quantum, NVIDIA’s newly announced open-source programming model. Announced today at NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference, Quantum Brilliance’s new release of Qristal […]

DDN Announces Compatibility with NVIDIA DGX H100 and Lambda Partnership

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – March 21, 2023 – AI and multi-cloud data management company DDN today announced compatibility with the next generation of NVIDIA DGX systems, each with eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. NVIDIA DGX H100 supercomputers are the fourth generation of NVIDIA’s purpose-built AI systems and designed for the most taxing training workloads, such as natural language processing […]

IBM Quantum System One Deployed at Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland and Armonk, NY – March 20, 2023 – Today, Cleveland Clinic and IBM officially unveiled what they said is the first onsite, private sector IBM-managed quantum computer in the United States. The IBM Quantum System One will be the first quantum computer in the world to be uniquely dedicated to healthcare research and biomedical […]

Manufacturing Repatriation: How HPC-Class Technologies from Microsoft Azure and AMD Support Manufacturers’ Reshoring Strategies

Geopolitical change is having tectonic impact on the global manufacturing industry. In the U.S., western Europe and other industrialized countries, there is growing emphasis on “manufacturing repatriation,” or reshoring of factory production….

MathWorks and Green Hills Software Develop Integration for Safety-Related Applications Using Infineon AURIX Microcontrollers

NATICK, Mass., and SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 14, 2023 — MathWorks, developer of mathematical computing software, and Green Hills Software, an embedded software safety and security company, announced an integration that helps engineers design safety-related applications for the Infineon AURIX TC4x family of automotive microcontrollers using Simulink. Engineers using the new family of microcontrollers automate […]

Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs

Microsoft today introduced the ND H100 v5 VM on the Azure cloud, a virtual machine for development generative AI applications. The VM can scale from eight to thousands of NVIDIA H100 GPUs with Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking, Microsoft said, and the adoption of H100’s, NVIDIA’s latest data center GPUs, will accelerate performance for AI models over […]

CSC (Home of LUMI) to Host 30PB Data Lake for Destination Earth Initiative

The CSC data center in Kajaani, Finland, will host a 30-petabyte data lake for the European Meteorological Satellite Agency EUMETSAT and the Destination Earth initiative. The DestinE data lake will be supplied by cloud solutions company CloudFerro. CSC said the data lake has about 30 rack cabinets, each rack the size of a tall refrigerator. […]

inside HPC-Hyperion Research Interview: NSF’s Manish Parashar on the CHIPS and Science Act

As part of insideHPC’s series of interviews on behalf of HPC analyst firm Hyperion Research, we spoke with Manish Parashar, National Science Foundation director of the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC). Our topic: the NSF’s role in the implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act, the $280 billion bill enacted last year by the U.S. government to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors. This interview is based on a presentation Parashar gave at a special Hyperion event recently held in Washington. Highlights include….