The growing imperative of ESG- and carbon-related issues in the HPC industry – and in IT generally – is the topic of this week’s @HPCpodcast episode (sponsored by Lenovo). Shahin and Doug speak with Adrian Cockcroft, an analyst colleague of Shahin’s at OrionX and former vice president of sustainability architecture at Amazon Web Services, where he helped customers apply sustainability practices to their businesses. The good news shared by Adrian is that Big Tech companies and IT in general are decarbonizing more effectively than had been expected a few years ago. Even as systems become denser and hotter, data centers increasingly are adopting renewable energy sources, liquid cooling and other measures that reduce usage of carbon-based energy sources. He tells us that on a per-watts basis, the IT industry has plateaued – though, of course, total watts consumed continues to climb.
@HPCpodcast: Former AWS Sustainability VP on the State of Decarbonization in HPC and IT
Customer Cosmos by Tredence Wins 2023 Data Breakthrough Award
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 26, 2023 – Tredence, a data science and AI solutions company, today announced that its Customer Cosmos solution was named “Data Visualization Solution of the Year” in the fourth annual Data Breakthrough Awards program conducted by Data Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that covers the global data technology market. Customer Cosmos by Tredence is […]
insideHPC-Hyperion Research Interview: ITIF’s Ezell Says Global HPC-AI Leadership Is ‘Up for Grabs’
As we enter supercomputing’s exascale era, global HPC leadership is “up for grabs,” according to the ITIF’s Stephen Ezell, and in several ways the U.S. has relinquished leadership in the development of “feeder streams” that will supply the country’s supercomputing industry in future decades. To address this, Ezell outlines several recommended policies and initiatives the U.S. should take in the face of increasing global HPC competition.
Quantum Introduces Myriad, Software-Defined All-Flash Enterprise Storage Platform
SAN JOSE, April 3, 2023 — High performance data storage company Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO), maker of solutions for video and unstructured data, has announced Quantum Myriad, an all-flash, scale-out file and object storage software platform for the enterprise. The company said Myriad leverages advances in application frameworks and design that were not available even a […]
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 […]
Oregon Bill Would Penalize Data Centers for Failure to Meet Emissions Requirements Starting in 2027
A bill before the Oregon state legislature would penalize data centers for not meeting emissions standards starting in 2027 and could — if approved in Oregon and similar measures are adopted by other states — have significant implications for hyperscalers and HPC organizations with heavy electrical requirements. A story in yesterday’s The Oregonian reported that […]
BNP Paribas to Move More IT Infrastructure to atNorth HPC Data Center
Stockholm – 28 March 2023 – atNorth, a pan-Nordic colocation, HPC and AI service provider, has announced that financial institution BNP Paribas continues to move portions of its workloads to the Nordic region. The migration of another portion of its IT workload to the atNorth site in Sweden is a continuation of BNP Paribas’ program to […]
Cerebras, Databricks Stoke Generative AI Arena with Open Source LLMs
In few other areas of the global economy are the rounds of creative destruction more rapid and more intense than the HPC-AI sector. We see this today with the generative AI sensation: OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November has created a firestorm of competitive responses. At least two companies – Cerebras, maker of the dinner-plate […]
Dell: Threats and Opportunities for U.S. HPC Leadership
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Driving the development and leveraging the use of supercomputing technologies and systems is a critical strategic advantage for geopolitical players. The U.S. Council on Competitiveness, which champions entrepreneurship and commercialization of innovative ideas, coined the phrase “To Out-compute is to Out-compete” for describing the place of supercomputing as a centerpiece of competitive strategies across science, business and national defense. In fact, the U.S., having been at the forefront of supercomputing for more than 50 years, is under increasing international pressure as more countries and regions increase their investments in HPC and associated areas, including AI, applications development and optimization, and workforce development and retention.
Interview: Ansys Talks CAD/CAE in the Cloud and Ansys Gateway Powered by AWS
[SPONSORED GUEST INTERVIEW] In this interview with Jane Trenaman, vice president of portfolio product management at Ansys, she discusses the growing importance of the cloud for customers using Ansys engineering simulation and CAD/CAE software. She also highlights the company’s partnership with AWS announced last year and the launch of Ansys Gateway powered by AWS, which is a solution for developers, designers, and engineers who want to manage their Ansys simulation and CAD/CAE developments in the cloud….
