HPC News Bytes 20240930: New Intel and AMD Chips, Advanced Chip Subsidies and a Quantum Update

A happy final day of September to you! Chips news dominated most of the developments coming out of the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel Xeon 6, Gaudi 3, MRDIMM, AMX; Intel 3 Fab, TSMC, Samsung, Chip subsidies; AMD Turin ….

IonQ Announces $54.5M Quantum Contract with US Air Force Research Lab

IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced it has signed a $54.5 million contract with the United States Air Force Research Lab (AFRL). The focus of the AFRL partnership is to enable the scaling, networking and deployability of quantum ….

HPC News Bytes 20240923 Podcast: Intel-Qualcomm, Responses to AI Energy Crisis, HPC-AI Beyond GPUs

A belated happy autumnal equinox to you! The white-water HPC-AI world produced major news over the past week, including: previously unthinkable Intel M&A reports, chips and software ….

January 14 Deadline: NSF $15M Funding Opportunity to Safeguard Open Source Ecosystems

Sept. 23, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation launched a $15 million funding opportunity to address vulnerabilities of open-source ecosystems. Preliminary proposals for the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) are due Tuesday,Jan. 14, 2025, by 5 p.m. (submitting organization’s local time). To learn more, read the Safe-OSE funding opportunity and register […]

@HPCpodcast: Aurora Exascale Update and Other HPC-AI Topics with Argonne’s Rick Stevens and Mike Papka

Last year at about this time, we discussed the state of HPC and the Aurora ….

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240916: Zettascale AI Supercluster, GPU Competition, AI’s Impact on IT Infrastructure, Euro Exascale Install

A good mid-September morn to you!  In this week’s HPC News Bytes, Shahin and Doug offer a rapid (6:27) run-through of recent developments in the ….

Sept. 29 Registration Deadline for ALCF Virtual Intro to AI-driven Science on Supercomputers

Sept. 13, 2024: The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a seven-week virtual training series for  undergraduates and graduates on the fundamentals of applying world-class supercomputers to advance the use of AI for research. Please share this opportunity with university students that you think will be interested.  The series will be held on Tuesdays from […]

Installation Starts at JSC for Jupiter, Europe’s First Exascale HPC

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany announced the start of installation for Europe’s first exascale-class supercomputer, Jupiter. The first containers of the modular data center for the have been  positioned ….

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240909: AI vs. Copyright, TSMC’s CoWoS Capacity, Intel’s 18A Fab, an RFP for the Future of HPC

Good late summer morning to you! From the world of HPC-AI we offer a quick (6:10) recap of recent news developments, including: DOE’s $23M future of HPC RFP ….

DOE Announces $68M for AI for Scientific Research

September 5, 2024, WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy announced $68 million in funding for 11 AI for science multi-institution projects, comprising 43 awards lasting up to three years, with $20 million in Fiscal Year 2024 dollars and outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. The list of projects and more information can be […]