ALCF Developer Session Feb. 28: Aurora’s Exascale Compute Blade

On Wednesday, Feb. 28, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar from 11 am-noon CT on the compute blade of the Aurora exascale supercomputer. Registration for the event can be found here. Led by ALCF’s Servesh Muralidharan, the session will cover details of the blade’s components, and the flow of data between them, […]

HPC User Forum Announces Agenda for April 9-10 Event in Reston, VA

ST PAUL, Minn., February 12, 2024— The HPC User Forum, established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to user, has published an updated agenda spotlighting its list of featured speakers for its upcoming meeting, on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9-10 at the Hyatt Regency […]

European Research Consortium Reports Sustainable Fuel Progress Using HPC

A European research consortium has announced progress in the development of sustainable fuels. CoEC reported what it said is a “notable breakthrough” linked to carbon-free hydrogen combustion. “…high-fidelity simulations were conducted to explore hydrogen….

HPC News Bytes 20240205: Argonne’s Nexus, Intel Ohio Fab Delayed, the Mitchell Institute’s Quantum Strategy, How to Control Emergent AI

A happy February morning to you! In this week’s edition of HPC News Bytes, Shahin and Doug run through (6:22) some of the key news in HPC-AI last week, including: Argonne’s Nexus IRI….

Integrated Research Infrastructure: Argonne Combines HPC and Experiments to Speed Discovery

For over a decade, Argonne has been working to develop tools and methods to connect its powerful computing resources with large-scale experiments. Merging ALCF supercomputers with the APS has been a significant focus of…

HPC News Bytes: Eni’s Monster HPE Supercomputer, Intel’s New Mexico Fab, NSF’s AI Research Resource, D-Wave and IonQ Quantum Advancements

A good January morning to you! It was an interesting week in HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (6:07) rundown of the latest doings, including: Italy energy giant Eni’s 600 PFLOPS HPE supercomputer, Intel opens….

@HPCpodcast: The State of Quantum with DOE’s Dr. Travis Humble

In this conversation, Dr. Humble discusses how quantum computing works, how far along toward commercial viability the technology is, how to sort through the various quantum modalities under development, quantum’s relationship with AI, the key….

NSF to Launch Advanced Computing National AI Research Resource Pilot

January 24, 2024 — Today, the U.S. National Science Foundation and collaborating agencies launched the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot, which the NSF called “a first step towards realizing the vision for a shared research infrastructure that will strengthen and democratize access to critical resources necessary to power responsible AI discovery and innovation.” […]

ALCF Developer Series: Visualization on Polaris, Jan. 31

Jan. 23, 2024 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold an online webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 31 from 11 am – noon Central Time providing an overview of visualization on ALCF’s Polaris system. Presenters will be the ALCF Visualization and Data Analysis Team: Joseph Insley, Silvio Rizzi, Victor Mateevitsi and Janet Knowles. Registration and […]

Eviden to Deliver Modular Data Center for Europe’s 1st Exascale System

This morning, Eviden made it official: it has been awarded a contract by Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany to build the modular data center to host the EuroHPC JUPITER supercomputer, Europe’s first exascale system. This is not surprising because….