A happy Thanksgiving week to you Americans and a happy last week of November to the rest of the world. Here’s a rapid (6:43) run-through of recent news and trends from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC24 in Atlanta ….
HPC News Bytes 20241125: SC24 Hit Show in Atlanta, Hyperion’s Booming Market Update, Report: TSMC Tech in Huawei AI Chips
November 25, 2024 by
Webinar: ALCF Developer Session on HPC Workflows to Be Held Dec. 11
November 25, 2024 by
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar at 11 am Central Time on Wednesday, Dec. 11 covering remote workflows at ALCF. Registration is here. HPC resources like those at ALCF are increasingly becoming integrated with distributed workloads involving data movement and remote orchestration. In this webinar, ALCF’s Christine Simpson will discuss how ALCF […]
Exascale: Gordon Bell Prize Team Presents Record-Breaking Algorithm for Chemistry and Biology
November 21, 2024 by
Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named an eight-member team drawn from Australian and American institutions as the winner of the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for the project, “Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials.” The members of the team are Ryan Stocks, Jorge L. Galvez Vallejo, […]
ACM Presents Winners of Gordon Bell Climate Modelling Prize
November 21, 2024 by
Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 12-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project “Boosting Earth System Model Outputs And Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators.” The award recognizes innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis. The members […]
DOE Office of Science Funds $31M for Research Capacity at Academic Institutions
November 21, 2024 by
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 21, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $31 million in funding for 42 projects to 36 institutions in 24 states to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at academic institutions. Total funding is $31 million for projects lasting up to three years in duration. The list of projects […]
Meta FAIR and VSParticle Launch Catalyst Database Designed to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition
November 20, 2024 by
Delft, 20th November 2024: In a bid to accelerate the transition to clean energy in the fight against climate change, VSParticle (VSP) – a Dutch nanotechnology engineering company – today announced the first results from a collaboration with Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team, and the University of Toronto (UofT). The collaboration brings together VSP’s […]
Quantum: Atom Computing and Microsoft Report Entangling 24 Logical Qubits
November 20, 2024 by
November 19, 2024 — Quantum computing company Atom Computing announced that together with Microsoft they have entangled 24 logical qubits, which they said sets a world record. The companies also jointly demonstrated error detection, correction, and computation with 28 logical qubits on Atom’s flagship systems. More information on this work can be found in […]
Introducing the insideHPC Vanguards: Tomorrow’s HPC-AI Leaders Taking on Today’s Big Challenges
November 19, 2024 by
With this profile of Argonne’s Bethany Lusch, insideHPC begins a new series called The Vanguards, intended to spotlight up-and-coming thought leaders, creative thinkers and innovators in HPC-AI, in scientific and technical ….
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List of Top Supercomputers
November 18, 2024 by
SC24 here in Atlanta is off to a great start with more than 17,000 attendees (a 21 percent increase over 2023), 480 exhibitors from 29 countries and a new TOP500 list that features a new champion supercomputer!
TOP500 at SC24: El Cap on Top, U.S. Now Has 3 Exascale Supercomputers
November 18, 2024 by
Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports that El Capitan, the HPE-Cray/AMD supercomputer at Lawrence ….
