March 20, 2023 — Amazon Web Services said today it has begun transitioning to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) to power backup generators at its data centers in Europe, with sites in Ireland and Sweden among the first to make the switch. Backup generators are used at data centre sites to provide back up power in […]
Call for Papers: ASCR Workshop on Quantum Computing and Networking, May 1 Deadline
March 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
May 17, 2023 — The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program in the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science is organizing a workshop to identify priority research directions in quantum computing and networking to better position ASCR to realize the potential of quantum technologies in advancing DOE science applications. Key deadlines: May 1, […]
Barcelona Supercomputing Center: Cellular Digital Twins for Cancer Treatment
March 16, 2023 by Leave a Comment
16 March 2023 — Barcelona — The Barcelona Supercomputing Center is working towards the creation of digital twins that can virtually represent cell-level systems to computationally predict the response of potential treatments. These cell-level simulations can be personalised with patient-specific data to capture individuals´ genetic and environmental influences that provide a deeper understanding of the […]
Manufacturing Repatriation: How HPC-Class Technologies from Microsoft Azure and AMD Support Manufacturers’ Reshoring Strategies
March 15, 2023 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] 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. With this comes the need for new strategies leveraging data analytics, machine learning, robotics and advanced design simulation enabled by HPC-class compute power to help contain costs, improve quality and accelerate time-to-market. At the heart of these strategies for many companies: a cloud computing platform that offers – and continually refreshes – its technology and support service ecosystem for manufacturers.
Study Says Companies Lack Resources to Deliver Enterprise AI/ML Goals
March 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO – March 14, 2023 – Domino Data Lab, provider of an enterprise MLOps platform, has released a industry report, “Build A Winning AI Offense: C-Level Strategies for an ML-Fueled Revenue Engine.” The study determined that while data science is now a key revenue and innovation engine for the enterprise, most enterprise data and […]
MathWorks and Green Hills Software Develop Integration for Safety-Related Applications Using Infineon AURIX Microcontrollers
March 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
RISC-V Chip Maker SiFive Joins OpenMP Review Board
March 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Beaverton, Oregon — March 14, 2023 — SiFive has joined the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB), a group of hardware vendors, software vendors and research organizations, in creating the standard for the OpenMP shared-memory parallel programming model. SiFive is a RISC-V-based high-performance embedded systems platform company, delivering high-performance compute density for modern workloads. SiFive solutions are […]
Hyperview Appoints Bill Kleyman to Advisory Board
March 14, 2023 by Leave a Comment
VANCOUVER — March 14, 2023 Hyperview, a cloud-based data center infrastructure management (DCIM) platform provider, has named award-winning industry analyst Bill Kleyman to its advisory board. Kleyman, who has spent more than 15 years specializing in the cybersecurity, virtualization, cloud and data center industry, brings a deep understanding of emerging technologies to Hyperview. “Bill is […]
Microsoft Introduces Generative AI VM on Azure with Scaling up to Thousands of GPUs
March 13, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Sutharshan Named ORNL Deputy for Operations
March 13, 2023 by Leave a Comment
March 13, 2023 — Oak Ridge, TN — Balendra Sutharshan has been named chief operating officer for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He will begin serving as ORNL’s deputy for operations and as executive vice president, operations, for UT-Battelle LLC effective April 1. He will succeed Alan Icenhour, who is retiring this spring after serving in […]
