AMD today announced that Thomas Zacharia, former director of Oak Ridge National Laborary, has joined AMD as senior vice president of strategic technology partnerships and public policy. Zacharia spent 35 years at Oak Ridge, leaving there after the organization developed and….
HPC News Bytes 20240304: GPU Scarcity, Global Fab Capacity Boost, AI Hurdles and Singapore’s AI Training Strategy (Including Mid-Careerists)
March 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A good March morning to you! Forthwith is a fast (5:51) run-though of recent HPC-AI news, including: The GPU shortage; HPE, Dell financial results, GPU allocations, new Intel fabs….
Exascale’s New Software Frontier: Combustion-PELE
March 4, 2024 by Leave a Comment
“Exascale’s New Frontier,” a project from the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, explores the new applications and software technology for driving scientific discoveries in the exascale era. The scientific challenge Diesel and gas-turbine engines drive the world’s trains, planes, and ships, but the fossil fuels that power these engines produce much of the carbon emissions […]
NERSC Call for Proposals: Generative AI for Science, April 1 Deadline
March 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
NERSC is inviting proposals for projects that will leverage NERSC’s Perlmutter supercomputer to push the state of the art in Generative AI (GenAI) and deep learning for science and produce novel science outcomes. We are specifically seeking teams with expertise using deep learning for science, a deep understanding of the scientific domain, and demonstrated proofs-of-concept. NERSC staff […]
Registration for RMACC HPC Symposium Opens March 5
March 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
BOULDER, CO – Registration opens March 5th for the 14th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium, set for May 21-23 at the Wolf Law Center on the campus of the University of Colorado Boulder. For information about sponsorships or registration visit: https://hpcsymposium.rmacc.org. For questions contact rmacc@colorado.edu. The multi-track symposium, which brings together faculty, researchers, industry […]
Green Mountain Data Centers to Host HPE AI and HPC in Norway
February 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Norwegian data center company Green Mountain announced it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host high-demand artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads to customers across two of Green Mountain’s Norwegian locations.
Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration
February 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Riverlane and Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) today announced their participation in a project led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to explore the challenges of integrating a quantum computer with a large-scale, supercomputing centre. Quantum computers will play an important role in the future of computing as they promise to solve problems […]
HPC System Analyst Jackie Scoggins Reflects on Her Time at NERSC
February 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
As part of cthe 50th anniversary celebrations for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), “In Their Own Words” is a Q&A series featuring voices from across the NERSC landscape, past and present, about their experiences at NERSC. Jackie Scoggins arrived at NERSC in 1996 as a system analyst and administrator for the Computational […]
Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale
February 28, 2024 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI….
DOE: E4S for Extreme-Scale Science Now Supports Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper GPUs
February 27, 2024 by Leave a Comment
E4S, the open source Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack for HPC-AI scientific applications, now incorporates AI/ML libraries and expands GPU support to include the Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper architectures. E4S is a community effort to provide open-source….
