The UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer, an Intel-Dell system called Dawn (Phase 1, pictured here), is up and running at a University of Cambridge data center. The system is powered by more than 1,000 Intel Data Center GPU Max Series chips and more….
Dawn Rising: UK’s Top AI Supercomputer Begins Operations at Univ. of Cambridge
February 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
NCSA Aids Researchers with AI on Multiple Fronts
February 23, 2024 by Leave a Comment
NCSA is the caretaker and manager of the Delta supercomputer, but that means more than just making sure the machine is running. The Center recently worked with the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) on their research using AI to identify materials capable of passively capturing carbon. Delta’s powerful AI capabilities were used in this collaborative effort, which also […]
Exascale’s New Software Frontier: LatticeQCD for Particle Physics
February 23, 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 Science Challenge One of the most challenging goals for researchers in the fields of nuclear and particle physics is to better understand the interactions between quarks and gluons — […]
NSF Announces $12M Funding Opportunity to Lower Latencies for Wireless Networks
February 21, 2024 by
Feb. 212, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation published a new funding opportunity designed to bring together innovators in wireless communications to develop and validate low-latency communications technologies that have the potential to transform how Americans live, work and interact with one another. To learn more, read the Breaking Low funding opportunity and register for an introductory […]
UCSD and CEA-Leti Paper: DC-DC Converter Unifies Power Switches on a Single Chip
February 20, 2024 by
SAN DIEGO and GRENOBLE, France – Feb. 20, 2024 – University of California San Diego and CEA-Leti scientists report they have developed a ground-breaking piezoelectric-based DC-DC converter that unifies all power switches onto a single chip to increase power density. This new power topology, which extends beyond existing topologies, blends the advantages of piezoelectric converters […]
HPC News Bytes 20240219: AI Safety and Governance, Running CUDA Apps on ROCm, DOE’s SLATE, New Advanced Chips
February 19, 2024 by
Happy President’s Day morning to everyone! Today’s HPC News Bytes races (6:22) around the HPC-AI landscape with comments on: developments in AI security and governance, running CUDA (NVIDIA) apps on ROCm (AMD), DOE’s Exascale Software Linear….
Pawsey Adds NVIDIA CUDA Quantum Platform for R&D Simulations
February 18, 2024 by
SYDNEY—SCA2024—Feb. 19, 2024—NVIDIA today announced that Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre will add the NVIDIA CUDA Quantum platform accelerated by NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips to its National Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Innovation Hub, in support of its quantum R&D work. Researchers at the Perth-based center will leverage CUDA Quantum — an open-source hybrid quantum computing […]
EuroHPC JU Issues Procurement Call for LUMI-Quantum
February 14, 2024 by
The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has launched a call for tender for the installation of LUMI-Q, a new EuroHPC quantum computer to be located in Czechia and integrated into the EuroHPC supercomputer KAROLINA. EuroHPC JU said LUMI-Q will be a digital quantum computer….
IonQ and South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan Univ. Renew Quantum Alliance
February 13, 2024 by
Feb. 13, 2024, COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced the renewal of its alliance with South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) to provide researchers and academics with continued access to IonQ’s trapped-ion quantum systems. Accessible through SKKU’s Q Center, users across South Korea have benefited from hands-on training and mentorship provided by […]
Cadence Multiphysics HPC System to be Used by Honda R&D for ‘Air Taxi’ Design
February 12, 2024 by
Cadence Design Systems earlier this month released the news that Honda R&D Co. will use Cadence’s newly announced Millennium Enterprise Multiphysics Platform, which Cadence said is the industry’s first hardware/software-accelerated digital twin solution for system design and analysis.
