Cadence Multiphysics HPC System to be Used by Honda R&D for ‘Air Taxi’ Design

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.

IBM AIU SoC Cluster to be Installed at Univ. of Albany

IBM’s long, slow climb back into advanced computing prominence took a turn yesterday with news from the University at Albany that it will be the first academic institution to receive a prototype computing cluster based on IBM’s Artificial Intelligence Unit (AIU). While IBM dropped out of traditional supercomputing….

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….

QuEra to Build Quantum Testbed in UK

BOSTON, February 5th, 2024 – Neutral-atom quantum company QuEra Computing has announced that the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) at Harwell, Oxfordshire, will be home to a quantum computing testbed. Funded through the NQCC, and supported by the Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) framework, one of the testbeds will be built by QuEra in […]

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….

Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing to Install Lenovo HPC Cluster

Lenovo announced it has won a contract for the joint construction of an AMD/NVIDIA-powered HPC cluster with the University of Paderborn in Germany. The system will include the Lenovo ThinkSystem SD665 V3 server with AMD EPYC processor technology….

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…

Keynote Speakers Named for RMACC’s HPC Symposium

BOULDER, CO – Al Anderson, Chief Information Officer at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) in Pablo, MT, and Dr. Kayla Sprenger, Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department and faculty member in the Biomedical Engineering Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, have been named as keynote speakers for the 14th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing […]

@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.” […]