This morning, Eviden made it official: it has been awarded a contract by Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany to build the modular data center to host the EuroHPC JUPITER supercomputer, Europe’s first exascale system. This is not surprising because….
DOE Office of Science: $100M Funding Opportunity for Energy Frontier Research Centers
January 22, 2024 by
January 22, 2024 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES) program, is issuing a $100 million funding opportunity announcement for new and renewing Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs). BES is soliciting new applications for basic science in two topical areas: 1) co-design of materials and processes to revolutionize fabrication for microelectronics […]
HPC News Bytes 20240122: Synopsis-Ansys Deal, Meta’s Billions for NVIDIA GPUs, OpenAI’s New Chips and Fabs, Quantum in the News
January 22, 2024 by
Happy mid-winter morn to you! Here’s a quick (6:05) trip through the latest in HPC-AI: Synopsys-Ansys, Meta’s billions for NVIDIA GPUs, OpenAI to build new chips and fabs, quantum partnerships, Quantinuum raises $300M.
Q-CTRL and US Geological Survey in Quantum Partnership
January 16, 2024 by
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16, 2024 — Quantum software company Q-CTRL announced it has entered a partnership with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) to explore potential quantum computing and sensing applications for geological sciences. USGS is a scientific agency that researches Earth systems. Its mission is to make scientific data available to help people understand […]
HPC News Bytes 20240115: RIKEN’s HPC-Quantum Platform, RFP for Post-Exascale, HPE Acquires Juniper, Google: AI Chip Trial, No Cloud Exit Fees
January 15, 2024 by
A happy mid-winter morning to you. Here’s a rapid (5:06) rundown of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: RIKEN’s hybrid quantum-classical HPC platform with Quantinuum, Google in $1.67B AI chip patent trial….
DOE ASCR Program Announces $60M for Advanced Scientific Computing Proposals
January 11, 2024 by
The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR ) program in the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office of Science has announces its interest in advanced scientific computing research portfolios for accelerating discovery and innovation in support of the DOE mission. Deadline for Letter of Intent (required): February 27, 2024 at 5 pm ET Deadline for Proposals:April 30, 2024 […]
RIKEN Selects Quantinuum for Hybrid Quantum-HPC Platform
January 9, 2024 by
Quantum computing company Quantinuum and Japanese research institution and HPC center RIKEN announced that Quantinuum will provide RIKEN access to its H1-Series ion-trap quantum computing technology. The deployment will be part of RIKEN’s project to build a quantum-HPC hybrid platform that will include RIKEN’s Arm-based Fugaku supercomputer….
ALCF Student Training Series: Intro to AI-Driven Science on Supercomputers, Feb. 6-March 26
January 9, 2024 by
The deadline is Monday, Jan. 15, to register for the free, online series “Introduciton to AI-Driven Science on Supercomputers,” hosted by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). The series will focus on teaching the fundamentals of using world-class supercomputers to advance the use of AI for research. Registration and other information can be found here. […]
Switzerland’s ‘Alps’ HPC Infrastructure Extended Across Multiple Locations
January 9, 2024 by
As part of the “Alps” research infrastructure, the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano is deploying hardware and software at various locations within Switzerland. This distributed infrastructure is designed to increase the efficiency and resilience of CSCS services. The extension of “Alps” to….
Exascale for ‘Hot Fusion’: Earthly Effort to Produce the Same Energy that Powers the Sun
January 8, 2024 by
Nuclear fusion processes similar to the sun’s have the potential to transform energy production on earth. At least that’s the goal of California-based TAE Technologies, which plans to build the world’s first prototype hydrogen-boron fusion power plant, called Da Vinci, in the early 2030s. With Da Vinci, TAE’s seventh-generation test….
