CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 6, 2023 – High performance data storage and management company DDN today announced it achieved the highest bandwidth score for a production system on the IO500 benchmark in conjunction with customer CINECA on its Leonardo supercomputer, an Atos (Eviden) system. Leonardo won first place for highest bandwidth for systems running production workloads in […]
DDN Customer CINECA Recognized for Bandwidth Score on IO500 List for Production Systems
June 6, 2023 by Leave a Comment
IBM to Open European Quantum Data Center in 2024
June 6, 2023 by Leave a Comment
IBM today announced plans to open its first Europe-based quantum data center next year in Ehningen, Germany, providing access to quantum computing for companies, research institutions and government agencies. The data center is expected to offer multiple IBM quantum systems, each with utility scale quantum processors, i.e., those of more than 100 qubits, according to […]
HPE Announces GreenLake Sustainability Dashboard for Carbon Footprint Reduction
June 5, 2023 by Leave a Comment
HOUSTON – June 5, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the preview of a sustainability dashboard on the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform and a portfolio of sustainability services. The offerings, which span technology, services, financing and asset upcycling programs, are designed to help organizations reduce the carbon footprint associated with their IT […]
@HPCpodcast: A Look Back at ISC 2023 with a Look Ahead to the Uncertain Future of Leadership-Class Supercomputing
June 5, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In this Lenovo-sponsored episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin and Doug discuss the recent annual ISC 2023 HPC confab in Hamburg, a conference that this year showed growth in attendees and number of exhibitors, if not a return to pre-pandemic totals. Among the topics we cover: quantum computing, more discussion of the TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the rapid growth of HPC in Europe, and whether we live in times when “everyone” is a systems vendor (think NVIDIA and Microsoft). We also delve into an ISC keynote delivered by the University of Utah’s (and the National Science Board’s) Dan Reed, one of the most influential HPC thinkers and planners, on the uncertainties afflicting the next generation of leadership-class supercomputers.
Verne Global Receives $100M Loan from Digital 9
June 5, 2023 by Leave a Comment
According to a news report from Alliance News, Digital 9 Infrastructure PLC on Monday said it signed a USD$100 million green loan debt facility for Verne Global Iceland, the colo data center services provider, with a fixed-term of five years maturing in June 2028. According to the story by Greg Rosenvinge of Alliance News, this includes […]
Report: CoreWeave Wins Miscrosoft Deal for GPU Cloud Services Worth Billions
June 2, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Suddenly, GPU cloud provider CoreWeave is one of the hot tech companies of the week and likely longer. No sooner did the Roseland, NY, startup announce on Wednesday it had secured $200 million in a series B venture round extension than the news broke the next day that CoreWeave has signed a deal with Microsoft […]
RKVST Granted Patent Enabling ‘Practical Scale for Blockchain’
June 2, 2023 by Leave a Comment
SANTA CLARA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – June 1, 2023 – RKVST announced it has been granted a U.S. patent that the company said enables practical scale for blockchains, putting an end to the limitless storage requirements that come with ever-growing transaction data, improving scalability, performance, availability and cost. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) are emerging […]
Power Grid Modeling Tool Launched on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
June 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Exascale Grid Optimization (ExaGO), a power grid simulation and optimization platform developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is the first of its kind to run on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Frontier, the first supercomputer in the world to reach exascale. Frontier, which was launched this spring, can calculate more than 1 quintillion operations per second and […]
Photonics Compute and Interconnect Startup Lightmatter Raises $154M Series C Funding, Targets HPC and AI Workloads
June 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
BOSTON – Photonics computing company Lightmatter announced it has raised $154 million in a Series C investment round, bringing to $270 million that the company has raised. Participants in this latest round are SIP Global, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Viking Global Investors, GV (Google Ventures), HPE Pathfinder and existing investors. The company said it will […]
LLNL’s Lori Diachin Named Director of Exascale Computing Project
May 31, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Lori Diachin will take over as director of the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project on June 1, “guiding the successful, multi-institutional high-performance computing effort through its final stages,” ECP said in its announcement. Diachin, who is currently the principal deputy associate director for LLNL’s Computing Directorate, has served as ECP’s […]
