ISC is an annual global event in which high performance computing (HPC) users and technology providers come together to discuss the prospects of HPC in different areas. One particular area that concerns us all is weather forecasting. In recent years, the demand for greater precision in weather forecasting has increased significantly. The development of HPC plays an important role in this process.
Quantum-HPC Integrated Data Center under Development in the Netherlands
Enschede, Netherlands, St. Gallen, Switzerland, May 15th, 2023 – QMware and QuiX Quantum are collaborating to develop what the companies say is the first integrated, hybrid quantum-classical platform in Enschede, the Netherlands, where QuiX Quantum’s headquarters is located. The hybrid architecture integrates high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure with native quantum computing technology onsite. The companies said […]
IBM Unveils Watsonx Generative AI Platform
Though long gone from the HPC systems business, IBM is asserting itself in the HPC-AI and generative AI markets with its announcement today of IBM watsonx, a genAI and data platform. Announced at its annual Think conference in San Franciscolso, IBM also unveiled a GPU-as-a-service infrastructure for AI-intensive workloads, an AI-powered dashboard to report on […]
Simulating a More Detailed Universe with Frontier Exascale HPC
A trio of new cosmological simulation codes was unveiled in presentations at the annual April Meeting of the American Physical Society in Minneapolis by Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility Director of Science, Bronson Messer, who chaired the session covering these next-generation codes. According to OLCF, the codes “(herald) a new era of exascale computational astrophysics […]
Intel Announces Deepak Patil to Head Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics Group
Intel said today that Deepak Patil will serve as corporate vice president and general manager of the Accelerated Computing Systems and Graphics (AXG) group. Patil recently held the position of chief technology and strategy officer of the Data Center and AI Group (DCAI). “Having held senior engineering leadership positions across the high-tech industry, including being […]
LLNL’s Annie Kritcher Named to TIME100 for Fusion Research
Time magazine has named Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) design physicist Andrea “Annie” Kritcher to its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world for her role as the principal designer for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) experiment that produced fusion ignition in a laboratory for the first time. The scientific breakthrough, […]
DOE/ASCR Picks 3 National Labs for HPC and Post-Exascale Software Sustainability
April 3, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science today announces the selection of six collaborations focused on scientific-software sustainability. DOE said the collaborations will explore the stewardship and improvement of the software ecosystem for high-performance and scientific computing, including the software ecosystem developed through the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), in order […]
Quantum on Wall Street: JPMorgan Chase and QC Ware Report on ‘Deep Hedging’ with Quantum-Classical
New York and Palo Alto, CA — March 30, 2023 — JPMorgan Chase and quantum and classical computing software and services company QC Ware announced today they have completed a study of quantum “deep hedging” that they say “(paves) the way for future increased risk mitigation capabilities in financial services.” A paper released today describes […]