Dr. Thomas Zacharia announced his retiremnt as director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory at the end of 2022, the culmination of a 35-year career at the science and energy laboratory. The news follows another significant upper management change at the lab last month — the retirement of Dr. Jeff A. Nichols as associate laboratory director […]
NVIDIA Launches Hybrid Quantum-Classical HPC Computing Platform
NVIDIA has been moving into quantum computing for some time — last November, the company announced the cuQuantum software development kit for quantum computing workflows. And NVIDIA managers have talked more frequently about the company’s quantum strategy (see our interview at ISC with NVIDIA’s Head of Technical Marketing for HPC/AI and Quantum Dion Harris). Today, […]
DOE Awards 18M HPC Node Hours to 45 ASCR Projects, Including Access to Perlmutter, Polaris and Frontier
June 29, 2022 – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that 18 million node-hours have been awarded to 45 scientific projects under the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. The projects, with applications ranging from advanced energy systems to climate change to cancer research, will use DOE supercomputers with the goal of uncovering […]
Registration Open for Aug. 2-4 RMACC HPC Symposium
June 28, 2022, BOULDER, CO – Registration is underway for the 12th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium, August 2-4. To register, learn more about the symposium and view the program, visit the symposium website at www.rmacc.org/hpcsymposium. The conference will be held at the Wolf Law Center on the campus of the University […]
PCI-SIG Announces PCI Express 7.0 Specification to Reach 128 GT/s
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 21, 2022 — PCI-SIG today announced that the PCI Express (PCIe) 7.0 specification will double the data rate to 128 GT/s and is targeted for release to members in 2025. PCI-SIG technical workgroups will be developing the PCIe 7.0 specification with the following feature goals: Delivering 128 GT/s raw bit rate and […]
@HPCpodcast: Parallel Processing Systems Pioneer Dr. Thomas Sterling on the State of HPC
Following his highly anticipated and always-insightful closing night keynote at the recent ISC conference, we caught up with Prof. Thomas Sterling to discuss the state of HPC. Dr. Sterling is professor of intelligent systems engineering at Indiana University School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and president and co-founder of Simultac, a technology company focused on […]