[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Lenovo unveiled the expansion of its ThinkSystem AI portfolio designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics and HPC workloads, featuring two powerful 8-way NVIDIA GPU systems combining massive computational capabilities with power efficiency. Engineered for generative AI, the Lenovo systems incorporate support for the NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform, including NVIDIA H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs and the new Grace Blackwell….
Panasas in Manufacturing and Fulfillment Partnership with Avnet
April 18, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SAN JOSE, April 18, 2024 — Data solutions company Panasas and Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT) today announced an agreement enabling Panasas to use Avnet Integrated, the systems integration arm of Avnet, as its primary manufacturing and fulfillment operations partner. Panasas said the partnership will enable Panasas to benefit from Avnet’s global supply chain and worldwide manufacturing footprint, “strengthening Panasas’ […]
Quantum: D-Wave Introduces Anneal Feature
April 18, 2024 by Leave a Comment
PALO ALTO, Calif – April 18, 2024 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today launched the fast-anneal feature, available on all of D-Wave’s quantum processing units (QPUs) in the Leap real-time quantum cloud service. The fast-anneal feature has been a key part of D-Wave’s research milestones, including work published in Nature Physics (2022) and Nature (2023), […]
DOE Awards $16M for Traineeships in Accelerator Science & Engineering
April 18, 2024 by Leave a Comment
April 18, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for four projects providing classroom training and research opportunities to train the next generation of accelerator scientists and engineers needed to deliver scientific discoveries. The list of projects and more information can be found on the High Energy Physics program homepage and the Accelerator […]
Eviden Delivers 104 Pflops Nvidia-Powered EXA1-HE Supercomputer for CEA
April 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Paris – April 17, 2024 – CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and Eviden, the Atos advanced computing business unit, today announce the delivery of the EXA1 HE supercomputer, based on Eviden’s BullSequana….
eFlows4HPC Delivers European HPC Workflow Platform
April 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Barcelona, 16 April 2024 – The eFlows4HPC project announced it has delivered a workflow platform and an additional set of services facilitating the integration of high-performance computing (HPC) simulation and modeling with big data analytics and machine learning techniques. Significant advancements in defining complex workflows resulted in enhanced workflow efficiency, and increased overall development and […]
CIQ Launches Support for Upstream Kernels in Rocky Linux
April 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
RENO, Nev.—April 17, 2024—CIQ today launched supported, upstream kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, designed for enhanced performance, hardware compatibility and security. CIQ said the new offering was built to meet the ultra-high performance, compatibility and security needs of the most advanced customers, and is now available to everyone. Development of […]
Riverlane Wins DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Program Grant
April 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
April 17, 2024 — Quantum computing company Riverlane has been selected for Phase 2 of the Quantum Benchmarking program funded by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The aim of the program is to design key quantum computing metrics for practically relevant problems and estimate the required quantum and classical resources needed to reach […]
LBNL Leads Quantum Data Storage, Visualization Project
April 17, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has announced that national lab and university researchers recently released two papers introducing new methods of data storage and analysis to make quantum computing more practical and exploring how visualization helps in understanding quantum computing. “This work represents significant strides in understanding and harnessing current quantum devices for data encoding, processing, and visualization,” […]
Stanford AI Index: Lax LLM Reponsibility, AI for Science Accelerates, Impact on Workers, US Leads China in Models
April 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
The AI Index Report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI is out, it’s an annual, thoroughgoing snapshot of the state of AI begun by the HAI in 2019. This year’s edition presents new estimates on AI training….
