SAN FRANCISCO – July 19, 2023 – A host of industry heavyweights have formed the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), intended to promote “industry-wide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for high-performance networking” for HPC and AI workloads, the new group said. Founding members include AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden (an Atos Business), […]
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September HPC User Forum: AI in HPC, Sustainability and Cloud Computing
July 17, 2023 by
ST PAUL, Minn., July 17, 2023 — The HPC User Forum has published an updated agenda spotlighting featured speakers for its upcoming meeting, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 6-7, 2023, in Tucson, Arizona at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort. The full agenda and registration information can be found here. There will be sessions and panel discussions focused […]
HPC News Bytes: SC23, China Tech Export Controls, Linux Wars Expand, Chiplet Scale-out, Quantum
July 17, 2023 by
Happy Monday! Here’s this week’s HPC News Bytes podcast for 20230717, a quick compendium of the most important news in HPC, AI, quantum and other advanced technologies. This week, Shahin and Doug discuss: SC23 registration opens; China technology export controls and Intel shipping lesser SKUs; Linux-Red Hat wars expand; Chiplet scale-out, or is it cloud?; Quantinuum tackles the hydrogen molecule (H2), it’s a start….
OLCF and Stony Brook: Using HPC Simulations to Learn How Cicada Wings Kill Bacteria
July 14, 2023 by
Over the past decade, teams of engineers, chemists and biologists have analyzed the physical and chemical properties of cicada wings, hoping to unlock the secret of their ability to kill microbes on contact. If this function of nature can be replicated by science, it may lead to products with inherently antibacterial surfaces that are more […]
Introducing the HPC News Bytes Podcast, A Quick Compendium of the Latest HPC News
July 13, 2023 by
This week, @HPCpodcast introduces HPC News Bytes, a weekly program, just 3-5 minutes, a quick compendium of the most important news in HPC, AI, quantum and other advanced tech. Join us! This first episode includes: LLNL El Capitan installation commencement; LLNL Director Kim Budil named as one of the Most Creative People in Business for 2023 by Fast Company; Inflection AI’s 22,000 GPU system; New York State Department of Financial Services’ plans to buy an AI supercomputer; Intel & Nvidia collaborate on Confidential Computing….
@HPCpodcast: Sorting through the Linux Open Source Uproar – Red Hat Sets off a Firestorm
July 13, 2023 by
The Linux open source software community has been in an uproar since late June when Red Hat announced changes to the status of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the standard-bearer for Linux users in HPC and AI. Red Hat’s move prompted a firestorm of reactions from vendors (AlmaLinux, Oracle, SUSE), users and devotees. In this episode, Shahin and Doug talk with Dr. Joe Landman, a Linux open source consultant and veteran of HPE, Cray and Scalable Informatics. Joe has been a business and technology leader, a hands-on engineer and architect, and a data analyst and researcher. A computational physicist by training, he was one of the early pioneers of custom and accelerated systems. Here he helps us sort through Red Hat’s June 21 announcement along with the various responses, including a June 29 blog from Greg Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ and creator of Rocky Linux, a “bug-for-bug” compatible version of RHEL.
Eviden Announces 2 HPC and Quantum Pacts
July 10, 2023 by
Eviden, the advanced computing unit of Atos, announced two quantum computing partnerships this morning, with HPCNow!, a Barcelona-based HPC consulting firm, and with Alice & Bob, a quantum computing company in Paris. With Alice & Bob, Eviden will make Alice & Bob’s cat qubit technology accessible on Qaptiva, Eviden’s quantum application development platform. Eviden said […]
@HPCpodcast: An Architecture Update from RISC-V International CTO Mark Himelstein
July 6, 2023 by
Mark Himelstein, chief technology officer at RISC-V International, joins us to discuss the latest developments with the RISC-V instruction set architecture and its growing community and footprint. Topics include: HPC use cases from sensors to supercomputer, achieving customization without loss of compatibility, AI and its impact on chips and systems, and the question on everyone’s mind: when will we see RISC-V in servers and supercomputers? Himelstein also looks at RISC-V’s design wins, including EuroHPC’s backing of R&D to develop HPC hardware and software based on RISC-V. You may also be interested in Shahin’s conversation with Mark in August 2020 to hear how things have evolved since then.
Dell: HPC’s Critical Role in Defense Technologies and National Security
July 5, 2023 by
High performance computing plays a critical role in U.S. national security through the country’s defense and intelligence organizations, though detailed information is necessarily treated confidentially. Nevertheless, we know the Department of Defense employs HPC resources directly at its military branches’ research labs (e.g., Naval Research Lab, Army Research Lab, Air Force Research Lab), and by […]
Leostream Announces Features Designed for Improved HPC on AWS EC2
June 30, 2023 by
BOSTON, MASS. – Leostream, a remote desktop access platform provider, has announced features designed to improve high-performance computing and imaging/video workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and deliver resources to users of virtual machines. Amazon EC2 offers resources for HPC compute and graphics rendering, primarily highly available, flexible cloud resources with scalability and redundancy. […]
