As widely reported in February, the UK Met Office and Microsoft have come to an agreement to provision a £1.2 billion (over 10 years) supercomputer the Met Office said will be the world’s most powerful weather and climate forecasting system. The agreement, announced on Earth Day, will be in the top 25 of the Top500 […]
Super-expensive Supercomputers: UK Met Office in £1B+ Deal for Microsoft Weather System; $3B System in China on Way
April 22, 2021 by
April 7 Cloud HPC microSUMMIT – Hyperion, Microsoft and Rescale
April 1, 2021 by
On Wednesday, April 7, industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, Microsoft and Rescale will discuss the latest trends and forecasts in cloud HPC and how they affect IT and R&D. Hyperion will share data from their latest industry analysis and Rescale will discuss insights revealed in the 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report. To register, go […]
Cloud HPC Platform Nimbix Offers Hybrid Software and Services on Kubernetes Infrastructures
March 31, 2021 by
High performance computing cloud platform Nimbix today announced availability of Nimbix Cloud Everywhere, a single pane of glass to HPC and supercomputing applications converged with Kubernetes across HPC infrastructures. The hybrid service and software offering is designed to let customers to deploy HPC on Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures, including their own HPC clusters, any cloud provider or […]
Amazon Names Adam Selipsky Next AWS CEO
March 23, 2021 by
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told AWS employees in an email today that Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of the behemoth public cloud services provider. In so doing, Selipsky takes the post held until January by Jassy, who was promoted to Amazon CEO after company founder Jeff Bezos announced he was stepping aside to […]
TotalCAE Achieves AWS High Performance Computing Competency Status
March 12, 2021 by
PLYMOUTH, Michigan, March 4, 2021 – TotalCAE, announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that TotalCAE has demonstrated deep experience helping customers optimize their HPC workloads for performance and efficiency with the elasticity and scalability of AWS. AWS launched the AWS HPC Competency […]
Tetrate Raises $40 Million for Cloud-Native Application Networking Platform
March 10, 2021 by
SAN FRANCISCO — March 10, 2021 — Tetrate has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Other new investors, Scale Venture Partners and NTTVC, and existing investors, Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital, 8VC, and Samsung NEXT, participated in the round. The Series B funding will be used to develop […]
HPE Adds Greenlake Cloud Services, Expands Ecosystem
March 10, 2021 by
HPE has announced updates to its GreenLake cloud services and additional partnerships within the Greenlake ecosystem. Updates include: New HPE GreenLake cloud services for bare metal management and scalable, modular, entry point HPE GreenLake cloud services for virtual machines and containers specifically tailored for mid-market businesses. New agreements with ALSO Group, Arrow, Ingram Micro Inc., […]
BIG COMPUTE 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report
March 8, 2021 by Leave a Comment
Rescale’s role as an intelligent cloud automation platform means the company has a unique vantage point of how R&D-driven organizations are adopting cloud. This inaugural report includes insights from over 300 organizations, running 680+ applications, on each of the major cloud providers. Additionally, the report incorporates survey responses and analytics from leading HPC practitioners as well as inputs from supercomputing hardware and software partners.
Intel Developing ASIC Accelerator for DARPA ‘Holy Grail’ Cybersecurity Project
March 8, 2021 by
Intel has joined the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Agency (DARPA) in a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) program that takes aim at the “holy grail” of cybersecurity – protecting data during processing, when it is most vulnerable to attack. To date, FHE adoption has been slow because FHE methods on cryptograms is data-intensive and incurs a […]
DevGraph CloudFix Designed to Cut AWS Costs
March 4, 2021 by
Austin, TX – DevGraph has released CloudFix AWS cost optimization software, built to automatically analyzes AWS accounts and find cost-savings opportunities and automatically deploy fixes at scale. “As a heavy AWS user ourselves, we were seeking a way to reduce our costs,” said DevGraph CEO Rahul Subramaniam. “We manage more than 40K+ AWS accounts, paying […]
