HPC News Bytes 20231113: SC23 and TOP500 Kickoff, DAOS Storage, Sandia and DDN, TSMC and SMIC Financials

As the SC23 conference heats up, we hurry ( 5:20) through the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC23 and TOP500 kickoff today; storage at scale, DAOS and the Aurora supercomputer; Sandia National Lab and DDN’s new ….

DDN Launches Infinia, Software-Defined Storage for Enterprise AI and Cloud

Aimed at cloud platform and large HPC, hyperscale and data center environments,  Infinia combines multi-tenancy at scale, containerization and high performance. “The novel architecture accelerates and simplifies workflows for the data management demands of today and tomorrow, from generative….

DDN and Helmholtz Munich Receive 2023 AI Breakthrough Award

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 21, 2023 – High performance data storage and management company DDN today announced it has been selected alongside Helmholtz Munich as a winner of the 2023 AI Breakthrough Awards for the “Best AI-based Solution for Life Sciences” category. DDN and Helmholtz Munich were recognized for their work in accelerating AI-driven discoveries that deliver benefits […]

DDN Customer CINECA Recognized for Bandwidth Score on IO500 List for Production Systems

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – June 6, 2023 – High performance data storage and management company  DDN today announced it achieved the highest bandwidth score for a production system on the IO500 benchmark in conjunction with customer CINECA on its Leonardo supercomputer, an Atos (Eviden) system. Leonardo won first place for highest bandwidth for systems running production workloads in […]

At ISC 2023: A DDN Update on Its Latest High Performance Data Storage/Data Management Solutions for HPC and AI

At ISC 2023, we caught up with DDN Vice President of Marketing Kurt Kuckein on new product offerings from the high performance storage and data management company. A long-time HPC storage stalwart, many of the same challenges faced by HPC end users are now encountered by companies adopting AI – efficient access and transfer of […]

DDN Announces QLC SSD Storage for Generative AI, ML, HPC Applications

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – May 18, 2023 – Multi-cloud data management company DDN today announced what the company said is a major breakthrough for its all flash and hybrid storage solutions. DDN’s parallel file system technology, combined with AI and data center specific data compression, delivers the highest performance efficiency straight into generative AI, machine learning […]

Helmholtz Munich Selects DDN for AI-Driven Workloads

German scientific research center Helmholtz Munich has selected DDN AI data management solutions to accelerate the organization’s AI-driven workloads. The research integrates AI methodologies and spans multiple data-intensive computational applications, such as decoding plant genomes, tissue sample testing or creature and epidemiology cohort studies.  Helmholtz Munich, one of 19 research centers within the Helmholtz Association, […]

Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center Adds ‘Nautilus’ Penguin HPC System

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Mississippi  –  The Navy DoD Supercomputing Resource Center (Navy DSRC) has announced an addition to its lineup of supercomputers: Nautilus, a Penguin TrueHPC supercomputer with a peak performance of 8.2 petaFLOPS, 176,128 compute cores, 382 TB of memory, and 26 petabytes of storage. It completed its final testing in April 2023 and features 48 […]

DDN and Helmholtz Munich Host May 4 Life Sciences Field Day

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – April 13, 2023 –  DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management company, today announced its 2023 Life Sciences Field Day, hosted by Helmholtz Munich on May 4, 2023 at the Helmholtz Munich campus. Registration for the 2023 Life Sciences Field Day on May 4 is now open. For more information and to register, visit […]

DDN Announces Compatibility with NVIDIA DGX H100 and Lambda Partnership

CHATSWORTH, Calif. – March 21, 2023 – AI and multi-cloud data management company DDN today announced compatibility with the next generation of NVIDIA DGX systems, each with eight NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs. NVIDIA DGX H100 supercomputers are the fourth generation of NVIDIA’s purpose-built AI systems and designed for the most taxing training workloads, such as natural language processing […]