HPC News Bytes 20230828: Gartner on Composable; An ABI for MPI; AMD Acquires Mipsology; Google Cloud HPC Clone

A happy Monday morn to you. This week’s HPC News Bytes offers a quick (4:53) run-through of the major news in our sector over the past week. This morning we look at: Gartner predicts accelerated growth for composable computing; Proposed ABI (application binary interface) for MPI to simplify parallel apps; AMD buys AI software company Mipsology – a sign of more AI M&A activity to come?; HPC clone on Google Cloud Platform

Gartner Reports Composable Infrastructure Increases Market Penetration up to 10x

August 24, 2023 – Technology industry analyst firm Gartner has issued four new “Hype Cycle” reports for 2023 in which composable infrastructure is given a “high” benefit” rating, according to an announcement from composable infrastructure company GigaIO. While acknowledging barriers to adoption….

Qumulo Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage

October 28, 2022 — SEATTLE — Qumulo, a petabyte-scale data storage company, today announced its position as a leader in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File Systems and Object Storage for the fifth consecutive year. Gartner, Inc. positioned Qumulo in the leaders quadrant based on its completeness of vision and ability to execute. […]

The Metaverse and the AI-Driven Compute Resources That Will Make It Happen

By Liu Jun, Vice President, Inspur Information and General Manager of AI and HPC Truly understanding the metaverse requires some imagination. The digital world makes so many things possible – from exact digital copies and simulations of real-world environments to digital worlds based on far ranging and inventive creativity. Tech titans like NVIDIA and Meta […]

Pasqal Named a 2022 Gartner Cool Vendor in Quantum Computing

Paris, June 21, 2022 – Pasqal, a neutral atoms quantum computing company, today announced the company has been named a 2022 Cool Vendor in Quantum Computing by Gartner. This report is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. The ‘Cool Vendors in Quantum Computing’ report by Gartner noted, “Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Quantum […]

Pure Storage to Acquire Container Platform Portworx

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the multi-cloud storage as-a-service vendor, has agreed to acquire ​Portworx​, a Kubernetes data services platform, for approximately $370 million. Portworx is used for persistent storage, high availability, data protection, data security and cloud mobility for containers deployed in hybrid cloud architectures. By combining Portworx container data services with Pure’s data platforms […]

Gartner Positions SGI in “Visionaries” Quadrant for Modular Servers

SGI has been positioned by Gartner in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the May 2016 Magic Quadrant for Modular Servers. “Visionaries have an ambitious vision of the future and are making significant investments in the development of unique technologies. “