The HPC industry managed to achieve modest overall growth in 2022, but growth of any kind was in doubt right up to the end of the year, according to HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, which hosted its bi-annual HPC market update at a breakfast event this week during the ISC 2023 conference in Hamburg. […]
At ISC 2023: Hyperion Reports HPC Industry Grew 4% in 2022; AI to Drive Stronger Growth Next and Following Years
May 25, 2023 by Leave a Comment
NVIDIA Teams with Microsoft on Enterprise-Ready Generative AI
May 25, 2023 by Leave a Comment
NVIDIA has announced that it is integrating its NVIDIA AI Enterprise software into Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning targeting enterprise AI initiatives. The integration will create a secure, enterprise-ready platform that enables Azure customers worldwide to quickly build, deploy and manage customized applications using the more than 100 NVIDIA AI frameworks and tools that come fully […]
Ayar Labs Adds $25M to its Series C
May 25, 2023 by Leave a Comment
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – May 24, 2023 – Ayar Labs, a developer of silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, today announced it has raised an additional $25 million in Series C1 funding, bringing its total Series C raise to $155 million. The oversubscribed up round was led by new investor Capital TEN. VentureTech Alliance also entered the […]
AMD-Powered LUMI Supercomputer: In the Vanguard of HPC Performance and Energy Efficiency
May 22, 2023 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] LUMI is a model for both world-class supercomputing and sustainability. It also embodies Europe’s rise on the global HPC scene in recent years. The AMD-powered, HPE-built system, ranked no. 3 on the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, also ranks no. 7 on the GREEN500 list of the most […]
HPE to Build 67 PFLOPS TSUBAME4.0 HPC for AI-Driven Science at Tokyo Tech
May 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
TOKYO – May 19, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that it was selected by Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) to build its next-generation supercomputer, TSUBAME4.0, to accelerate AI-driven scientific discovery in medicine, materials science, climate research, and turbulence in urban environments. TSUBAME4.0 will be built using HPE […]
From 24 Hours to 7 Minutes, Huawei OceanStor Pacific Accelerates Genome Sequencing
May 19, 2023 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) is an annual conference that showcases the key technologies in the supercomputing field. It brings together experts from multiple specialist fields, including research into life sciences and genetics to shed light on the origins and mysteries in our lives. HPC, or high-performance computing, is making breakthroughs in supercomputing technologies and is catalyzing genome sequencing research.
DDN Announces QLC SSD Storage for Generative AI, ML, HPC Applications
May 18, 2023 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Cori Supercomputer Bids NERSC and HPC Community Adieu
May 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
After nearly seven years of service, thousands of user projects, and tens of billions of compute hours, the Cori supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) will be retired at the end of May. With its first cabinets installed in 2015 and the system fully deployed by 2016, Cori has been in […]
VAST Data Achieves NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Certification
May 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
May 17, 2023 – VAST Data, a data platform company for AI, today announced it is now a certified datastore for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, designed to provide organizations with scalable performance for machine learning and deep learning workloads, including generative AI. The company said the VAST Data Platform is the first enterprise network attached storage (NAS) […]
@HPCpodcast: Software May Be Eating the World – But Is it Eating HPC?
May 17, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug kick off what we expect to be a series of looks at HPC software and its convergence with traditional enterprise IT software. We cover the evolution of software through phases of IT, we look at the roster of relevant HPC programs from development environment to system administration and end-user requirements, along with traditional and emerging applications. Shahin also shares his somewhat contrarian take on the aphorism about software eating the world.
