GPU Boost: $5M NSF Enhancement for PSC’s Bridges-2 HPC

A $4.9-million award from the National Science Foundation has funded an upgrade to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s flagship Bridges-2 supercomputer. The grant allows the center to add Nvidia H100 ….

Lumina AI Adds HPE’s Trish Damkroger to Board

Aug 13, 2024, TAMPA, Fla. — Lumina AI, an artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies company, announced the appointment of Trish Damkroger to its Board of Directors.  Currently serving as Senior Vice President and GM for HPC and AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Damkroger has been instrumental in shaping the company’s AI strategy and […]

HPE Acquisition of Juniper Networks OK’d by UK Competition Authority

HPE’s planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks has won crucial clearances from two European antitrust regulatory bodies. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which began a Phase 1 inquiry ….

ExaWind: Wind Turbine CFD Simulation on Frontier Exascale

The Exascale Comuting Project’s ExaWind suite of computational fluid dynamics codes are designed to develop predictive simulations of wind farms that contain dozens of megawatt-class turbines spread across 30 square miles. Using the Frontier exascale supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, the ExaWind team performed some of the highest fidelity wind energy simulations […]

Exascale: Frontier Supercomputer Used in Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 2M Electrons

The exascale- class Frontier supercomputer set a new standard for calculating the number of atoms in a molecular dynamics simulation 1,000 times greater in size and speed than previous simulations of its kind, according to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where the HPC system is housed. The simulation ….

HPE-Nvidia 6 AI Exaflops Supercomputer to Be Installed at AIST Research Organization in Japan

Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research organization will integrate thousands of Nvidia H200 Tensor Core GPUs into its HPE-Cray ….

HPC News Bytes 20240624: GPU Price War?, Rectangular Chip Packaging, AI for Science Assistant, Big HPC-AI Systems Keep Coming

Good first-Monday-of-summer morning to you! Here’s a rapid (6:35) run-though recent HPC-AI news: GPU price war in the offing?; rectangular chip wafer design ….

HPE’s $14B Acquisition of Juniper Networks under Review by UK Competition Authority

HPE’s planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks, announced in January, has run into a potential snag: the UK government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the deal ….

ACM Announces Awards in AI, Graph Processing, OS Software and Internet Privacy

New York, June 18, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced the recipients of four technical awards. They are: David Blei, Columbia University, receives the ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award. Blei is recognized for significant contributions to machine learning, information retrieval, and statistics. His signature accomplishment is in the machine learning […]

Nvidia AI Computing by HPE Portfolio Announced for Generative AI

On a day that saw Nvidia climb over Microsoft as the most valuable U.S. company measured by stock valuation, Nvidia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced Nvidia AI Computing by HPE, a portfolio of ….