Exxact Corporation Offers Liquid Cooled HPC and AI Development Platform

Fremont, CA, July 26, 2023 — Exxact Corporation, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and data center solutions, is now offering a dedicated liquid cooling AI development platform featuring enterprise-grade cooling solutions for both the CPU and GPU to accelerate the most intense AI applications. It promises exceptional performance built for AI […]

UCSD Professor Leads COVID-19, Recommendation System Research Using ‘Hyperdimensional Computing’

Intel Labs has released a case study involving a professor at the University of California-San Diego, who for the past five years has led research efforts into what’s called hyperdimensional computing aimed at solving memory and data storage challenges. Hyperdimensional computing (HD) is a type of machine learning inspired by observations of how humans and […]

Intel, NVIDIA to Collaborate on Confidential Computing for AI Workloads

Chip rivals Intel and NVIDIA have joined in a “coopetition” collaboration for Confidential Computing solutions targeting AI workloads. At the recent Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, Intel said it working with NVIDIA to offer “attestation” services for NVIDIA H100 GPUs via Intel Trust Domain Extensions and Intel’s upcoming cloud-based trust service, code-named “Project Amber.” […]

Intel Announces Installation of Aurora Blades Is Complete, Expects System to be First to Achieve 2 ExaFLOPS

Intel today announced the Aurora exascale-class supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory is now fully equipped with 10,624 compute blades. Putting a stake in the ground, Intel said in its announcement that “later this year, Aurora is expected to be the world’s first supercomputer to achieve a theoretical peak performance of more than 2 exaflops … […]

Intel Quantum: ‘Tunnel Falls’ Silicon Spin Chip Available to Researchers

Intel has announced the release of its “Tunnel Falls” quantum research chip, a 12-qubit silicon chip that the company is making available to the quantum research community. Intel also said it is collaborating with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) at the University of Maryland, College Park’s Qubit Collaboratory (LQC), a national-level Quantum Information Sciences […]

Stony Brook Univ. to Deploy HPE Supercomputer Powered by Intel

New York’s Stony Brook University has announced it will soon deploy an Intel-powered HPE supercomputer for science and engineering research across multidisciplinary fields, including engineering, physics, the social sciences and bioscience. The new solution is expected to be in production this summer and in operation sometime during the first semester of the 2023-24 academic year. […]

At ISC 2023: Intel on its Support for Multi-Architecture Computing and the oneAPI Standard

At ISC 2023, we caught up with Joe Curley, Intel vice president and general manager, Software Products and Ecosystem, who updated us on Intel’s strategic support for multi-architecture computing. Our discussion highlighted the open standard oneAPI unified application programming interface, adopted by Intel, which is used across different compute accelerator architectures, including GPUs, AI accelerators […]

At ISC 2023: Hyperion Reports HPC Industry Grew 4% in 2022; AI to Drive Stronger Growth Next and Following Years

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. […]

RIKEN and Intel Aim for Zettascale in Joint R&D for HPC, AI and Quantum

May 18, 2023 — RIKEN and Intel Corporation have announced joint R&D  in the field of advanced computing technologies, such as AI, HPC and quantum computing. As part of the agreement, RIKEN will also engage with Intel Foundry Services to create prototypes of these new solutions. Collaboration areas include technologies in the fields of supercomputers and […]

Cori Supercomputer Bids NERSC and HPC Community Adieu

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 […]