A good mid-December morn to you! We offer this rapid (7:49) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: Google “Willow” quantum chip: hype or reality?, LRZ chooses HPE ….
HPC News Bytes 20241216: Google Quantum – Hype or Reality?, HPE’s ‘Blue Lion’ Win in Europe, US-China Tech Retaliations, HPC and Crop Yields
HPE to Build €250M Liquid Cooled HPC at Leibniz Supercomputing Center
The Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany has commissioned Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) to build an Nvidia-powered €250 million high-performance computer, “Blue Lion.” The system will utilize the HPE Slingshot ….
IQM Selected for 2 Quantum Computers for Euro-Q-Exa Hybrid System at LRZ
Munich, 16th October 2024 – The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a purchase agreement with IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a maker of superconducting quantum computers. Under the agreement, IQM will deliver two Radiance quantum systems of 54 qubits and 150 qubits in the second half of 2025 and by the end of 2026, respectively. […]
Lenovo Brings a Decade of Liquid Cooling Experience to the Faster, Denser, Hotter HPC Systems of the Future
[SPONSORED CONTENT] HPC systems customers (and vendors) are in permanent pursuit of more compute power with equal or greater node density. But with that comes more power consumption, greater heat generation and rising cooling costs. Because of this, the IT business – with a boost from the HPC and hyperscale segments – is spiraling up […]
Lenovo Expands HPC System at Leibniz Supercomputer Center
Research Triangle Park, NC – Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group, Intel and the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, announce Phase Two of the LRZ’s SuperMUC-NG supercomputer. The system will deliver high performance integrated solutions to the LRZ user community, utilising artificial intelligence to implement advanced simulations, modelling, and data analysis that […]
LRZ Expanding Flagship HPC System to Integrate AI
Garching/Munich – May 4, 2021 – The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) will expand its flagship HPC system SuperMUC-NG, which is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS). In addition to performance in simulation and modelling, phase 2 of SuperMUC-NG will integrate artificial intelligence (AI) methods of computation. The system will be equipped with Intel […]
Kick-off for the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre’s Quantum Integration Centre
Munich, March 22, 2021-The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities has opened its Quantum Integration Centre, or QIC for short. Bavaria’s leading scientific computing centre is taking quantum computing out of the physics labs and bringing it to scientific applications. Present at the QIC launch: Bavarian Minister President Markus […]
Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Takes Delivery of Atos Quantum Learning Machine
Paris and Munich — March 18, 2021 — Atos today said it has delivered an Atos Quantum Learning Machine (Atos QLM), a commercial quantum simulator, to the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Germany. The Atos QLM is installed in the recently opened LRZ Quantum Integration Centre (QIC), […]