Sept. 12, 2024 — The Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, endowed with 1.5 million euros, goes to Geordie Williamson, professor at the University of Sydney, for his use of artificial intelligence for fundamental work in mathematics. Meanwhile, Max Planck Humboldt Medals go to Laura Waller, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, for her work in […]
Lenovo at ISC: ‘Exascale to Every Scale’
June 27, 2021 by
For at least four years, Lenovo has been vocal about its high ambitions in high performance computing, and by all appearances the company is progressing toward its objectives. This is the eighth year since China-based Lenovo purchased IBM’s Intel x86-based server business, an acquisition that marked the company’s entrance into HPC, and despite some U.S. […]
Lenovo Standing Up Liquid-cooled Neptune System at Max Planck Society
July 9, 2020 by
Lenovo is installing a Neptune liquid cooled supercomputer at the Max Planck Society, a delivery that began two months ago and is scheduled to be completed early next year. The €20 million project includes a 100,000-core Neptune comprised of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with Intel CPUs (unspecified) and Nvidia Tesla A100 GPUs, software and operational support, […]
Quantum Powers Petascale Storage at Two Major European Research Institutions
September 26, 2016 by
Today Quantum Corp. announced that two of Europe’s premier research institutions are using the company’s StorNext workflow storage as the foundation for managing their growing data and enabling a range of scientific initiatives. “With the StorNext platform, we have removed barriers to research,” Thomas Disper, CISO and Head of IT, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. “It allows us to provide a lot more capacity quickly and easily. We don’t need to give research teams data limits, and storage for new projects can be ready in an afternoon.”
