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insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: HPC Experts on Conference Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews
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insideHPC’s ISC Video Lineup: HPC Experts on Conference Highlights, ‘HPC Shark Tank’ and Our Vendor Interviews

insideHPC offers a rich lineup of video events and interviews for virtual ISC 2021, including off-hours events designed to enlighten and entertain along with ainsideHPC...

Fugaku Stays on Top of Top500 Supercomputer List – But Is China Hiding Something?
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Fugaku Stays on Top of Top500 Supercomputer List – But Is China Hiding Something?

The 56th edition of the Top500 saw the Japanese Fugaku supercomputer solidify its number one status in a list that the list organizers said shows a somewhat static...

Lenovo at ISC: ‘Exascale to Every Scale’
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Lenovo at ISC: ‘Exascale to Every Scale’

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 towardLenovo...

Atos Comes into ISC off Strong Year in HPC
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Atos Comes into ISC off Strong Year in HPC

Atos, with its BullSequana line of supercomputers, will no doubt be a prominent player at this year’s ISC conference. While ISC is an international HPC event, it...

HPE at ISC: ‘Perform Like a Supercomputer, Run Like a Cloud’
From insideHPC

HPE at ISC: ‘Perform Like a Supercomputer, Run Like a Cloud’

Since we last saw HPE at ISC a year ago, the company embarked on a strong run of success in HPC and supercomputing – successes the company will no doubt be happy...

XTREME-D Launches First Server Product, AXXE-L One
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XTREME-D Launches First Server Product, AXXE-L One

Tokyo — June 24, 2021 – Award-winning Platform as a Service Provider XTREME-D Inc. today announced the launch of AXXE-L One, the company’s first server product....

SiPearl Opens Site in Barcelona
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SiPearl Opens Site in Barcelona

Maisons-Laffitte,France and Barcelona, June 22, 2021 – SiPearl, the company that is designing the high-performance, low power microprocessor for the European exascale...

Ayar Labs Demos Terabit Optical Link for Co-Packaged Optics and Chip-to-Chip Connectivity
From insideHPC

Ayar Labs Demos Terabit Optical Link for Co-Packaged Optics and Chip-to-Chip Connectivity

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Ayar Labs announced today that it has successfully demonstrated what is said is the industry’s first terabit per second Wavelength Division...

Rasgo Raises $25M to Deliver the Feature Store for Cloud Native Databases and Introduce New Data Science Capabilities
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Rasgo Raises $25M to Deliver the Feature Store for Cloud Native Databases and Introduce New Data Science Capabilities

June 22, 2021, New York – Rasgo Intelligence, the feature store that is transforming how data scientists engineer, collaborate on, and operationalize Machine Learning...

The US-China Supercomputing Race, Post-Exascale HPC Government Policy and the ‘Partitioning of the Internet’
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The US-China Supercomputing Race, Post-Exascale HPC Government Policy and the ‘Partitioning of the Internet’

All over the world, HPC has burst into geopolitics. HPC – broadly defined here as advanced supercomputing combined with big AI – is at the fault lines of national...

IBM Doubles Down on 1000+-Qubit Quantum in 2023
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IBM Doubles Down on 1000+-Qubit Quantum in 2023

As expectation-setting goes in the technology, this is one of the boldest we’ve ever seen. At IBM’s annual Think conference, a senior systems executive reiterated...

AI Demand Pushes against Skills Shortage, Lack of IT Infrastructure – IBM
From insideHPC

AI Demand Pushes against Skills Shortage, Lack of IT Infrastructure – IBM

As with other areas of the economy (chips, workforce), demand isn’t the problem in the AI market, it’s supply: supply of knowledge and skills, and supply of technology...

2 Seconds of Hair Growth: IBM Claims World’s First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology
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2 Seconds of Hair Growth: IBM Claims World’s First 2 Nanometer Chip Technology

IBM today unveiled what it said is with the development of the first chip announced with 2 nanometer (nm) nanosheet technology. Though still more than two years...

Quantum Launches Video and Unstructured Data Solutions with StorNext Converged Architecture and Appliances
From insideHPC

Quantum Launches Video and Unstructured Data Solutions with StorNext Converged Architecture and Appliances

SAN JOSE, Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) has announced a new StorNext architecture and line of StorNext appliances that simplify how organizations manage, store...

Rice Univ. Researchers Claim 15x AI Model Training Speed-up Using CPUs
From insideHPC

Rice Univ. Researchers Claim 15x AI Model Training Speed-up Using CPUs

Reports are circulating in AI circles that researchers from Rice University claim a breakthrough in AI model training acceleration – without using accelerators....

Super-expensive Supercomputers: UK Met Office in £1B+ Deal for Microsoft Weather System; $3B System in China on Way
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Super-expensive Supercomputers: UK Met Office in £1B+ Deal for Microsoft Weather System; $3B System in China on Way

As widely reported in February, the UK Met Office and Microsoft have come to an agreement to provision a £1.2 billion (over 10 years) supercomputer the Met Office...

Carleton Univ. and IBM Partner in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science for Workforce Development 
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Carleton Univ. and IBM Partner in AI, Machine Learning and Data Science for Workforce Development 

OTTAWA — April 15, 2021 — Carleton University and IBM Canada today announce a five-year multimillion-dollar collaboration agreement to enhance Carleton’s Institute...

OpenFive Tapes Out SoC for Advanced HPC / AI Solutions on TSMC 5nm Technology
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OpenFive Tapes Out SoC for Advanced HPC / AI Solutions on TSMC 5nm Technology

SAN MATEO, Calif. – April 13, 2021 – OpenFive, a  provider of customizable, silicon-focused solutions with differentiated IP, today announced the successful tape...

Cloudera and NVIDIA Accelerate Data Analytics and AI in the Cloud
From insideHPC

Cloudera and NVIDIA Accelerate Data Analytics and AI in the Cloud

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 12, 2021 — Cloudera, (NYSE: CLDR), the enterprise data cloud company, today announced that Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) will integrate...

7 Chinese HPC Organizations Added to Entity List for Supporting China’s Military
From insideHPC

7 Chinese HPC Organizations Added to Entity List for Supporting China’s Military

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has added seven Chinese supercomputing organizations to the Entity List “for conducting7...
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