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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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At ISC 2022: AMD Talks TOP500-GREEN500 Double Win, Public Cloud HPC Instances, EPYC and instinct Chip Updates and What’s New for Xilinx FPGAs
At ISC 2022, the AMD booth was a constant beehive of activity – after all, AMD CPUs and GPUs are powering the new no. 1 supercomputer, Frontier, which is also the...
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Inspur Information and MEGWARE Build GPU Cluster for Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Stuttgart, Germany — Inspur information, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, and MEGWARE, a high-performance computing (HPC) solutions provider in Europe,Inspur...
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Final Aurora Learning Paths Training Module to Be Held June 8
This Aurora Learning Paths training series continues on Wednesday, June 8, 1:30-3:30 Central Time, with a module focused on using Data Parallel Python to advance...
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AMD Expands HPC Fund to Aid Researchers
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — June 1, 2022 — AMD today announced the expansion of its High Performance Compute (HPC) Fund with the addition of 7 petaflops of computing...
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Quantum Delta NL Appoints Scientist Philippe Bouyer
June 1, 2022 — Quantum Delta NL announced today the appointment of French scientist Philippe Bouyer as coordinator of its Third Catalyst (KAT 3) programme: Quantum...
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NVIDIA: Systems Makers to Deploy Grace and Grace Hopper Chips; Los Alamos’ ‘Venado’ to Be 10 Exaflops AI Supercomputer
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 30, 2022 — NVIDIA announced today that Atos, Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, HPE, Inspur, Lenovo and Supermicro plan to deploy servers built...
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Frontier Named No. 1 Supercomputer on TOP500 List and ‘First True Exascale Machine’
AMD’s long comeback from trampled also-ran in HPC – a comeback that began in 2017 when company executives began telling skeptical press and industry analysts to...
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@HPCpodcast: Satoshi Matsuoka on the TOP500, Fugaku and Arm, Quantum and Winning Japan’s Purple Ribbon Medal of Honor
A leading figure in the HPC community, Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) and professor of computer science@HPCpodcast...
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UK’s Durham University Using Rockport Switchless Network for COSMA7 Exascale Workload Modeling
Rockport Networks today announced that Durham University’s Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) has selected the Rockport Switchless Network as part of the...
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Atos Takes Fight Over Met Office-Microsoft $1.6B Weather HPC Contract to UK High Court
Atos’ fight over the UK Met Office awarding a $1.56 billion contract to Microsoft to build the world’s biggest weather and climate supercomputer will soon go to...
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Report: China Plans 10 Exascale Systems by 2025
Exascale supercomputing – which systems vendors can deliver it, which supercomputing centers can access it, which countries have it – will no doubt be a hot topic...
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Exascale Computing Project’s Doug Kothe to Be Named Oak Ridge Associate Lab Director
Last month, we reported on management changes at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), including the upcoming...
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Google Cloud Says TPU-Powered Machine Learning Hub Delivers 9 Exaflops Aggregate Power
As HPC enters the exascale era, watchers of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers will look to see if the updated list, to be released this...
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IBM Quantum Promises 4,000-Qubit Processor in 2025, Envisions ‘Quantum-Centric Supercomputing’
At its Think 2022 conference this week, IBM declared its intent to deliver a 4,000+ qubit processor (“Kookaburra”) built with multiple clusters of scaled quantum...
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Tesla: Cooling Tech Engineer Stole Dojo Exascale Supercomputer Secrets
Theft of secret information about Tesla’s in-house supercomputer, the exascale-class “Project Dojo” system due to be up and running this year, are at issue inTesla...
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@HPCpodcast: Jack Dongarra Talks Turing Award, the TOP500 and the Past and Future of Supercomputing
At @HPCpodcast we’ve been fortunate to host some highly distinguished computer scientists and HPC thinkers, people who have shaped supercomputing as the technology...
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Dell Technologies Interview: Univ. of Liverpool’s Hybrid HPC Strategy Boosts Scientific Computing with a Burst
[SPONSORED CONTENT] In a recent Dell Technologies interview on this site, we talkied about HPC-as-a-Service with R Systems, provider HPC-on-demand resources and...
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Changes Afoot at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Exascale Computing Project
Change is afoot at the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF). Those who listened to Jeff Nichols’ appearance...
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Exascale in China? 40 Million Cores Used for Many-Body Quantum Simulation
For several years, some in the HPC community have suspected China of sandbagging the world on its true supercomputing capabilities. Those suspicions may have been...
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