SEATTLE, Dec. 2, 2019 -- Today, at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced three key initiatives as a part of the | Continue reading
It’s probably fair to say IBM is known for big bets. Summit supercomputer – a big win. Red Hat acquisition – looking like a big win. OpenPOWER and Power | Continue reading
Intel today revealed a few more details about its forthcoming Xe line of GPUs – the top SKU is named Ponte Vecchio and will be used in Aurora, the first | Continue reading
At its AI Summit today in San Francisco, Intel touted a raft of AI training and inference hardware for deployments ranging from cloud to edge and designed to support organizations at various points of their AI journeys. The company revealed its Movidius Myriad Vision Processing U … | Continue reading
Tencent, the Chinese cloud giant, said it would use AMD’s newest Epyc processor in its internally-designed server. The design win adds further momentum to | Continue reading
After years of percolating in the shadow of quantum computing research based on superconducting semiconductors – think IBM, Rigetti, Google, and D-Wave | Continue reading
The number of top-tier HPC systems makers has shrunk due to a steady march of M&A activity, but there is increased diversity and choice of processing | Continue reading
Industry Program Director Brendan McGinty welcomed guests to the annual National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Industry Conference, | Continue reading
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 6, 2019 -- Quantum computing start-up Q-CTRL today announced the opening of its U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles to serve its growing | Continue reading
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 6, 2019 -- NVIDIA today posted the fastest results on new benchmarks measuring the performance of AI inference workloads in data | Continue reading
A potential interim step between conventional semiconductors and quantum devices has emerged, promising improved information processing schemes that outperform current electronic charge- and spin-based chip architectures. The emerging quantum process dubbed... | Continue reading
A team led by Vikram Gavini, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, used the supercomputer at the Oak Ridge | Continue reading
October 18 (aka 10/18) marked the first annual exascale day, hosted by Cray, the Exascale Computing Project and the DOE labs -- Argonne, Oak Ridge and | Continue reading
Dell Technologies is wading deeper into the AMD-based systems market with a growing evaluation program for the latest Epyc (Rome) microprocessors from | Continue reading
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21, 2019 — MemComputing, Inc., developer of disruptive high performance computing technology, today announced that its MemCPU XPC | Continue reading
Dario Gil, IBM’s relatively new director of research, painted a intriguing portrait of the future of computing along with a rough idea of how IBM thinks | Continue reading
Oct. 17, 2019 -- Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President, Chief Architect, and General Manager of Architecture, Graphics, and Software at Intel Corporation | Continue reading
An HPC cluster with deep learning techniques will be used to process petabytes of scientific data as part of workload-intensive projects spanning astrophysics to genomics. AI partners Intel and Lenovo said they are providing... | Continue reading
Summit – the world’s fastest publicly-ranked supercomputer – now has real-time streaming analytics. At the 2019 HPC User Forum at Argonne National | Continue reading
Chiplet-based designs, so called because they combine multiple components into a single package, are increasingly seen as addressing the inability of | Continue reading
The discussion surrounding enterprise adoption of AI technologies is shifting from if to when, and what mix of IT infrastructure will be required to | Continue reading
Has the time come to say goodbye to printed circuit boards? Maybe not today, but soon, say two researchers from UCLA. Puneet Gupta and Subramanian Iyer | Continue reading
September 20, 2019 -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory was recently awarded a total of $4.15 million for research in | Continue reading
With the EuroHPC program well underway, much of the European Union’s ambition to be a leader in the exascale era rests with the European Processor | Continue reading
September 19, 2019 -- Intel today announced shipments of new Intel Stratix 10 DX field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The new FPGAs are designed to | Continue reading
IRVING, Texas, September 18, 2019 – Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces that its BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer powered by | Continue reading
Cerebras Systems, which debuted its wafer-scale AI silicon at Hot Chips last month, has entered into a multi-year partnership with Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as part of a larger collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy... | Continue reading
September 6, 2019 -- Quantum computing promises to revolutionize the ways in which scientists can process and manipulate information. The physical and | Continue reading
In a blog post, Ian Lumb, leader of business development at Sylabs, walks through the highlights of the Singularity 3.4.0 release. "It's a HUGE release | Continue reading
Could a wafer scale silicon chip from Cerebras Systems be the first “supercomputer on a chip” worthy of the designation? Last week at Hot Chips held at | Continue reading
SHENZHEN, China, August 23, 2019 -- Huawei launched an AI processor dubbed the Ascend 910 and an all-scenario AI computing framework, MindSpore. Ascend | Continue reading
ARMONK, N.Y., August 23, 2019 -- At the Second Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Conference organized by the National Institute of Standards and | Continue reading
PALO ALTO, Calif., August 19, 2019 -- UPMEM announced today a Processing-in-Memory (PIM) acceleration solution that allows big data and AI applications to | Continue reading
Silicon startup Ayar Labs continues to gain momentum with its DARPA-backed optical chiplet technology that puts advanced electronics and optics on the | Continue reading
IBM today announced it was contributing the instruction set (ISA) for its Power microprocessor and the designs for the Open Coherent Accelerator Processor | Continue reading
Fusion energy is the Holy Grail of the energy world: low-radioactivity, low-waste, zero-carbon, high-output nuclear power that can run on hydrogen or | Continue reading
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., August 1, 2019 — Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a new quantum computing algorithm that offers a clearer | Continue reading
July 12, 2019 -- In recent years, quantum devices have become available that enable researchers — for the first time — to use real quantum hardware to | Continue reading
July 3 -- The New Zealand government has decided that New Zealand will not join the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory as an associate member. The | Continue reading
Two months ago, the first-ever image of a black hole took the internet by storm. A team of scientists took years to produce and verify the striking image | Continue reading
Just as ISC19 wrapped up yesterday, showcasing the latest in supercomputing technology, the U.S. added five Chinese entities including Sugon to its | Continue reading
As the Top500 list was being announced at ISC in Frankfurt today with an upgraded petascale Arm supercomputer in the top third of the list, Nvidia | Continue reading
In this article, we focus on how Procter & Gamble is using high performance computing to create some common, everyday supermarket products. Tom Lange, a 27-year veteran of the company, tells us how P&G models products, processes and production systems for the betterment of consum … | Continue reading
May 14, 2019 -- As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful | Continue reading
Graphene is fascinating stuff with promise for use in a seeming endless number of applications. This month researchers from the University of Vienna and | Continue reading
Cray and AMD are coming back to Oak Ridge National Laboratory to partner on the world’s largest and most expensive supercomputer. The Department of | Continue reading
With echoes of Nvidia’s recent acquisition of Mellanox, FPGA maker Xilinx has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Solarflare Communications, | Continue reading
Another sign of growing traction for AMD Epyc processors, Nikhef, the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics, has expanded its datacenter with | Continue reading