AWS Announces New Quantum Computing Service

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

SC19: IBM Changes Its HPC-AI Game Plan

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Intel Debuts New GPU – Ponte Vecchio – and Outlines Aspirations for OneAPI

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Intel AI Summit: New ‘Keem Bay’ Edge VPU, AI Product Roadmap

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

China's Tencent Server Design Will Use AMD Rome

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

IBM Adds Support for Ion Trap Quantum Technology to Qiskit

After years of percolating in the shadow of quantum computing research based on superconducting semiconductors – think IBM, Rigetti, Google, and D-Wave | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Cray, Fujitsu Both Bringing Fujitsu A64FX-Based Supercomputers to Market in 2020

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

NCSA Industry Conference Recap – Part 1

Industry Program Director Brendan McGinty welcomed guests to the annual National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Industry Conference, | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Quantum Computing Startup Q-CTRL Opens US Headquarters in Los Angeles

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Nvidia Touts New AI Inference Benchmark Results

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Chips Hit a New Low with ‘Valleytronics’

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Metals Simulation on Summit Nominated for Gordon Bell Prize

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

First Annual Exascale Day Celebrates Next 1000x Horizon

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Dell Ramps Up HPC Testing of AMD Rome Processors

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

MemComputing Announces GPU-Acceleration for the MemCPU XPC SaaS Platform

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 21, 2019 — MemComputing, Inc., developer of disruptive high performance computing technology, today announced that its MemCPU XPC | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Crystal Ball Gazing: IBM’s Vision for the Future of Computing

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Intel’s Raja Koduri to Headline Intel HPC Developer Conference 2019

Oct. 17, 2019 -- Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President, Chief Architect, and General Manager of Architecture, Graphics, and Software at Intel Corporation | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Intel, Lenovo Join Forces on HPC Cluster for Flatiron

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Summit Has Real-Time Analytics: Here's How It Happened and What's Next

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Chiplet Effort Advances for Workload Acceleration

Chiplet-based designs, so called because they combine multiple components into a single package, are increasingly seen as addressing the inability of | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Hybrid Approach Emerges for AI Workloads

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Are Printed Circuit Boards on Their Way Out?

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Doe Awards Argonne $4.15M for Research in Quantum Computing and Networking

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

The European Processor Initiative's Ambitious Vision of the Future

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Intel Ships Stratix 10 DX FPGAs; VMware Among Early Partners

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Atos’ BullSequana Supercomputer Powered by AMD Processor Sets World-Record

IRVING, Texas, September 18, 2019 – Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces that its BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer powered by | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Cerebras to Supply Doe with Wafer-Scale AI Supercomputing Technology

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Scientists Couple Magnetization to Superconductivity for Quantum Discoveries

September 6, 2019 -- Quantum computing promises to revolutionize the ways in which scientists can process and manipulate information. The physical and | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Singularity 3.4.0 Now Generally Available: Build and Run Encrypted Containers

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Cerebras Debuts AI Supercomputer-on-a-Wafer

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Huawei Launches AI Processor, Ascend 910, and MindSpore Framework

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

IBM to Offer Quantum-Safe Cryptography Services on IBM Public Cloud in 2020

ARMONK, N.Y., August 23, 2019 -- At the Second Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Conference organized by the National Institute of Standards and | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Upmem Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Applications to Run 20 Times Faster

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Ayar Labs to Demo Photonics Chiplet in FPGA Package at Hot Chips

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

IBM Deepens Plunge into Open Source; OpenPOWER to Join Linux Foundation

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Supercomputer-Powered AI Tackles a Key Fusion Energy Challenge

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Quantum Computers to Clarify the Connection Between Quantum and Classical Worlds

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Best of both worlds: combining quantum and classical hardware

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

New Zealand Ends Involvement with SKA Telescope Project

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Hardware That Powered the Black Hole Image

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

U.S. Blacklists Sugon, 4 Others from Access to Advanced Technology

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Nvidia to make its full stack available to the Arm ecosystem

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

High Performance (Potato) Chips

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


@hpcwire.com | 4 years ago

Researchers Train a Neural Network to Study Dark Matter

May 14, 2019 -- As cosmologists and astrophysicists delve deeper into the darkest recesses of the universe, their need for increasingly powerful | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 5 years ago

Graphene Surprises Again, This Time for Quantum Computing

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


@hpcwire.com | 5 years ago

Cray, AMD to Extend DOE’s Exascale Frontier at Oak Ridge

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


@hpcwire.com | 5 years ago

In Wake of Nvidia-Mellanox: Xilinx to Acquire Solarflare

With echoes of Nvidia’s recent acquisition of Mellanox, FPGA maker Xilinx has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Solarflare Communications, | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 5 years ago

Epyc-Based Dell EMC Servers Power Physics Research at Nikhef

Another sign of growing traction for AMD Epyc processors, Nikhef, the Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics, has expanded its datacenter with | Continue reading


@hpcwire.com | 5 years ago