At ISC 2024, Hamburg — Aurora, the Intel-HPE Cray problem-child supercomputer, has officially received the blessing of the Top500 organization as having surpassed the exascale (a billion billion calculations/second) milestone ….
At ISC 2024: New Top500 List – Aurora Joins Frontier in Exascale HPC Club
May 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
IBM Launches Power Server for AI Workloads, Core-Cloud-Edge
May 7, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Today IBM introduced the IBM Power S1012, a 1-socket, half-wide Power10 processor-based system that IBM said delivers up to 3X more performance per core versus Power S812. [2] It is available in a 2U rack-mounted or tower deskside form factor and is optimized for edge-level computing and also delivers the lowest entry price point in […]
ISC 2024’s Wednesday Keynote: Two Trends Transforming HPC
May 3, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Overarching both themes is the slowing of Moore’s Law, the deceleration of improvement in HPC performance combined with increasing costs for new generations of systems. In addition, implementing and realizing the benefits of new systems is slowing ….
Pasqal and Welinq Partner to Develop Quantum Interconnects
April 23, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Paris – April 23, 2024 – Neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal and Welinq, a quantum networking company, today announced a partnership intended to to address challenging problems in neutral atom quantum computing. The companies said the next-generation Quantum Processing Units (QPUs) are expected to execute quantum algorithms relying on a large number of qubits, while […]
atNorth Names New Chief Development Officer
April 23, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Reykjavík, Iceland – April 23, 2024 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced the appointment of Anna Kristín Pálsdóttir as Chief Development Officer. An engineer with extensive experience in leading innovation and operations in large corporations, Pálsdóttir will be tasked with guiding atNorth’s development initiatives, driving the expansion of atNorth’s existing sites, and […]
Xinnor and Versatus Partner on HPC and AI Storage Solutions
April 23, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Haifa, Israel and San Paulo, Brazil – April 23, 2024: Xinnor, a provider of high-performance software RAID solutions, and Versatus HPC, an advisor and integrator of high-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions in Brazil, today announced a partnership to deliver storage solutions in HPC and AI environments. This offering is intended to: Unlock […]
Eviden: No Impact from Atos’s Financial Difficulties – ‘We Are Growing and Hiring’
March 29, 2024 by
We spoke with Eviden’s Group Senior Vice President, Head of Advanced Computing, HPC, Quantum, AI Solutions Emmanuel Le Roux, who asserted that Atos’ financial troubles have had no impact on Eviden, that Eviden is winning deals, growing and hiring.
Nvidia Launches Flagship ‘Blackwell’ GPU at GTC
March 18, 2024 by
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took the stage for a two-hour GTC keynote event and victory lap, which was held before a sold-out crowd at the 17,500-seat SAP Center, home of the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. Today’s news begins with Blackwell, which Nvidia said delivers six….
Startup Partners with Princeton on DARPA In-Memory AI Chip
March 6, 2024 by
An AI startup co-founded by a Princeton University professor has won an $18.6 million DOD grant to develop an in-memory chip built to deliver faster, more efficient AI inference processing. AI technology company EnCharge AI has announced a partnership with Princeton University supported….
Eviden Caught up in Atos’ Financial, Acquisition Struggles
March 5, 2024 by
With a longstanding TOP500 supercomputing heritage, a leadership position in European supercomputing, a commitment to build Europe’s first exascale-class system and with major techno- geopolitical stakes on the line, the financial difficulties of Atos and, by extension, its Eviden HPC unit….
