JPMorgan Chase, Argonne and Quantinuum Show Theoretical Quantum Optimization Speedup

June 5, 2024 — In a new paper in Science Advances on May 29, researchers at JPMorgan Chase, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Quantinuum have demonstrated clear evidence of a quantum algorithmic speedup for the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA). This algorithm has been studied extensively and has been implemented […]

HPE Delivers 2nd Exascale Supercomputer, Aurora, to Argonne National Laboratory

HAMBURG – At ISC High Performance 2024, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced that it has delivered the world’s second exascale supercomputer, Aurora, in collaboration with Intel for the United States Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. Aurora has reached 1.012 exaflops on 87 percent of the system, making it the world’s second-fastest supercomputer as verified […]

@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New Top500 List

In this episode of @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug discuss the big news on the Monday of each annual ISC conference in Germany, the release of the new Top500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. At ISC 2024 here in Hamburg, we learned that the U.S. now has two exascale-class systems, , the AMD/HPE-Cray Frontier system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and ….

At ISC 2024: New Top500 List – Aurora Joins Frontier in Exascale HPC Club

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 ….

HPC News Bytes 20240422: New HPC Installs, the State of AI, Bitcoin Halving, Argonne-UICs’ Crabtree Institute

A good spring moring to you! Here’s a rapid (6:09) route through recent news from HPC-AI, including: new supercomputers installed at Los Alamos and France-CEA, Stanford AI Index Report released on the state of AI….

INCITE Call for Proposals for Access to Leadership-Class Supercomputers Open through June 14

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now accepting proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research projects in a broad array of science, engineering and computer science domains. Proposals must be submitted between April 10 and June 14, 2024. Open to researchers from academia, industry and […]

ALCF User Community: Call for Argonne Art of Science Images, April 23 Deadline

Argonne National Laboratory has issued call for images for the 2024 Argonne Art of Science Contest.Submission deadline for science visualizations: Tuesday, April 23. For submission and prize details, visit this webpage.  This is open to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility  user community, The contest is accepting scientific visualizations of research created using ALCF computing resources. […]

Argonne: ATPESC Training Application Deadline Extended to March 10

The application deadline for the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) program has been extended to Sunday, March 10. This year marks the 12th  year for ATPESC, which  provides intensive, two-week training on the key skills, approaches, and tools to design, implement, and execute computational science and engineering applications on current high-end computing systems […]

ATPESC 2024: Applications to Learn about Advanced Computing Due February 28

The annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) is scheduled for July 28-August 9, 2024. The call for applications is open through February 28, 2024. The application can be found here. For more information, contact  support@extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov The event will be held at the Q Center in St. Charles, IL (Chicago area). The program, which […]

ALCF: Groq AI Online Workshop, Dec. 6-7

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an online workshop to learn about the ALCF’s new GroqRack system on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 6 and 7 from 1:30 to 5 pm Central Time. To register go here. The ALCF said the Groq machine’s AI inference capabilities can assist users in making predictions, discovering patterns in […]