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 […]
HPE Delivers 2nd Exascale Supercomputer, Aurora, to Argonne National Laboratory
May 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
ORNL and SLAC Team Up for Breakthrough Biology Projects
May 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Under DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure initiative, Frontier will provide high-speed analysis for LCLS-II’s structural biology data output Plans to unite the capabilities of two cutting-edge technological facilities funded by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science promise to usher in a new era of dynamic structural biology. Through DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure, or IRI, initiative, the […]
Summit Helps Forge Stronger Flights
May 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Simulations helping to cut through time and expense of certifying new materials by digitally customizing the ideal alloy Titanium alloys serve as cornerstone materials for the aerospace industry — stronger and lighter than steel, resistant to rust and corrosion and resilient past the melting points of most other metals. Companies such as RTX, formerly Raytheon Technologies, […]
@HPCpodcast: John Shalf on the ‘Attack of the Killer Chiplets’ and the Future of HPC
May 10, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Special guest and last year’s ISC program chair John Shalf joins Shahin and Doug in this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, to discuss the rise of specialized architectures to boost HPC performance in the post-Moore’s Law era. It’s a topic ….
DOE Announces $60-70M Quantum Information Science Funding Opportunity
May 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
May 9, 2024 — The DOE SC program in High Energy Physics (HEP) announced its interest in receiving interdisciplinary applications for open scientific research on Quantum Information Science (QIS) Enabled Discovery (QuantISED) to further the HEP mission to understand how the universe works at its most fundamental level. More about this opportunity can be found […]
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 ….
INCITE Proposal Writing Webinar May 7
May 2, 2024 by Leave a Comment
May 2, 2024 — The Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is the principal means for the scientific community gains access to DOE’s leadership-class supercomputers at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. The next INCITE Proposal Writing Webinar will take place on May […]
DOE Annunces Actions in Support of White House AI Executive Orders
April 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a series of actions in support of the Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. DOE issued AI and Energy: Opportunities for a Modern Grid and Clean Energy Economy, which is a first-ever report on AI’s near-term potential […]
Intersect360 Sizes HPC-AI Market at $85.7B, Up 62% Driven by Hyperscalers
April 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Analyst firm Intersect360 Research has released its annual report placing the worldwide market for scalable computing infrastructure for HPC and AI at $85.7 billion in 2023, up 62.4 percent year-over-year. This was mainly due to a near tripling of spending by ….
HPC News Bytes 20240429: Exorbitant AI Infra-Tech, Advanced Chips in China, Neuromorphic HPC, an AI Bubble?
April 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment
A good mid-spring morn to you! You’re invited to join Shahin and Doug on a jaunt (6:04) through recent HPC-AI developments, including: AI infra-tech’s booming costs and data center scarcity problems, a possibe AI bubble ….
