The ISC 2024 Student Cluster Competition welcomed 19 virtual and eight in-person teams. The in-person teams competed at ISC 2024, while the virtual teams competed using the Bridges-2 supercomputers at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh), as well as the supercomputer HLRE-4 Levante at Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ). The online competition winning teams […]
Cerebras: Wafer Scale Engine Outperforms Frontier Supercomputer on Molecular Dynamics Simulations
May 16, 2024 by Leave a Comment
SUNNYVALE, Calif. – May 15, 2024 – Accelerated generative AI chip company Cerebras Systems, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, said it has acheved a breakthrough in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the second generation Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE-2). Researchers performed atomic scale simulations at the millisecond […]
HPE Delivers 2nd Exascale Supercomputer, Aurora, to Argonne National Laboratory
May 15, 2024 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Hyperion Research Announces AI Advisory Committee
May 13, 2024 by Leave a Comment
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 13, 2024 – HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has launched an expanded AI focus with the announcement of the Hyperion Research AI Advisory Committee, designed to help the community better understand and navigate the evolution of AI through research and share ideas, best practices and areas of concern. The AI […]
@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 […]
Durham University Cosmologists, DiRAC and Dell Improve HPC Energy Efficiency without Sacrificing Performance
May 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Since the beginning of human existence, people have looked into the night sky and wondered how the universe began. Cosmologists using the UK’s Memory Intensive DiRAC HPC service at Durham ….
HPE Launches 35 Pflops ‘Helios’ HPC at Centre Cyfronet AGH in Poland
April 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment
KRAKOW, Poland – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced that it built a new supercomputer for the Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet of the AGH University of Krakow, making it Poland’s fastest system based on the latest TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers1. The new system, called Helios, is Cyfronet’s fifth-generation supercomputer and will be […]
