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Argonne Supercomputer Advances Energy Storage Research
May 13, 2022
The lack of large-scale energy storage bottlenecks many sources of renewable energy, such as sunlight-reliant solar power and unpredictable wind power. Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are w Read more…
Intel Warns of Data Security Crisis Posed by Quantum Computers
May 12, 2022
Quantum computers are coming down the pike, and hardware makers warned of a potential security crisis looming with such superfast systems able to break encryption within a matter of seconds. To counter that, companies Read more…
Intel Says UCIe to Outpace PCIe in Speed Race
May 11, 2022
Intel has shared more details on a new interconnect that is the foundation of the company’s long-term plan for x86, Arm and RISC-V architectures to co-exist in a single chip package. The semiconductor company is taking a modular approach to chip design with the option for customers to cram computing blocks such as CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators inside a single chip package. Read more…
Intel Extends IPU Roadmap Through 2026
May 10, 2022
Intel is extending its roadmap for infrastructure processors through 2026, the company said at its Vision conference being held in Grapevine, Texas. The company's IPUs (infrastructure processing units) are megachips that are designed to improve datacenter efficiency by offloading functions such as networking control, storage management and security that were traditionally... Read more…
Exascale Watch: Aurora Installation Underway, Now Open for Reservations
May 10, 2022
Installation has begun on the Aurora supercomputer, Rick Stevens (associate director of Argonne National Laboratory) revealed today during the Intel Vision event keynote taking place in Dallas, Texas, and online. Joining Intel exec Raja Koduri on stage, Stevens confirmed that the Aurora build is underway – a major development for a system that is projected to deliver more... Read more…
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Advances in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies over the last decade have led to many novel discoveries in cancer genomics1,2,3. Read more…
Intel’s Habana Labs Unveils Gaudi2, Greco AI Processors
May 10, 2022
At the hybrid Intel Vision event today, Intel’s Habana Labs team launched two major new products: Gaudi2, the second generation of the Gaudi deep learning training processor; and Greco, the successor to the Goya deep learning inference processor. Intel says that the processors offer significant speedups relative to their predecessors and the... Read more…
Intel Says UCIe to Outpace PCIe in Speed Race
May 11, 2022
Intel has shared more details on a new interconnect that is the foundation of the company’s long-term plan for x86, Arm and RISC-V architectures to co-exist in a single chip package. The semiconductor company is taking a modular approach to chip design with the option for customers to cram computing blocks such as CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators inside a single chip package. Read more…
Intel Extends IPU Roadmap Through 2026
May 10, 2022
Intel is extending its roadmap for infrastructure processors through 2026, the company said at its Vision conference being held in Grapevine, Texas. The company's IPUs (infrastructure processing units) are megachips that are designed to improve datacenter efficiency by offloading functions such as networking control, storage management and security that were traditionally... Read more…
Exascale Watch: Aurora Installation Underway, Now Open for Reservations
May 10, 2022
Installation has begun on the Aurora supercomputer, Rick Stevens (associate director of Argonne National Laboratory) revealed today during the Intel Vision event keynote taking place in Dallas, Texas, and online. Joining Intel exec Raja Koduri on stage, Stevens confirmed that the Aurora build is underway – a major development for a system that is projected to deliver more... Read more…
Intel’s Habana Labs Unveils Gaudi2, Greco AI Processors
May 10, 2022
At the hybrid Intel Vision event today, Intel’s Habana Labs team launched two major new products: Gaudi2, the second generation of the Gaudi deep learning training processor; and Greco, the successor to the Goya deep learning inference processor. Intel says that the processors offer significant speedups relative to their predecessors and the... Read more…
IBM Unveils Expanded Quantum Roadmap; Talks Up ‘Quantum-Centric Supercomputer’
May 10, 2022
IBM today issued an extensive and detailed expansion of its Quantum Roadmap that calls for developing a new 1386-qubit processor – Kookaburra – built from modularly scaled chips, and delivering a 4,158-qubit POC system built using three connected Kookaburra processors by 2025. Kookaburra (Australian Kingfisher) is a new architecture... Read more…
Biden Issues Executive Order Bolstering National Quantum Initiative and Cybersecurity
May 4, 2022
President Joe Biden today issued an Executive Order and a National Security Memorandum boosting the national focus on quantum information sciences (QIS), including quantum computing and cybersecurity concerns. There is currently a global race heating up to leverage QIS for economic and security purposes. The U.S., China, Europe, Japan, the U.K., and many others have mounted well-funded, expanding efforts... Read more…
Panasas Debuts New Products as It Emphasizes Storage Software in Business Shift
May 4, 2022
Panasas started off specializing in storage hardware, but more than 20 years on, the company is placing a big bet on its software stack to meet storage needs for high-performance applications. The company on Wednesday introduced new storage products called ActiveStor Ultra XL and ActiveStor Flash for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications. The products are built on the company’s PanFS file... Read more…
Supercomputers Project Wetter San Francisco Storms in a Future Climate
May 4, 2022
With climate change dramatically accelerating, scientists continue to struggle to predict the shape of a substantially warmer world. This is particularly true with regard to weather and storms, which – due to the granular, mercurial processes at play – elude climate scientists more than, say, ice melt projections. Recently, a climate study commissioned by the City and County of San Francisco... Read more…
Nvidia R&D Chief on How AI is Improving Chip Design
April 18, 2022
Getting a glimpse into Nvidia’s R&D has become a regular feature of the spring GTC conference with Bill Dally, chief scientist and senior vice president of research, providing an overview of Nvidia’s R&D organization and a few details on current priorities. This year, Dally focused mostly on AI tools that Nvidia is both developing and using in-house to improve... Read more…
Intel Says UCIe to Outpace PCIe in Speed Race
May 11, 2022
Intel has shared more details on a new interconnect that is the foundation of the company’s long-term plan for x86, Arm and RISC-V architectures to co-exist in a single chip package. The semiconductor company is taking a modular approach to chip design with the option for customers to cram computing blocks such as CPUs, GPUs and AI accelerators inside a single chip package. Read more…
Facebook Parent Meta’s New AI Supercomputer Will Be ‘World’s Fastest’
January 24, 2022
Fresh off its rebrand last October, Meta (née Facebook) is putting muscle behind its vision of a metaversal future with a massive new AI supercomputer called the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC). Meta says that RSC will be used to help build new AI models, develop augmented reality tools, seamlessly analyze multimedia data and more. The supercomputer’s... Read more…
AMD/Xilinx Takes Aim at Nvidia with Improved VCK5000 Inferencing Card
March 8, 2022
AMD/Xilinx has released an improved version of its VCK5000 AI inferencing card along with a series of competitive benchmarks aimed directly at Nvidia’s GPU line. AMD says the new VCK5000 has 3x better performance than earlier versions and delivers 2x TCO over Nvidia T4. AMD also showed favorable benchmarks against several Nvidia GPUs, claiming its VCK5000 achieved... Read more…
In Partnership with IBM, Canada to Get Its First Universal Quantum Computer
February 3, 2022
IBM today announced it will deploy its first quantum computer in Canada, putting Canada on a short list of countries that will have access to an IBM Quantum Sys Read more…
Supercomputer Simulations Show How Paxlovid, Pfizer’s Covid Antiviral, Works
February 3, 2022
Just about a month ago, Pfizer scored its second huge win of the pandemic when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued another emergency use authorization Read more…
Nvidia Launches Hopper H100 GPU, New DGXs and Grace Superchips
March 22, 2022
The battle for datacenter dominance keeps getting hotter. Today, Nvidia kicked off its spring GTC event with new silicon, new software and a new supercomputer. Speaking from a virtual environment in the Nvidia Omniverse 3D collaboration and simulation platform, CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new Hopper GPU architecture and the H100 GPU... Read more…
PsiQuantum’s Path to 1 Million Qubits
April 21, 2022
PsiQuantum, founded in 2016 by four researchers with roots at Bristol University, Stanford University, and York University, is one of a few quantum computing startups that’s kept a moderately low PR profile. (That’s if you disregard the roughly $700 million in funding it has attracted.) The main reason is PsiQuantum has eschewed the clamorous public chase for... Read more…
Nvidia Dominates MLPerf Inference, Qualcomm also Shines, Where’s Everybody Else?
April 6, 2022
MLCommons today released its latest MLPerf inferencing results, with another strong showing by Nvidia accelerators inside a diverse array of systems. Roughly fo Read more…
D-Wave to Go Public with SPAC Deal; Expects ~$1.6B Market Valuation
February 8, 2022
Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave today announced plans to go public via a SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) mechanism. D-Wave will merge with DPCM Capital in a transaction expected to produce $340 million in cash and result in a roughly $1.6 billion initial market valuation. The deal is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2022 and the new company will be traded on the New York Stock... Read more…
Intel Announces Falcon Shores CPU-GPU Combo Architecture for 2024
February 18, 2022
Intel held its 2022 investor meeting yesterday, covering everything from the imminent Sapphire Rapids CPUs to the hotly anticipated (and delayed) Ponte Vecchio GPUs. But somewhat buried in its summary of the meeting was a new namedrop: “Falcon Shores,” described as “a new architecture that will bring x86 and Xe GPU together into a single socket.” The reveal was... Read more…
Nvidia Defends Arm Acquisition Deal: a ‘Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity’
January 13, 2022
GPU-maker Nvidia is continuing to try to keep its proposed acquisition of British chip IP vendor Arm Ltd. alive, despite continuing concerns from several governments around the world. In its latest action, Nvidia filed a 29-page response to the U.K. government to point out a list of potential benefits of the proposed $40 billion deal. Read more…
Industry Consortium Forms to Drive UCIe Chiplet Interconnect Standard
March 2, 2022
A new industry consortium aims to establish a die-to-die interconnect standard – Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) – in support of an open chipl Read more…
Julia Update: Adoption Keeps Climbing; Is It a Python Challenger?
January 13, 2021
The rapid adoption of Julia, the open source, high level programing language with roots at MIT, shows no sign of slowing according to data from Julialang.org. I Read more…
Nvidia Acquires Software-Defined Storage Provider Excelero
March 7, 2022
Nvidia has announced that it has acquired Excelero. The high-performance block storage provider, founded in 2014, will have its technology integrated into Nvidia’s enterprise software stack. Nvidia is not disclosing the value of the deal. Excelero’s core product, Excelero NVMesh, offers software-defined block storage via networked NVMe SSDs. NVMesh operates through... Read more…
Google Launches TPU v4 AI Chips
May 20, 2021
Google CEO Sundar Pichai spoke for only one minute and 42 seconds about the company’s latest TPU v4 Tensor Processing Units during his keynote at the Google I Read more…
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