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HPC Career Notes: December 2021 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, o …
SC21 Keynote: Internet Pioneer Vint Cerf on Shakespeare, Chatbots, and Being Human
Unlike the deep technical dives of many SC keynotes, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf steered clear of the trenches and took leisurely stroll through a range of human-machine interactions, touching on …
Hyperion SC21 Market Update: 2021 Looks Strong (Surprise!); Big Systems, Cloud and AI Are Drivers
November 15, 2021
Hyperion Research delivered its annual HPC market update at SC21 today. Much of it echoed Hyperion’s earlier mid-year report: the 2020 HPC market (on-premise) finished around $28B slightly up (~1.1 percent), roughly what was forecast in June. The gain was mostly due to the early standing-up of Fugaku. Read more…
Xilinx Targets HPC and Datacenter with New Alveo U55C FPGA-Card
November 15, 2021
At SC21 today, Xilinx launched its most powerful FPGA-based accelerator card – the Alveo U55C – specifically targeting HPC workloads and the datacenter. FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) have a long productive history as customized accelerator chips used in many embedded applications. It’s only in the last few years that FPGA suppliers have begun... Read more…
Nvidia Debuts Quantum-2 Networking Platform with NDR InfiniBand and BlueField-3 DPU
November 10, 2021
Nvidia yesterday introduced Quantum-2, its new networking platform that features NDR InfiniBand (400 Gbps) and Bluefield-3 DPU (data processing unit) capabilities. The name is perhaps confusing – it’s not a quantum computing device and even Nvidia is getting into the true quantum computing market with its cuQuantum simulator. The name stems from the legacy line of Nvidia/Mellanox Quantum switches. That said, the new Quantum-2 platform specs are impressive. Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO, introduced... Read more…
IonQ Is First Quantum Startup to Go Public; Will It be First to Deliver Profits?
November 3, 2021
On October 1 of this year, IonQ became the first pure-play quantum computing start-up to go public. At this writing, the stock (NYSE: IONQ) was around $15 and its market capitalization was roughly $2.89 billion. Co-founder and chief scientist Chris Monroe says it was fun to have a few of the company’s roughly 100 employees travel to New York to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock... Read more…
HPC Career Notes: November 2021 Edition
November 1, 2021
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the high-performance computing community. Whether it Read more…
Nvidia Arm Deal Faces Deeper Probe by European Regulators
October 28, 2021
With continuing concerns about the potential for stifled competition in Nvidia’s proposed $40 billion acquisition of Arm, the European Commission (EC) is open Read more…
SPEC Introduces SPEChpc 2021Suite for Heterogeneous Systems
October 28, 2021
SPEC – the Standard Performance Evaluation Company – introduced its newest benchmark suite today, SPEChpc 2021, intended to measure “intense compute paral Read more…
Fireside Chat with LBNL’s Advanced Quantum Testbed Director
October 26, 2021
Last week, Irfan Siddiqi led a “fireside chat” with a few media and analysts to introduce the Department of Energy’s relatively new Advanced Quantum Testb Read more…
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