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IBM Opens Quantum Computing Center; Announces 53-Qubit Machine

Gauging progress in quantum computing is a tricky thing. IBM yesterday announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computing Center in New York, with five 20-qubit systems up and running and a 53-qu …

By John Russell

Kubernetes, Containers and HPC

Software containers and Kubernetes are important tools for building, deploying, running and managing modern enterprise applications at scale and delivering enterprise software faster and more rel …

When in Rome: AMD Announces New Epyc CPU for HPC, Server and Cloud Wins

Where else but Rome could AMD hold the official Europe launch party for its second generation of Epyc microprocessors, codenamed Rome. Today, AMD did just that announcing key server wins, importa …

By John Russell

Dell’s AMD-Powered Server Line Targets High-End Jobs

Dell Technologies rolled out five new servers this week based on AMD’s latest Epyc processor that are geared toward data-driven workloads running on increasingly popular multi-cloud platforms a …

By George Leopold

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Google’s ML Compiler Initiative Advances

September 12, 2019

Machine learning models running on everything from cloud platforms to mobile phones are posing new challenges for developers faced with growing tool complexity. Read more…

By George Leopold

Univa Brings Cloud Automation to Slurm Users with Navops Launch 2.0

September 11, 2019

Univa, the company behind Grid Engine, announced today its HPC cloud-automation platform NavOps Launch will support the popular open-source workload scheduler Slurm. With the release of NavOps Launch 2.0, “Slurm users will have access to the same cloud automation capabilities... Read more…

By Tiffany Trader

HPC & AI on Wall Street: Covering the High Performance FinTech Landscape

September 5, 2019

HPC & AI on Wall Street, one of the most important annual fintech conferences of the year, will take place next week at the Roosevelt Hotel, 45 E 45th St, New York City on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 11 and 12. The conference this year has added a major focus... Read more…

By Doug Black

Deep Learning on GPUs: Successes and Promises

August 27, 2019

The rise of deep-learning (DL) has been fueled by the improvements in accelerators. Accelerators allow DL models to crunch a large amount of data, which is vita Read more…

By Sparsh Mittal

Google Embraces AMD Epyc Rome CPU for Cloud, Internal Workloads

August 8, 2019

This week’s big tech news – AMD’s release of the Epyc Rome CPU, the industry’s first 7nm server chip – got a major boost when Google confirmed that it Read more…

By Doug Black

Convergence of HPC, AI and Cloud Computing Charted at PEARC19 Keynote

August 1, 2019

A trio of keynote presentations from Intel, Google and Microsoft at the PEARC19 conference in Chicago on July 31 charted out the likely future of academic and h Read more…

By Ken Chiacchia, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center/XSEDE

R Systems Intros ‘Under One Roof’ Cloud Bursting Model

July 24, 2019

R Systems formed in 2003 as a a spin-off of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). One of a handful of small, on-demand HPC cloud providers Read more…

By Oliver Peckham

Microsoft Investing $1B in OpenAI Artificial General Intelligence R&D

July 22, 2019

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is AI’s moonshot, the next giant leap for the AI field. Microsoft regards it to be feasible enough to warrant a $1 billi Read more…