HPC
Quantum Vendor Partners with IBM on New QRNG Service
IBM and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) have partnered to achieve progress on one of the major business aspirations for quantum computing – the goal of generating verified, truly random ...Full Article
NASA Leverages HPC to Model an All-Electric Airplane
NASA is expanding its HPC-driven aeronautical research with an all-electric experimental aircraft dubbed the X-57 “Maxwell,” using its Pleiades HPC cluster to model and simulate critical aerodynamic flight characteristics. ...Full Article
IBM Debuts Power10; Touts New Memory Scheme, Security, and Inferencing
IBM this week introduced its next generation Power10 microprocessor, a 7nm device manufactured by Samsung. The chip features a new microarchitecture, broad new memory support, PCIe Gen 5 connectivity, ...Full Article
AI Chip Start-up Groq to Detail Technology Progress in Fall
AI chip startup Groq announced this week it had closed its most recent funding round, saying the new investments will help it double in size by the end of ...Full Article
Altair Shows Off Converged Analytics Lineup
If you’re in the market for analytics or machine learning software, you may want to keep your eyes on Altair Engineering. Best known for its product simulation and computer ...Full Article
New Chip Approaches Seek to Keep Up with AI
Exploding data sets and complex software have made it harder for single-purpose platforms like ASICs to keep up with the growing demands of enterprise datacenters. Heavy investments in chip ...Full Article
China OK’s Nvidia Acquisition of Mellanox
With Chinese regulators issuing their approval, the final piece has fallen into place for Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of high performance interconnect provider Mellanox, announced in March 2019. The ...Full Article
AI + HPC Aimed at GDPR, Data Privacy Compliance
In the banking, financial services and insurance industries, data privacy compliance is an eternally daunting challenge, and now data management consultancy Vaco and NEC X, the "innovation accelerator" arm ...Full Article
Energy Project Leverages AI for 3D Manufacturing
A federal energy research initiative is gaining momentum with the release of a contract award aimed at using supercomputing to harness 3D printing technology that would boost the performance ...Full Article
SC19: AI and Machine Learning Sessions Pepper Conference Agenda
AI and HPC are increasingly intertwined – machine learning workloads demand ever increasing compute power – so it’s no surprise the annual supercomputing industry shindig, SC19 at the Colorado ...Full Article
