Argonne Lab Unveils Upgraded Advanced Photon Source

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) Argonne National Laboratory has emerged from a year-long shutdown ready for its second act. “Together with Argonne’s new exascale supercomputer, Aurora, the (APS) will empower scientists to make discoveries ….

SC24: Technical Program Leaders Discuss Their Role and Scientific Vision

Science lies at the heart of the annual Supercomputing conference, and the Technical Program is one of the most important aspects of the conference. To learn more about what this program does and the scientific vision ….

MSBAI Secures DOE ASCR Frontier Aurora HPC Allocation

LOS ANGELES, July 1, 2024 — AI company MSBAI has been awarded an allocation on the Department of Energy’s leadership-class supercomputers through the ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. This grant will accelerate the development of GURU, MSBAI’s autonomous system that designed to reduce modeling and simulation setup time from hours to minutes. The project, titled “Autonomy […]

Livermore Lab and BridgeBio Announce Human Trials for HPC-Discovered Cancer Drug

In what Lawrence Livermore National Lab said is “a substantial milestone for supercomputing-aided drug design,” LLNL and BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics  today announced clinical trials have begun for ….

Supercomputer Funding for BC Universities in Canada for Research in Health Care and More

June 3, 2024 — The Government of British Columbia and the Digital Research Alliance of Canad are investing over $81M into the supercomputers at Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria. SFU will use a combined investment of over $66M to renew the infrastructure of its Cedar system, which is an academic supercomputer that is […]

Eviden’s Center for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP) – Accelerate Workloads, Add Value to Simulation!

[SPONSORED GUEST WHITE PAPER]   This white paper spotlights Eviden’s Center for Excellence in Performance Programming (CEPP), which empowers organizations to ….

At ISC 2024: Andrew Whitmore on Motivair, Exascale Cooling and Innovations in Thermal Management

At ISC 2024 we caught up with Andrew Whitmore, Vice President of Sales at Motivair, whose cooling technology is at the heart of the first three U.S. exascale-class systems: Frontier, Aurora ….

HPC News Bytes 20240513: ISC 2024 Starts, Quantum Investments, China-Taiwan-TSMC Scenario Planning, Electricity Supply Running Low

Let’s take a quick (6:21) run through new developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: ISC 2024 begins today, substantial new investments in quantum continue, U.S. Commerce ….

At ISC 2024: New Top500 List – Aurora Joins Frontier in Exascale HPC Club

At ISC 2024, Hamburg — Aurora, the Intel-HPE Cray problem-child supercomputer, has officially received the blessing of the Top500 organization as having surpassed the exascale (a billion billion calculations/second) milestone ….

@HPCpodcast: John Shalf on the ‘Attack of the Killer Chiplets’ and the Future of HPC

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 ….