In our continuing series on HPC-AI Vanguards, in which we recognize young members of the HPC-AI community showing potential to become industry leaders of tomorrow, we here profile Si Hammond, Federal Program Manager at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Hammond’s first involvement with HPC and AI occurred in 2005 when he was a master […]
insideHPC Vanguard: NNSA’s Si Hammond and the ‘Almost Impossible’
November 26, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Harbor Service, VAST Data Provide Storage Upgrade for NCSA Systems
November 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Nov. 20, 2024: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and VAST Data are giving supercomputing system Delta and the newly launched DeltaAI a boost in their storage and application performance. NCSA launched Harbor, a service that provides fast storage for global home and software directories across all NCSA open-science resources. Its deployment has led to a 400 percent increase in application launch […]
Webinar: ALCF Developer Session on HPC Workflows to Be Held Dec. 11
November 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar at 11 am Central Time on Wednesday, Dec. 11 covering remote workflows at ALCF. Registration is here. HPC resources like those at ALCF are increasingly becoming integrated with distributed workloads involving data movement and remote orchestration. In this webinar, ALCF’s Christine Simpson will discuss how ALCF […]
Exascale: Gordon Bell Prize Team Presents Record-Breaking Algorithm for Chemistry and Biology
November 21, 2024 by
Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named an eight-member team drawn from Australian and American institutions as the winner of the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for the project, “Breaking the Million-Electron and 1 EFLOP/s Barriers: Biomolecular-Scale Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Using MP2 Potentials.” The members of the team are Ryan Stocks, Jorge L. Galvez Vallejo, […]
ACM Presents Winners of Gordon Bell Climate Modelling Prize
November 21, 2024 by
Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 12-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project “Boosting Earth System Model Outputs And Saving PetaBytes in Their Storage Using Exascale Climate Emulators.” The award recognizes innovative parallel computing contributions toward solving the global climate crisis. The members […]
DOE Office of Science Funds $31M for Research Capacity at Academic Institutions
November 21, 2024 by
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 21, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $31 million in funding for 42 projects to 36 institutions in 24 states to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at academic institutions. Total funding is $31 million for projects lasting up to three years in duration. The list of projects […]
Introducing the insideHPC Vanguards: Tomorrow’s HPC-AI Leaders Taking on Today’s Big Challenges
November 19, 2024 by
With this profile of Argonne’s Bethany Lusch, insideHPC begins a new series called The Vanguards, intended to spotlight up-and-coming thought leaders, creative thinkers and innovators in HPC-AI, in scientific and technical ….
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List of Top Supercomputers
November 18, 2024 by
SC24 here in Atlanta is off to a great start with more than 17,000 attendees (a 21 percent increase over 2023), 480 exhibitors from 29 countries and a new TOP500 list that features a new champion supercomputer!
TOP500 at SC24: El Cap on Top, U.S. Now Has 3 Exascale Supercomputers
November 18, 2024 by
Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports that El Capitan, the HPE-Cray/AMD supercomputer at Lawrence ….
HPC News Bytes 20241118: On the Scene at SC24, TSMC and the CHIPS Act, Cerebras at Sandia
November 18, 2024 by
Good morning to you from SC24 in Atlanta. Here’s a quick (5:33) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: The SC24 conference starts today; TSMC, the CHIPS Act and semiconductor demand; Sandia National Labs teams with Cerebras.
