Sept. 13, 2024: The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a seven-week virtual training series for undergraduates and graduates on the fundamentals of applying world-class supercomputers to advance the use of AI for research. Please share this opportunity with university students that you think will be interested. The series will be held on Tuesdays from […]
Sept. 29 Registration Deadline for ALCF Virtual Intro to AI-driven Science on Supercomputers
3 Max Planck-Humboldt Award Winners Named
Sept. 12, 2024 — The Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, endowed with 1.5 million euros, goes to Geordie Williamson, professor at the University of Sydney, for his use of artificial intelligence for fundamental work in mathematics. Meanwhile, Max Planck Humboldt Medals go to Laura Waller, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, for her work in […]
BQP Reports on Aircraft CFD Simulations with Quantum Computing
New York, September 12, 2024 – BQP, a startup developing quantum-based engineering simulations, today announced what it said is a research milestone for simulating computational fluid dynamics. The milestone was achieved using a hybrid quantum-classical solver which is part of BQP’s next-gen simulation platform, BQPhy, according to BQP. After conducting ~100000 experiments, BQP researchers published […]
IonQ and the University of Maryland in $9M Quantum Partnership
COLLEGE PARK, MD – Sept. 11, 2024 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and the University of Maryland today announced an agreement to expand their partnership to provide quantum computing access at the National Quantum Lab at Maryland (QLab), which provides UMD-affiliated students, faculty, researchers, staff and partners with an unprecedented opportunity to work […]
ISC 2025 Is Open for Submissions
The ISC 2025 Contributed Program is now open for submissions. Scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government are invited to submit proposals. The contributed program comprises research papers, posters, birds of a feather, tutorials and workshop sessions.
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240909: AI vs. Copyright, TSMC’s CoWoS Capacity, Intel’s 18A Fab, an RFP for the Future of HPC
Good late summer morning to you! From the world of HPC-AI we offer a quick (6:10) recap of recent news developments, including: DOE’s $23M future of HPC RFP ….
DOE Announces $68M for AI for Scientific Research
September 5, 2024, WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy announced $68 million in funding for 11 AI for science multi-institution projects, comprising 43 awards lasting up to three years, with $20 million in Fiscal Year 2024 dollars and outyear funding contingent on congressional appropriations. The list of projects and more information can be […]
‘New Frontiers’: $23M DOE RFP to Define the Future of HPC
The Office of Science in the U.S. Dept. of Energy announced a $23 million research and development opportunity led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory to advance technologies and drive new capabilities for future supercomputers.
Stony Brook’s Arie Kaufman Wins 2024 SC24 Test of Time Award for Supercomputing
Sept. 5, 2024, Stony Brook, NY — Arie Kaufman, distinguished professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook University, has been honored with the SC24 Test of Time Award (TOTA) for supercomputing for his seminal 2004 paper, “GPU Cluster for High Performance Computing.” Two decades ago, Kaufman, along with Postdoc Suzanne Yoakum-Stover and […]
TACC’s ‘Vista’ AI Supercomputer in Production for Open Science Community
The Texas Advanced Computing Center today announced that Vista, a new AI-centric system, is in full production for the open science community. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Vista marks a departure from the x86-based architecture of ….