The Belgian federal government has decided to make available a maximum of 5 million euro for participation in a pre-exascale hosting consortium. This was announced by the Belgian minister for Science Sophie Wilmès and the minster for Digital Agenda Philippe De Backer. Earlier, the pre-exascale EuroHPC bidding consortium led by Finland said Belgium would join. Read further...

When Greg Bowman presents a slideshow about the proteins he studies, their 3D shapes and folding patterns play out as animations on a big screen. As he describes these molecules, it might be easy to miss the fact that he can't really see his own presentation, at least not the way the audience does. Read further...

Recently, a research collaboration has begun between QuSoft, a quantum software research centre based at Amsterdam Science Park, and the Bosch Group, a global provider of technologies and services. In this project, researchers from QuSoft and Bosch will investigate potential quantum computing use cases at Bosch, with a focus on applications in the engineering and artificial intelligence/machine learning fields. Amsterdam Science Park, the birthplace of the European internet, is once again at the heart of these new developments. With a large number of scientific institutes, including the Centre for Mathematics and Informatics (CWI), SURFsara, eScience Center and UvA Informatics Institute, the park is the main centre for artificial intelligence and Big Data research in the Netherlands. Read further...

The potential computing revolution that quantum computers have long promised is based on their weird property called superposition. Namely, qubits can take both logical states 0 and 1 simultaneously, on top of any value in between. By mastering superpositions of the whole quantum memory, quantum computers can quickly solve problems that would require too much computing time from regular computers working with simply 0s and 1s. Read further...

Quantum computers will process significantly more information at once compared to today's computers. But the building blocks that contain this information - quantum bits, or "qubits" - are way too sensitive to their surroundings to work well enough right now to build a practical quantum computer. Read further...

D-Wave Systems Inc., an expert in quantum computing systems, software, and services, has launched a preview of its next-generation quantum computing platform incorporating hardware, software, and tools to accelerate and ease the delivery of quantum computing applications. Reflecting years of customer feedback, the platform captures users' priorities and business requirements and will deliver significant performance gains and greater solution precision. Users will also benefit from the ability to embed larger problems on the quantum computer, speeding the development of commercial quantum applications. Read further...

Intel, Bluefors and Afore have introduced the first cryoprober, a quantum testing device named the Cryogenic Wafer Prober, developed specifically to speed the development of quantum computing solutions. Intel identified the need for a quantum testing tool to collect more data about quantum chips called "qubits". Read further...

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a way to map and measure large-scale photonic quantum correlation with single-photon sensitivity. The ability to measure thousands of instances of quantum correlation is critical for making photon-based quantum computing practical. Read further...

The ISC High Performance organizers have announced that two of the most well-regarded figures in the HPC community will be delivering the Tuesday and Wednesday keynote addresses at this year's event. The conference and exhibition will take place from June 16-20 in Frankfurt, Germany, and will be held at Messe Frankfurt. Over 3500 HPC enthusiasts are expected to attend this global event. Read further...

Univa, an innovator in enterprise-grade workload management and optimization solutions for on-premises and hybrid Cloud high-performance computing (HPC), has successfully demonstrated extreme scale HPC by working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer, Western Digital, a data infrastructure company, using Univa's highly-scalable cluster management and scheduling solutions, Navops Launch and Univa Grid Engine. The purpose of this collaborative project was to build a Cloud-scale HPC cluster on AWS to simulate key elements of upcoming designs for their next-generation hard disk drives (HDD). Read further...

Univa will now provide support services to users in their open source community to assist them with installation, configuration and troubleshooting. Supported products include Open Source Grid Engine 6.2U5 and variants of Open Grid Scheduler and Son of Grid Engine (SGE) 8.1.9. Read further...

DataDirect Networks (DDN), an expert in at-scale storage solutions, and SQream, developer of the GPU accelerated data warehouse, have introduced a solution that provides users with unparalleled ease of deployment for massive data warehouse analytics. Based on DDN's A³I reference architecture and SQream DB, the solution enables end users to efficiently optimize the performance of advanced business queries without facing complexity at-scale. Read further...

Panasas, a proven expert in high-performance computing (HPC) data storage solutions, has received a new round of private equity investment led by the investing arm of KEWA Financial, a U.S. insurance company, and Dowroc Partners, a private investment fund comprised of investment professionals with expertise in storage technology, energy, and Cloud computing. The investment will fund ongoing technology and product development and also support expansion into new markets, as well as the exploration of OEM relationships. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Read further...

Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. has commercially made available the 1FINITY T600 blade, the next-generation optical transponder in its carrier-grade transport family, enabling maximum performance and capacity for data centre interconnect (DCI) and 5G transport networks. As network operators seek to progressively scale their networks, the new T600 blade offers an ideal evolution path, enabling flexible configurations, hyperscale transport capacity, automated operations and secure protection of critical data. Read further...

VAST Data has introduced its new storage architecture intended on breaking decades of trade-offs to eliminate infrastructure complexity and application bottlenecks. VAST's exabyte-scale Universal Storage system is built entirely from high-performance flash media and features several breakthrough innovations that result in a total cost of acquisition that is equivalent to hard drive based archive systems. Enterprises can now consolidate applications onto a single tier of storage that meets the performance needs of the most demanding workloads, is scalable enough to manage all of a customer’s data and is affordable enough that it eliminates the need for storage tiering and archiving. Read further...

The "High Performance Computing (HPC) Market by Component, Infrastructure, Services, Price Band, HPC Applications, Deployment Type, and Region 2019-2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Read further...

Change is in the air, ice, and water, of the Arctic Ocean. The North Pole sits steadfastly in the middle, surrounded by about five million square miles of floating sea ice of the Arctic pack. In 2018, the air warmed near the pole, making the second-warmest Arctic air temperatures on record. What's more, sea ice shrank to its second-lowest cover on record, both according to polar-orbiting satellite data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Recent observed warming in the ocean has also contributed to the decline in sea ice (e.g., Polyakov et al., 2018). Wildlife such as caribou and reindeer depend on sea ice to get across ocean water. Closer to home, shrinking sea ice is linked to cold snaps from a weakened polar vortex, according to a 2018 study. An award-winning simulation shows the complex nature of the circulation happening at one of Earth's most remote and hard-to-reach places, the Arctic Ocean. Read further...

Longtime University at Buffalo (UB) faculty member and researcher Abani Patra has been named director of the university's Center for Computational Research (CCR). The appointment was announced by Venu Govindaraju, vice president for research and economic development at UB. Patra will replace Thomas Furlani, who is now chief information officer at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Read further...

Noise-cancelling headphones have become a popular accessory for frequent flyers. By analyzing the background frequencies produced by an airplane in flight and generating an "anti-noise" sound wave that is perfectly out of phase, such headphones eliminate disturbing background sounds. Although the headphones can't do anything about the cramped seating, they can make watching a film or listening to music in flight nearly as enjoyable as at home. Read further...

JD Cloud, a full-service Cloud computing platform and integrated Cloud service provider from China's E-commerce giant JD.com, has adopted Mellanox ConnectX adapters with advanced offloads to improve performance, efficiency, security and reduce cost of their data centre. JD Cloud worked closely with Mellanox and the Linux kernel community to develop pioneering new capabilities based on Accelerated Switching and Packet Processing (ASAP2) technology supported by the ConnectX series of Ethernet network adapters. By leveraging ConnectX adapters with ASAP2, JD.com was able to develop Cloud native applications, network function virtualization, and distributed security with unmatched performance and efficiency. Read further...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded funding to a team led by the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) for further development of Open OnDemand, an open-source software platform supporting web-based access to high performance computing (HPC) services. The project team consists of representatives from OSC, the University at Buffalo and Virginia Tech. Read further...