With the help of a multi-million funding programme for applications in High Performance Computing, the European Commission (EC) aims to address European societal, economic and scientific challenges. Read further...

Primeur Magazinehad the opportunity to interview Guy Lonsdale. CEO of Scapos, an SME in Germany. Scapos is involved in a number of HPC projects. Scapos is also the coordinator of the project called "Concerted action for the European HPC CoEs", also known as FocusCoE. CoEs are Centres of Excellence. FocusCoE is a Coordination and Support Action that started end last year. The focus of FocusCoE is on the support for the set of European HPC Centres of Excellence. The project actually has activities to support these centres in achieving the impact within the HPC ecosystem. Read further...

The University of Maribor and XENYA signed a contract for the supply of an HPC system for the project "Upgrading National Research Infrastructures HPC - RIVR". The coordinator of this project is the University of Maribor, with two consortium partners: the Institute of Information Sciences (IZUM) and the Faculty of Information Studies in Novo Mesto (FIS). The entire project is worth 20 million euro. The duration of the project is from 1 March 2018 to 15 September 2020. It is a substantial upgrade of existing HPC capacities at the national Slovenian level, based on its own hardware and software architecture design. Read further...

Intel Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will deliver the first supercomputer with a performance of one exaFLOP in the United States. The system being developed at DOE's Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago - named "Aurora" - will be used to dramatically advance scientific research and discovery. The contract is valued at more than $500 million and will be delivered to Argonne National Laboratory by Intel and sub-contractor Cray Inc. in 2021. Read further...

A pioneering leader in high-performance supercomputing, the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory leverages its computing capabilities to advance scientific research yielding significant impact on the everyday lives of Americans and others around the globe. Read further...

NVIDIA has introduced the Jetson Nano, an AI computer that makes it possible to create millions of intelligent systems. The small but powerful CUDA-X AI computer delivers 472 GFLOPS of compute performance for running modern AI workloads and is highly power-efficient, consuming as little as 5 watts. Unveiled at the GPU Technology Conference by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang, Jetson Nano comes in two versions - the $99 devkit for developers, makers and enthusiasts and the $129 production-ready module for companies looking to create mass-market edge systems. Read further...

When subject to the laws of quantum mechanics, systems made of many interacting particles can display behaviour so complex that its quantitative description defies the capabilities of the most powerful computers in the world. In 1981, the visionary physicist Richard Feynman argued we can simulate such complex behaviour using an artificial apparatus governed by the very same quantum laws - what has come to be known as a "quantum simulator". Read further...

At the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, researchers have realized the swap of electron spins between distant quantum dots. The discovery brings us a step closer to future applications of quantum information, as the tiny dots have to leave enough room on the microchip for delicate control electrodes. The distance between the dots has now become big enough for integration with traditional microelectronics and perhaps, a future quantum computer. Read further...

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has signed a contract with NVIDIA to enhance GPU compiler capabilities for Berkeley Lab's next-generation Perlmutter supercomputer. Read further...

DataDirect Networks (DDN), an expert in at-scale storage solutions, will showcase game-changing storage solutions and applications that empower users to accomplish their most challenging AI objectives at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California. DDN will feature and demonstrate innovations in its A³I architecture and new customer use cases in autonomous driving, life sciences and health care, retail and financial services. DDN also signed a partnership with Robovision. Read further...

NVIDIA has teamed with the world's leading OEMs and system builders to deliver powerful new workstations designed to help millions of data scientists, analysts and engineers make better business predictions faster and become more productive. Read further...

Mainstream servers optimized to run NVIDIA's data science acceleration software are now available from seven of the world's largest systems manufacturers, including Cisco, Dell EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Inspur, Lenovo and Sugon. Read further...

Mellanox Technologies Ltd.'s HDR 200G InfiniBand with the "Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol" (SHARP) technology has set new performance records, doubling deep learning operations performance. The combination of Mellanox In-Network Computing SHARP with NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPU technology and Collective Communications Library (NCCL) deliver leading efficiency and scalability to deep learning and artificial intelligence applications. Read further...

Altair, a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high-performance computing and data intelligence, has achieved up to 10x speed-ups with the Altair OptiStruct structural analysis solver on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated system architecture - with no compromise in accuracy. This speed boost has the potential to significantly impact industries including automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment, and electronics that frequently need to run large, high-fidelity simulations. Read further...

Pure Storage, a data solutions expert that helps innovators build a better world with data, has launched the industry's first complete portfolio of solutions for any AI initiative, from early inception to large-scale production. An all-new hyperscale configuration of AI-Ready Infrastructure (AIRI) is designed to deliver supercomputing capabilities for enterprises that pioneer real-world AI initiatives and have grown beyond the capabilities of AI-ready solutions available in the market today. Built jointly with the leaders of AI supercomputing, NVIDIA and Mellanox, hyperscale AIRI delivers multiple racks of NVIDIA DGX-1 and DGX-2 systems with both Infiniband and Ethernet fabrics as interconnect options. In addition, Pure Storage announced FlashStack for AI, a solution built jointly with Cisco and NVIDIA to bring AI within reach for every enterprise. Read further...

Preferred Networks Inc. (PFN) will independently build a new private supercomputer called MN-2 and start operating it in July 2019. MN-2 is a cutting-edge multi-node GPGPU computing platform, using NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs. This, combined with two other PFN private supercomputers - MN-1 (in operation since September 2017) and MN-1b (in operation since July 2018), will provide PFN with total computing resources of about 200 PetaFLOPS. PFN also plans to start operating MN-3, a private supercomputer with PFN's proprietary deep learning processor MN-Core, in spring 2020. Read further...

Super Micro Computer Inc., a global expert in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, has been showcasing the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of NVIDIA GPU servers at the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2019 at the San Jose Convention Center. Leveraging NVIDIA GPU technology with Supermicro's system engineering expertise to design the most advanced server systems, Supermicro offers the industry a comprehensive portfolio of NVIDIA GPU systems. From NVIDIA Tesla, Quadro and GRID to the NVIDIA HGX-2 server architecture, Supermicro offers optimized SuperServers for the full range of market segments and applications, including VDI, professional visualization, transcoding, IoT, HPC, AI inferencing and deep learning. Read further...

H5 Data Centers, a national colocation and wholesale data centre provider, has completed an HPC suite with Forced Physics DCT at its Phoenix data centre campus. Forced Physics DCT offers a new data centre cooling system that can drastically simplify the way data centers are built and operated. Forced Physics DCT uses patented JouleForce technology to transfer heat from computers into the outside air, creating an eco-friendly system that reduces cooling energy by more than 90% without using water or liquid. Read further...

New software capabilities developed by computational scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Rolls Royce Corporation could soon help engineers lift the gas turbine engines of aircraft and power plants to higher efficiencies. Read further...

The Kaikoura earthquake in New Zealand in 2016 caused widespread damage. Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) researchers have now dissected its mechanisms revealing surprising insights on earthquake physics with the aid of simulations carried out on the supercomputer SuperMUC. Read further...

Can artificial intelligence (AI) help us understand how the brain understands language? Can neuroscience help us understand why AI and neural networks are effective at predicting human perception? Research from Alexander Huth and Shailee Jain from the University of Texas at Austin suggests both are possible. Read further...

Scientists have revealed the precise molecular mechanisms that cause drops of liquid to combine, in a discovery that could have a range of applications. Read further...

The e-aq species is difficult to observe directly because it is short-lived and cannot be separated or concentrated. This rules out using direct structural approaches, diffraction or NMR spectroscopy to explore its structure. Though some properties including spectra in UV and IR-regions and the binding energy have been directly observed, the general lack of direct experimental measurements of the structure of the hydrated electron calls for theory. Read further...

A new area in artificial intelligence involves using algorithms to automatically design machine-learning systems known as neural networks, which are more accurate and efficient than those developed by human engineers. But this so-called neural architecture search (NAS) technique is computationally expensive. Read further...

The U.S. Department of Energy announced March 15 that Princeton University will continue to manage and operate the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), located on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, New Jersey. The extended contract, which runs through March 31, 2022, also highlights collaborations among the University, the lab and the DOE. Read further...

NVIDIA has signed a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT on NVIDIA Jetson to enable customers to deploy AI and deep learning to millions of connected devices. This joint solution enables models to be easily created, trained and optimized on AWS, then deployed to Jetson-powered edge devices using AWS IoT Greengrass. Read further...