All H2020 funding for HPC has been transferred to EuroHPC, has it not? All EuroHPC projects are funded fifty-fifty by EuroHPC and participating countries, are they not? The answers may come as a surprise to you: there is still a considerable amount of HPC funding that surfaced in H2020 and for some research projects the EuroHPC funding is 100%. To help you in your quest to find the right HPC funding opportunity we have compiled a list of all open and future EuroHPC and H2020 HPC Calls. Read further...

Insights from quantum physics have allowed engineers to incorporate components used in circuit boards, optical fibers, and control systems in new applications ranging from smartphones to advanced microprocessors. But, even with significant progress made in recent years, researchers are still looking for new and better ways to control the uniquely powerful electronic properties of quantum materials. Read further...

An international team headed up by Alexander Holleitner and Jonathan Finley, physicists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has succeeded in placing light sources in atomically thin material layers with an accuracy of just a few nanometers. The new method allows for a multitude of applications in quantum technologies, from quantum sensors and transistors in smartphones through to new encryption technologies for data transmission. Read further...

A broad array of researchers, developers, system administrators and students that share an interest in the MVAPICH open-source library for high performance computing will gather at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) August 19-21 for the seventh meeting of the MVAPICH Users Group (MUG). Read further...

Cray Inc. has issued financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2019. All figures are based on U.S. GAAP unless otherwise noted. Revenue for the second quarter of 2019 was $69 million, compared to $120 million in the second quarter of 2018. Net loss for the second quarter of 2019 was $43 million, or $1,03 per diluted share, compared to net loss of $11 million, or $0,27 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2018. Non-GAAP net loss was $31 million, or $0,75 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2019, compared to non-GAAP net loss of $8 million, or $0,20 per diluted share in the second quarter of 2018. Read further...

Mellanox Ethernet and InfiniBand ConnectX smart adapter solutions are optimized to provide breakthrough performance and scalability for the new AMD EPYC 7002 series processor-based compute and storage infrastructures. Leveraging the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors' support of PCI Express 4.0, innovative architecture, and four times peak FLOPS per-socket performance over the AMD EPYC 7001 series processor, mutual customers can maximize their data centre return-on-investment. Read further...

As the first and only company shipping PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe SSD solutions, Phison Electronics is the industry expert in enabling high-performance computing for bandwidth-hungry applications. In developing these solutions, Phison is ushering in a new era for applications expected to meet the demand for increasingly faster and higher-definition digital experiences. Read further...

While watching the production of porous membranes used for DNA sorting and sequencing, University of Illinois researchers wondered how tiny steplike defects formed during fabrication could be used to improve molecule transport. They found that the defects - formed by overlapping layers of membrane - make a big difference in how molecules move along a membrane surface. Instead of trying to fix these flaws, the team set out to use them to help direct molecules into the membrane pores. Read further...

At a launch event, AMD was joined by an expansive ecosystem of data centre partners and customers to introduce the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC family of processors that deliver performance leadership across a broad number of enterprise, Cloud and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors feature up to 64 "Zen 2" cores in leading-edge 7nm process technology to deliver record-setting performance while helping reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 50% across numerous workloads. At the event, Google and Twitter announced new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor deployments and HPE and Lenovo announced immediate availability of new platforms. Read further...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has shattered 37 world records, establishing undisputed performance and efficiency leadership with the new HPE ProLiant DL325 and HPE ProLiant DL385 servers equipped with the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processor. Read further...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has selected two Cray CS500 systems for its High Performance Computing Modernization Programme (HPCMP) annual technology procurement known as TI-18. The Army Research Lab (ARL) and the U.S. Army Engineering and Research Development Center (ERDC) will each deploy a Cray CS500 to help serve the U.S. through accelerated research in science and technology. The two contracts are valued at more than $46 million and the CS500 systems are expected to be delivered to ARL and ERDC in the fourth quarter of 2019. Read further...

The first Cray Shasta supercomputing system for operational weather forecasting and meteorology will be acquired by the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The powerful high-performance computing capabilities of the new system, named HPC11, will enable higher fidelity weather forecasts for U.S. Air Force and Army operations worldwide. The contract is valued at $25 million. Read further...

Green Revolution Cooling (GRC), an expert in immersion cooling for data centres, has signed a new partnership with Prasa, a provider of data centre and mission critical infrastructure solutions based in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Read further...

Excelero, a disruptor in software-defined block storage, has launched Excelero NVEdge, block storage software for creating NVMe All-Flash Arrays (NAFAs) that leverage traditional controller-based high availability (HA) storage architectures. Targeted at OEMs, large integrators and tech giants that are building disaggregated NAFA solutions, Excelero NVEdge delivers the world's fastest NVMe AFA performance, demonstrating over 2,7M 4K IOPs on a 100Gb link - achieving full bandwidth while being thin provisioned at up to a 1000x oversubscription rate. Excelero NVEdge software realizes the highest performance levels while providing important enterprise storage features for simplified deployment, efficiency and operation. Read further...

Excelero's NVMesh2 software-defined block storage and its SmartNIC-enabled client-free shared NVMe capability was honoured with a Flash Memory Summit 2019 Best of Show Award for the Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology of the year. The award represents the third year in a row that Excelero has received a FMS Best in Show award. Read further...

Japanese researchers were able to rapidly and accurately predict the microstructure of Nickel - Aluminum (Ni-Al) alloys that are commonly used in the design of jet engine turbine parts. Predictions of the microstructure of these alloys have so far been time-consuming and expensive. The findings have the potential to greatly advance the design of materials - made up of a range of different alloys - that are used to make products in several different industry sectors. Read further...

Super Micro Computer Inc., a global expert in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, has launched its first family of new H12 generation A+ servers optimized to deliver a new level of integration and superior performance for modern data centres with AMD EPYC 7002 series processors. Read further...

Boston has released the first-to-market solutions featuring AMD EPYC 7002 Series processors based on Supermicro building blocks including the Boston Quattro 12256-T02 optimised for High Performance Computing (HPC). Read further...

Intel and Lenovo have signed a multiyear collaboration focused on the rapidly growing opportunity in the convergence of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) to help accelerate solutions for the world's most challenging problems. Building on the companies' long-standing partnership in the data centre, the multiyear global collaboration will speed the convergence of HPC and AI, creating solutions for organisations of all sizes. Read further...

Xilinx Inc., an expert in adaptive and intelligent computing, has expanded its Alveo data centre accelerator card portfolio with the launch of the Alveo U50. The U50 card is the industry's first low profile adaptable accelerator with PCIe Gen 4 support, uniquely designed to supercharge a broad range of critical compute, network and storage workloads, all on one reconfigurable platform. Read further...

Penguin Computing, an expert in high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and enterprise data centre solutions and services, has made available AMD EPYC 7002 series processors for Penguin Computing's Altus server platform. AMD EPYC 7002 series processors are expected to deliver up to 2x the performance-per-socket and up to 4x peak FLOPS per-socket over AMD EPYC 7001 series processors. These advantages enable customers to transform their infrastructure with the right resources to drive performance and reduce bottlenecks. Read further...

In recent years, efforts to understand the workings of the mind have taken on new-found urgency. Not only are psychological and neurological disorders - from Alzheimer's disease and strokes to autism and anxiety - becoming more widespread, new tools and methods have emerged that allow scientists to explore the structure of, and activity within, the brain with greater granularity. Read further...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has acquired the business assets of MapR, a data platform for artificial intelligence and analytics applications powered by scale-out, multi-Cloud and multi-protocol file system technology. This transaction includes MapR's technology, intellectual property, and domain expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) and analytics data management. HPE welcomes MapR customers and partners and plans to support existing deployments along with ongoing renewals. Read further...

This may come as a shock, if you're moving fast enough. The shock being shock waves. A balloon's 'pop' is shock waves generated by exploded bits of the balloon moving faster than the speed of sound. Supersonic planes generate a much louder sonic 'boom', also from shock waves. Farther out into the cosmos, a collapsing star generates shock waves from particles racing near the speed of light as the star goes supernova. Scientists are using supercomputers to get a better understanding of turbulent flows that interact with shock waves. This understanding could help develop supersonic and hypersonic aircraft, more efficient engine ignition, as well as probe the mysteries of supernova explosions, star formation, and more. Read further...

UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, and the University of Washington have been awarded a five-year, $5 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop CloudBank, a suite of managed services to simplify public Cloud access for computer science research and education. Read further...