We have updated our list with projects under the current European Horizon 2020 research programme. 790 million euro of budget has been allocated in this five year programme. We have found 119 HPC related projects. There is still some budget that has not yet been allocated. So the final figure, next year will be over 800 million euro for over 120 projects. Our list does not yet include EuroHPC funded projects. The first EuroHPC calls are just open, so no EuroHPC funded research project has been approved yet. Read further...

Cray Inc. has launched an entirely new, open and extensible software platform to address the growing need for supercomputing across government and private industries. As advanced simulation, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation create new, data intensive workloads, the need for performance at scale is growing rapidly. Recognizing the challenges presented by the exascale era, Cray's software fuses supercomputing performance and capability with the modularity, composability and ease-of-use of Cloud computing. Read further...

The Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have signed contracts with Cray Inc. to build the NNSA's first exascale supercomputer, "El Capitan". El Capitan will have a peak performance of more than 1,5 exaflops (1,5 quintillion calculations per second) and an anticipated delivery in late 2022. The total contract award is valued at $600 million. Read further...

Researchers from GW4 Universities Bristol and Cardiff assessed the performance of the GW4 Alliance Isambard supercomputer using an open-source Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) code. The research team consisted of Unai Lopez Novoa, Data Innovation Research Institute; Pablo Ouro Barba, Cardiff School of Engineering; Dr James Price, University of Bristol; and Professor Simon McIntosh Smith, the principal investigator for the Isambard project and a professor of high-performance computing at the University of Bristol. Read further...

Taashee Linux Services has joined the Bright Partner Programme as a Reseller Partner serving India, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Read further...

The U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, Facility Technology Integration, High Performance Computing (HPC) Programme recently procured a new supercomputer that will serve users from all of the services and agencies of the Department of Defense. Read further...

NCSA, Illinois, and the National Geospatial Agency (NGA) have entered into the first phase of what is expected to be a long-term strategic relationship to produce geospatial data products. Read further...

AMD EPYC 7002 series processor-based servers are now available from E4 Computer Engineering, with the aim to boost performance in its servers line-up and to support the ever increasing and intensive workload performance needs for high performance computing and data analytics processes. Read further...

ScaleMP, a provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, has partnered with AMD to enable AMD server OEMs to create systems with 4, 8, and up to 128 processor sockets, up to 8,192 CPUs and 256 terabytes of shared memory, using the AMD EPYC 7002 series processors. This functionality is enabled with vSMP Foundation 9.1. Read further...

A $6,3 million anonymous donation and a $5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant promise to accelerate cutting-edge research in the field of high-performance computing at Stony Brook's Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS). Read further...

Tachyum Inc. has joined the Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG), a 700+ member association committed to advancing the non-proprietary PCI technology to yield a reliable, scalable solution for high-speed I/O in numerous market applications. Read further...

Green Revolution Cooling (GRC), an expert in single-phase immersion cooling for data centres, has launched a new micro-modular data centre solution, the ICEraQ Micro, a rapidly deployable self-contained 24U server rack that can support up to 50kW of critical IT load and is nearly half the cost of other micro-modular solutions. Read further...

Researchers from Northwestern University are using Argonne supercomputers to advance the development of an optical microscopy technique that can predict and quantify cancer risks at extremely early stages. Read further...

How do galaxies such as our Milky Way come into existence? How do they grow and change over time? The science behind galaxy formation has remained a puzzle for decades, but a University of Arizona-led team of scientists is one step closer to finding answers thanks to supercomputer simulations. Read further...

Amanda Randles, the Alfred Winborne Mordecai and Victoria Stover Mordecai Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, is developing a massively parallel fluid dynamics simulation called HARVEY capable of modelling the full human arterial system at subcellular resolution. The visionary programme is already fostering discoveries that could improve the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of human diseases. Read further...

As part of the Department of Energy's (DOE) role in the fight against cancer, scientists are building tools that use supercomputers to solve problems in entirely new ways. Deep learning puts artificial intelligence (AI) to use to discover the complex, often unexpected, correlations hiding within big data. Cancer research provides a complex deep learning challenge that enables DOE to develop new supercomputing capabilities that will, in turn, help scientists address challenges in national security and science. Read further...

What do a bird and an alligator have in common? Let me assure you there really is a similarity but it's one you easily can't see. The answer is: their lungs. Breathing is a complex process, which seems to vary depending on the species. And biologists are learning that lungs in vertebrates seem to evolve and adapt to the environment. But there is still much to discover. Read further...

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Delaware (UD) have begun a two-year joint initiative to promote collaborative research in new areas of complementary strength and strategic importance. Though Brookhaven Lab and UD already have a tradition of collaboration, especially in catalysis, this initiative encourages partnerships in strategic areas where that tradition does not yet exist. Read further...

Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has the potential to literally change the world. It helps scientists quickly analyze massive data sets to solve tough problems related to energy, science, national security, health care, and everything else in between. The Department of Energy (DOE) - home to the world's two fastest supercomputers, that are also A.I. enabled, and with next-generation exascale machines in development - is at the forefront of America's A.I. revolution. Read further...

Subaru Corporation is pioneering revolutionary control systems that deliver unrivaled safety and reliability performance for their next generation hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) using ANSYS embedded software solutions. ANSYS enables Subaru Corporation engineers to quickly and accurately generate highly sophisticated software code that ensures the operational reliability of key, interconnected HEV systems to help keep drivers safe on the road. Read further...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has announced that Milinda Shayamal Fernando of the University of Utah, and Staci Smith of the University of Arizona are the recipients of the 2019 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships. Milinda Shayamal Fernando is recognized for his work on high performance algorithms for applications in relativity, geosciences and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Staci Smith is recognized for her work developing a novel dynamic re-routing algorithm on fat-tree interconnects. The Fellowships are jointly presented by ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. Read further...

Nimbix, a high-performance computing (HPC) Cloud platform provider, has launched HyperHub, a point-and-click catalogue of HPC and accelerated applications. With the new self-service marketplace, engineers and scientists can select from a growing ecosystem of prebuilt apps and workflows and run them on any device, Cloud, or on-premises infrastructure, anywhere in the world. Read further...