Today the whole world is trying to push supercomputer technology to the exascale level, i.e. a billion billion calculations per second. In Europe, this exascale vision will be made possible with contributions by Consortia funded by the Horizon 2020 Programme of the EU in projects such as ExaNeSt, which built a first 'straw man' prototype, having worked on this since 2016. Read further...

Atos, a global expert in digital transformation, officially inaugurated its new global High Performance Computing (HPC) Test Lab in Angers. The new 2000 m2 test centre, which has the capacity to host the equivalent of approximately 48 BullSequana supercomputers, provides Atos' HPC customers worldwide with the unique opportunity to thoroughly test their supercomputing equipment under real conditions, to ensure it meets stringent benchmarking criteria, prior to receiving delivery on-premise. Read further...

Research groups from Tohoku University and Purdue University - which included Professor Hideo Ohno - the current president of Tohoku University - jointly developed an unconventional spintronics device harnessing thermal fluctuations and showed a proof-of-concept for probabilistic computing. Read further...

We hear a lot these days about the coming quantum revolution. Efforts to understand, develop, and characterize quantum materials - defined broadly as those displaying characteristics that can be explained only by quantum mechanics and not by classical physics - are intensifying. Read further...

To process information, photons must interact. However, these tiny packets of light want nothing to do with each other, each passing by without altering the other. Now, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have coaxed photons into interacting with one another with unprecedented efficiency - a key advance toward realizing long-awaited quantum optics technologies for computing, communication and remote sensing. Read further...

Aliro Technologies, a software company focused on providing a portable, hardware-agnostic, and noise-aware platform for quantum computing (QC), has emerged from stealth with the closing of its $2,7 million seed round, led by Flybridge Capital Partners, including Crosslink Ventures, and Samsung NEXT's Q Fund. Aliro's vision is to commercialize new software technologies that make today’s quantum hardware more accessible and useful for any coder, making hybrid classical-quantum programs the new standard. The company was spun out of Harvard's quantum computing lab, co-founded by Prof. Prineha Narang, a luminary in the quantum computing space. Read further...

Reply's study, conducted with the trend platform SONAR, shows the level of maturity of quantum computing. The objective of the study was to verify how much computing power, enabled by the use of quantum computers, exists in a commercial environment today. Read further...

The Netherlands is a leading centre for the development of quantum hardware and software, as well as the accompanying algorithms and applications. To retain this position, it is important for the country to keep moving forward. In the new National Agenda for Quantum Technology, Dutch knowledge institutions and companies describe how the country can keep and further strengthen its world leading position as a centre and hub for quantum technology. On 16 September, the agenda was presented to Mona Keijzer, State Secretary for Economic Affairs by Robert Dijkgraaf. Read further...

MIT and Dartmouth College researchers have demonstrated, for the first time, a tool that detects new characteristics of environmental "noise" that can destroy the fragile quantum state of qubits, the fundamental components of quantum computers. The advance may provide insights into microscopic noise mechanisms to help engineer new ways of protecting qubits. Read further...

Physicists at Uppsala University in Sweden have identified how to distinguish between true and 'fake' Majorana states in one of the most commonly used experimental set-ups, by means of supercurrent measurements. This theoretical study is a crucial step for advancing the field of topological superconductors and applications of Majorana states for robust quantum computers. New experiments testing this approach are expected next. Read further...

IBM has opened the IBM Quantum Computation Center in New York State. The new centre expands the world's largest fleet of quantum computing systems for commercial and research activity that exist beyond the confines of experimental lab environments. The IBM Quantum Computation Center will support the growing needs of a community of over 150.000 registered users and nearly 80 commercial clients, academic institutions and research laboratories to advance quantum computing and explore practical applications. Read further...

Luxembourg is acquiring a supercomputer called "Meluxina" which will be co-financed by European funds and will join the European network of EuroHPC supercomputers. Based on the business plan for the installation of this High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure prepared by the Ministry of Economy and LuxConnect, LuxProvide SA was recently created to provide acquisition, launch and operation of Meluxina. The company is a subsidiary of LuxConnect and is headquartered in Bissen. Read further...

Fall 1989 saw the introduction of a long-awaited innovation: Finland's first supercomputer, the Cray X-MP. Ever since those days, over a period spanning three decades, researchers in Finnish higher education and research institutions have solved scientific problems using mathematical modelling, high-performance computing and Finland's own supercomputer. Read further...

The entire ISC High Performance 2020 Contributed Programme is now open for submissions. The organizers encourage engineers, scientists, young researchers, students and active members of the global HPC community to participate in the 2020 conference. Submissions are welcome in the following sessions: Research Papers, Research Posters, Project Posters, Birds of a Feather (BoF), PhD Forum, Tutorials, and Workshops. Read further...

The Netherlands eScience Center and Atos-Bull have announced a call for proposals for the EU-funded projects 'Center of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe' (ESiWACE and ESiWACE2). The call aims to support the weather and climate model developing communities in Europe with preparing their simulation codes for (pre-)exascale computing platforms. Read further...

Aiden Lab at the Baylor College of Medicine, a genome research facility, has selected the Weka File System (WekaFS) to accelerate its genomics research. Aiden Lab chose WekaFS to improve application performance and storage efficiency, and it was the only file system that could accelerate I/O operations in its GPU cluster. Read further...

Oracle is incorporating the high performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory into its next-generation Exadata platform, Oracle Exadata X8M. Exadata powers Oracle Autonomous Database, Oracle Cloud Applications, and high-performance database infrastructure at most of the world's leading banks, telecoms, and retailers. Read further...

Dell Technologies is introducing a portfolio of all-new Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, new Ready Solutions for High-Performance Computing (HPC), and simplified management integrations with leading software and public Cloud providers, all designed to address the demands of the modern data centre. Read further...

Alibaba, Cisco, Dell EMC, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Intel Corporation and Microsoft have announced the incorporation of the Compute Express Link (CXL) Consortium, and unveiled the names of its newly-elected members to its Board of Directors. Read further...

Dr. Kurt Lauk has joined Tachyum's Board of Advisors. Dr. Lauk served on several management boards, including Daimler and Audi, and as a member of the EU Parliament. For 15 years, he was Chairman of the Economy Council (Wirtschaftsrat) and advised Angela Merkel in that capacity. He is Founder and President of Globe CP GmbH, a personally owned family office since 2000. Read further...

Atos' BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer powered by an AMD EPYC 7H12 Series processor has set four new world-records in server performance. Read further...

Synopsys Inc. has introduced its new DesignWare ARC EV7x Embedded Vision Processor family with Deep Neural Network (DNN) accelerator for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) edge applications. The ARC EV7x Vision Processors integrate up to four enhanced vector processing units (VPUs) and a DNN accelerator with up to 14.080 MACs to deliver up to 35 TOPS performance in 16-nanometer (nm) FinFET process technologies under typical conditions, 4x the performance of the ARC EV6x processors. Read further...

ScaleMP, a provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, has partnered with Liqid Inc., provider of comprehensive composable infrastructure solutions and services platform, to enable users of in-memory workloads to break beyond the server memory limitations and expand total system memory by order of magnitude over the DRAM installed, without any operating system or application modifications. Read further...

Exxact Corporation, a provider of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and deep learning solutions, has become a North America Gold Partner of ThinkParQ GmbH, the company behind the world-renowned and award-winning parallel file system BeeGFS. BeeGFS workloads are efficiently multi-threaded, lightweight and supports all the popular interconnects including RDMA/RoCE, InfiniBand, Omni-Path, 100/40/10/1GbE. Because of these advantages, BeeGFS has quickly grown notoriety among many industries in HPC including: Life Sciences, AI & Deep Learning, Media & Entertainment, Oil & Gas, Financial Services, and more. Exxact's BeeGFS solutions provide aggregated throughput of multiple servers, while also distributing metadata across multiple servers and providing high single stream performance. Read further...

Inspur has launched the open-source release of TF2, an FPGA-based efficient AI computing framework. The inference engine of this framework employs the world's first DNN shift computing technology, combined with a number of the latest optimization techniques, to achieve FPGA-based high-performance low-latency deployment of universal deep learning models. Read further...

Electrons on liquid helium may have applications in quantum computing Quantum computing harnesses enigmatic properties of small particles to process complex information. But quantum systems are fragile and error-prone, and useful quantum computers have yet to come to fruition. Read further...

An international team of physicists succeeded in precisely engineering key ingredients to simulate a specific lattice gauge theory using ultracold atoms in optical lattices. Read further...

MathWorks has introduced Release 2019b with a range of new capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink, including those in support of artificial intelligence, deep learning and the automotive industry. In addition, R2019b introduces new products in support of robotics, new training resources for event-based modeling, and updates and bug fixes across the MATLAB and Simulink product families. Read further...

An interdisciplinary team of climate researchers and computational experts has developed an innovative method to study cloud dynamics in unprecedented detail in weather and climate models. The method employs comprehensive three-dimensional cloud simulations to replace the traditional approximations of cloud processes currently used in global climate models. The coupling of these simulations to global models is done with the help of software technology originally developed for astrophysical research. The team's method and initial findings are published in theJournal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. Read further...

The international climate science community is undertaking an extensive programme of numerical simulations of past and future climates. Its conclusions will contribute significantly to part one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, which is expected to be published in 2021. The French scientists involved in the work, in particular at the CNRS, the CEA and Météo-France, were the first to submit their contributions, and they have now revealed the broad outlines of their findings. Specifically, their new models predict that warming by 2100 will be more severe than forecast in earlier versions. They are also making progress in describing climate at the regional level. Read further...

Atos, a global expert in digital transformation, opened its German Artificial Intelligence (AI) Laboratory in Munich. In this innovative environment, Atos is developing for its clients business solutions using AI and other cutting-edge technologies. At the opening ceremony Thierry Breton, CEO and Chairman of Atos, highlighted the relevance of AI for the industry and the economy. Read further...

Three researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will lead or participate in collaborative research projects aimed at harnessing the power of quantum mechanics to advance a range of technologies including computing, fiber optics and network communication. Read further...

Understanding the how our universe came to be what it is today and what will be its final destiny is one of the biggest challenges in science. The awe-inspiring display of countless stars on a clear night gives us some idea of the magnitude of the problem, and yet that is only part of the story. The deeper riddle lies in what we cannot see, at least not directly: dark matter and dark energy. With dark matter pulling the universe together and dark energy causing it to expand faster, cosmologists need to know exactly how much of those two is out there in order to refine their models. Read further...

Cerebras Systems, a company dedicated to accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) compute, has signed a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance the massive deep learning experiments being pursued at its laboratories for basic and applied science and medicine with supercomputer-scale AI. Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are the first labs announced in Cerebras' multi-year, multi-laboratory partnership, with more to follow in the coming months. The partnership comes on the heels of Cerebras' introduction of the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE), the largest chip ever built, last month. Read further...

The EGI Foundation and Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Resources Center (SSTIR) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Resources Center (SSTIR) is based in Shanghai and supports a platform promoting technological resources and research data sharing. Read further...

DDN, a global expert in AI and multi-Cloud data management, has entered into a strategic partnership with Western Digital Corp. that includes an agreement to acquire Western Digital's IntelliFlashTM business. Additionally, the companies will expand their existing relationship through a mutual global strategic sourcing agreement. DDN and Western Digital are committed to executing a smooth transition for customers and key stakeholders. Read further...

Oracle and VMware Inc. have signed an expanded partnership to help customers leverage the companies' enterprise software and Cloud solutions to make the move to the Cloud. Under this new partnership, customers will be able to support their hybrid Cloud strategies by running VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. With this new solution, customers will be able to easily migrate VMware vSphere workloads to Oracle's Generation 2 Cloud Infrastructure and take advantage of consistent infrastructure and operations. As a part of this partnership, Oracle will also provide technical support for Oracle software running in VMware environments both in customer on-premise data centres and Oracle-certified Cloud environments. Read further...

Oracle is expanding its security portfolio with new Cloud services designed to automatically help protect Cloud workloads and data from risks posed by misconfigurations and cyber threats. The three new Cloud services, including Oracle Data Safe, Oracle Cloud Guard and Oracle Maximum Security Zones provide centralized security configuration and posture management, as well as automated enforcement of security practices. Read further...

Oracle has made available its Generation 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer service and previewed Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud at Customer. Oracle Cloud at Customer enables organisations to get all the benefits of Oracle Cloud Database delivered securely on premise in their own data centres. Read further...

At the European launch in Rome, Italy, AMD highlighted the growing adoption of 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors across Cloud, enterprise and HPC customers. Read further...