At the 75th HPC User Forum in Edinburgh, Jean-Marc Denis held a keynote presentation on the European Processor Initiative. Before this,Primeur Magazinehad the chance to talk with him at large about the recent developments in the project. Read further...

Mark Parsons explained "The UK Exascale Project" at the HPC User Forum in Edinburgh. In the video recording of his presentation you can hear about the development of this project and the current status. Since mid 2018, it was clear that the UK needed an exascale computing strategy. Because of Brexit, it was impossible for the UK to join EuroHPC. So, a strategic case was made to undertake a scoping study to develop an outline business case for the UK government. Read further...

Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, has unveiled its Cray ClusterStor E1000 system, an entirely new parallel storage platform for the Exascale Era. ClusterStor E1000 addresses the explosive growth of data from converged workloads and the need to access that data at unprecedented speed, by offering an optimal balance of storage performance, efficiency and scalability, effectively eliminating job pipeline congestion caused by I/O bottlenecks. Read further...

ColdQuanta, Inc., the quantum atomics company, today announced it has been awarded an additional $2.8M across four separate programs from DARPA, NASA, and the U.S. military. These programs will advance the development of ColdQuanta’s cold atom Quantum Core™ technology for quantum positioning (gyroscopes and atomic clocks), quantum sensors (radiofrequency detectors), and quantum communication systems. Following the recent announcement of a $1M award from NASA, these awards put ColdQuanta’s cumulative R&D funding at over $30M. Read further...

At this year's Supercomputing conference (SC19), the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) will once again sponsor some of Germany's brightest collegiate minds, supporting a national student team participating in the prestigious Student Cluster Competition (SCC) which runs November 18–20 at SC19 in Denver, Colorado. Team "deFAUlt", consisting of six undergraduate students representing the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), is one of four European teams entering the student competition. Read further...

The Supervisory Board of the Netherlands eScience Center has appointed Professor Joris van Eijnatten as general director of the eScience Center, effective 1 January 2020. Van Eijnatten, who is currently professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, succeeds Wilco Hazeleger. Read further...

Eni has started the updating work for its new supercomputer system, HPC5, in order to strengthen the existing HPC4, tripling its computing power from 18 to 52 petaflops peak,. Thanks to HPC5, powered by Dell Technologies, Eni's Green Data Center, will become the world's most powerful supercomputer infrastructure in the industrial sphere, with a total peak power of 70 petaflops. Read further...

The European Processor Initiative (EPI), a project with 27 partners from 10 European countries, with the goal of helping the EU achieve independence in HPC technologies, is approaching the closure of the first year in its three-year cycle. During that time, the consortium has submitted several architectural designs to the European Commission and is now ready to show its updated roadmap to the public. Read further...

A new supercomputer at UC Santa Cruz is providing a state-of-the-art high-performance computing system for researchers in a wide range of fields. The new system, called lux, is substantially more powerful than previous campus supercomputers and was designed with the latest technologies to enable advanced computational studies in areas such as climate modelling, astrophysical simulations, and machine learning. Read further...

BittWare, a Molex Company, a leading supplier of enterprise-class FPGA accelerator products for demanding compute, network and storage applications is pleased to announce a strategic collaboration with Achronix Semiconductor Corporation to introduce the S7t-VG6 PCIe accelerator product—a feature-rich PCIe card sporting the new Achronix® 7nm Speedster®7t FPGA. This next generation product offers a range of breakthrough capabilities including low-cost and highly flexible GDDR6 memories that offer HBM-class memory bandwidth, high-performance machine learning processors and a revolutionary 2D network-on-chip for high bandwidth and energy-efficient data movement. Read further...

Pavilion Data Systems, the leader in NVMe-Over-Fabrics, today announced release 2.3 of its award-winning Hyperparallel Flash Array with VMware Ready status. The no-compromise enterprise storage platform now supports a complete suite of data management features for consolidation of VM sprawl and native Container Storage Interface (CSI) for simplified migration to PKS, Docker and Kubernetes containers. Release 2.3 includes native VMware support for vCenter, VMware Ready support for NFS along with backward compatibility for block-based iSCSI connectivity. The company will be demonstrating integration of the VMware NVMe-Over-RDMA inbox driver support at VMworld Europe in Barcelona, booth #G209, November 4-7, 2019. Read further...

Mellanox Technologies Ltd., a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, has issued preliminary financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2019. Read further...

Super Micro Computer Inc., a global expert in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions, and green computing technology, announced enhanced performance on a broad range of servers, workstations, and motherboards that leverage the new Intel Xeon E-2200 processors. In addition to refreshed four- and six-core processors, Intel has introduced new eight-core processors where the top frequency rate can increase to 5 GHz from 4.5 GHz on specific processors with Turbo Boost, bringing up to a 16% gain in multi-threaded integer operations. The Intel Xeon E-2200 family also supports 128GB of 2666 MHz memory, double the amount from the previous processor generation. Read further...

Atos, a global expert in digital transformation, has signed a contract with the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) to supply a new supercomputing cluster, based on Atos' BullSequana X technology, to the Institute of Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC). The IFISC is a joint institute of the University of the Balearic Islands and the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), and runs scientific research in the framework of complex systems. It is one of the most innovative scientific research centers in Spain. The new computational cluster will be used for Big Data analysis and intensive digital simulations and substantially enhance the institute's research capacity, enabling it to face new challenges. Read further...

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) will investigate the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for generating and augmenting synthetic datasets for remote sensing applications in space domain. BSC together with its Italian partners AIKO S.r.l and the National Research Council - Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate are the members of the consortium of the DeepLIM project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) Read further...

Using a supercomputing system, MIT researchers have developed a model that captures what web traffic looks like around the world on a given day, which can be used as a measurement tool for internet research and many other applications. Read further...

Thee U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $4 million for new projects to support manufacturers in improving energy efficiency, increasing productivity and accelerating manufacturing innovation. The High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) Initiative, managed by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), is seeking qualified industry partners to work collaboratively with DOE’s National Laboratories on projects that use high performance computing (HPC) to solve key technical challenges in the areas of manufacturing and mobility. Read further...

Marvell has joined the Green Computing Consortium (GCC) to help build an open and innovative ecosystem in China for green computing in cloud data center infrastructure. As part of this partnership, Marvell will contribute to key application development for big data, enterprise and cloud computing on platforms based on the Arm ® architecture. Read further...

San Diego-based Predictive Science Inc. (PSI) has released their first forecast for the 2019-2020 influenza season, which typically runs from November through March. Read further...