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Arm Technology Powers the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

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Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Software, Technology, Other Technology, Data management, Computing, Digital technology, Computer architecture, Acorn Computers, Riken, Supercomputing in Japan, Cluster computing, Parallel computing, ARM Holdings, Supercomputer, TOP500, ARM architecture

We are incredibly proud to see an Arm-based supercomputer of this scale come to life and thank RIKEN and Fujitsu for their commitment and collaboration, said Rene Haas, president, IP Group, Arm.

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  • We are incredibly proud to see an Arm-based supercomputer of this scale come to life and thank RIKEN and Fujitsu for their commitment and collaboration, said Rene Haas, president, IP Group, Arm.
  • Powering the worlds fastest supercomputer is a milestone our entire ecosystem should be celebrating as this is a significant proof point of the innovation and momentum behind Arm platforms making meaningful impact across the infrastructure and into HPC.
  • Arm has also made significant investments across the HPC software ecosystem, enabling seamless migration across instruction sets, cross-platform development, profiling, and debug.
  • Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and data revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate.

Arm Technology Powers the World’s Fastest Supercomputer

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Monday, June 22, 2020
Networks, Hardware, Electronic design automation, Data management, Technology, Computer architecture, Computing, Acorn Computers, Digital technology, ARM Holdings, SoftBank, Parallel computing, Cluster computing, Supercomputer, ARM architecture, TOP500, K computer

We are incredibly proud to see an Arm-based supercomputer of this scale come to life and thank RIKEN and Fujitsu for their commitment and collaboration, said Rene Haas, president, IP Group, Arm.

Key Points: 
  • We are incredibly proud to see an Arm-based supercomputer of this scale come to life and thank RIKEN and Fujitsu for their commitment and collaboration, said Rene Haas, president, IP Group, Arm.
  • Powering the worlds fastest supercomputer is a milestone our entire ecosystem should be celebrating as this is a significant proof point of the innovation and momentum behind Arm platforms making meaningful impact across the infrastructure and into HPC.
  • Arm has also made significant investments across the HPC software ecosystem, enabling seamless migration across instruction sets, cross-platform development, profiling, and debug.
  • Most recently, the company added additional porting capabilities to Arm Compiler for Linux and Arm Allinea Studio to help accelerate applications on current and future Arm CPUs, as more projects of this scale will be based on Arm because of its openness, efficiency, and software ecosystem maturity.

AMD EPYC Processor Adoption Expands with New Supercomputing and High-Performance Cloud Computing System Wins

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Monday, June 22, 2020
Computing, Digital technology, Concurrent computing, Parallel computing, Epyc, Advanced Micro Devices, Dell PowerEdge, Cloud computing, FLOPS, Supercomputer, Oracle Cloud, Dell

Two universities announced new research supercomputing systems powered by AMD EPYC processors in Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.

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  • Two universities announced new research supercomputing systems powered by AMD EPYC processors in Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.
  • Indiana University will deploy Jetstream 2, an eight-petaflop distributed cloud computing system powered by upcoming 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors.
  • With the next generation AMD EPYC processor, Jetstream 2 will provide 8 petaflops of cloud computing power, giving more access to high-end technologies to enable deep learning and artificial intelligence techniques.
  • With recent cloud wins among technology partners like Amazon Web Services , Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud , AMD is helping industry leaders push the boundaries in the new era of HPC and cloud computing.

BERG Creates New Drug Research Effort to Use Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit Supercomputer in the Fight Against COVID-19

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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Science and technology in the United States, Computer architecture, Battelle Memorial Institute, Nuclear technology in the United States, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Computing, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, Supercomputer

"ORNL's Summit supercomputer presents unprecedented capabilities to address some of the most pressing challenges in science.

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  • "ORNL's Summit supercomputer presents unprecedented capabilities to address some of the most pressing challenges in science.
  • Smith's research on Summit uses computational simulations to analyze drug compounds that could prevent host cell infection.
  • The partnership with BERG will extend this effort by combining BERG's human derived disease model for rapid identification of targets with ORNL's drug development research to identify the best-ranked treatment candidates.
  • The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility that houses Summit is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL.

San Diego-based virtual reality startup becomes first US-based company to join EU government supercomputing efforts against SARS-CoV-2

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Monday, June 8, 2020
Health sciences, Health, Alternatives to animal testing, Laboratory techniques, Clinical pharmacology, Drug discovery, Pharmaceutics, Pharmacognosy, In vitro, Supercomputer

E4C has 3 million of emergency EU funding and has already tested 9,000 drugs and bioactives, more than 100 of which have been found to be active in vitro.

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  • E4C has 3 million of emergency EU funding and has already tested 9,000 drugs and bioactives, more than 100 of which have been found to be active in vitro.
  • At the center of the project is Exscalatea powerful and cost-efficient supercomputing platform for drug discovery.
  • The platform already has a "chemical library" of 500 billion molecules and a processing capacity of more than 3 million molecules per second.
  • The tool will also enable collaboration in real-time and across borders (the scientists can "meet" in virtual reality).

Verne Global Secures $27M in Funding to Expand Icelandic Data Center Campus

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Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Technology, Research, Engineering, Manufacturing, Alternative energy, Software, Energy, Data management, Science, Concurrent computing, Parallel computing, Cluster computing, Keflavík, Verne Global, Distributed computing architecture, Supercomputer, Customer satisfaction, HPC, Penguin Computing

Verne Global , a provider of advanced data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus.

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  • Verne Global , a provider of advanced data center solutions for high performance computing (HPC), today announced a new round of funding of $27M to expand its Icelandic data center campus.
  • The funding expands the enterprise capacity of Verne Globals high performance computing solutions.
  • Customers across financial services, engineering, scientific research and other industries are turning to Verne Global for their power intensive HPC workloads and extreme algorithmic AI compute needs.
  • Recently completed customers satisfaction surveys show Verne Global with a 98% customer satisfaction rating and a Net Promoter score of 88.

Remote Access HPC Cluster with Intel Xeon Processors and New Open Source Utility Developed for Leading Materials Manufacturer

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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Computing, Computer architecture, Cluster computing, Computers, Concurrent computing, Distributed computing architecture, Parallel computing, Supercomputer, Intel

MINNEAPOLIS, May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Nor-Tech , the leading experts on Linux-based high-performance technology solutions, recently completed a groundbreaking HPC cluster for leading materials manufacturer Owens Corning.

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  • MINNEAPOLIS, May 19, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Nor-Tech , the leading experts on Linux-based high-performance technology solutions, recently completed a groundbreaking HPC cluster for leading materials manufacturer Owens Corning.
  • The cluster features expertly engineered hardware, Intel Xeon Processors and a groundbreaking Open Source utility offered to enterprises exclusively through Nor-Tech.
  • Nor-Tech has a significant edge with open source in that they are the only enterprise offering groundbreaking Open OnDemand to enterprise clients.
  • This utility, developed at the Ohio Supercomputer Center, allows even those without high performance computing experience or expertise to take advantage of the open source cost savings.

HPC-AI Advisory Council and ISC Group Continues Annual Student Cluster Competition as an Online Event

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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Other Health, Software, Networks, Hardware, Data management, Technology, Infectious diseases, University, Security, Education, Telecommunications, Health, Supercomputing, Computing, Digital technology, Cluster computing, ISC High Performance, Events, ISC, ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference, Supercomputer, HPC, HPC-AI Advisory Council, ISC 2020 Digital

The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), a for community benefit organization promoting high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) education, along with the ISC Group, organizers of Europes premier HPC forum, ISC High Performance (ISC 2020), today announced that the 2020 ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC), regularly scheduled as a three-day live event during the ISC conference, will be held as an online competition.

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  • The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), a for community benefit organization promoting high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) education, along with the ISC Group, organizers of Europes premier HPC forum, ISC High Performance (ISC 2020), today announced that the 2020 ISC-HPCAIAC Student Cluster Competition (SCC), regularly scheduled as a three-day live event during the ISC conference, will be held as an online competition.
  • We, as well as the student teams, are extremely happy to be able to continue the competition through this new online format.
  • Through the tremendous support of the HPC-AI Advisory Council and the National Supercomputing Center Singapore, we are grateful that our student teams will be able to continue with this years competition online.
  • ISC 2020 has transformed into ISC 2020 Digital this year and will be held online from June 22 to June 24.

BIOS IT Partners with Panasas to Deliver ActiveStor Ultra Turnkey HPC Storage Appliances

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Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Data management, Technology, Software, Networks, Internet, Hardware, Concurrent computing, Network file systems, Panasas, Computing, Computer architecture, Cluster computing, Distributed computing architecture, Parallel computing, Network-attached storage, Supercomputer, BIOS IT, Panasas

Global high-performance computing (HPC) integration specialists BIOS IT has partnered with HPC storage expert Panasas to deliver turnkey storage solutions leveraging the Panasas ActiveStor Ultra appliance.

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  • Global high-performance computing (HPC) integration specialists BIOS IT has partnered with HPC storage expert Panasas to deliver turnkey storage solutions leveraging the Panasas ActiveStor Ultra appliance.
  • BIOS IT will sell Panasas storage solutions throughout the US, EMEA and APAC as an appointed value-added reseller (VAR), providing customized HPC product and service solutions to its customers.
  • We are excited to partner with Panasas to offer our customers in the HPC arena the extreme performance, reliability, and simplified manageability that the ActiveStor Ultra product delivers.
  • 2020 Panasas, Inc. Panasas and the Panasas logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Panasas, Inc., in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Global High-Performance Computing as a Service Market Analysis and Industry Forecasts to 2026 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Friday, May 15, 2020
Software, Technology, Hardware, Concurrent computing, Digital technology, Cloud infrastructure, Cluster computing, Distributed computing architecture, Parallel computing, Cloud computing, Supercomputer, Techila Grid, Grid computing

The "High-Performance Computing as a Service Market by Component, Deployment Type and Industry Vertical: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2018-2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

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  • The "High-Performance Computing as a Service Market by Component, Deployment Type and Industry Vertical: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2018-2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
  • High-performance computing as a service enables the execution of high-performance computing applications over cloud, which enables on-demand access to HPC components.
  • The report provides an in-depth analysis of the global high-performance computing as a service market, outlining current trends, key driving factors, and potential areas for product investments.
  • The quantitative analysis of the global high-performance computing as a service market from 2018 to 2026 is provided to determine the market potential.