Supercomputers

Atos strengthens its leading position in HPC cloud enablement and acquires leading global HPC cloud platform provider Nimbix

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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

PARISand IRVING, Texas, July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Atos today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Nimbix , a global leading high-performance computing (HPC) cloud platform provider based in the US, to strengthen its HPC offering.

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  • PARISand IRVING, Texas, July 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Atos today announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Nimbix , a global leading high-performance computing (HPC) cloud platform provider based in the US, to strengthen its HPC offering.
  • With this acquisition, Atos, already a European leader in HPC, enhances its existing capabilities and position itself as a leader in HPC cloud enablement.
  • This will enable Atos to expand its market offering and reach with a strong proposition in HPC cloud, under the Atos brand as part of its OneCloud initiative .
  • The unique intellectual property provided by Nimbix will accelerate Atos' HPCaaS developments and go-to-market plans with Cloud Services Providers, as well as increasing and accelerating Atos' HPC footprint in North America.

HPC-AI Advisory Council and ISC Group Announce Winners of 10th Annual ISC Student Cluster Competition

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Friday, July 9, 2021

The prestigious institutions provided generous allocations of supercomputer system time to the teams on their highly utilized and in-demand production resources.

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  • The prestigious institutions provided generous allocations of supercomputer system time to the teams on their highly utilized and in-demand production resources.
  • The competition exposes undergraduates to graduate level expectations and experiences, said Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC-AI Advisory Council.
  • The ISC Group organizes ISC High Performance, the worlds oldest and Europes premier conference and networking event for the international HPC community.
  • More: www.isc-hpc.com
    Founded in 2008, The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC) is a community benefit organization with over 400 members committed to promoting HPC and AI through education and outreach.

Japan's Fugaku Retains Title as World's Fastest Supercomputer for three consecutive terms

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Monday, June 28, 2021

TOKYO, June 28, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - The supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu, has successfully retained the top spot for three consecutive terms on all four of the major high-performance computer rankings.

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  • TOKYO, June 28, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - The supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu, has successfully retained the top spot for three consecutive terms on all four of the major high-performance computer rankings.
  • The results this time were made with Fugaku's full complement of 158,976 nodes fit into 432 racks.
  • With this continued dominance we have been show that Fugaku is leading the world in a range of areas.
  • Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 3.6 trillion yen (US$34 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.

NVIDIA Powers Next-Generation Supercomputer at University of Edinburgh

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Monday, June 28, 2021

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ISCNVIDIA today announced that its NVIDIA HGX high performance computing platform will power Tursa, the new DiRAC supercomputer to be hosted by the University of Edinburgh.

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  • SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ISCNVIDIA today announced that its NVIDIA HGX high performance computing platform will power Tursa, the new DiRAC supercomputer to be hosted by the University of Edinburgh.
  • Optimized for computational particle physics, Tursa is the third of four DiRAC next-generation supercomputers formally announced that will be accelerated by one or more NVIDIA HGX platform technologies, including NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs , NVIDIA HDR 200Gb/s InfiniBand networking and NVIDIA Magnum IO software.
  • DiRAC is helping researchers unlock the mysteries of the universe, said Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of networking at NVIDIA.
  • The system is run by DiRAC the UKs integrated supercomputing facility for theoretical modeling and HPC-based research in astronomy, cosmology, particle physics and nuclear physics with sites hosted at the University of Cambridge, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Leicester.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory Chooses Bright Computing to Help get Perseverance and Ingenuity to Mars

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Tuesday, June 8, 2021

JPL utilized this environment's new capabilities to perform crucial trajectory calculations and entry descent landing calculations for the recent Mars 2020 Perseverance Mission.

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  • JPL utilized this environment's new capabilities to perform crucial trajectory calculations and entry descent landing calculations for the recent Mars 2020 Perseverance Mission.
  • With Bright Cluster Manager, JPL leverages a flexible platform that enables users to deploy complete clusters over bare metal and manage them reliably from edge-to-core-to-cloud.
  • For more information about Bright Computing Bright Cluster Manager, visit us at http://www.brightcomputing.com or email us directly and [email protected]
    The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a unique national research facility that carries out robotic space and Earth science missions.
  • Bright Computing software helps organizations manage complex, distributed computing environments that combine on-premises systems with public cloud and edge computing to unlock the potential of real-time machine learning for their business.

Kao Data Becomes NVIDIA DGX-Ready, Establishing the UK Innovation Corridor's Home for HPC and AI

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

This step further reinforces its capabilities as a world-class data centre operator and highlights its expertise in delivering customised architectures for high-performance computing (HPC), AI and supercomputing environments.

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  • This step further reinforces its capabilities as a world-class data centre operator and highlights its expertise in delivering customised architectures for high-performance computing (HPC), AI and supercomputing environments.
  • "DGX-Ready Data Center architectures are quickly changing both the dynamics and capabilities of data centres built for HPC, AI and supercomputing," said Grard Thibault, CTO, Kao Data.
  • "From inception, Kao Data was precision engineered to deliver a dedicated, robust and resilient environment for intensive computing.
  • Kao Data allows data halls to be customised to suit air-cooled HPC architectures with various rack power densities.

Kao Data Becomes NVIDIA DGX-Ready, Establishing the UK Innovation Corridor's Home for HPC and AI

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

This step further reinforces its capabilities as a world-class data centre operator and highlights its expertise in delivering customised architectures for high-performance computing (HPC), AI and supercomputing environments.

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  • This step further reinforces its capabilities as a world-class data centre operator and highlights its expertise in delivering customised architectures for high-performance computing (HPC), AI and supercomputing environments.
  • "DGX-Ready Data Center architectures are quickly changing both the dynamics and capabilities of data centres built for HPC, AI and supercomputing," said Grard Thibault, CTO, Kao Data.
  • "From inception, Kao Data was precision engineered to deliver a dedicated, robust and resilient environment for intensive computing.
  • Kao Data allows data halls to be customised to suit air-cooled HPC architectures with various rack power densities.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Redefined HPC System TOKI-SORA Enables Numerical Analysis At Scale for Earth Observation System Based on AI Infrastructure

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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

"In the future, the system will support research and development needs in a wide range of fields from HPC to AI.

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  • "In the future, the system will support research and development needs in a wide range of fields from HPC to AI.
  • "\n"This is an exciting project for DDN and another incredible collaboration with Fujitsu," said Robert Triendl, general manager of DDN.
  • "\nDDN is the world\'s largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligent technology and infrastructure solutions for Enterprise At Scale, AI and analytics, HPC, government and academia customers.
  • DDN provides its enterprise customers with the most flexible, efficient and reliable data storage solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud environments at any scale.

Core Scientific, San Diego Supercomputer Center Form HPC Partnership

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Monday, April 19, 2021

"Core Scientific\'s Plexus software stack provides end-customers access to our infrastructure in an intuitive, cloud-like point and click experience, which is a potential game changer for supercomputer centers.

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  • "Core Scientific\'s Plexus software stack provides end-customers access to our infrastructure in an intuitive, cloud-like point and click experience, which is a potential game changer for supercomputer centers.
  • Please contact [email protected] .\nCore Scientific equips and enables data scientists to take on the world\'s most advanced AI challenges.
  • To learn more, visit www.corescientific.com .\nThe San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is considered a leader in advanced computation and all aspects of "Big Data," which includes data integration and storage, performance modeling, data mining and predictive analytics, software development, and more.
  • SDSC supports hundreds of multidisciplinary programs spanning a wide variety of domains, from astrophysics and bioinformatics to environmental sciences and health IT.\nView original content to download multimedia: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/core-scientific-san-diego-superc...\n'

Nimbix Simplifies Enterprise HPC with New Hybrid Cloud Software and Service Offering

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Wednesday, March 31, 2021

With over a decade of experience running large scale HPC applications in the Nimbix Cloud across its multiple datacenters, Nimbix is unveiling its new hybrid service and software offering, enabling customers to deploy HPC work on any Kubernetes-enabled infrastructure including their own HPC clusters, any cloud provider or any combination of both.

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  • With over a decade of experience running large scale HPC applications in the Nimbix Cloud across its multiple datacenters, Nimbix is unveiling its new hybrid service and software offering, enabling customers to deploy HPC work on any Kubernetes-enabled infrastructure including their own HPC clusters, any cloud provider or any combination of both.
  • The new Nimbix Cloud offering is made possible by JARVICE XE, Nimbix's flagship HPC software platform, and HyperHub, Nimbix's application marketplace for HPC and AI.
  • We are excited to see how Nimbix helps companies quickly deploy cloud-native and hybrid HPC workloads onto Google Cloud."
  • Now with Nimbix Cloud Everywhere and JARVICE XE, customers can operate the most advanced HPC workflows both on Intel on-premises and in any cloud.