Former Google Cloud President Tariq Shaukat Joins Sonar as Co-CEO

AUSTIN and GENEVA – September 12, 2023 – Sonar, a Clean Code solution provider, announced that Tariq Shaukat has joined the company as co-CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. The company said Shaukat will lead the company with founder and CEO Olivier Gaudin. This model strengthens the leadership team and prepares the company […]

@HPCpodcast: Red Hat’s Mike McGrath on RHEL Source Code Access and the Linux Open Source Controversy

Red Hat’s policy change for Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code access started the biggest open source controversy in years. @HPCpodcast continues its coverage with Red Hat’s Mike McGrath, whose two blogs in late June announced the company’s new RHEL stance ….

@HPCpodcast: Linux Open Source Guru Greg Kurtzer on Red Hat and the RHEL Source Code Controversy

The Linux open source controversy was kicked off in late June when Red Hat announced changes in access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) source code. We discussed this in an earlier episode of this podcast, Sorting through the Linux Source Uproar — Red Hat Sets off a Firestorm… In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, we talk with Greg Kurtzer, CEO of CIQ and creator of Rocky Linux….

@HPCpodcast: Software May Be Eating the World – But Is it Eating HPC?

In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug kick off what we expect to be a series of looks at HPC software and its convergence with traditional enterprise IT software. We cover the evolution of software through phases of IT, we look at the roster of relevant HPC programs from development environment to system administration and end-user requirements, along with traditional and emerging applications. Shahin also shares his somewhat contrarian take on the aphorism about software eating the world.

MemVerge Names Jeffrey Wang VP Engineering 

MILPITAS, Calif. – January 18, 2023 – Big memory software company MemVerge today announced that Jeffrey Wang has been named Vice President of Engineering. With decades of software-defined infrastructure experience across networking, computing and cybersecurity software industries, the company said Wang will lead the MemVerge engineering organization as it builds out its big memory management technology for […]

ISC 2022: HPC Experts Share Thoughts on Making the Most of Next Week’s Conference

ISC 2022, one of the biggest HPC confabs of the year, will be an in-person event (along with virtual streming) for the first time since 2019. Getting the most of the conference in Hamburg calls for good time management and good judgment. As an assist to both in-person and virtual attendees we spoke with three industry thought leaders – Katie Antypas of NERSC, Earl Joseph of Hyperion Research and Addison Snell of Intersect360 Research – about conference events, keynotes and potential news developments they think will be worthy of your attention.

Argonne’s Globus Software Wins Award at 2021 Data Mover Challenge

Globus, a platform for research data management created by researchers at the University of Chicago and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, was named the Best Integrated Software Experience Award at the 2021 Data Mover Challenge. The award took place at a recent data moving competition held at the SupercomputingAsia conference to […]

Altair Acquires Cassini for Development of Digital Thread Technology

TROY, Mich., Feb. 16, 2022 — Computational science and AI software company Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) has acquired Cassini, a next-generation cloud native technology for Industry 4.0. Altair said the acquisition deepens its expertise and strengthens its ability to offer digital thread solutions via the Altair One cloud platform. A digital thread provides a 360-degree view […]

DOE Funds $13M for Adapting Scientific Software to Run on Exascale Supercomputers

July 21, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced more than $13 million for five advanced-computing projects across nine states, including $4.4 million to U.S. universities. The projects will focus on adapting scientific software to run on the coming generation of increasingly powerful supercomputers. The goal is to decrease the effort necessary […]

ECP and ALCF to Host June 21 Twitter Chat on Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-mQa

On June 21 at 2 p.m. ET, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a chat on ECP’s Twitter account (@exascaleproject) that will address several questions concerning the Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) that ECP is developing for the nation’s forthcoming exascale systems. E4S will have a far-reaching impact on the […]