COLLEGE PARK, MD – September 19, 2023 – The University of Maryland (UMD) today announced the opening of the National Quantum Laboratory (QLab), a quantum research center developed in partnership with quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ). The QLab enables people from around the world to develop and design quantum technologies on a quantum computer […]
University of Maryland and IonQ Open Quantum Computing Research
September 20, 2023 by Leave a Comment
NVIDIA Issues Update on Virtual GTC 2023, March 20-23
February 22, 2023 by
Feb. 22, 2023 — NVIDIA released on update on its virtual GTC 2023 conference, March 20-23. Registration is free and open at www.nvidia.com/gtc. CEO Jensen Huang will deliver the GTC 2023 opening keynote covering advancements in generative AI, the metaverse, large language models, robotics, cloud computing and other topics. The keynote will be livestreamed on […]
Professor Judith Klein-Seetharaman to Keynote RMACC’s HPC Symposium
February 8, 2023 by
BOULDER, CO, Feb. 8, 2023 – Dr. Judith Klein-Seetharaman, professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, has been selected as a keynote speaker at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) 13th annual High Performance Computing Symposium May 16-18 in Scottsdale, AZ. The ASU Professor will […]
HPC User Forum to Be Held at Princeton April 18-19, Spotlight on High- and Low-Growth HPC Segments
February 6, 2023 by
Feb. 6, 2023 — HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced that the HPC User Forum will hold a conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 18-19, at the Princeton, NJ, Marriott at Forrestal. The conference agenda can be found here, more information and registration can be found here. Hyperion Research will provide an HPC market update […]
Argonne: ATPESC 2023 Applications Due March 1
January 4, 2023 by
Jan. 4, 2023 — Applications are due Wednesday, March 1 for the annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC), which will take place July 30-August 11, 2023 in the Chicago area. Apply here. There are no fees to participate in ATPESC. Domestic airfare, meals and lodging are also provided. The program offers the opportunity […]
Dell Using HPC in UNICEF Partnership for School Internet Connectivity
October 3, 2022 by
ROUND ROCK, Texas – October 03, 2022 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is leveraging high performance computing in a partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) USA to support Giga, a UNICEF-ITU global initiative to connect every school to the internet by 2030 and every young person to information, opportunity and choice. Dell contributes valuable technical assistance, including […]
MIT AI Policy Forum Virtual Summit Sept. 28 to Explore Challenges Surrounding AI Deployment
September 22, 2022 by
Cambridge, MA — Sept. 22, 2022 — On Wednesday, Sept. 28 from 9 am to 5 pm Eastern Time, the MIT AI Policy Forum will host a free, virtual summit convening leading voices from government, business, and academia to explore the global policy challenges surrounding the implementation of AI technologies. The summit will feature a live […]
TACC Announces Frontera Fellows Cohort for 2022-2023
June 28, 2022 by
The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) has welcomed its Frontera Computational Science Fellowship awardees for 2022-2023. The program provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students to compute on the Frontera supercomputer world and collaborate with experts at TACC. TACC released the following profiles and Q&A with the new cohort of fellows: Alma Carolina Escobosa, […]
Dell Technologies Interview: How Cambridge University Pushed the Wilkes3 Supercomputer to No. 4 on the Green500
January 18, 2022 by
[SPONSORED CONTENT] In this interview conducted on behalf of Dell Technologies, insideHPC spoke with Dr. Paul Calleja, director of Research Computing Services at the University of Cambridge, about the Wilkes3 supercomputer, currently ranked no. 4 on the Green500 list of the world’ most energy efficient supercomputers. Dr. Calleja discusses how he and his team developed an low-power strategy for the 80-node Wilkes3 system by the adoption of GPUs and lower clock speeds balanced against high throughput. He also explains how the Dell PowerEdge XE8545 -based cluster, which utilizes AMD EPYC CPUs and the Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect, fits within the university’s larger, heterogeneous Cumulus system, comprised of 2,500 Intel x86 servers.
Univ. of Nebraska Seeks $50M Fed Funding for HPC Center Expansion
October 8, 2021 by
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is seeking $50 million in federal dollars via the American Rescue Plan to fund supercomputing expansion at the university’s Holland Computing Center. According to an article on its Nebraska Today news site, the university’s proposals seek $75 million in total — $50 million for the computing center and $25 million for […]
