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HPC News Bytes 20240812: UK Cuts Exascale, Big Round for AI Inference, Llama 3.1 and Open AI, SC24 the Biggest Ever?
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HPC News Bytes 20240812: UK Cuts Exascale, Big Round for AI Inference, Llama 3.1 and Open AI, SC24 the Biggest Ever?

A good mid-August morn to you! Here's a rapid (6:30) romp through recent HPC-AI developments, including: the UK government cuts more than £1 billion for an exascale...

DOE Announces 2024 Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows
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DOE Announces 2024 Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows

Four scientists have each been awarded $1 million in direct funding via the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows program...

CoreWeave Adds Managers from Google, Oracle
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CoreWeave Adds Managers from Google, Oracle

ROSELAND, N.J., Aug. 8, 2024 — GPU cloud company CoreWeave today announced the appointment of Chen Goldberg as Senior Vice President of Engineering, as well as Sachin...

TSMC Reports July Revenue up 45% YoY
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TSMC Reports July Revenue up 45% YoY

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Aug. 9, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2024...

NSF National Quantum Virtual Lab Initiates 5 Pilot Projects
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NSF National Quantum Virtual Lab Initiates 5 Pilot Projects

Aug. 9 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the initial $5 million investment across five pilot projects taking the first steps toward creating...

Palantir and Microsoft Partner on AI for National Security
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Palantir and Microsoft Partner on AI for National Security

Aug. 8, 2024 — Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a next step in their partnership to bring cloud, AI and...

Preparing Networks for the Increasing Demands of HPC and AI
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Preparing Networks for the Increasing Demands of HPC and AI

(We need) ... smarter networks that use software to identify areas of congestion and potential outages — and which can automatically respond, self-configure, self...

AMD Announces ROCm 6.2 Software Stack for GPU Programming
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AMD Announces ROCm 6.2 Software Stack for GPU Programming

AMD has released a version 6.2 of its ROCm software stack for GPU programming. Global AI GPU Product Marketing Manager Ronak Shah wrote a blog in support of the...

IonQ Awarded Awarded $5.7M for DOD Quantum System Design
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IonQ Awarded Awarded $5.7M for DOD Quantum System Design

COLLEGE PARK, MD – AUG. 6, 2024 – IonQ announced today it has won a contract through a competitive solicitation with the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence...

Quantum Error Correction Company Riverlane Raises $75M Series C
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Quantum Error Correction Company Riverlane Raises $75M Series C

Aug. 6, 2024, Cambridge, UK and Boston, MA — Quantum error correction company  Riverlane announced it has raised $75 million in Series C funding to deliver its ...

Laser-Based Startup LightSolver Wins €12.5M from European Innovation Council
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Laser-Based Startup LightSolver Wins €12.5M from European Innovation Council

TEL AVIV, Israel – August 6, 2024 – LightSolver, maker of a laser-based computing paradigm, today announced that it has been selected for the European Innovation...

Vectra AI Expands XDR Platform to Monitor Attack Exposure 
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Vectra AI Expands XDR Platform to Monitor Attack Exposure 

SAN JOSE, August 6, 2024 – Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the expansion of its Vectra AI Platform...

NIH Funds $3.15M for Anton HPC at PSC
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NIH Funds $3.15M for Anton HPC at PSC

Aug. 5, 2024 — The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center announced today that a third-generation Anton supercomputer (Anton 3), developed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES)...

AI Inference Chip Startup Groq Raises $640M
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AI Inference Chip Startup Groq Raises $640M

Amid the gloom of the technology industry meltdown on Wall Street, AI inference chip startup Groq announced today it has secured a $640 million Series D round at...

HPC News Bytes 20240805: Intel Woes, Blackwell Delay, Energy Efficient Programming Languages, Exascale Software Kicks In
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HPC News Bytes 20240805: Intel Woes, Blackwell Delay, Energy Efficient Programming Languages, Exascale Software Kicks In

A good August morning to you! Here's a rapid (6:52) run though of recent news from the roiling world of HPC-AI, including: Intel's financial results and other woes...

Microchip Introduces PCIe Gen 5 SSD Controllers
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Microchip Introduces PCIe Gen 5 SSD Controllers

CHANDLER, Ariz., August 5, 2024 — Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has released the Flashtec NVMe 5016 Solid State Drive (SSD) controller. The 16-channel, PCIe...

HPC4EI Workshop to Be Held Aug. 20-22 at Livermore
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HPC4EI Workshop to Be Held Aug. 20-22 at Livermore

In collaboration with U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies...

Leopard Imaging and Sony Semiconductor Collaborate on Smart City AI-Based Imaging 
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Leopard Imaging and Sony Semiconductor Collaborate on Smart City AI-Based Imaging 

FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 1, 2024 — Leopard Imaging Inc., a vision solutions design and manufacturing company, has collaborated with Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation...

Quantinuum Introduces Nexus Quantum Computing Platform
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Quantinuum Introduces Nexus Quantum Computing Platform

July 31, 2024 — Quantinuum has announced the beta availability of Quantinuum Nexus, which is designed to simplify quantum computing workflows with full-stack support...

OpenMP ARB Releases Public Comment Draft of OpenMP 6.0
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OpenMP ARB Releases Public Comment Draft of OpenMP 6.0

Beaverton, Oregon – August 1, 2024 – The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 13: the final public comment draft of version 6.0OpenMP...
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