According to a recent press release, “The White House announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium to provide COVID-19 researchers worldwide with access to the world’s most powerful high performance computing resources that can significantly advance the pace of scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus. ‘America is coming together […]
Dell Introduces Solutions to Advance High Performance Computing and AI Innovation
According to a recent press release, “At Supercomputing 2019, Dell Technologies is introducing several new solutions, reference architectures and portfolio advancements all designed to simplify and accelerate customers’ high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) efforts. Continued adoption of AI to solve real-world problems has spurred growth across the HPC industry. According to a […]
OpenNebula 5.10 “Boomerang” Released
According to a recent press release, “OpenNebula 5.10, code-named ‘Boomerang,’ is the sixth update release of the OpenNebula 5 series. The ongoing development and evolution of OpenNebula has focused on targeting usability and functional improvements driven by the needs of its thousands of users, including industry leaders like BlackBerry, Akamai, Telefonica, Runtastic, CA Technologies, Hitachi […]
Cray Announces Shasta Software to Power the Exascale Era
According to a new press release, “Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced an entirely new, open and extensible software platform to address the growing need for supercomputing across government and private industries. As advanced simulation, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital transformation create new, data intensive workloads, the need for performance at scale is growing […]
OpenAI Partners with Microsoft to Build New Azure AI Supercomputing Technologies
According to a new press release, “Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI, two companies thinking deeply about the role of AI in the world and how to build secure, trustworthy and ethical AI to serve the public, have partnered to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities in large-scale AI systems. Through this partnership, the companies will accelerate breakthroughs […]
Cray Powers Geospatial AI Revolution With Breakthrough Deep Learning Performance
A new press release reports, “Today at the 2019 International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. announced enhanced capabilities to empower data scientists and engineers who are innovating in the field of Geospatial AI. Cray introduced a new Geospatial Reference Configuration as well as new features in its Cray® Urika®-CS and […]
HPE to Acquire Supercomputing Leader Cray
According to a recent press release, “Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cray Inc., a global supercomputer leader, today announced that the companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which HPE will acquire Cray for $35.00 per share in cash, in a transaction valued at approximately $1.3 billion, net of cash. ‘Answers to some of society’s […]
Cray and Microsoft Bring Supercomputing to Microsoft Azure
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced an exclusive strategic alliance with Microsoft Corp. that gives enterprises the tools to enable a new era of discovery and insight, while broadening the availability of supercomputing to new markets and new customers. Under the partnership agreement, Microsoft and […]
NVIDIA Powers New Class of Supercomputing Workstations
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “NVIDIA today introduced a range of Quadro® products, all based on its Pascal™ architecture, that transform desktop workstations into supercomputers with breakthrough capabilities for professional workflows across many industries. Workflows in design, engineering and other areas are evolving rapidly to meet the exponential growth in data […]