With the exascale era underway, the HPC community is already turning its attention to zettascale computing, the next of the 1,000-fold performance leaps that have occurred about once a decade. With this in mind, the ISC 2024 organizers asked Kathy Yelick, Vice Chancellor for Research and the Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, to deliver the opening keynote talk, titled “Beyond Exascale Computing.” HPCwire asked Steve Conway, senior analyst at Intersect360 Research, to interview Dr. Yelick ahead of ..read more

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2024 — The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science will sponsor the participation of 1,073 undergraduate students and 113 faculty members in three STEM-focused workforce development programs at 17 DOE national laboratories and a national fusion facility during Summer 2024. Collectively, these programs ensure DOE and our nation have a strong, sustained workforce trained in the skills needed to address the energy, environment, and national security challenges of today and tomorrow. Credit: Shutterstock “The Department of Energy is proud to offer opportunities ..read more

HSINCHU, Taiwan, April 18, 2024 — TSMC today announced consolidated revenue of NT$592.64 billion, net income of NT$225.49 billion, and diluted earnings per share of NT$8.70 (US$1.38 per ADR unit) for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024. Credit: Shutterstock Year-over-year, first quarter revenue increased 16.5% while net income and diluted EPS both increased 8.9%. Compared to fourth quarter 2023, first quarter results represented a 5.3% decrease in revenue and a 5.5% decrease in net income. All figures were prepared in accordance with TIFRS on a consolidated basis. In US dollars, first quart ..read more

April 18, 2024 — Thanks to the generosity of WHPC Champion, Do IT Now, coupled with the invaluable contributions from dedicated sponsors and a collaborative partnership with ISC24, the WHPC Executive Committee and WHPC ISC24 Volunteers Committee are pleased to announce the award of travel fellowships to two exceptional Early Career speakers. Both of these women represent the best of emerging talent within the supercomputing field, and there is excitement for their presentations this year in Germany. Their work will be featured at the ISC24 WHPC Poster Session, and their extended Lightning Talk ..read more

WASHINGTON, April 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for four projects providing classroom training and research opportunities to train the next generation of accelerator scientists and engineers needed to deliver scientific discoveries. Credit: Shutterstock U.S. global competitiveness in discovery science relies on increasingly complex charged particle accelerator systems that require world-leading expertise to develop and operate. These programs will train the next generation of scientists and engineers, providing the expertise needed to lead a ..read more

RENO, Nev., April 17, 2024 — CIQ, the company building the next generation of software infrastructure for enterprises, today launched fully supported, upstream stable kernels for Rocky Linux via the CIQ Enterprise Linux Platform, providing enhanced performance, hardware compatibility and security. The new offering from CIQ was built to meet the ultra-high performance, compatibility and security needs of the most advanced customers, and is now available to everyone. Development of the new offering stemmed from a storage use case where leveraging the large PCIe footprint of AMD EPYC processors w ..read more

Texas Tech University. Their middle name is ‘tech’, so it’s no surprise that they’ve been fielding not one, but two teams in the last three Winter Classic cluster competitions. Their teams, dubbed Matador and Red Raider, have been strong in past competitions – just not at the same time. In 2022, Team Red Raider notched a third-place finish (and campus cluster competition hegemony) with Team Matador lagging in fifth. In 2023, the Matadors took third while the Red Raiders languished in seventh (bragging rights lost). Something has to give. At the time of this interview, both teams had posted ver ..read more

Hailing from Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville State University stayed under the radar in their first Winter Classic competition in 2022. Solid students for sure, but not a lot of HPC experience. All good. They didn’t field a team in 2023, taking a break, assumedly for re-building. But this year, Fayetteville is back with a in a big way. In LINPACK, they posted a score of 99.13 – which got them third place, just fractions of a point away from the leaders. They did even better on HPCG, taking second with 99.85 points. Impressive performance for sure. In the video below we meet the team, who have a ..read more

Horizon Quantum Computing, a Singapore-based quantum software start-up, announced today it would build its own testbed of quantum computers, starting with use of Rigetti’s Novera 9-qubit QPU. The approach by a quantum software specialist to build-its-own testbed is new. The idea is to be able to develop and integrate its software stack — Triple Alpha — more thoroughly into various types of quantum computers. Founded in 2018, Horizon’s broad strategy is to develop tools that will take software developed using current programming languages and translate that code into quantum algorithms and spec ..read more

SINGAPORE, April 18, 2024 — Horizon Quantum Computing, a company building software development tools for quantum computers, today announced that it is establishing a first-of-its-kind testbed for integrating quantum computing hardware with its software stack, Triple Alpha. The testbed, which will be set up at Horizon’s Singapore headquarters, will have the capacity to host multiple quantum computers. By acquiring its own hardware, Horizon gains full control over both hardware and software stacks, allowing it to push the frontiers of quantum computing. A key aspect of Horizon’s quantum computin ..read more