Tag Archives: high performance computing

ViON and Fujitsu have signed a strategic partnership agreement to offer the latter's server technology in the North American market. Tom Frana, chairman and CEO of ViON and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, said the company aims to help customers address high-performance computing requirements with the PRIMEHPC FX700 offering.

Intel has partnered with the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise to validate hardware and software applications in support of the construction of an exascale computing system named Aurora.

The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium has entered into the second phase of operation to focus on research projects that seek to identify near-term treatments to help improve patient outcomes within the next six months.

Liqid and Intel have won a shared $32M contract to build a pair of high-performance computing systems at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground facility in Maryland for Department of Defense research and development efforts.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is developing a supercomputer to support the National Nuclear Security Administration’s simulation and research activities involving nuclear weapons and stockpile management.

Maxar Technologies collaborated with Amazon Web Services to build a cloud-based computing technology designed to accelerate processing of global weather data at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, SiliconANGLE reported Tuesday. “We knew NOAA had capabilities of weather prediction models in traditional on-premises, big beefy high-performance supercomputers, but we wanted to do it in the cloud; we wanted to use AWS as a key partner,” said Travis Hartman, director of analytics and weather at Maxar.

NVIDIA has partnered with the University of Florida for a $70M effort to build an artificial intelligence-driven supercomputer with a capacity for 700 petaflops of compute power.

General Dynamics’ information technology business has installed an update to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Hera CS500 supercomputer that supports modeling work for weather monitoring efforts.

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research partnered with Southwest Research Institute in Texas to utilize artificial intelligence, machine learning and high-performance computing to detect compounds that could target the novel coronavirus, Nextgov reported Thursday.

The Trump administration has partnered with NVIDIA, semiconductor manufacturer AMD and the National Science Foundation-sponsored National Center for Atmospheric Research Wyoming Supercomputer Center in an effort to leverage high-performance computing to aid COVID-19 research.

Several U.S. government, commercial and academic organizations have vowed to provide high-performance computing resources to support COVID-19 research and development efforts worldwide through a newly formed public-private consortium.

A research team for the Department of Energy’s COVID-19 disease analysis initiative has deployed IBM’s Summit high-performance computing platform to support virus behavior modeling and simulation activities.

Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in Ayar Labs to help the latter advance the commercialization of its monolithic in-package optical input/output platform.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has partnered with the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility to field a parallel storage system that will work to support scientific research efforts in physical genomics, aerospace turbulence and earthquake seismic activities.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will be collaborating with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory study the use of artificial intelligence in high-performance computing.