DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - HPC & Quantum, Alex Alley
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Aquila Capital spins up data center arm, AQ Compute, with Oslo data center in the works
The investment firm is building a data center to match its computing division
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Quantum software firm Zapata Computing raises $38m
Zapata writes the software for future quantum systems
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IQM to deliver Finnish quantum computing system, eventually growing to 50 qubit
IQM won the role in an international tender
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Arm-powered Ookami supercomputer installed at Stony Brook University, New York
Using the same processor as the world's fastest supercomputer, Fugaku
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IBM and AMD team for 'confidential computing' for AI and HPC in the cloud
Engineers from both companies are already cooperating
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Fastest HPC in the Nordics, Mahti, officially launched at CSC's Kajaani data center in Finland
Mahti will be followed by LUMI in 2021
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AWS launches quantum computing managed service, Braket
Scientists at the University of Chicago also made a breakthrough in quantum computing
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Los Alamos, NNSA install cooling system to prep for exascale supercomputers
Los Alamos is getting ready for when exascale becomes available
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Frédéric Hannoyer appointed COO and MD of SiPearl, Europe's exascale chip designer
Hannoyer will take the lead on the day to day running of SiPearl
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Ireland's CeADAR wins grant for new supercomputer, Leon
The supercomputer will help small enterprises and startups with analytics
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Nvidia and Finnish researchers create AI technology center
The new center will support research projects that requires exceptional computing power
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LUMI supercomputer to use district heating for cooling
Pre-exascale system hopes to keep Finnish citizens toasty
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NERSC finalizes contract for Perlmutter supercomputer
Featuring around 6,000 Nvidia GPU processors
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Italian HPC project gets EU funding for Covid-19 research
The EU hopes to have a breakthrough within 18 months
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NEC deploys new HPC at Germany's Ulm University
The new platform will analyze what goes on in an artificial diamond
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US weather agency to triple processing power with two Cray systems
The HPCs will be collaborating with other systems elsewhere in the US
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US Navy to deploy Cray Shasta supercomputer with AMD and Nvidia chips
The system will aide in hurricane and engineering research
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German university begins building new HPC shell
The structure will house one of the most powerful computers in Germany
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Belgian university refitting data center to host new supercomputer
The data center needs to be worked on before a new HPC can be brought in
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Los Alamos joins IBM quantum computing network
Researchers will have access to the largest commercially available quantum system
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Hosting agreements signed for eight supercomputers across Europe
With a combined processing power of more than 500 petaflops
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Eni triples power on world's fastest industrial supercomputer
But can it do this?