HPC

Pure Storage has announced the acquisition of privately-held, Sunnyvale, California based software company StorReduce, a cloud-first software-defined storage solution for managing large-scale unstructured data

Excelero, developers of software-defined block storage, has that it received strategic investment funds from Western Digital Capital, the strategic investment fund of Western Digital.

DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has announced the academic and industry research groups selected to develop new computing technologies to drive computing performance post-Moore’s Law

A team of researchers lead by Mark Potse from Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest research centre are using high performance computing to study heart arrhythmias

Researchers at the Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory (HCL) have successfully demonstrated a highly-sensitive detector to readout information from Si-CMOS based quantum bits (qubits)

Micron and Intel have announced that their partnership to develop 3D XPoint memory will be disbanded over the next 12 months

Penguin Computing, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), enterprise data centre and cloud solutions, has announced that it will deliver the new national supercomputer to the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC)

Xilinx has announced that it has acquired DeePhi Technology, a Beijing-based privately held start-up with capabilities in machine learning, specialising in deep compression, pruning, and system-level optimisation for neural networks.

The European Commission has confirmed that Latvia has mad a commitment to become a founding member of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking(EuroHPC JU).

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced that the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s (EPFL) Blue Brain Project, a Swiss brain research initiative, selected HPE to build a next-generation supercomputer to model the mammalian brain