Aug. 12, 2024 — The ARCTIC (“Advanced Research on Cryogenic Technologies for Innovative Computing”), an EU project, is intended to establish a European supply chain for cryogenic photonics, microelectronics, and, in general, cryo-microsystems around the emerging quantum computing industry and different cryo-enabled ICT applications. “The performance requirements asked from electronic devices and circuits at cryogenic […]
HPE Acquisition of Juniper Networks OK’d by UK Competition Authority
August 7, 2024 by
HPE’s planned $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks has won crucial clearances from two European antitrust regulatory bodies. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which began a Phase 1 inquiry ….
HPC News Bytes 20240603: New Nvidia, AMD Chips at Computex, Industry Heavies Back UALink, Europe’s 2nd Exascale, Approaching AI Bubble?
June 3, 2024 by
A good June day to you! What follows is a rapid (7:59) run-though of the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: At Computex 2024: Nvidia Rubin and Vera ….
HPC News Bytes 20240318: EU’s AI Act, Cerebras’s Whopping AI Chip, Meta’s Massive AI Infrastructure, a Matrix-Multiply Advance?
March 18, 2024 by
A happy St. Patrick’s Day week to you! Here’s a speed-walk (6:10) through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: the EU’s European AI Act, Cerebras’s new 5nm Wafer Scale Engine-3 AI….
The Need for Transparency and Explainability in EU AI Regulation
January 9, 2024 by
In this contributed article, Anita Schjøll Abildgaard, CEO and Co-Founder of Iris.ai, believes that while legislators work towards governance that enables appropriate, effective oversight without stifling innovation, organizations working on AI technology have a responsibility for ethical development.
With an emphasis on transparency and explainability, companies can ensure AI technology offers the most benefit to the most people.
European Exascale Chip Designer SiPearl Opens 5th Center in Grenoble
September 28, 2021 by
Maisons-Laffitte (France), Sept. 28, 2021 – SiPearl, whose mission is to design a high performance, low-power microprocessor for European exascale supercomputers, has opened a design center in Grenoble, France, with the goal of recruiting 50 engineers on site by the end of 2022. Following SiPeal facilities in Maisons-Laffitte, Duisburg, Barcelona and Sophia Antipolis, SiPearl’s Grenoble […]
Germany Launches €2B, 5-year Quantum Development Push
May 11, 2021 by
Germany plans to invest roughly €2 billion euros (US$2.4B) through 2025 on R&D for its first quantum computer and support technologies, the German economy and science ministries said today, according to a story published today by Reuters. The article stated that Germany’s Aerospace Center (DLR) will be the recipient of about €740 million in subsidies […]
EuroHPC Opens Access to Atos ‘Vega’ Supercomputer, More HPC on Way
May 4, 2021 by
With the first EU supercomputer now operational, the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) is ready to accept applications to access Vega’s HPC system computing power. Access time is allocated to European scientific, industrial and public sector users, matching application requirements, according to the principles stated in the EuroHPC JU Council Regulation and the […]
European HPC Exascale Project DEEP-EST Completed
April 15, 2021 by
Jülich/Munich, April 15, 2021 – The project “DEEP Extreme Scale Technologies,” funded by the European Union, has come to a successful conclusion. DEEP-EST started in 2017 to develop a modular architecture for high performance computing (HPC). Leveraging a co-design approach with real-life applications, the DEEP-EST project paved the way for future exascale systems that will […]
New EU Consortium Launches 4-year Quantum Scaling Project
February 4, 2021 by
A European consortium has been launched with the goal of scaling silicon quantum technologies. Named QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon), it’s a four-year four-year, €15 million ($17.7 million) EU project coordinated by CEA-Leti, the Grenoble, France-based electronics and IT research institute, and it aims to lay the foundation for industrial-scale semiconductor quantum processors. The […]
