Quantum computing holds great promise in such such as computational chemistry and high-speed networking. But they’re so different from classical HPC systems that scientists are working out how to feed them ….
Codasip Donates CHERI RISC-V SDK to CHERI Alliance
October 24, 2024 by
Munich, October, 2024 – RISC-V company Codasip announced it has donated its Software Development Kit (SDK) for CHERI to the community-interest organization CHERI Alliance, which makes the SDK freely available for download on GitHub. CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) is an advanced security technology developed by the University of Cambridge in a joint research […]
GitHub Releases New Research on Copilot Chat
October 18, 2023 by
New research from GitHub takes a look at Copilot Chat’s impact on authoring and reviewing code. The company conducted a study where 36 developers used GitHub Copilot and Copilot Chat to author and review code – it’s obviously a small sample size, in part due to how new the tool is, though early results are interesting.
The Economic Impact of the AI-powered Developer Lifecycle and Lessons from GitHub Copilot
August 7, 2023 by
GitHub released new research detailing the potential economic impact and productivity benefits of generative AI. The company partnered with Harvard Professor Marco Iansiti, who’s well-known in the field, to dig into the impacts of GitHub’s Copilot tool, and generative AI more broadly. The potential is massive – the study found that AI developer productivity benefits could boost global GDP by over $1.5 trillion by 2030.
PingCAP Empowers Open Source Community with New GitHub Data Explorer Tool
May 2, 2023 by
PingCAP, the provider of the advanced distributed SQL databases, announced the introduction of its new GitHub Data Explorer tool. This innovative new tool is built to help developers and open-source contributors achieve deeper insights into their GitHub activity, streamline workflows, and increase productivity.
Cambridge Quantum Open Sources TKET Software Development Toolkit
September 29, 2021 by
Cambridge, UK, September 29, 2021 – Cambridge Quantum (CQ) announced that the latest version (v.0.15) of TKET (pronounced “ticket”), its hardware-agnostic quantum software development kit, is now open-source and available. Open-sourcing permits for more transparency of the code, easier reporting of issues and more robust integrations. The rapidly growing quantum software community will now be able to […]
Elbencho – A New Storage Benchmark for AI
February 3, 2021 by
Germany, Feb 03, 2021 — Elbencho, a new open-source storage benchmark tool, is now available to help organizations that demand high performance and need to evaluate performance of modern storage systems, optionally including GPUs in the storage access. Elbencho is available for download at: https://github.com/breuner/elbencho Traditionally, storage system vendors published numbers primarily based on simple […]
A2I POWER Processor Core Contributed to OpenPOWER Community
June 30, 2020 by
The IBM-led OpenPOWER Foundation announced the contribution of the IBM A2I POWER processor core design and associated FPGA environment to the open source ecosystem. The release, which took place today at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit, follows the opening of the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) last August and is intended to enable the […]
Video: LANL Open Sources DeltaFS software for Wrangling Trillions of Files
March 15, 2019 by
A new distributed file system for HPC being distributed today via GitHub provides unprecedented performance for creating, updating and managing extreme numbers of files. “We designed DeltaFS to enable the creation of trillions of files,” said Brad Settlemyer, a Los Alamos computer scientist and project leader. “Such a tool aids researchers in solving classical problems in high-performance computing, such as particle trajectory tracking or vortex detection.”
Microsoft Releases Batch Shipyard on GitHub for Docker on Azure
February 2, 2017 by
“Available on GitHub as Open Source, the Batch Shipyard toolkit enables easy deployment of batch-style Dockerized workloads to Azure Batch compute pools. Azure Batch enables you to run parallel jobs in the cloud without having to manage the infrastructure. It’s ideal for parametric sweeps, Deep Learning training with NVIDIA GPUs, and simulations using MPI and InfiniBand.”
