“HPC systems have always been hard to leverage well, but with GPUs and other accelerators in the mix it has become truly daunting. Lowering the barrier to entry … on Kokkos, the ISO C++ committee, and the High Performance Software Foundation is what ….”
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Christian Trott – Lowering the Barriers to HPC-AI Entry
February 28, 2025 by
Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat
February 6, 2025 by
In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories began providing its employees with a large language model chatbot, called SandiaAI Chat, which the lab said is the first facility within the U.S. nuclear security enterprise to do so, enabling Sandia staff to ask sensitive, unclassified questions. Rather than buying a corporate ….
Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security
February 2, 2025 by
Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems — on the lab’s Venado supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research. “As threats to the nation become ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Erin Acquesta, Extroverted Mathematician and Emerging Leader
January 10, 2025 by
In our ongoing Vanguards of HPC-AI series, we now feature Erin Acquesta, who holds a PhD in mathematics from North Carolina State University. She got involved in HPC-AI in 2014as a data scientist at Lenovo. In 2016, she joined the team at Sandia National ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Siva Rajamanickam — AI for Science That ‘Outpaces Predictions’
December 19, 2024 by
“I am passionate about working in the broad areas of machine learning for science, codesign of algorithms and architectures, performance portable algorithms, and combinatorial scientific computing. I focus on ….”
HPC News Bytes 20241118: On the Scene at SC24, TSMC and the CHIPS Act, Cerebras at Sandia
November 18, 2024 by
Good morning to you from SC24 in Atlanta. Here’s a quick (5:33) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: The SC24 conference starts today; TSMC, the CHIPS Act and semiconductor demand; Sandia National Labs teams with Cerebras.
Transformative Potential of Confidential Computing to be Explored in SC24 Birds of a Feather Session
November 12, 2024 by
Atlanta – Nov. 12, 2024 – Sylabs, in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, will host a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at SC24 titled Integrating Confidential Computing into High-Performance Cloud Workflows. This interactive session is designed to introduce confidential computing—a cutting-edge approach to securing data while it’s actively in use, not just at rest […]
Sandia: Molecular Dynamics Simulation Record Breakers Nominated for Gordon Bell Prize
October 3, 2024 by
Sandia National Laboratories announced today a new speed record in molecular dynamics simulation. A collaborative research team ran simulations using the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine (WSE) processor and “raced past the maximum speed achievable on the world’s ….
Sandia and Arizona State to Integrate Photonics and Light-Wave Frequency for Quantum Processing
August 22, 2024 by
Aug. 22, 2024 — SandiaNational Laboratories and Arizona State University are collaborating to combine quantum technology and large-scale optical systems into integrated microsystems. Nils Otterstrom, a Sandia physicist specializing in integrated photonics, is working on scaling down optical systems to the size of a chip, which is intended to offer performance advantages and scalability for […]
Quantum vs. Classical HPC: Sandia Labs and Boston Univ. Challenge Conventional Wisdom that Speed Rules Supreme
June 27, 2024 by
Theoretical scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and Boston University say they have discovered that quantum computers are unrivaled at solving an advanced math problem. But the big advantage delivered by quantum ….
