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#Nvidia's newest top-tier #AI #supercomputers deployed for the first time — #GraceBlackwellUltra Superchip systems deployed at #CoreWeave
#Dell's and CoreWeave's initial rollout involves Dell Integrated Racks equipped with 72 Nvidia #BlackwellUltra #GPU, 36 Arm-based 72-core Grace CPs, and 36 BlueField DPUs per rack. Each #GB300 #NVL72 rack delivers 1.1 ExaFLOPS of dense FP4 inference and 0.36 ExaFLOPS of FP8 training performance, 50% higher compared to a GB200 NVL.
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Tom's Hardware · Nvidia's newest top-tier AI supercomputers deployed for the first time — Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip systems deployed at CoreWeaveBy Anton Shilov

Kendrew's 1962 #Nobel lecture is a great read for insight into the history of #structuralbiology, including the massive experimental effort to eke out the structure of #myoglobin. This required calculating Fourier transforms of thousands of reflexions, requiring the latest (at the time) #supercomputers like the first EDSAC digital computer and #IBM 7090

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Weather forecasting and climate modeling move closer together

However, current research questions, such as those concerning the regional impacts of anthropogenic #ClimateChange, require that the gap between #weather #forecasting and #climate modeling be gradually closed. This is made possible by modern #supercomputers, which can calculate longer time periods with high spatial resolution.

A team of researchers from the #MPI-M, the #DWD, and other partners has taken on this task and is bringing together what belongs together: the #ICON developments for numerical weather prediction and climate applications.

"Our project has benefited greatly from the fact that the components use the same model structure," says Wolfgang Müller, group leader at MPI-M and lead author of the recently published paper presenting first successes of the project.

Roland Potthast, head of the Department of Meteorological Analysis and Modeling at the DWD, highlights the societal relevance of the work: "The developments help us to take an integrated approach to weather and climate and to provide well-coordinated services ranging from high-resolution weather #forecasts to seasonal and decadal climate forecasts."

phys.org/news/2025-06-weather-

Phys.org · Weather forecasting and climate modeling move closer togetherBy Max Planck Society

French state formally bids €410M for #Atos' #HPC assets
Stumbling Euro tech giant Atos looks set to finally sell its Advanced Computing assets to #France.
The #IT services megacorp, currently undergoing a complex restructuring process, said it has received a confirmatory offer from the French government to acquire the Advanced Computing business of its #Eviden subsidiary, putting a value on it of €410 million ($468 million).
theregister.com/2025/06/02/ato
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The Register · French state formally bids €410M for Atos' slimmed-down HPC assetsBy Dan Robinson

If #NSF Snoozes, #TACC’s “#Horizon#Supercomputer Loses
#NationalScienceFoundation is front and center on proposed cuts in spending by Trump, those cuts, if they should come to pass, will undercut scientific research and computing tools that make it possible.
NSF is conduit for lots of #research and half of the spending in #US for reasonably large capability-class (strong scaling for large workloads) and capacity-class (weaker scaling for many workloads) #supercomputers.
nextplatform.com/2025/04/28/if

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#Weather and #climate data shown on this website and countless others are at risk.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (#NOAA) is the U.S. agency responsible for global weather #forecasting, #hurricane #prediction, #ocean #observation, and many other services vital to public safety. Its #satellites, #supercomputers, and research teams provide essential #data that help us understand our #planet and #protect #lives.

On February 27, the new U.S. administration initiated mass firings at NOAA. These actions are #unethical and deeply #disruptive to the talented #scientists and #engineers who dedicate themselves to the public good. The firings, along with expected budget cuts, have serious implications for the availability and #quality of #WeatherForecasts produced by the #UnitedStates. They must be reversed immediately.

Much of the data on this website is downloaded directly from NOAA's servers. In this environment of uncertainty, access could be #disrupted at any time. While I'll strive to keep all features on this website functional and switch to alternative data sources if necessary, some datasets have no substitute if they go offline.

If this concerns you, speak up. Share on #SocialMedia. And if you're in the U.S., contact your representatives.

#FacialRecognition software for people with faceblindness? :flan_excite:

#EmotionalRecognition software for people who have trouble reading members of the normative society? :flan_heart:

Complex #AI that can learn to recognize and understand small gestures by paralized people to make communication possible? :flan_hug:

#SuperComputers or whatever to help scientists and engineers develop tools that make live easier for marginalized people? :flan_hearts:

#ChatBots that increase everybody's prejudices? :flan_facepalm: