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Alces Flight June 2024 News: ISC Highlights

Explore Alces Flight’s latest innovations at ISC’24: Launch of Flight Alliance and Carbon Leaderboard for sustainability. Engage in our dynamic WHPC Solution Forum Takeover and impactful charity initiatives. Discover Viking 2’s eco-friendly upgrade at University of York. Learn about HPC efficiency essentials and our commitment to social sustainability.

Unlocking the Future of Disease Detection: New eBook on Covid-19 Research from University of Liverpool

The eBook, titled “The Combination of Data-Driven Machine Learning Approaches and Prior Knowledge for Robust Medical Image Processing and Analysis,” explores how the integration of extensive image datasets with state-of-the-art computing hardware and machine learning, particularly deep learning, is revolutionizing medical imaging tasks.

University of York’s ‘Viking 2’ Takes Flight to Renewable Data Centre: Pioneering Sustainability in High-Performance Computing

University of York’s ‘Viking 2’ embraces sustainability, relocating to EcoDataCenter, Sweden. A monumental leap in green computing, powering eco-conscious academia.

Alces Flight February 2024 News: Inclusive Horizons

This month we’re bringing news around the work we are doing in inclusivity, highlighting Alan Real and his work at the Durham University, giving insights from the team running the Winter Classic HPC Student Cluster Competition, and talking about professional development with Vashti Whitfield.

HPC Ecosystem Creates Community

Wil Mayers, Technical Consultant, and Cristin Merritt, CMO, share their insights on how the convergence of HPC and AI is causing the doors of opportunity to open for those who wish to be a part of the supercomputing community. Their contribution is part of the SC24 piece on how HPC creates community.

Moving the Needle: Bringing Diversity to the Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition

Cristin Merritt, CMO of Alces Flight, shares with HPCwire a discussion with Dan Olds, Chief Research Officer of Intersect360 Research, about how his novel idea for a Student Cluster Competition targeted at historically black and Hispanic colleges in the US came into being and continues to thrive. Part of the Move the Needle Project for 2024. Additional Reporting by Dominik Wojtak.

Predictions 2024: HPC-AI, Quantum, Storage and Data Management, Optical Computing, Containers, GenAI — Where It’s All Going

Doug Black of insideHPC discusses 2024 trends and directions of travel, including insights from the team at Alces Flight.

Looking Ahead to 2024:

As we step into the new year we are continuing our series on long-term High Performance Computing sustainability within the industry. Here are the next set of highlights from our Sustainable Reality event!

£200m Octopus backing to heat up pioneering Deep Green tech

Deep Green expands micro datacenters in the UK, offering more local use of HPC.

Alces Flight collaborates with Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) to ‘Move the Needle’

Alces Flight collaboration with Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC), is proud to unveil the ‘Move the Needle’ project, aimed at fostering workplace inclusivity and diversity in the field of HPC.

CIUK’23 Conference Preview!

We’re back in Manchester, UK this December to showcase our complete product and service line, plus engage with two community groups – Lustre and Women in HPC!

SC’23 Conference Rewind!

We were thrilled to return to Denver, Colorado to launch our Concertim product, raise funds for global charities, and continue our work in diversity, equity and inclusion with Women in HPC. Read our re-cap news!