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The UK government announced it has injected 36 million to increase the power of one of the UK's leading supercomputing centres sixfold. This includes backing a new National Computational Resource supercomputer at the University of Cambridge for UK scientists. Home to the DAWN supercomputer, Cambridge is part of the AIResearch Resource (AIRR) - a national [...]The post UK Invests 36M in AMD-Powered Supercomputer at the Univ. of Cambridge appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PALO ALTO, Calif. & Boca Raton, Florida - January 27, 2026 -D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a dual-platform quantum computing company, today announced that Florida Atlantic University (FAU) has signed an agreement to purchase an Advantage2 annealing quantum computer at its Boca Raton campus. The agreement represents a $20 million commitment from FAU, aiming to [...]The post Florida Atlantic Univ. in $20M Deal for D-Wave Advantage2 Quantum Computer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - January 27, 2026-D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a dual-platform quantum computing company, today announced a $10 million, two-year enterprise quantum computing as a service (QCaaS) agreement with a leading Fortune 100 company. Under the agreement, the companies plan to collaborate to develop and deploy several quantum-powered applications. This agreement marks a [...]The post D-Wave Announces $10M Quantum Deal with Fortune 100 Company appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Abbas Nikroo, deputy director for physics integration atLawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF), has received the 2025 Distinguished Career Award by Fusion Power Associates.The post Abbas Nikroo of Livermore's National Ignition Facility Wins FPA Distinguished Career Award appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Lightmatter, photonic (super)computing company, today announced what the c ompany said is a foundational advancement in laser architecture: Very Large Scale Photonics (VLSP). Embodied in the Guide light engine, this breakthrough creates the industry's most integrated laser platform supporting unprecedented bandwidths-moving laser manufacturing from manual assembly lines toward foundry production," Lightmatter [...]The post Lightmatter Introduces Guide Light Engine for AI with VLSP Technology appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. and BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - January 26, 2026 -IonQ and SkyWater Technology (NASDAQ: SKYT), a U.S.-based semiconductor foundry, today announced IonQ will acquire SkyWater for $35 per share in a cash-and-stock transaction, subject to a collar, implying a total equity value of approximately $1.8 billion. This transformational acquisition enablesIonQto materially accelerate its [...]The post Quantum: IonQto Acquire Foundry Company SkyWater in $1.8B Deal appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

DAEJEON, South Korea (January 26, 2026) - Qunova Computing, a developer of software applications designed with the goal of bringing quantum advantage to the chemical, pharmaceutical and industrial engineering sectors, today announces its HI-VQE algorithm is now available on AWS Marketplace. This distribution channel expands HI-VQE's reach to thousands of potential users, and provides convenient [...]The post Quantum: Qunova's HI-VQE Algorithm Available on AWS Marketplace appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Good late January morning to you! The HPC-AI industry threw its weight around last week in its usual fashion, here's a fast (11:44) run-thoughof recent news, including: Intel's volatile share price impacted by earnings ....The post HPC News Bytes 20260126: Intel and Other Chip Stocks in Spotlight, Industry-Wide Supply Shortage, Micron Build-Up in Upstate New York, US Chip Investments by Region appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President and Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company.

Jan. 22, 2026 - Nokia, an IP networking and AI-HPC data center fabric provider, and Hypertec, an AI and HPC infrastructure company, today announced the deployment of Nibi, an advanced supercomputing cluster at the University of Waterloo in Ontario. The system is designed to support more than 4,000 researchers annually, expanding Canada's capacity to advance [...]The post Nokia and Hypertec Group Install Nibi' Supercomputer Cluster at the University of Waterloo appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026 - Rigetti Computing India P L, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rigetti Computing, Inc., announced it has received an $8.4 million order to deliver a 108-qubit quantum computer to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an Indian R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The [...]The post Quantum: Rigetti Lands $8.4M Order from India's Centre for Development of Advanced Computing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Data Center Liquid Cooling Market was valued at USD 870 Million in 2024, and is projected to reach USD 10.70 billion by 2030, rising at a CAGR of 51.93%. Liquid cooling solutions are ....The post Report: Data Center Liquid Cooling Market to Grow at 52% CAGR appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026 -D-Wave Quantum Inc. today announced it has completed its previously announced acquisition of Quantum Circuits Inc., a developer of error-corrected superconducting gate-model quantum computing systems. D-Wave said it expects the acquisition to accelerate the time to a scaled, error-corrected gate-model quantum computer alongside and complementary to its commercial annealing [...]The post D-Wave Completes Acquisition of Quantum Circuits appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Jan. 20, 2025 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computer scientist Peter Lindstrom received the 2025 IEEE VIS Test of Time Award for his 2014 paper on near-lossless data compression, recognizing its lasting influence on the field of scientific visualization and high-performance computing. (Graphic: Dan Herchek) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computer scientist Peter Lindstrom recently [...]The post LLNL's Peter Lindstrom Honored with IEEE VIS Test of Time Award appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Milpitas, CA, Jan. 20, 2026,VDURAtoday announced the release of theFlash Volatility Index and Storage Economics Optimizer Tool, an updated quarterly resource designed to help enterprises, infrastructure operators, and partners quantify flash pricing risk and evaluate storage architecture economics under changing market conditions. Enterprise flash pricing has entered a period of sustained volatility driven by hyperscaler [...]The post VDURA Introduces Flash Volatility Index and Storage Economics Tool appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Jan. 20, 2026 - The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) invites proposals for a new collaboration and development program, called APEX, designed to fast-track novel applications of AI in science. This program seeks proposals that apply AI methods in new, creative, or unconventional ways within their domain, such as introducing new AI methods or bringing [...]The post ALCF Issues AI for Science Program Call for Proposals, Feb. 27 Deadline appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Good Martin Luther King Day (US) to you! Chips in their many forms and the manufacturing of them dominated the HPC-AI industry last week, here's a quick (9:51) review of recent developments: Cerebras lands $10B OpenAI deal, Taiwan pledges $250 billion ....The post HPC News Bytes 20260119: Cerebras Breakout, Taiwan's Chips-Tariff Deal, Apple-Intel Foundry Reunion, Hit Google AI Documentary appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The award winning OpenMC software package is helping researchers at Argonne National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop next-g nuclear and fusion ....The post Argonne, MIT Using Open-Source Code for Nuclear and Fusion Energy Research appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

If it's not too late to take stock of 2025 in HPC-AI, then holding up the Supercomputing Conference as a trends test site might be a good approach. I'm no perennial* but I've been to about half of the 37 SCs , including all 11 since 2015. Looking ....The post What I Saw at the Revolution appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Dublin, Jan 15 - Equal1, a quantum semiconductor company, today announced it has raised $60 million to accelerate development of scalable, silicon-based quantum computers and deployment of its Bell-1 quantum server. The round was led by the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), with participation from Atlantic Bridge, the European Innovation Council Fund, Matterwave Ventures, Enterprise [...]The post Equal1 Raises $60M for Quantum with Existing Semiconductor Manufacturing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

January 15, 2026 - The Novo Nordisk Foundation has allocated up to DKK 5.5 billion (EUR 736 million) to BioInnovation Institute (BII), a leading institute for life science and deep tech innovation in Copenhagen. The funding will enable BII to expand its activities into new strategic areas and geographies, and support even more entrepreneurs and [...]The post Novo Nordisk Foundation Grants 736M to BioInnovation Institute appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Lewisville, TX - January 15, 2026 - Moonshot Energy, a Texas-based manufacturer of electrical and modular AI infrastructure, with QumulusAI, Inc., a provider of inference GPU-as-a-Service, today announced that they and Connected Nation Internet Exchange Points (dba IXP.us) have entered into a commercial agreement. Moonshot and QumulusAI (QAI Moon) will deploy a nationally distributed platform [...]The post Moonshot andQumulusAIin Agreement with Connected Nation Internet Exchange Points for an AI Exchange Platform appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Fremont, Calif.-January 14, 2026-Penguin Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:PENG) a provider of high-performance computing and AI infrastructure solutions, today announced that its SMART Modular CXL NV-CMM E3.S 2T non-volatile memory module has successfully passed CXL compliance testing. Penguins said this not only signifies adherence to industry standards, but positions Penguin Solutions as a trusted leader in advanced [...]The post Penguin Solutions SMART Modular CXLNV-CMM E3.S 2T Memory Module Achieves CXL Compliance appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Since Cerebras came on the scene in 2019 with its unusual dinner plate-size wafer scale GPU, there was always the potential for a break-out moment when someone or something would elevate the lightning-fast processer ....The post Cerebras Scores $10B Deal with OpenAI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

HAMBURG, Germany, January 14 - The ISC High Performance conference announced that Professor Dr. Martin Schulz, a leading European expert in large-scale parallel computing, will deliver the ISC 2026 Opening Keynote. Titled HPC: A Heterogeneous Future," the keynote address on Tuesday, June 23, will focus on what he believes will be the most significant architectural [...]The post ISC 2026 Conference Announces Keynote from Dr. Martin Schulz on the Post-Moore Era appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

January 13, 2026 - The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) is accepting proposals until March 16 for Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) partnership projects to prepare modeling and simulation, data-intensive, workflow, and AI applications for highly effective use on the OLCF system to be named Discoverythat will arrive in 2028. Applications will be [...]The post OLCF Issues Call for Mod/Sim Proposals for Next-Gen Discovery' Supercomputer, March 16 Deadline appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The findings reveal that while organizations are seeking to adopt AI, most lack the foundation to sustain it. Rising complexity associated with infrastructure, underutilized cloud ....The post DDN Report: 65% of Organizations Struggling to Achieve AI Success appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good January day to you! There was major chip news last week, most of it coming out of the big CES show in Las Vegas, along with other developments ....The post HPC News Bytes 20260112: Big Chip News at CES, TSMC's Arizona Expansion, Sandia's Neuromorphic News appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory reports that scientists are using generative AI to accelerate defense against cyberattacks, performing complex operations in minutes instead of weeks. A team led by PNNL data ....The post PNNL Enlists GenAI for Cybersecurity Defenses appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Jan. 9, 2026 - Proposals for presentations at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium's annual High Performance Computing Symposium are being accepted from now until January 30th, according to Becky Yeager, executive director of the RMACC and coordinator for the event. Proposals can be submitted at the website: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/vMyXYD16uW. For further information about submitting proposals, [...]The post RMACC Issues Call for Proposals for Annual HPC Symposium: Jan. 30 Deadline appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Jan. 9, 2026 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue on a consolidated basis for December 2025 was approximately NT$335.00 billion, a decrease of 2.5 percent from November 2025 and an increase of 20.4 percent from December 2024. Revenue for January through December 2025 totaled NT$3,809.05 billion, [...]The post TSMC Reports December 2025 YoY Revenue Up 20.4% appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

.... many institutions still rely on fragmented systems stitched together by ad hoc policies, legacy software, and human habit. This duct-tape approach might pass an audit today, but it won't survive the rigor of future scrutiny, nor the growing sophistication of external threats.The post Rethinking Compliance and Integrity in Scientific Data Management appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Argonne National Laboratory announced it has successfully deployed and is running a 12-qubit quantum dot device built by Intel, with the first collaborative work published in Nature Communications.The post Argonne Launches Silicon Quantum Collaboration with Intel appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

RENO, Nev. - January 8, 2026 -CIQ, the support and services partner of Rocky Linux and provider of high-performance software infrastructure, today announced Service Endpoints, a new capability for its Fuzzballplatform. Service Endpoints enables Fuzzball to be a turnkey, sovereign AI infrastructure platform by unifying model training, fine-tuning, validation and inference in single, portable workflows. [...]The post CIQ Delivers Turnkey Sovereign AI with Service Endpoints appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Los Angeles - DDNtoday announced deep collaboration withNVIDIAto support the company's next-generation AI factory architecture unveiled atCES 2026, including theNVIDIARubinplatformandNVIDIABlueField-4 DPU. DDN and NVIDIA are enabling enterprises and hyperscalers to operationalize large-scale AI faster by eliminating data bottlenecks that limit performance, utilization, and time-to-value. As generative and agentic AI workloads evolve towardmillion-token context windows,distributed inference, [...]The post DDN Powers Integrated Compute, Data, and Offload at Scale for NVIDIA Rubin Platform appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW YORK - - VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced a new inference architecture that enables the NVIDIA Inference Context Memory Storage Platform - deployments for the era of long-lived, agentic AI. The platform is a new class of AI-native storage infrastructure for gigascale inference. Built on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs and Spectrum-X [...]The post VAST Data Redesigns Inference Architecture for Agentic AI with NVIDIA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) and Quantum Circuits Inc. today announced D-Wave will acquire Quantum Circuits for $550 million, consisting of $300 million in D-Wave common stock and $250 million in cash.The post D-Wave in $550M Acquisition of Quantum Circuits appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Sandia National Labs today released an update on its neuromorphic computing research, reporting that these systems, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are surprisingly adept ....The post Sandia: Brain-Inspired Neuromorphic Computers Shockingly Good' at Math appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Jan. 6, 2026 - Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing company, announced it has raised $180M CAD ($130M USD) in the first close of its latest investment round, led by Planet First Partners, with participation from new investors Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), TELUS, and others. The company said this raise underscores strong investor confidence [...]The post Quantum: Photonic Raises $130M appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a data infrastructure semiconductor solutions company, today announced it will acquire XConn Technologies, a provider of PCIe and CXL switching silicon. The acquisition expands Marvell's switching portfolio and augments Marvell's Ultra Accelerator Link scale-up switch team, adding experienced engineering talent with domain expertise in high-performance switching. As [...]The post Marvell to Acquire XConn for AI Data Center Connectivity appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

San Jose and Las Vegas, Jan. 6, 2026 - Super Micro Computer, Inc. will showcase its latest high-performance Super AI Station in Las Vegas at CES, designed for AI developers, start-ups and higher education and research professionals. The consumer technology landscape is evolving faster than ever, driven by breakthroughs in consumer-focused AI applications," said Charles [...]The post Supermicro Expands Edge Portfolio with NVIDIA, Intel and AMD-Powered Platforms appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Stanford University announced in December they have demonstrated a new 3D nanofabrication approach that they say transforms two-photon lithography (TPL) from a slow, lab-scale technique into a wafer-scale manufacturing tool without sacrificing submicron precision. Published inNature, the team's TPL platform uses large arrays of metalenses - engineered, ultrathin [...]The post LLNL, Stanford Researchers Report 3D Nanofabrication Approach for TPL Wafer-Scale Manufacturing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Those who anticipated NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang would delay delivering an update on its next big AI chip - the Vera Rubin processor first discussed last March at the company's GTC conference in San Jose - until the upcoming GTC conference in two months were surprised last night when Huang released details about the chip [...]The post NVIDIA Releases Details on Next-Gen Vera Rubin AI Platform - 5X the Performance of Blackwell appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

DEVENS, Mass. (January 6, 2026) - Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) today announced collaborations with NVIDIA and Siemens to develop a digital twin of its SPARC fusion machine that will apply artificial intelligence, data and project management tools to accelerate commercial fusion. The digital twin will leverage troves of data from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio of [...]The post Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Digital Twins Collaboration with Siemens and Nvidia appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A happy and prosperous 2026 to you! The world of HPC-AI transitioned to the new year while generating its fair share of news, here's a rapid (8:35) recap of recent developments, including ....The post HPC News Bytes 20260105: Denied H20s, China Now Granted H200s, Meta Acquires Manus, Sandia's Photonics Quantum Chip appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ORLANDO, FL (Jan. 5, 2026) - The IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), has extended the deadline for the Student Innovation Challenge for ECTC 2026. Six winning student teams will have the opportunity to attend ECTC 2026 with financial assistance, including travel costs up to a specified amount. Eligible participants currently enrolled in an [...]The post Jan. 11 Pre-registration Deadline for IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference Student Innovation Challenge appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A happy holiday break to all! Here's a fast (9:30) run-down of recent developments, including: Nvidia's $20B Groq deal ....The post HPC News Bytes 20251229: Nvidia's $20B Non-Acquisition of Groq, Quantum-HPC Hybrids, NCAR Closure appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Argonne National Laboratory named five scientists as Argonne Distinguished Fellows in 2025. They are Seth B. Darling, Katrin Heitmann, Ken Kemner, Robert Ross and Temitope Taiwo.The post Argonne Names 5 Distinguished Fellows for 2025 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Happy Holiday weeks to you! For this, our penultimate weekly episode of the year, Shahin ....The post HPC News Bytes 20251222: Sub-Nanosecond High Frequency Trading, Federated AI Learning at 3 National Labs, AI Doomers" Speak Out appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.