Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence

Since Cerebras came on the scene in 2019 with its unusual dinner plat-size wafer scale GPU, there was always the potential for a break-out moment, when someone or something would elevate the lightning-fast processer from niche AI chip into the mainstream. That moment may have come today. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI has [...]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.

ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - AlphaTON Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ATON) announced it has entered into an enterprise colocation service agreement with atNorth AB, a European data center operator. This agreement represents AlphaTON's first major data center colocation contract. Under the terms of the 60-month agreement commencing February 1, 2026, AlphaTON will secure: 2,230 kW [...]The post AlphaTON Capital in Agreement with atNorth for Data Center in Sweden appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Redwood City, CA -FriendliAI, an AI inference platform company, announced a partnership with NVIDIA to launch the Nemotron 3 model family, available on FriendliAI's Dedicated Endpoints.Developers can deploy Nemotron 3 models on FriendliAI's inference platform. Highlights include: Up to 13* faster token generation via hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture and multi-token prediction (MTP) technique MoE routing [...]The post FriendliAIPartners with NVIDIA on Nemotron 3 for Agentic AI Inference appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The U.S. Department of Energy announced agreements with 24 organizations interested in collaborating to advance the Genesis Mission, a national effort to use the power of artificial intelligence to support discovery science, national security and energy innovation. The organizations that have signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) as of today have either expressed interest to DOE [...]The post Genesis Mission: DOE Announces Agreements with 24 Organizations appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Sandia National Laboratories released information today spotlighting what the labs call a significant milestone in advancing artificial intelligence for national security. Over the past year, Sandia, Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories ....The post 3 National Security Labs, 1 Federated Learning AI Model appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Dec. 18, 2025 - The Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) - a collaboration among 40 academic and government research institutions located the nine-state intermountain region - has set Tuesday-Thursday, May 12-14, 2026 as the dates for its 16th annual High Performance Computing Symposium. The symposium will be held in the Student Union Building on [...]The post RMACC's 16thAnnual HPC Symposium to be Held May 12-14, Boise, Idaho appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

New York - December 18, 2025 - Element Critical today announced the launch of a new U.S. data center platform backed by 26North Partners, Arctos, Mercuria and Safanad, anchored by the acquisition of two enterprise data center facilities in Houston and Austin. The platform is designed to meet growing demand driven by AI inference, digital [...]The post Element Critical Launches AI Data Center Platform with Mercuria, 26North, Arctos and Safanad appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has launched a call for benchmarking proposals for HPC systems in Europe. This call for proposals, HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2024-BENCHMARK-05 ....The post EuroHPC JU Issues 4M HPC-AI Benchmarking Call for Proposals, March 24 Deadline appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW YORK CITY - December 17, 2025 - VAST Data today announced that SciNet at the University of Toronto, and SHARCNET at the University of Waterloo have adopted VAST as their data and AI operating system, building on previously announced deployments with Canadian-based infrastructure providers that are using VAST to power large-scale GPU services, according [...]The post VAST Data Selected by SciNet and SHARCNET in Canada appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

RENO, Nev., - December 17, 2025 - CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and high-performance software infrastructure company, today announced the promotion of Bjorn Hovland from chief operating officer to president, reporting to founder and CEO Gregory Kurtzer. CIQ said Hovland's elevation reflects CIQ's strategic positioning as AI infrastructure decentralizes and [...]The post CIQ Names Bjorn Hovland President appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it has launched a suite of operational, artificial intelligence-driven global weather prediction models that NOAA said marks an advancement in forecast speed, efficiency, and accuracy ....The post NOAA Deploys AI-Driven Global Weather Models appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Vancouver,BC, Dec. 17, 2025 -Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing company, today announced that its founder and Chief Quantum Officer, Dr. Stephanie Simmons, has been included in the Quantum 100, an initiative as part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ 2025). The Quantum 100 celebrates the people advancing quantum science worldwide [...]The post Photonic Inc.'sDr. Stephanie SimmonsNamedtoUNESCO 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and TechnologyQuantum 100 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The UK Research and Innovation agency today announced it will invest its record four-year 38.6 billion allocation from government, incluging 1 billion for quantum computing R&D. Theallocations explainer provides information on how UKRI funding will be invested across priority buckets' as set out by Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall and UKRI CEO Ian Chapman [...]The post UKRI Maps 38.6 Billion R&D Budget, 1 Billion for Quantum, Over 4 Years appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Barcelona, Dec. 16, 2025 -Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech and Oxigen Data Center announced a collaboration to explore how multimodal quantum computers can be integrated into commercial data centers. The companies said they intend to lay the foundations for the next generation of hybrid quantum infrastructure. This collaboration will highlight Qilimanjaro's analog quantum computers, which require less [...]The post Qilimanjaro and Oxigen Data Center Collaborate on Multimodal Quantum-HPC Integration appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

@HPCpodcast's Industry View" episodes take on major issues in advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders. In this episode, we dig into the design and deployment of an upcoming leadership-class supercomputer for the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Germany. This is the Blue Lion" HPC system ....The post @HPCpodcast Industry View: A Portrait of LRZ's Upcoming HPE Cray Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin - the Combined Forces of HPC and AI for Science appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NVIDIA announced it has acquired SchedMD - developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for high-performance computing and AI. NVIDIA said it will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source ....The post NVIDIA Acquires Slurm Workload Management Provider SchedMD appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Warmest December greetings! AI technology and its impacts splashed around the world last week, here's a fast (10:52) review of new developments, including: Nvidia H200 exports to China ....The post HPC News Bytes 20251215: On-Off-On GPU Exports to China, the US-China Power Gap, Pocket-Sized HPC, Regulating AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

.... HPC and AI providers (have) a challenge and an opportunity. They must reimagine how to secure sensitive data without disrupting performance. They can now leverage new forms of encryption that protect sensitive data while in use ....The post As Q-Day Nears, A New Approach Is Needed for HPC and AI Data Security appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEEDHAM, Mass., December 11, 2025- According to the International Data Corporation (IDC)Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, the server market reached a record $112.4 billion dollars in revenue during the third quarter of the year. This represents a year-over-year quarterly increase of 61 percent in vendor revenue. Revenue generated from x86 servers increased 32.8 percent in 2025Q3 [...]The post IDC: Worldwide Server Market Grew 61% YoY in Q3 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

It's often said that supercomputers of a few decades ago pack less power than today's smart watches. Now we have a company, Tiiny AI Inc., claiming to have built the world's smallest personal AI supercomputer that can run a 120-billion ....The post Personal AI Supercomputer' Runs 120B-Parameter LLMs On-Device, Tiiny AI Says appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Siemens and GlobalFoundries (GF) said today they have entered a collaboration to use their AI capabilities to enhance semiconductor manufacturing and advanced industries . In a memorandum of understanding, the companies say they will focus on automation technologies for semiconductor fabrication, electrification, digital solutions and software ranging from chip development to product lifecycle management. This [...]The post Siemens and GlobalFoundries to Collaborate on AI-Driven Chip Manufacturing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

DOE said the awards will begin building the integrated American Science and Security Platform, a discovery engine designed to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering investments within a decade.The post DOE Awards $320M for Genesis Mission, AI for Science appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

For the second consecutive year, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory have been named to the American Nuclear Society's Nuclear News' 40 Under 40 list. Nuclear engineers Amanda Bachmann and Dillon Shaver ....The post Argonne Nuclear Energy Researchers Bachmann and Shaver Named to 40 Under 40 List appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

VANCOUVER, BC, December 10, 2025 - Photonic Inc., today announced an approach to Quantum Resource Estimation (QRE) for measuring and comparing quantum performance. This method accounts for the costs of distributed quantum computing using Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes. The company said a QRE estimate for Shor's algorithm has been precisely calculated with Photonic's [...]The post Photonic Inc. Announces Approach to Quantum Resource Estimation appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

December 10, 2025 - Lenovo today announced new data storage, virtualization solutions and data management services, designed to help customers modernize their IT and data infrastructure for powering enterprise applications and AI ready capabilities. Today's new offerings include new Lenovo ThinkSystemandThinkAgile data storage and virtualization solutions, announced in tandem with data management services. Designed to [...]The post Lenovo Announces Data Management Solutions appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.