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A good mid-September morning to you! The world of HPC-AI served up a plentiful amount of news over the past week, here's a quick (8:22) run-through of recent developments, including: Nvidia Rubin CPX and what it's all about, Oracle's mammoth deal with OpenAI, Nvidia and OpenAI in the UK, UK Ministry of Defence and digital sovereignty with Google CloudThe post HPC News Bytes 20250915: What to Infer about NVIDIA's Rubin CPX GPU, Oracle's Big OpenAI Big, Google Cloud, UK Defence and Digital Sovereignty appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

15 September 2025, London - Quantum Motion has delivered what the company said is the first full-stack quantum computer to be built using a standard silicon CMOS chip fabrication process - the same transistor technology used in conventional computers. Deployed at the UK NationalQuantumComputing Centre (NQCC), this is the first full-stackquantumcomputer to use mass manufacturable [...]The post Quantum MotionDelivers Silicon CMOSQuantumComputer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Seoul, September 12, 2025 - SK hynix Inc. announced it has completed development and finished preparation of a next-generation high-bandwidth memory product HBM4. The company said HBM4 vertically interconnects multiple DRAM chips and increases data processing speed in comparison to conventional DRAM products. There are six generations of HBM, starting with the original HBM which [...]The post SK hynix: HBM4 Development Completed appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Sept. 11, 2025 - NVIDIA announced the CUDA software stack is being deployed across various operating systems and package managers. The company said it is working with its ecosystem of distribution platforms to allow redistribution of CUDA, including OS providers Canonical,CIQ, andSUSE, and developer environment managerFlox-which enables package managerNix-will redistribute CUDA software directly. The company [...]The post NVIDIA: CUDA Available from Additional 3rd-Party Platforms appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

AUSTIN, Texas and VANCOUVER, Washington, Sept. 11, 2025 - Absci, a clinical-stage biotech company advancing therapeutics with generative AI, today announced a collaboration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)andAMD to accelerate drug discovery. Absci's generative AI Drug Creation Platform leverages OCI's AI infrastructure and AMD's hardware, consolidating its infrastructure with the goal of accelerating its biologics [...]The post Absci in GenAI Drug Discovery Collaboration with Oracle and AMD appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The PsiQuantum funds will support plans to break ground on utility-scale quantum sites in Brisbane and Chicago, deploy prototype systems to validate systems architecture and integration, and advance the performance ....The post PsiQuantum Raises $1 Billion appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

RENO, Nev., Sept. 10, 2025 - Enterprise Linux platform company CIQ today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkitwithin its commercial offerings. This collaboration transforms how the entire industry can access and operationalize GPU acceleration, delivering ready-to-run environments that dramatically reduce complexity, risk, and time-to-value for all performance computing workloads, [...]The post CIQ to Accelerate AI and HPC Workloads with NVIDIA CUDA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $134 million in funding for two research programs for fusion energy technologies and innovation. A full list of projects and additional information can be found on theFusion Energy Sciences program homepage. DOE is announcing$128 millionfor the Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE)collaboratives. The funding was awarded to seventeams [...]The post DOE Announces $134M to Be Awarded for Fusion Energy Research appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

AACHEN, GERMANY -10 September, 2025 -LF Energy, the open source foundation accelerating the energy transition, welcomes five new members from leading technology and energy companies. New general members include EcoFlow, Hitachi, and Red Hat and associate members include INESC TEC and Energy IoT Open Source. The Foundation also experienced a wave of momentum; including a [...]The post Linux Foundation Energy Announces New Members appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Palo Alto, CA; September 10, 2025 -SandboxAQ today announced the launch of AQCat25, an AI dataset for atomic-scale dynamics used in industrial chemistry. The AQCat25 dataset enables researchers to make highly accurate predictions of material properties in catalytic reactions from atomic structures. Today, more than 90 percent of all commercially produced chemicals and over 80 [...]The post SandboxAQ Releases AQCat25 Dataset for Materials Discovery with AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

GRENOBLE, France, Sept. 09, 2025 - Scintil Photonics today announced the completion of a $58 million (50M) Series B funding round led by Yotta Capital Partners and NGP Capital, with participation from NVIDIA. The round includes new participation from BNP Paribas Developpement, alongside existing investors including Supernova Invest, Bpifrance Digital Venture, Innovacom, Bosch Ventures, Applied [...]The post Scintil Photonics Raises $58M appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Today, MLCommons announced new results for its MLPerf Inference v5.1 benchmark suite, tracking the momentum of the AI community and its new capabilities, models, and hardware and software systems.The post MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v5.1 Benchmark Results appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Santa Clara, Calif. - Sept. 9, 2025 - Gigamon today introduced Gigamon Insights, an agentic AI application built for network-derived telemetry that will deliver guidance for Security and IT operations teams. Launching with integrations into SIEM and observability platforms from Elastic and Splunk and cloud services from AWS, Gigamon Insights is intended to boost IT [...]The post Gigamon Insights for AI Guidance fromTelemetry appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

EINDHOVEN, Netherlands- September8, 2025 -Axelera AI, a provider of AI hardware acceleration technology, today announced Metis M.2 Max, a new addition to the company's class-leading Metis AI processor unit (AIPU) family. Delivering the performance of a PCIe card in the M.2 form factor, Metis M.2 Max is designed for the most compute-intensive AI inference applications [...]The post Axelera AI Announces Metis M.2 for LLMs at the Edge appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The NVIDIA L40S Data Center GPU, provided by PNY, represents a significant leap forward in the realm of high-performance computing. This GPU is engineered to meet the demanding needs of modern data centers ....The post Unleashing Power: NVIDIA L40S Data Center GPU by PNY appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

St. Paul, Minnesota and Paris - September 9, 2025 - Fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob and HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research, today released a joint report detailing how early fault-tolerant quantum computing (eFTQC1) will, within the next five years, enable solutions to critical scientific applications that are beyond classical supercomputing capabilities. The [...]The post Hyperion Research and Alice & Bob Report on Preparing HPC Centers for Quantum appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

BOSTON - September 9, 2025-QuEra Computing, developer of advanced neutral-atom quantum computers, today announced an investment from NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm) that expands its $230 million Series B round first announced in February. The funding from NVentures follows Google's participation in QuEra's successful financing announced in February 2025 and also complements Quera's collaborations with [...]The post Quantum: QuEra Expands $230M Financing Round appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SAN FRANCISCO - September 9, 2025 -Relyance AI, an AI-native data security platform, today announced the Data Defense Engineer, an AI-native feature designed to monitor and protect thousands of data journeys and autonomously enforces policies at machine speed. As organizations deploy AI systems, data becomes executable intelligence rather than passive information. Relyance AI's Data Defense [...]The post Relyance AI Introduces Data Defense Engineer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Sept 9, 2025 - Today, Algolia unveiled the Intelligent Data Kit, a suite of tools designed to help organizations work with data-making it cleaner, smarter, and more useful. Poor data quality is a hidden drain on performance and can cost organizations trillions of dollars each year. It undermines decision-making, erodes customer [...]The post Algolia Introduces Intelligent Data Kit appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Good September morn to you! Much of interest has happened in the world of HPC-AI, here's a rapid (8:57) run-through ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250908: Reversible' Computing, AI Chips from OpenAI, Google and India, HPC User Forum, Europe Joins Exascale Club, Quantum Venture Beat appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SAN JOSE - Sept. 7, 2025 - Co-packaged optics (CPO) company Ayar Labs, and ASICS company Alchip Technologies announced a strategic partnership to accelerate AI scale-up infrastructure. The collaboration fulfills hyperscaler demands for advanced AI accelerators and platforms that deliver enhanced performance, efficiency, and scalability. The partnership brings together Ayar Labs' CPO technology, Alchip's packaging [...]The post Ayar Labs and Alchip in Co-Packaged Optics Partnership appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A study by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center analysed molecular data from more than 4,000 patients and 45 diseases from more than ... 45 diseases to scientifically explain the clinical associations between diseases.The post Barcelona Supercomputing Center: Computational Method Reveals Disease Connections appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Sept. 5, 2025 - The JUPITER exascale-class supercomputer was unveiled to the public today at Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany in front of guests from politics, science, and industry. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia Hendrik Wust were among the attendees. The system, designed by the Julich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) and in [...]The post Ceremony Marks Launch of the Exascale Supercomputer JUPITER appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

London - September 5, 2025 - The UK government announced that the country's artificial intelligence industry secured a record 2.9 billion in investment during 2024, according to the government's latest Artificial Intelligence Sector Study 2024. The figure surpasses the previous high set in 2022. The study reveals a year of remarkable expansion for the UK's [...]The post UK AI Sector Sets 2.9B Investment Record in 2024 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SHERBROOKE, Canada (Sept 5, 2025) - Qubic, a quantum technology company, announces it has secured a $925,000 (CAD) grant from the government of Canada through its department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED) and the FABrIC program, administered by the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation (CMC). This funding will support a $2.5 million project to develop [...]The post Qubic Secures Nearly CAD$1M to Develop Quantum Heat Dissipation Technology appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW YORK - Investment firm KKR announced the appointment of Adam Selipsky, former Chief Executive Officer of Amazon Web Services, as a Senior Technology and AI Strategy Advisor to the firm. Selipsky has more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in scaling mission-critical internet infrastructure. At AWS, he helped build the platform from its [...]The post Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky Named Senior Tech and AI Advisor at KKR appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Cambridge, UK - 4th September 2025- Quantum error correction company Riverlanetoday announced that it will deploy its QEC technology,Deltaflow 2, at the Department of Energy'sOak Ridge National Laboratory(ORNL). The company said the installation, scheduled to complete by the end of September 2025, represents a major step in integrating quantum error correction with high-performance computing, accelerating [...]The post Oak Ridge Lab to Deploy Riverlane Quantum Error Correction appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Connecting 24,000 GPUs mounted in 125 racks, with 36,000 high performance network cables for a machine which uses 17MW running full tilt - and getting it all running smoothly as a single system is hard - but doing all that ....The post Building Jupiter: An Exascale Supercomputer, and a Room to Put It In appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Espoo, Finland, 3rd September 2025 - IQM Quantum Computers, a superconducting quantum company, announced that it has raised $320 Million (275 Million) in venture capital, bringing the total funding raised to date to $600 Million. This Series B funding round was led by cybersecurity-focused investment firm Ten Eleven Ventures, IQM's first U.S. investor, with an [...]The post IQM Quantum Raises More Than $300M Series B appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SAN JOSE, Sept. 4, 2025 - Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today unveiled a what it called blueprint for building AI infrastructure designed to support workload data fabrics, further enabling enterprises to securely use their data for agentic AI at enterprise-scale. The Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA expands to new use cases, including the acceleration of [...]The post Cisco Announces Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA for Agentic AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

September 4, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy's High-Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) initiative will host an in-person workshop to review program operations and explore future directions. The event will be held Tuesday-Thursday, October 28-30, 2025, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. This year marks the program's 10th anniversary. Questions can [...]The post HPC4EI Event Oct. 28-30: Accelerating U.S. Manufacturing with HPC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Sept. 3, 2025 - Northwestern University said reserchers at the university are using NVIDIA technology to tackle the computationally demanding tasks hindering quantum research. Northwestern theoretical physicistJens Kochand his research group develop advanced, large-scale computer simulations to model superconducting circuits for quantum computing devices. As these simulations grow in size and complexity, the mathematical calculations [...]The post Northwestern Quantum Researchers Using NVIDIA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

With today's growing adoption in the AI data center of liquid cooling - essential for controlling AI cooling costs and energy usage - minimizing risk includes the use of high-quality connectors. Liquid cooling connectors are crucial ....The post CPC and the Connector's Critical Role in the Liquid Cooled AI Data Center appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.,Sept. 3, 2025 - TodaySynopsys(Nasdaq:SNPS) announced expanding Synopsys.ai Copilot generative AI (GenAI) capabilities for its industry-leading semiconductor design solutions, enabling semiconductor engineering teams to accelerate development timelines, support significantly more complex designs, and increase engineering velocity amidst a workforce shortage. Synopsyspioneered AIas a core capability of modern chip design, applying reinforcement learning and GenAI [...]The post Synopsys Expands AI Capabilities for EDA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Scandiano, September 3, 2025 - E4 Computer Engineering, an Italian company in the field of high-tech hardware and software solutions for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing (QC), is currently among the protagonists of the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), a major event bringing together the international quantum community in [...]The post E4 Computer Engineering Presents Approach to HPC-Quantum Integration at IEEE Quantum Week 2025 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., September 3, 2025 - Duos Technologies Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DUOT), through its operating subsidiary Duos Edge AI, Inc., a provider of adaptive, versatile and streamlined edge data center (EDC) solutions, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a new patent for its Entryway for a Modular Data Center." The [...]The post Duos Edge AI Awarded Patent appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Seoul, September 3, 2025 - SK hynix Inc. announced it has assembled what the company said is the industry's first high numerical aperture extreme ultraviolet lithography (NA EUV) lithography system for mass production at the M16 fabrication plant in Icheon, South Korea. The company described High NA EUV as a next-generation lithography system that designed [...]The post SK hynix Introduces Commercial High NA EUV Lithography System appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in partnership with Quantum Brilliance, has installed a Quantum Brilliance computer system at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. Lab staff will use ORNL's first on-site, commercial ....The post Quantum Brilliance and ORNL in Quantum-Classical HPC Collaboration appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 2, 2025 -Quantum Circuits, Inc., announced work with NVIDIA technology integratingNVIDIACUDA-Qprogramming capabilities into its Aqumen software suite. The integration provides Aqumen users the opportunity to create and simulate applications in a programming environment leveraging quantum computers and GPUs to run hybrid workflows. As the first integration of CUDA-Q with any dual-rail [...]The post Quantum Circuits Integrates with NVIDIA CUDA-Q appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Happy first day of September to you! It's been an interesting week in the world of HPC-AI, here's a rapid (8:10) romp through recent developments, including ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250901: MIT Quantum Report, AMD+IBM=HPC+Quantum, Data Center-in-a-Tent, NVIDIA Earnings, Hot Chips 2025 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Los Alamos, NM, Aug. 28, 2025-After moving to a classified network earlier this year, the Venado supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory is now running OpenAI's latest o-series reasoning models to accelerate national security research.Venado, which usesNVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, is the 19th-fastest supercomputer in the worldand serves as a shared resource for researchers [...]The post Los Alamos Lab Launches Frontier AI Models on Venado Supercomputer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Argonne National Laboratory today announced a PDF parser that the lab said could speed up the creation of AIsystems trained on scientific literature, leading to betterAI research assistants, improved scientific discovery ....The post Argonne's AdaParse: PDF Processing for Scientific AI Training appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW YORK CITY - August 28, 2025 - VAST Data today announced that BUZZ High Performance Computing, a wholly owned subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd. and a Canadian sovereign AI cloud provider, has selected the VAST AI Operating System as the foundational data layer underpinning its national AI infrastructure. With VAST, BUZZ HPC said [...]The post BUZZ HPC Selects VAST for Sovereign AI and Agentic Computing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 26, 2025 - OpenLight, a Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) chip design and manufacturing company, today announced the close of its oversubscribed $34M Series A. The round is co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; Juniper Networks, now part of HPE; Lam Capital, the corporate venture [...]The post OpenLight Raises $34M for AI Data Center Photonics appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

High performance networking company Ericsson has joined biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, Saab, SEB Bank and Wallenberg Investments to launch Sferical AI, Linkoping, Sweden, which aims to strengthen the competitiveness of Swedish industry by providing participating partners with computing power for AI in an integrated, sovereign and secure infrastructure. With newly appointed Jenny Nordlow as CEO and [...]The post Ericsson, Saab, AstraZeneca and Partners Launch Sferical AI in Sweden appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

RENO, Nev. - August 26, 2025 - CIQ, the support and services partner of Rocky Linux, today announced that Rocky Linux from CIQ - Hardened (RLC-H) is now available on three major cloud marketplaces: AWS Marketplace,Microsoft Azure MarketplaceandGoogle Cloud Platform. This hardened Enterprise Linux offering enables organizations to deploy proactively secured, compliant systems while maintaining [...]The post Rocky Linux from CIQ - Hardened' Available on Public Cloud Marketplaces appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA -August 27, 2025- Quantum infrastructure software company Q-CTRL today announced it has won two awards under DARPA's Robust Quantum Sensors (RoQS) program valued at A$38M (US$24.4M) to augment Q-CTRL'squantum sensing technologies for use cases in military vehicles. Q-CTRL will develop quantum sensors for navigation of airborne, maritime, and ground-based quantum navigation augmented by [...]The post DARPA Selects Q-CTRL for Quantum Sensors appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The @HPCpodcast is delighted to again welcome Nestor Maslej of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University to discuss the latest edition of the annual Stanford AI Index and Stanford Global AI Vibrancy Tool. Nestor has degrees ....The post @HPCpodcast: The Annual Stanford AI Index Reveals a Fast-Changing Industry with Enormous Business and Social Impact appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Today, IBM and AMD announced plans to develop computing architectures combining quantum computers and high-performance computing, known as quantum-centric supercomputing. AMD and IBM are collaborating ....The post AMD and IBM to Collaborate on Quantum-Centric Supercomputing' appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.