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MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, and GRENOBLE, France, February 17, 2026 - Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), a foundry for analog semiconductor solutions, and Scintil Photonics, heterogeneous integrated photonics company for AI infrastructure, today announced availability of the world's first heterogeneously integrated Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) laser sources for AI infrastructure using Scintil's SHIP (Scintil Heterogeneous Integrated [...]The post Tower Semiconductor and Scintil Photonics Announce Availability of DWDM Lasers for AI Infrastructure appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

LIVERMORE, Calif. - Inertia Enterprises, a commercial fusion energy company, announced a $450 million investment to bring limitless clean energy to the world," the company said. The Series A round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from additional firms including GV (Google Ventures), Modern Capital, Threshold Ventures, and more. Founded in 2024, Inertia [...]The post Commercial Fusion Energy Company Inertia Raises $450M appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good mid-winter morning to you on this US Presidents Day! Today, we're discussing the big, red-hot issue of traditional HPC's place in a technology world dominated by AI - even as some of us will shout (into the wind) that LLM-based AI is an HPC workload, that generative AI could not have happened without ....The post HPC News Bytes 20260216: Moonshot for Scientific Computing in an AI World,' NSF's $100M for Quantum appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

BUZZ High Performance Computing, a Canadian Tier-III high-performance computing data center platform of Hive Digital Technologies Ltd., signed customer agreements representing approximately $30 million over two-year fixed terms. Building on four years of experience operating GPU infrastructure, BUZZ is accelerating its expansion as HIVE's AI engine, complementing the company's Tier-I hashrate services provider and reinforcing [...]The post HIVE's BUZZ Signs $30M in AI Cloud Contracts appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Sheng Di, a computational scientist in the Mathematics and Computer Science division at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, has been selected for theIEEETechnical Committee on Scalable Computing Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career Researcher). Theaward, which includes a $500 prize, is in recognitionof Di's pioneering contributions toerror-bounded scientific data [...]The post Argonne's Sheng Di Wins IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NuScale Power Corporation (NYSE: SMR) said it will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory to utilize an artificial intelligence-enabled nuclear design framework for a 12-NuScale Power Module ....The post Oak Ridge Partners with NuScale on AI-Guided Nuclear Fuel Management appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Bull brand, regrouping Atos Group's Advanced Computing and AI activities, was officially launched on January 29, 2026, bringing back a historically rooted technology name.The post Bull Accelerates Innovation with New High-Speed Interconnect Investment appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

IBM (NYSE:IBM) today unveiled a new generation of IBM FlashSystem, co-run by agentic AI, designed to support autonomous storage. IBM said the new products offer resilience through ....The post IBM Introduces Autonomous Flash Storage with Agentic AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the launch of the Genesis Mission Consortium, a public-private partnership advancing the Department's Genesis Mission to harness artificial intelligence to support ....The post DOE Launches Genesis Mission Consortium appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good Valentine's Day week to you! It was a somewhat retrospective, reflective week in the world of HPC and AI, here are our brief (9:50) thoughts ....The post HPC News Bytes 20260209: Who Has AI Sovereignty?, Bullish on Eviden, Intel's Latest GPU Attempt, AI Predictions appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Next week onFeb 10, 11, and 12,CASSis hostingvirtual birds-of-a-feather sessions,open to anyonein the scientificcomputingcommunity. Topics include specific libraries and ecosystems, best practices, AI tooling, user experiences, fellowship opportunities, and more. Registration is required for each of these free events. BoFs run for 60-90 mins each between 11:00 am and 4:30 pm Eastern. Join in to [...]The post Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software to Host Virtual BoF Sessions Feb. 10-12 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

San Sebastian, Spain (5 February 2026) - Quantum Motion today announced the opening of its offices in Spain, establishing a base for quantum system development, integration and deployment in the European Union. The new site, located in the newly inaugurated nanoGUNE Quantum Tower, supports Quantum Motion's scale-up of silicon-based quantum computing systems and strengthens the [...]The post Quantum Motion Opens European Offices in Spain appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Intel Corp. announced a collaboration with SoftBank Corp. subsidiary SAIMEMORY to develop a memory technology called the Z-Angle Memory (ZAM) program. The collaboration focuses on next generation memory ....The post Intel and SoftBank Subsidiary Collaborate on Memory for AI and HPC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

RENO, Nev., February 4, 2026 -CIQtoday announced that Network Security Services (NSS) for Rocky Linux from CIQ (RLC) 9.6 with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms has achievedCryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP)certification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and entered the Modules in Process (MIP) list. The company said this makes Rocky Linux from [...]The post CIQ's NSS Module Achieves CAVP Certification for Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

HAMBURG, Germany, February 4 - The ISC High Performance Conference announced the creation of the ISC Next Generation Committee, a new operational and advisory body aligned with ISC's goal of fostering high performance computing talent development. The committee aims to enhance dialogue between the established HPC community and students and young professionals, ensuring ISC remains [...]The post ISC Forms Committee for Emerging HPC Talent appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

HOUSTON - Feb. 3, 2026- Dassault Systemes (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA) andNVIDIA today announced a partnership for a shared industrial architecture for artificial intelligence across industries. Combining Dassault Systemes'Virtual Twintechnologies with NVIDIA AI infrastructure, open models and accelerated software libraries will establish science-validated industry World Models, and new ways of working through skilled virtual companions [...]The post Dassault Systemes and NVIDIA to Build Industrial AI Platform for Virtual Twins appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A happy month of February to you! The big players have dominated the HPC-AI news front of late, here's a fast (8:44) recap of recent developments, including: Microsoft Maia 200 ....The post HPC News Bytes 20260202: Microsoft's Inference Chip, H200 (Not H20) GPUs for China, Mega AI Data Center Deals appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW YORK,Jan. 29, 2026 - Cockroach Labs, a cloud-agnostic distributed SQL databases with CockroachDB, today announced findings from its second annual survey, The State of AI Infrastructure 2026: Can Systems Withstand AI Scale?" The report reveals a growing concern that AI use is starting to overwhelm the traditional IT systems meant to support it. As [...]The post Report: AI Scale Pushing Enterprise Infrastructure toward Failure appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Argonne National Laboratory has entered into a partnership with RIKEN, Fujitsu Limited andNVIDIA to advance artificial intelligence and high performance computing to accelerate scientific discovery. The agreement, based on ....The post Argonne Partners with RIKEN, Fujitsu and NVIDIA on AI for Science and HPC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Barcelona, Spain, January 29, 2026 - Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech today announced the release of EduQit, a modular quantum computing kit designed to enable hands-on training, experimental learning, and early-stage research using an on-site superconducting quantum computing system. EduQit enables universities and research institutions to work directly with a physical quantum computing system. This provides hand-on [...]The post Qilimanaro Launches DIY Quantum Hardware-Software Kit appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

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 ....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.