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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.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-Aug. 26, 2025-NVIDIA today released a list of companies adopting NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers powered by the RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU. The list includes Disney, Foxconn, Hitachi Ltd., Hyundai Motor Group, Lilly, SAP and TSMC. Built with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, RTX PRO Servers use the [...]The post NVIDIA: Disney, Foxconn, Hitachi and TSMC Among Blackwell Server Users appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

With the arrival of El Capitan, LLNL researchers are entering a new era of scientific simulation - one in which they can model extreme physical events with unprecedented resolution, realism and speed. From capturing the chaotic spray ....The post Exascale HPC: El Cap Simulations Reveal Hidden Worlds' appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PHILADELPHIA (August 25, 2025) - Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center received a Director's Discretionary Allocation Award from Argonne National Laboratory, part of the U.S. Department of Energy. The allocation supports the Melanoma-Immune Checkpoint Blockade project (ICB), a Fox Chase initiative aimed at advancing research in melanoma immunotherapy. These blockades are a type of immunotherapy [...]The post Fox Chase Cancer Center Scientists Awarded Access to Argonne HPC Resources appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Good late August day to you! The whitewater world of HPC-AI continued to roil last week, here's a fast (9:50) overview of recent industry developments, including: FugakuNEXT, Fujitsu's 1000-qubit quantum computer, CPU-GPU-QPU hybrid systems, US equity stake in Intel, the NVIDIA H20 and geopolitical ping pongThe post HPC News Bytes 20250825: Japan's FugakuNEXT, Fujitsu's Quantum Strategy, US Equity Stake in Intel, the NVIDIA H20 and Geopolitical Ping Pong appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Ahead of Hot Chips 2025, NVIDIA today announced Spectrum-XGS Ethernet, a scale-across technology for combining multiple, distributed data centers into "unified, giga-scale AI super-factories."The post The AI Superfactory: NVIDIA's Multi-Data Center Scale Across' Ethernet appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

RIKEN is collaborating with Fujitsu Limited and NVIDIA on an initiative to develop "FugakuNEXT," which RIKEN called Japan's next-generation flagship supercomputer. RIKEN said the system will be the first flagship ....The post RIKEN Teams with Fujitsu and NVIDIA on FugakuNEXT HPC-AI Platform appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Aug. 21, 2025 - Rambus has introduced the Multi-Channel Engine MACsec-IP-364 (+363), built for next-generation Ethernet. The company said it delivers full line-rate MACsec and optional IPsec support for 1.6T and 3.2T Ethernet ports, offering a scalable and configurable solution for securing high-speed data traffic. Capabilities Full Line-Rate Throughput: Supports 1.6T in 3nm and 3.2T [...]The post Terabit Ethernet: Rambus Launches Multi-Channel Engine MACsec-IP-364 (+363) appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Aug. 20, 2025 - atNorth, the Nordic high-density colocation and data center provider, has announced the sale of its High-Performance Computing as a Service platform, Gompute, to IT services business Advania. The acquisition is expected to be completed during the third quarter of 2025, subject to regulatory approvals. Advaniais one of atNorth's long standing customers, [...]The post atNorth Sells HPC-as-a-Service Platform to Advania appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers employed an AI-driven model to predict fusion ignition days ahead of the historic 2022 shot, according to a new studyinScience. In the paper, LLNL researchers detail how they used physics-informed deep learning ....The post Livermore Lab: AI Predicted 2022 Fusion Ignition Shot appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Tokyo, August 21, 2025 - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) announced technology that utilizes AI to enable autonomous control of robot movement in complex environments with obstacles. NEC said its in-house demonstrations of this technology have confirmed that a robot's travel time can be reduced by up to 50 percent compared to conventional methods. This [...]The post NEC Announces Robot Control Technology appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

San Francisco and Tel Aviv - August 21 - AI infrastructure provider Crusoe today announced it has acquired Atero, a company specializing in GPU management and memory optimization for AI workloads. This is intended to accelerate the development of Crusoe Cloud's managed AI services and strengthen its ability to deliver the world's most reliable, efficient [...]The post Crusoe Acquires Atero to Accelerate AI Infrastructure appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

WILMINGTON, Del.- EnterpriseDB, a sovereign AI and data company, today published new independent research validating dramatic cost savings, energy efficiency, and emissions reductions that its sovereign data platform delivers to enterprise customers. Analyzing EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI) deployments at three Fortune 500 companies in the financial services sector, the research identified energy consumption [...]The post EDB Says It Cuts Data Center Emissions by up to 87%, Energy Consumption by up to 81% appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

To ensure the nation's socio-economic well-being in this new, uncharted era of artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC), the rapid and accurate advancement of scientific discovery ....The post Opinion: Investing in Scientific Software as Ecosystem Infrastructure Should Be a National Imperative appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Calgary, Canada, August 20th, 2025 - SuperQ Quantum Computing Inc. announced its engagement with ArcStone Canada Inc. (ArcStone"), a capital markets advisory firm and a subsidiary of ArcStone Securities and Investments Corp., toprovide SuperQ with advisory services, including capital markets planning, institutional investor engagement, and strategic positioning across North American markets. The collaboration aims to [...]The post SuperQ Quantum Engages ArcStone Securities for Capital Markets Advisory appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Monash University in Australia is developing and deploying MAVERIC, in collaboration with NVIDIA, Dell Technologies and the CDC Data Centres (CDC). The AI supercomputer will use first-in-Australia technology and will be designed to solve complex problems across a vast and multifaceted span of human endeavours. Monash University Vice-Chancellor and President,Professor Sharon Pickering, said the collaboration [...]The post Monash University to Build Australian HPC with NVIDIA and Dell appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.,Aug. 19, 2025- Hitachi Vantara, the data storage, infrastructure and hybrid cloud management subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE:6501), today announced the availability of Virtual Storage Platform One Software-Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) in the MicrosoftAzure Marketplace, an online store that provides applications and services for use on Azure. Hitachi Vantara customers can now [...]The post Hitachi Vantara's Virtual Storage Platform One Available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) today announced it has selected IQM Radiance as its first purchased on-premises quantum computer to be integrated into high-performance computing (HPC) systems at ORNL.The post IQM to Integrate Quantum Computer into Oak Ridge Lab's HPC Systems appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Parallel file system legend Gary Gride of Los Alamos National Lab, and Molly Presley, a well-known executive in the high performance storage sector and SVP at Hammerspace, joined us at the ISC 2025 conference in Hamburg.The post With Hammerspace and LANL's Gary Grider at ISC 2025: Parallel Data Storage for Advanced Simulations appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FL), Aug 19, 2025-A cutting-edge orbital data center is set to launch to the International Space Station (ISS), marking an important step forward in advancing space-based computing. The project, sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory, will test the system's ability to provide increased data storage and real-time data processing in space-crucial capabilities [...]The post Orbital Data Center Launching to ISS to Advance Space Computing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good August morning to you! It was a geopolitically-weighted week in the world of HPC-AI, here's a quick (8:29) overview of recent developments, including: US government to invest in Intel ... ?The post HPC News Bytes 20250818: US to Invest in Intel?; DeepSeek Training Trouble; RISC-V GPU Startup Seeks Funds; NSF-NVIDIA Partnerhip appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Photonic computing company Lightmatter today announced what it called groundbreaking new in optical communications: a 16-wavelength bidirectional Dense Wavelength Division ....The post Photonic Computing: Lightmatter Reports 16-Wavelength Bidirectional Link on Single-Mode Optical Fiber appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The North America data center colocation market has reached a critical tipping point, with vacancy rates plummeting to an unprecedented 2.3 percent amid relentless demand for digital infrastructure, according to ....The post Data Center Availability Crisis at 2.3% Historic Low appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The National Science Foundation today announced a partnership with NVIDIA to develop a set of artificial intelligence-based models for scientific discovery. NSF will contribute $75 million, with NVIDIAproviding an additional $77 million, to support the Open ....The post NSF and NVIDIA in $152M AI for Science Partnership appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Financial Times reported that DeepSeek was forced to delay the releas e of its new R2 large language model due to performance problems with Huawei Ascend processors, highlighting the limits of Beijing's push to replace US technology" ...The post Report: DeepSeek Model Delay Forces Use of NVIDIA GPUs appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

MALTA, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2025 - GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of MIPS, a leading supplier of AI and processor IP. The acquisition is intended to strengthen GF's position in differentiated semiconductor manufacturing and its capabilities in AI, edge computing and other markets. The combination of GF and [...]The post GlobalFoundries Completes Acquisition of MIPS appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

More than a dozen national laboratories and research organizations of the Department of Energy and Department of Defense are among the 158 finalists for R&D World Magazine's annual R&D 100 Awards. More details can be found here. Finalists include: Sandia National Laboratories NASA National Atomic Research Institute Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [...]The post National Labs, DOE and DOD Research Organizations Finalists for R&D 100 Awards appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

WILMINGTON, Del. - AUG 14, 2025- EnterpriseDBannounced it is integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI software with EDB's sovereign data and AI platform, EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI). EDB PG AI, built with NVIDIA accelerating computing and NVIDIA AI Enterprise, enables organizations to build and generate value from AI and data platforms using PostgreSQL. [...]The post EDB AI Platform to Be Integrated with NVIDIA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

LAS VEGAS - August 14, 2025 - SuperOps, an AI-powered IT management platform, today announced the launch of its agentic AI marketplace for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and IT teams, developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services. SuperOps' AI Agent Marketplace, entering beta this September, is designed as a destination where MSPs can select ready-to-use [...]The post SuperOps and AWS to Launch Agentic AI Marketplace in September appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PITTSBURGH, August 12, 2025 - Ansys, part of Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS), and NVIDIA signed an agreement to license, sell, and support Omniverse technology embedded in Ansys simulation solutions. Through its integration ofNVIDIA Omniverse, Ansys will deliver easy access to Omniverse technologies and libraries starting with its CFD and autonomous solutions. From deepening insights into aerodynamics [...]The post Ansys to Offer Access to NVIDIA Omniverse appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The upcoming HPC User Forum, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 3-4 at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA, will have a data center focus. Event host and industry analyst firm Hyperion Research said, "Data center growth has been massive over the last few years and NVIDIA is projecting a $1 trillion data center [...]The post Hyperion Research Releases Updated HPC User Forum Agenda for Sept. 3-4 in Reston, VA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Aug. 13, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 2 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, at 5 p.m. ET. More information on the SCGSR program [...]The post DOE Office of Science Accepting Graduate Student Research Awards Applications, Nov. 5 Deadline appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

HOUSTON- HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced updates to its NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio designed to enhance integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and bring the newest NVIDIA AI models and NVIDIA Blueprints to HPE Private Cloud AI. HPE will also ship HPE ProLiant Compute servers that featureNVIDIA Blackwellaccelerated computing to advance generative, agentic and [...]The post HPE Announces Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA AI Models appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ROUND ROCK, TX - Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced updates to the Dell AI Data Platform designed toenhance unstructured data ingestion, transformation, retrieval and compute performance to streamline AI development and deployment. The platform's architecture has specialized storage and data engines designed to help connect AI agents to enterprise data. Together, the Dell AI Data [...]The post Dell Announces AI Data Platform Advancements with NVIDIA and Elastic appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NVIDIA today announced that theNVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU is coming to enterprise servers, speeding the shift from traditional CPU systems to accelerated computing platforms," the company said. With these new 2U mainstream servers, enterprises worldwide can harness theNVIDIA Blackwell architecture in rack-mounted systems. Global system partners including Cisco,Dell Technologies,HPE,LenovoandSupermicrowill offer the [...]The post NVIDIA Announces RTX PRO Servers With Blackwell appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

In this interview, Cristin Merritt provides a preview of Alces Flight's upcoming Sustainable Reality event on October 7 at the historicRoyal Society of Chemistryat Burlington House in London. Launched in 2023, the annual community-focused event explores the four main pillars of supercomputing: hardware, software, people and change management.The post Cristin Merritt on Alces Flight's Sustainable Reality HPC and AI Event, Oct. 7 in London appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

According to a report by Dell'Oro Group, the global data center accelerator market is projected to reach $446 billion by 2029. Accelerators now account for roughly one-third of ....The post Study: Merchant GPUs and Custom Accelerators to Reach $446B, HBM to Exceed $130B by 2029 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system - powered by El Capitan, the world's fastest supercomputer - that could dramatically improve early warning capabilities for coastal communities near earthquake zones. The exascale El Capitan, which has a theoretical peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second, [...]The post LLNL Scientists Explore Tsunami Warning System on El Cap Supercomputer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how organizations innovate and compete. As enterprises race to unlock new value from data, a new paradigm - the AI Factory - has emerged. Unlike traditional data centers, which passively store and process information, AI Factories are purpose-built environments designed to manufacture intelligence at industrial scale.The post Building AI Factories: Scalable Infrastructure for Intelligence appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are part of a group recognized for their advancements in chemistry-aware artificial intelligence software.

Aug. 7, 2025 - The National Center for Supercomputing Applicationsand the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were awarded a $25.8 million contract from the U.S.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency(NGA) for high-performance computing in support of NGA strategic partnerships, advancement of artificial intelligence, and machine learning and logistics for data production on a global scale. NGA Director Vice Admiral [...]The post NCSA Wins $26M NGA HPC Contract appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A cybersecurity platform, under development for eight years at Sandia National Laboratories to detect and analyze advanced malware threats, is now publicly available, giving defenders in the public and private sectors access to tools used to safeguard ....The post 8 Years in the Making: Sandia Team Creates Malware Detection Software with Livermore HPC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Cambridge, UK | 7th August 2025 - Riverlane has released findings from a global survey of more than 300 quantum professionals and academics, revealing strong demand for quantum error correction (QEC) but widespread lack of readiness across the industry. QEC is now seen as essential to building useful quantum computers. Key findings from the 2025 [...]The post Survey: Quantum Error Correction Is Critical but Ecosystem Isn't Ready appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a two-part HPC workshop starting with a virtual event to be held Tuesday-Thursday, Sept. 23-25, followed by hands-on, in-person workshop Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 7-9 at Argonne National Laboratory. Registration information and more details can be found here. This event is designed to advance ALCF users' skills in high-performance computing [...]The post ALCF HPC-AI Workshop to Be Held Sept. 23-25 and Oct. 7-9 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Santa Clara, CA - AI and data platform company Cloudera announced its acquisition ofTaikun, a leading platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With this move, Cloudera accelerates the deployment and delivery of the complete Cloudera platform, including Data Services and AI anywhere - from the public clouds to [...]The post Cloudera Acquires Taikun for Managing Kubernetes and Cloud appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Cerebras Systems today announced inference support for gpt-oss-120B, OpenAI's first open-weight reasoning model, running at record inference speeds of 3,000 tokens per second on the Cerebras AI Inference Cloud, according to ....The post Cerebras Reports 3,000 Tokens Per Second Inference on OpenAI gpt-oss-120b Model appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Paris - August 6, 2025 -Scientists from Alice & Boband Inria, France's national institute for research in digital science and technology, have submitted a new study for peer review illustrating the most hardware-efficient method to date for producing magic states on superconducting quantum computers, a critical step toward realizing practical quantum computation. Preparing magic states [...]The post Quantum: Alice & Bob and Inria Report Efficiency Gains for Magic State Preparation appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.