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Problems associated with GPU deployment - interminable order wait times, high prices and, particularly, dire need - are leading to new GPU access strategies. An article in today's Wall Street Journal, Your Gaming PC Could Help Train AI Models," reports that underused GPUs inspire startups to stitch together .....The post AI Data Center Workaround? Startups Pursue Networked Aggregation of Idle GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In our continuing series on current and future leaders of HPC-AI, Lawrence Livermore National Lab's Todd Gamblin has a well-deserved reputation in the HPC software community as a passionate ....The post Vanguards of HPC-AI: Spack Builder Todd Gamblin of LLNL on the Why's and How's of Change in HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 18, 2025 - French research organization CEA reported that on 12 February, the CEA's WEST tokamak maintained a nuclear fusion plasma for more than 22 minutes, a 25 percent improvement over the previous record. This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more [...]The post Power & Cooling: CEA Claims Nuclear Fusion Energy Record for Plasma Duration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Microsoft today said its new quantum chip is the first to be powered by a new Topological Core architecture that "will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years ....The post Toward 1M Qubits? Microsoft Quantum Chip Is Based on New State of Matter' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

VAST Data today announced the addition of block storage to its data platform, completing what the company said is its initial vision for the VAST DataStore as a universal storage platform that encompassesing files, objects and blocks. VAST also added the VAST Event Broker, an Apache Kafka ....The post VAST Data Adds Blocks to Unified Storage Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, February 19, 2025-Securiti, a data security, privacy, governance and compliance company , today announced that it has partnered with Databricks, the data and AI company, to integrate Databricks Mosaic AI and Delta tables into Securiti'sGencore AIsolution. This new partnership enables customers to more easily and quickly build safe, enterprise-grade generative AI (GenAI) systems [...]The post Securiti Partners with Databricks for Enterprise AI System Safety appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Palo Alto, CA - Generative AI company SambaNova announced last week that DeepSeek-R1 671B is running today on SambaNova Cloud at 198 tokens per second (t/s), achieving speeds and efficiency that no other platform can match," the company said. DeepSeek-R1 has reduced AI training costs by 10X, but its widespread adoption has been hindered by [...]The post SambaNova Reports Fastest DeepSeek-R1 671B with High Efficiency appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCSCO - Feb. 18, 2025 - CEA-Leti, in its collaboration with Quobly, CEA-List and CEA-Irig, reported today it has developed a solution using FD-SOI CMOS technology that provides simultaneous, microsecond readouts of tens of quantum devices, while reducing the readout power consumption by 10x and footprint by 2x. Combined with Quobly's strategy to build [...]The post CEA and Quobly Report Simultaneous,Microsecond Qubit-Readout Solution with 10x Power-Use Cut appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.- Cloud infrastructure company Vultr today announced the deployment of theAMD Instinct MI325X GPUs in its Chicago data center region, making it the first cloud provider to offer this AI solution, according to the compay. This news comes on the heels of Vultr announcing itsgrowth financing at a $3.5 billion valuationand theexpansionof [...]The post Vultr Announces Availability of AMD MI325X GPUs in its Cloud Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy mid-winter day to you! The HPC-AI world produced its usual extraordinary onslaught of news this past week, here's ...The post HPC News Bytes 20250217: Arm Selling Its Own Chips to Meta?, Big xAI, Big Power, Big... Pollution?, TSMC in Intel Fab Takeover?, Europe's Big AI Investment, Exascale in Industry appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Since 2022, GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) has competed successfully for more than 3 million supercomputing hours under a U.S. Department of Energy peer-reviewed proposal process, incuding time on two of the three American exascale supercomputers -- Frontier ....The post Exascale: GE Aerospace Goes Airborne with Frontier and Aurora appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Santa Clara, CA., February 13, 2025 -SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, has announced its 2nd annual Regional SDC conference, Regional SDC Denver, on Wednesday, April 30. Registration for Regional SDC Denver is $149, offering an opportunity to connect with experts and gain valuable knowledge. Information about other SNIA events can be found here. Industry [...]The post SNIA Announces Regional SDC Denver Event for April 30 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.,Feb. 13, 2025 -Synopsys, Inc.(Nasdaq:SNPS) today announced the expansion of its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio with new HAPS prototyping and ZeBu emulation systems using AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC. Synopsys said the next generation HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems deliver improved runtime performance, better compile time and improved debug productivity. They are [...]The post Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio for Semiconductor Design appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DeepSeek's LLM has caused a stir, but ... companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are aiming higher, their sights are set on artificial general intelligence, for which LLMs will be a component. No matter how fast, powerful, or efficient they get, LLMs alone won't be enough to achieve AGI.The post Toward AGI: AI Innovation Will Be Driven by Applications, Not LLMs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PALTO ALTO, Calif. and JULICH, Germany - D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) and the Julich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Julich (FZJ) announced today that FZJ has purchased a D-Wave quantum computer, becoming the first high-performance computing center in the world to own a D-Wave Advantage annealing quantum computing system. With the purchase of the [...]The post JSC Acquires D-Wave Quantum Computer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Rice University computer scientistLydia Kavrakihas been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer, for her work on developing randomized motion-planning algorithms for robotics and robotics-inspired methods in biomedicine." Kavraki is Rice's Kenneth and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing, and a professor of computer science, [...]The post Rice Univ. Prof. Lydia Kavraki Elected to National Academy of Engineering for Research in Biomedical Robotics appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HOUSTON - FEBRUARY 13, 2025 - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) announced today that it has shipped its firstNVIDIA Blackwellfamily-based solution, theNVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This rack-scale system by HPE is designed to help service providers and large enterprises quickly deploy very large, complex AI clusters with advanced, direct liquid cooling solutions to optimize efficiency and performance. [...]The post HPE Ships Its First NVIDIA Grace Blackwell System appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DALLAS, Feb. 12, 2025 - Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD), a builder of digital infrastructure for HPC applications, announced today that the company, through its HPC subsidiary APLD HPC Holdings LLC (APLDH"), closed a $375 million financing with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) of Japan. The company used a portion of the proceeds to repay [...]The post Applied Digital Closes $375M Financing with SMBC to Support HPC Campus appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TOKYO,Feb. 11, 2025 - Quantinuum and Japan's RIKEN research institution announced the on-premise installation of Quantinuum's Reimei" quantum computer at RIKEN's Wako campus in Saitama, Japan. RIKEN said it has designed, prepared, and delivered a world-class facility for the trapped-ion quantum computer, which will enable generations of high-performance quantum systems." This machine is now fully [...]The post Quantinuum Quantum Computer Now Operational at RIKEN appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CLEVELAND, Feb. 12, 2025 - Intelligent power management company Eaton (NYSE:ETN) is helping address the shortage of transformers and record demand for its solutions across data center, utility, large commercial and industrial customers. The company is investing $340 million to increase U.S. production of its three-phase transformers essential to reliable electrical power. Production and hiring [...]The post Eaton Invests $340M in Transformer Manufacturing to Power Data Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] In tech, you're either forging new paths or stuck in traffic. Tier 0 doesn't just clear the road - it builds the autobahn. It obliterates inefficiencies, crushes bottlenecks, and unleashes the true power of GPUs. The MLPerf1.0 benchmark has made one thing clear ....The post Why Tier 0 Is a Game-Changer for GPU Storage appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A country with deep nuclear power resources, France plans to dedicate a gigawatt of it (the power generated by 294 utility-scale wind turbines) for an artificial intelligence computing project that rivals the Stargate project announced last month ....The post Plug, Baby, Plug': France to Use Nuclear Power to Expand AI Computing Capacity appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston - February 11, 2025 - QuEra Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced it has successfully completed a financing of more than $230 million. The funds will be used to accelerate the development and production of large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers, reinforcing the company's position at the forefront of quantum innovation. The investment comes from [...]The post Quantum: QuEra Completes $230M Financing from Google, SoftBank and Others appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TEL AVIV - February 11, 2025 - LightSolver, inventors of a new laser-based computing paradigm, today announced a partnership withAnsys (NASDAQ: ANSS), a provider of engineering simulation software. Following a successful test run on LightSolver's platform, the two companies are working to integrate LightSolver's technology with Ansys LS-DYNA nonlinear dynamics structural simulation software to accelerate [...]The post Laser-Based LightSolver Partners With Ansys on CAE appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

VANCOUVER, BC, February 11, 2025 - Photonic Inc. has introduced a low-overhead family of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes that can efficiently perform both quantum computation and error correction, using materially fewer quantum bits (qubits) than traditional surface code approaches, according to the company. Unlocking the quantum logic of high-performance QLDPC codes has been [...]The post Photonic Reports Quantum Error Correction Advance appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - February 11, 2025:MLCommons, in partnership with the AI Verify Foundation, today released v1.1 ofAILuminate, incorporating new French language capabilities into its first-of-its-kind AI safety benchmark. The new update - which was announced at the Paris AI Action Summit - marks the next step towards a global standard for AI safety and comes as [...]The post MLCommons Releases AILuminate LLM v1.1 with French Language Capabilities appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel's long-term high turnover rate of senior managers holding HPC and AI-related responsibilities continues apace with today's news that Justin Hotard, EVP/GM of the company's Data Center and AI Group, is leaving Intel after a year to become CEO and president of Nokia.The post Justin Hotard Leaves Intel, Named CEO and President of Nokia appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ROCKVILLE, Md., February 6, 2025 - X-Energy Reactor Company, LLC (X-energy"), a leader in advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology, today announced the closing of its upsized Series C-1 financing round of $700 million. Segra Capital Management, Jane Street, Ares Management funds, Emerson Collective, and others join the previously announced round anchored by Amazon.com, Inc.'s [...]The post Nuclear Power: X-Energy Closes $700M Round for SMR Development appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HAMBURG, 10.02.2025 - We are excited to announce that Prof. Dr. Yutong Lu, the Director of the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou, China, will deliver the ISC 2025 Closing Keynote. She is recognized as a leading authority in next-generation architectures and the convergence of advanced artificial intelligence and high performance computing systems and applications. Prof. [...]The post ISC 2025: Dr. Yutong Lu of China's National Supercomputing Center to Deliver Closing Keynote appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Feb. 10, 2025 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for January 2025: On a consolidated basis, revenue for January 2025 was approximately NT$293.29 billion, an increase of 5.4 percent from December 2024 and an increase of 35.9 percent from January 2024. On Jan. 21, Taiwan experienced [...]The post TSMC January 2025 Revenue Report and Earthquake Impact Statement appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We delve into current market sizing for HPC-AI (the conjoining of the two being a relatively new focus), a look ahead at the rest of the year and the decade, the impact of hyperscalers on AI, the future of leadership computing ....The post @HPCpodcast: Addison Snell on the Present and Future of HPC-AI, Quantum, DeepSeek, Interconnects, Leadership Supercomputing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 6, 2025 - The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (BSC-CNS) - has presented what it said is the first quantum computer developed with 100 percent European technology. This milestone consolidates BSC at the forefront of supercomputing in Europe and lays the foundations for a new era of hybrid computing, combining traditional [...]The post Barcelona Supercomputing Center Unveils Quantum Systen Developed with 100% European Technology appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 7, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 1 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET. More information on the SCGSR program can be found [...]The post DOE Office of Science: Applications for Graduate Student Research Awards Due May 7 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories began providing its employees with a large language model chatbot, called SandiaAI Chat, which the lab said is the first facility within the U.S. nuclear security enterprise to do so, enabling Sandia staff to ask sensitive, unclassified questions. Rather than buying a corporate ....The post Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT - SandiaAI Chat appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

4 February 2025, Vienna-Austrian synthetic data startup MOSTLY AI announces the release of the world's first industry-gradeopen sourcetoolkit for producing synthetic data from real customer data. Theopen sourcetoolkit is freely available now. The move will make the firm's state-of-the-art synthetic data technology freely available, so that any developer, business, enterprise, or organization can create synthetic [...]The post MOSTLY AI Releases Open Source Toolkit for Synthetic Data Creation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Cambridge, UK; Espoo, Finland; Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 6, 2025 - IQM Quantum Computers, Riverlane, and Zurich Instruments have announced the launch of the SurgeonQ project, a collaboration to create what they said is the first quantum computing platform capable of running multiple real-time quantum error correction operations. The project represents progress towards commercially viable quantum [...]The post IQM, Riverlane and Zurich Instruments to Launch Quantum Error Correction Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

"One of the most fun aspects of HPC engineering is that you get to solve a broad range of problems getting an application to run well and run at scale - sometimes to even run at all. There is always something new to learn and the feeling of finding a solution ...."The post Vanguards of HPC-AI: Oak Ridge Lab's Veronica G. Melesse Vergara - Unleashing Breakthrough Science' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Jose, Calif. - February 5, 2025 - Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) announced full availability of its AI data center Building Block Solutions accelerated by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. The Supermicro Building Block portfolio provides the core infrastructure elements necessary to scale Blackwell solutions. The portfolio includes a broad range of air-cooled and liquid-cooled systems [...]The post Supermicro Launches Rack-Scale Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The ETRI said that after its commercialization, this technology "will be a game-changer for Korea to become the world's fifth nation to manufacture supercomputers," after the U.S., China, Japan and the E.U. (France). The system-on-a-chip is named "K-AB21" ....The post With Accelerator SOC, South Korean Institute Says Country on Track to Become 5th HPC Manufacturer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DAVIDSON, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025- Trane - by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate company, announced the expansion of its thermal management systems. A company focused on sustainable thermal management systems for commercial buildings and infrastructure, Trane is adding to its data center thermal management systems with liquid cooling capabilities and introducing the Trane [...]The post Trane Expands Thermal Management with Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 1, 2025 - The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)has signed a procurement contract withQilimanjaro Quantum Techfor MareNostrum-Ona, a quantum annealer to be hosted at theBarcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)in Spain. The system, co-funded with a total acquisition cost of 8.5 million ($8.8 million USD), will initially offer at least 10 physical qubits, with [...]The post EuroHPC JU Acquires 8.5M Qilimanjaro Quantum Annealer to be at Barcelona Supercomputing Center appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 3, 2025 - The team at Alces Flight, a UK-based company specializing in high performance computing and volunteers from Women in HPC announced the final report and facilitation guide from the Move the Needle Project, which ran throughout 2024 and examined practical approaches to goal-setting, accountability, and continuous improvement focused on the people side [...]The post Women in HPC and Alces Flight Announce Move the Needle Project Results appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models - which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems - on the lab's Venadosupercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research. As threats to the nation become ....The post Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.