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Those who anticipated NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang would delay delivering an update on its next big AI chip - the Vera Rubin processor first discussed last March at the company's GTC conference in San Jose - until the upcoming GTC conference in March were surprised last night when Huang released details about the chip last [...]The post NVIDIA Releases Details on Next-Gen Vera Rubin AI Platform - 5X the Performance of Blackwell appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A happy and prosperous 2026 to you! The world of HPC-AI transitioned to the new year while generating its fair share of news, here's a rapid (8:35) recap of recent developments, including ....The post HPC News Bytes 20260105: Denied H20s, China Now Granted H200s, Meta Acquires Manus, Sandia's Photonics Quantum Chip appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ORLANDO, FL (Jan. 5, 2026) - The IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), has extended the deadline for the Student Innovation Challenge for ECTC 2026. Six winning student teams will have the opportunity to attend ECTC 2026 with financial assistance, including travel costs up to a specified amount. Eligible participants currently enrolled in an [...]The post Jan. 11 Pre-registration Deadline for IEEE Electronic Components and Technology Conference Student Innovation Challenge appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A happy holiday break to all! Here's a fast (9:30) run-down of recent developments, including: Nvidia's $20B Groq deal ....The post HPC News Bytes 20251229: Nvidia's $20B Non-Acquisition of Groq, Quantum-HPC Hybrids, NCAR Closure appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Argonne National Laboratory named five scientists as Argonne Distinguished Fellows in 2025. They are Seth B. Darling, Katrin Heitmann, Ken Kemner, Robert Ross and Temitope Taiwo.The post Argonne Names 5 Distinguished Fellows for 2025 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Happy Holiday weeks to you! For this, our penultimate weekly episode of the year, Shahin ....The post HPC News Bytes 20251222: Sub-Nanosecond High Frequency Trading, Federated AI Learning at 3 National Labs, AI Doomers" Speak Out appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Dec. 10, 2025 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for November 2025: On a consolidated basis, revenue for November 2025 was approximately NT$343.61 billion, a decrease of 6.5 percent from October 2025 and an increase of 24.5 percent from November 2024. Revenue for January through November [...]The post TSMC November Revenue up 25% YoY appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Dec. 10, 2025 - The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold its 2026 ALCF INCITE GPU Hackathon in April, an opportunity to work with mentors to prepare code and boost its performance for the upcoming INCITE call for proposalsas well as DOE'sASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC). Important Dates: January 31: Application Deadline February 14: Application [...]The post ALCF to Hold April INCITE GPU Hackathon, Jan. 31 Application Deadline appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SAN JOSE - Dec 10, 2025 - AI database developer platform company Couchbasetoday announced the general availability of Couchbase AI Services, a suite of capabilities for building and deploying agentic AI applications. By bringing together data and models in a single unified platform, Couchbase said it eliminates the complexity and fragmentation that has kept AI [...]The post Couchbase Announces GA of AI Platform with NVIDIA Integration for Agentic AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Oxford, UK - 9th December, 2025 -QuantumDice, a UK-based quantum photonics and probabilistic computing company, has secured a 2 grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme, with the project now officially underway following its October kick-off. Selected as one of 40 deep-tech start-ups across Europe - and among just three from the UK [...]The post EIC Accelerator Backs QuantumDicewith 2m Grant appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Fremont, CA - GPU server maker Exxact Corporation today announced a partnership with VDURA, an HPC and AI data infrastructure company, to deliver storage for modern GPU-accelerated compute. For engineers, researchers, and AI teams, slow or inconsistent storage is often the hidden cause of stalled progress and underutilized GPUs.ExxactandVDURA are working to eliminate those bottlenecks [...]The post Exxact Partners with VDURA Storage for AI and HPC Users appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SEATTLE - Dec. 10, 2025 - Qumulo, an unstructured data management company, today announced that Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) is running on Google Cloud and can be procured on the Google Cloud Marketplace. With exabyte-plus scalability and full support for any file or object-based application, users can now implement their cloud strategies by bringing workloads [...]The post Cloud Native Qumulo Now Runs on Google Cloud appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

FREMONT, Calif. - Penguin Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq:PENG), a provider of high-performance computing and AI infrastructure solutions, today announced the release of its SMART 64GB DDR5-6400 ECC CSODIMM memory modules, the newest addition to its DDR5 SODIMM lineup. Designed for HPC in industrial, edge, telecom, and networking systems, the new module supports both commercial-temperature (C-temp) and [...]The post Penguin Solutions Expands SMART Modular DDR5 SODIMM Memory Portfolio appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Siemens and nVent are collaborating to develop a liquid cooling and power reference architecture for hyperscale AI workloads. The new joint architecture developed by Siemens and nVent is designed to help build 100 MW hyperscale AI data centers built to house large-scale, liquid-cooled AI infrastructure, such as NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems. It presents a Tier [...]The post Siemens and nVent to Release Liquid Cooling and Power Reference Architecture for AI Data Centers appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Dec. 9, 2025: Cornellis Networks and Supermicro have announ ced Supermicro's FlexTwin server platforms are now validated with Cornelis' CN5000 networking for AI and HPC clusters. Cornelis' CN5000 400Gbps networking platform is designed to address communication bottlenecks by providing data movement between servers - a critical factor in large AI and HPC deployments. Supermicro's FlexTwin [...]The post Cornelis Networks and Supermicro Collaborate on Integrated AI-HPC Offering appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Sandia National Laboratories has announced the arrival of its newest most unconventional supercomputer. Designed through a collaboration between Sandia and NextSilicon, the Spectra" prototype ....The post Sandia's Newest and Least Conventional Supercomputer Takes the Stage appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good December day to you! The world of HPC-AI generated a notably colorful array of developments last week, here's a quick (9:12) run-through of recent news: Marvell in AI with Celestial AI, co-packaged optical I/O, lasers for extreme ultraviolet lithography, SDCS's HPC-led research for treating Parkinson'sThe post HPC News Bytes 20251208: Marvell's Celestial AI-Optical I/O Buy, ASML's U.S. EUV Laser Competitor, HPC and Parkinson's Research at SDSC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8, 2025 - IBM (NYSE: IBM) and data streaming company Confluent today announced they have entered into an agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for $31 per share, representing an enterprise value of $11 billion. Confluent provides an [...]The post IBM in $11B Acquisition of Confluent appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Chatsworth, CA - AI data platform provider DDN announced new capabilities across its EXA and Infinia product lines desitned to enable organizations to enhance AI performance and GPU utilization even as global NAND shortages drive SSD prices up by 75-125 percent. These advancements uniquely position DDN as the only vendor capable of maintaining AI factory [...]The post DDN Introduces AI Data Architecture, Addresses NAND Shortages appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Dec. 5, 2025 - According to a recently published report from industry analyst firm Dell'Oro Group, Ethernet accounted for more than two-thirds of data center switch sales in AI back-end networks both during the quarter and across the first three quarters of the year - up from less than half in [...]The post Report: AI Back-End Networks Continue Shift to Ethernet appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Calling it the largest advancement since the NVIDIA CUDA platform was inroduced in 2006, NVIDIA has launched CUDA 13.1 with CUDA Tile, which the company said introduces a virtual instruction set for tile-based parallel programming focusing on writing algorithms at a higher level and abstract away the details of specialized hardware, such as tensor cores. [...]The post NVIDIA Introduces CUDA 13.1 with CUDA Tile appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Five researchers from Argonne National Laboratory have won the Ewing Rusty" Lusk Best Paper award at EuroMPI/USA 2025, held at the University of North Carolina in October. EuroMPI is an event for discussion of new developments and applications of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for high performance parallel computing. The award-winning paper,Implementing TrueMPISessions and [...]The post Argonne Researchers Win Lusk Best Paper Award at EuroMPI Conference appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Organizations risk being held back not by their compute power but by access to the data needed to fuel it. When input/output performance falls short or data orchestration can't keep GPUs continuously supplied with data ....The post The Infrastructure Revolution for AI Factories appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

RENO, Nev., - December 4, 2025-CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and high-performance software infrastructure company, today announced that Fuzzball, its container orchestration platform, now integrates with PBS Professional and Slurm workload managers as backend provisioners. This integration enables organizations running traditional HPC clusters to adopt Fuzzball's modern container orchestration and [...]The post CIQ Fuzzball Integration with PBS Professional and Slurm appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

West Palm Beach, FL. - Dec. 4, 2025 -Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced an expansion of its AI workload collaboration with AMD (NASDAQ: AMD). Vultr will launch an AI supercluster, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs deployed in its new Springfield, Ohio cloud data center. This 50 MW expansion delivers unprecedented performance [...]The post Vultr and AMD Expand AI Supercluster Collaboration appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.