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The annual ISC High Performance conference, organized by the ISC Group, is just over two months away. It will take place from June 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany. In this interview, we hear from two of the conference organizers about the highlights we can expect from this year's event. With us are Nages Sieslack, ISC's communications [...]The post ISC 2025: What to Expect at This Year's Conference in Hamburg, Germany appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The online technology publication The Information reported today that Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have reached a tentative agreement to form a joint venture in which TSMC would operate Intel's chipmaking facilities. As part of the agreement, TSMC, the world's biggest chip manufacturer that recently celebrated the expansion of its most advanced, 2nm process [...]The post Report: TSMC to Operate Intel Fabs under Tentative Joint Venture appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into an R&D agreement with Sandia and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips. The company is working to develop the new technology to regulate the temperature of chips, while aiming to lower the power ....The post Sandia Labs Tests Laser-Based Photonic Data Center Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 3, 2025 - Photonic Inc., a leader in distributed quantum computing, is pleased to announce its selection for Stage A of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)Quantum Benchmarking Initiative(QBI). In this effort, Photonic intends to demonstrate to DARPA that its large-scale quantum computing approach will reach industrial scale. Open to [...]The post Photonic Inc. Selected for DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage A appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston and Paris - April 3, 2025 - Fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob today announces its selection as a performer in the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). Under this program, Alice & Bob will contribute to QBIs mission of verifying and validating whether fault-tolerant quantum computers can [...]The post Alice & Bob Selected by DARPA for the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WALTHAM, Mass., April 3, 2025 - Metadata-driven unstructured data management Starfish Storage today announced it has won the Data Solution of the Year for Education" award in the 6thannual Data Breakthrough Awards program conducted byData Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes companies, technologies and products in the data technology market today. Starfish provides unstructured [...]The post Starfish Storage Named Data Solution of the Year for Education' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 31, 2025 - Preferred Computational Chemistry Inc. (PFCC) announces that it will team up with ENEOS Corp. to enable AI-driven formulation optimization of chemicals and materials using NVIDIA ALCHEMI software. The collaboration was announced at NVIDIA GTC. The collaboration focuses on R&D for industrial performance and sustainability with a focus on such areas as [...]The post Data Center Cooling: PFCC and ENEOS Collaborate on Materials R&D with NVIDIA ALCHEMI Software appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.- Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter announced Passage L200, which the company said is the rst 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) product. Designed to integrate with the latest XPU and switch silicon designs, Passage L200 supports unprecedented AI performance scaling by eliminating interconnect bandwidth bottlenecks, the company said. The L200 3D CPO family includes both [...]The post Lightmatter Announces Passage L200, Co-Packaged Optics for AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 -Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced results from the largest commercial Fluent CFD simulation ever run on AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. Leveraging the power of the Frontier exascale supercomputer, powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs, Ansys and energy company Baker Hughes scaled Fluent to 1,024 GPUs, offering unparalleled insight into [...]The post Ansys, Baker Hughes, and Oak Ridge Report Supercomputing Record on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AI compute company Cerebras Systems said it has been awarded a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a system combining their wafer scale technology with wafer scale co-packaged optics of Ottawa-based Ranovus to deliver several orders of magnitude better compute performance at a fraction of the power draw." Cerebras [...]The post DARPA Taps Cerebras and Ranovus for Military and Commercial Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today, MLCommons announced new results for its MLPerf Inference v5.0 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking. The rorganization said the esults highlight that the AI community is focusing on generative AI ....The post MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lumen Technologies and Ciena recently reported they have established a 1.2 terabit wavelength service trial across 3,050 kilometers (more than 1,800 miles) on Lumen's Ultra-Low-Loss (ULL) fiber network,. This makes it the world's longest 1.2 terabit non-regenerated signal, according ....The post Lumen and Ciena Report 1.2 Tbps Wavelength Service from Denver to Dallas appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs announced the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet, which Ayar said is the first optical Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe), designed to maximize AI infrastructure performance and efficiency while reducing latency and power consumption.The post Optical I/O: Ayar Labs Launches 8 Tbps UCIe Optical Chiplet for AI Scale-Up Architectures appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TSMC today held a 2 nanometer (2nm) capacity expansion ceremony at the construction site of Fab 22 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing together representatives from government as well as construction and supplier ....The post TSMC Holds 2nm Capacity Expansion Ceremony, Volume Production Slated for Second Half of Year appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

On the heels of winning a 30,000 GPU cluster deal with Oracle, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a move into the AI infrastructure arena, reflecting a trend toward integration - or verticalization - of chip makers and the AI factory, defined by at least one company (data center company Vertiv) the AI unit of compute." [...]The post AI Factory: AMD in $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2025 - Today, AMD(NASDAQ: AMD) announced 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors power the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard shapes. 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, CPUs for enterprise, AI and cloud1, enable OCI Compute E6 shapes to deliver up to a 2X increase in cost to performance, compared to [...]The post Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E6 Shapes with 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DAVIDSON, N.C., March 27, 2025 - Trane - by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), announced the development of two new air-cooled chiller offerings - Magnetic Bearing chillers and Ascend chillers for facility chilled water cooling applications. Trane's Magnetic Bearing Chiller provides cooling capacity to address the escalating capacity needs of data center thermal management systems. Introduction [...]The post Trane Announces Data Center Air-Cooled Chillers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 27, 2025 - Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced the signing of the procurement contract with the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) to deliver EuroQCS-Italy, a quantum computer to be hosted in Italy. Owned by the EuroHPC JU, the processor will be hosted and operated byCINECAin Bologna, Italy and integrated [...]The post Pasqal Selected for 140-Qubit Quantum Computer to Be Hosted at CINECA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 25, 2025 - Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform, announced it is deploying and managing exascale clusters across Iceland and Europe in collaboration with Borealis Data Center, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. Our mission has always been to support the most exceptional AI labs, researchers and enterprises on the planet," said Cesar Maklary, co-founder and president [...]The post Fluidstack to Deploy Exascale GPU Clusters in Europe with NVIDIA, Borealis Data Center and Dell appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS, March 28, 2025 - Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS), a diversified holding company, today announced the successful installation of its first Nvidia GPU deployment for a new Silicon Valley-based cloud services provider. The company said this marks a significant step in its transformation of its Michigan data center into an artificial intelligence [...]The post Hyperscale Data Completes First Installation of Nvidia GPUs for HPC Customer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DENVER, March 28, 2025-Gates (NYSE: GTES), a manufacturer of power transmission and fluid power solutions, today announced the launch of Data Master MegaFlex, a large-diameter data center cooling hose that joins the Data Master small-diameter hose, launchedin 2024. The Data Master MegaFlex unlocks new opportunities within data centers and will enable Gates to serve a [...]The post Gates Announces Large-Diameter Hose for Data Center Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 27, 2025, Reno, Nev. - CIQ today announced the availability of federation capabilities in their Fuzzball performance-intensive computing platform. This release is designed to allow engineering teams and business analysts to easily connect, manage and share compute resources for all performance-intensive workloads (HPC and AI) for global deployments across different sites, and across hybrid/on-premises [...]The post CIQ Fuzzball Federation Capabilities for Deployment of AI and HPC Workloads Across Regions, Clouds and Data Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK, March 27, 2025 - Upper90 Capital Management, LP, an asset-backed private credit firm, announced today the closing of an approximately $225 million credit facility for Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider. The investment will be used to support the expansion of Crusoe Cloud, the company's scalable cloud platform purpose-built for enterprise AI [...]The post Upper90 Closes $225M Credit Facility to Crusoe to Expand AI Cloud Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nvidia, hot off the festivities of its big GTC conference last week in San Jose, dominates the GPU market with a roughly 95 percent share. But the question remains whether and how other chip suppliers will make inroads into the GPU sector. The top potential inroad-making candidate is AMD with its Instinct MI AI accelerators. [...]The post Report: Oracle to Deploy AI Cluster with 30,000 AMD MI355X Accelerators appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 27, 2025, CORNING, NY - Corning Inc. (NYSE:GLW) today launched Corning GlassWorks AI solutions, which the company described as a one-stop shop of customized data center products and services to help operators build the dense fiber infrastructure required for generative AI. The portfolio provides cable and connectivity solutions along with network planning, design and [...]The post Corning Launches GlassWorks Cable and Connectivity for AI Data Center Infrastructures appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a webinar covering the process of porting CUDA code to SYCL, with a focus on high-performance math libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT, to be held Tuesday, April 29. Registration is here. ALCF's Thomas Applencourt and Abhishek Bagusetty will discuss key challenges, such as differences in API, memory management, [...]The post ALCF Announces CUDA to SYCL Webinar April 29 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 27, 2025, PALO ALTO, Calif.- Enterprise orchestration platform provider Workato announced the next phase of the Agentic Enterprise with Workato One at the company's Work to the Power of AI event in New York today. Workato One offers the capabilities needed to build and deploy secure, trusted, enterprise-ready agents with full business context across [...]The post Workato Launches Platform Combining AI and Orchestration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory tested a quantum computing approach to an old challenge: solving classical fluid dynamics problems. For the test problem, the research team ....The post Quantum Advantage On Paper': Oak Ridge Tests a Quantum Computing Approach for Fluid Dynamics appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Bristol, London and Washington, D.C, 26 March 2025: Quantum algorithms company Phasecraft said it has developed a novel approach to quantum simulation that improves efficiency while cutting computational costs. The method, known as THRIFT (Trotter Heuristic Resource Improved Formulas for Time-dynamics), is designed to optimize the quantum simulation according to the different energy scales found [...]The post Phasecraft: Algorithm Improves Quantum Simulation Efficiency appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Torsten Hoefler, a professor at ....The post Torsten Hoefler Wins ACM Prize in Computing for Contributions to HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LONDON and TORONTO - March 25, 2025 -Alphawave Semi (LSE: AWE), maker of connectivity and compute silicon for technology infrastructure, has announced its portfolio of optoelectronics products addressing the high-speed interconnect semiconductor market, which is forecast to exceed $4-billion by 2028. The portfolio consists of DSPs for PAM4 and emerging Coherent-lite modulation. These are capable [...]The post Alphawave Semi Unveils Optoelectronics Silicon Products for Hyperscalers and AI Interconnect appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Manchester, England, March 25, 2025 - PEAK:AIO, a software-defined storage provider built for GPU-powered AI workloads, today announced its AI Data Servers have been chosen by Scan Computers to power its latest expansion of GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS). Scan's new NVIDIA DGX Blackwell B200 cluster, one of the first in EMEA, represents a multi-million-pound investment in AI [...]The post PEAK:AIO Storage Chosen for Scan Computer's GPUaaS with NVIDIA DGX B200 Cluster appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CARROLLTON, Texas, March 25, 2025 - Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced that it has opened a second manufacturing facility in Carrollton, Texas. Located two blocks from LiquidStack's headquarters and manufacturing site in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the new 17,000 square foot facility will increase the company's production capacity, while serving as a [...]The post LiquidStack Opens Second Manufacturing Facility in Texas appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland - March 21st, 2025 -atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced that two of their senior executives have received industry recognition for their contributions to the digital infrastructure sector. Fredrik Jansson, Chief Strategy and Marketing & Communications Officer at atNorth, has been shortlisted for theEMEA Digital Infrastructure [...]The post atNorth Leaders Recognized for Digital Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In what is becoming an annual tradition for the @HPCpodcast, we present "Live from Nvidia GTC 2025," covering highlights from the Nvidia extravaganza with an AI-everywhere theme.

During quantum day at Nvidia's GTC 2025 conference in San Jose, SEEQCandNVIDIA announced they havecompleted an end-to-end fully digital quantum-classical interface protocol demo ....The post SEEQC and Nvidia Report First Digital Quantum QPU-GPU Interface appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 18, 2025, SAN FRANCISCO -Writer, a generative AI platform for the enterprise, today announced the release of its 2025 AI Survey: Generative AI Adoption in the Enterprise." The study, conducted in partnership with independent research firm Workplace Intelligence, is intended to provide a lens into the experiences of knowledge workers and C-suite executives actively [...]The post Writer Survey: 42% of C-Suite Say Gen AI Is Tearing Their Companies Apart appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Jose, GTC 2025 - March 18, 2025 - Supermicro announced support for the new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on a range of workload-optimized GPU servers and workstations. Specifically optimized for the NVIDIA Blackwell generation of PCIe GPUs, the broad range of Supermicro servers will enable more enterprises to leverage accelerated [...]The post Supermicro Expands Enterprise AI Portfolio with Blackwell Servers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Columbus, Ohio [March 18, 2025] - Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a rovider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today announced the launch of four new systems designed to address challenges driven by the rapid growth of AI applications. Vertiv's expanded capabilities in infrastructure management, prefabricated modular deployment, advanced thermal management, and DC power distribution provide options [...]The post Vertiv Unveils 4 AI Digital Infrastructure Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO / ABILENE, TX / March 18, 2025 / - Today Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, announced construction has begun on the next phase of its AI data center at the Lancium Clean Campusin Abilene, Texas. The second phase of construction, expected to be completed in mid-2026, includes six additional buildings, bringing [...]The post Crusoe Expands AI Data Center Campus in Abilene to 1.2 GW appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced it offers early access to the NVIDIA HGX B200. Vultr Cloud GPU, accelerated by NVIDIA HGX B200, will provide training and inference support for enterprises looking to scale AI-native applications via Vultr's 32 cloud data center regions worldwide. We are pleased to [...]The post Vultr Announces Early Availability of NVIDIA HGX B200 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ST. LOUIS (March 18, 2025)- World Wide Technology (WWT), a technology solutions provider, today announced the launch of new AI solutions developed in collaboration with NVIDIA designed to enable faster, more secure adoption of the game-changing technology. Built in WWT'sAI Proving Groundlab, the WWT solutions revealed at NVIDIA GTC include an AI coding assistant, an [...]The post World Wide Technology Debuts oding Assistant, Digital Humans and Agents with NVIDIA AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, CA (March 18, 2024) - Luminary Cloud and nTop today announced a new integration with NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo that the companies say reduces physics-based AI design optimization from weeks or months to mere hours. By connecting nTop's parametric geometry generation, Luminary's GPU-native simulation and simulation management platform, and NVIDIA's PhysicsNeMo via APIs, engineers can [...]The post Luminary Cloud and nTop Announce Integraton with NVIDIA Physics AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 18, 2025- Data infrastructure company NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today made an agentic AI announcement that taps the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.By collaborating with NVIDIA, NetApp intends to enable businesses to better leverage their data to fuel AI reasoning inference. In the era of intelligence, businesses need to rethink [...]The post NetApp Announce Agentic AI Reasoning Solutions with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE - March 18, 2025 - AI data platform company VAST Data today announced the availability of VAST InsightEngine starting with NVIDIA DGX systems and expanding to NVIDIA-Certified Systems from server providers. This combination is designed to provide enterprise customers with a first-of-its-kind turnkey, real-time AI data processing and retrieval platform designed to eliminate [...]The post VAST Data Announces Enterprise-Ready AI Stack with NVIDIA DGX appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone! As the accelerated computing world congregates in San Jose, here's a rapid (6:36) rundown of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: What's coming from Intel's new CEO, did D-Wave achieve quantum supremacy?, "AI Woodstock" GTC25 in San Jose this week.The post HPC News Bytes 20250317: Intel's New CEO, Is D-Wave Quantum Superior?, AI Woodstock' at GTC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We hear talk of AI's growing programming prowess to the point that it could, extrapolating things out, come to dominate base-level ....The post Will Programmers Become Unnecessary? HPC-AI Researchers at MIT Report Programming Advance appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - March 13, 2025-Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, today announced an integration with Microsoft's services for cloud-based access to Pasqal's technology. Microsoft Azure Quantum cloud service customers can now leverage Pasqal's quantum computer, which uses neutral-atom technology and offers a range of analog quantum computational capabilities to solve complex computing issues. The demand [...]The post Pasqal Quantum Available on Azure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.