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.... 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 without creating friction or lower performance.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.

Raleigh, N.C. - Red Hat today announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for generative AI (gen AI) on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon. With this collaboration, Red Hat focuses on empowering IT decision-makers with the flexibility to run high-performance, efficient AI inference at scale, regardless of the underlying [...]The post Red Hat Expands Inference Collaboration with AWS AI chips appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PORTLAND, Oregon - Dec. 4, 2025 - ZincFive, the a nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based company, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $30 million Series F funding round. With this funding, the company has raised $254 million since its founding in 2016 and now intends to scale its commercial footprint and manufacturing capacity to meet accelerating [...]The post ZincFive Raises $30M for AI Data Center Batteries appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

In AI chips, it may be time to regard nothing, no matter what, as surprising. Driven by quenchless global demand, the advanced chip sector is changing, morphing and growing at a pace rarely seen in the technology industry. That said, it is undeniably surprising that a company is taking on - make that partially taking [...]The post Taking on ASML: U.S. Invests $150M in Gelsinger-Backed EUV Startup appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Sydney, Australia - December 3, 2025 (U.S.)-Quantum Brilliance, a diamond-based quantum technology company, today announced that Brian Wong has been appointed as the independent board chair. Wong will work with the board and executive team to provide guidance and strategic insight to help advance QB's mission to turn its room-temperature, diamond-based quantum chip technology into [...]The post Quantum Brilliance Names Brian Wong Board Chair appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Dec. 3, 2025 - Only 6 percen t of enterprise AI leaders say their data infrastructure is fully ready for AI: a readiness gap that has become one of the biggest constraints on AI progress. That's a central finding ofCData Software'snew report,The State of AI Data Connectivity: 2026 Outlook, which draws [...]The post Study: 6% of AI Managers Say Their Data Infrastructure Is AI Ready appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Delft, Netherlands (December 3, 2025) - Delft Circuits, a company focused on high-density I/O solutions for quantum computers, today announces the appointment of Martin Danoesastro as Chief Executive Officer, and an 8 million extension of the company's previous financing round, bringing the total capital raised to 15 million. Danoesastro joins Delft Circuits after more than [...]The post Quantum: Delft Circuits Appoints Martin Danoesastro CEO, Announces 8 in New Financing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Technology companies and other industry players can expect to see more ECRA and money laundering charges filed against individuals and entities that export technologies subject to Export Administration Regulations controls.The post Law Firm: US Stepping Up Prosecutions of Illegal Exports of HPC and AI Tech appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

At HPE's Discover Barcelona 2025 event today, the company said it is offering the AMD Helios"AI rack-scale architecture with Ethernet, intended to speed up deployment of at-scale artificial intelligence training and inferencing for cloud service providers.The post HPE to Offer AMD Helios AI Rack-Scale Architecture with Ethernet appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Mistral AI announced today the Mistral 3 family of open-source multilingual, multimodal models, optimized across NVIDIA supercomputing and edge platforms. Mistral Large 3 is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model- instead of firing up every neuron for every token, it is designed to only activates the parts of the model with the most impact Mistral AI [...]The post NVIDIA Partners With Mistral AI on Open Models appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Holtec Government Services to support early deployments of advanced light-water small modular reactors (SMRs) in the United States. The project teams will receive up to $800 million in federal cost-shared funding to advance initial projects in Tennessee and [...]The post DOE Funds $800M, Selects TVA and Holtec for Deployment of Small Modular Reactors appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good, frosty December day to you! The short holiday week last week produced interesting developments in the world of HPC-AI, here's a rapid (8:31) run-through of recent news, including: CRN's top 10 hottest chip startups, TPUs vs. GPUs, neoclouds as a new customer class, DOE's Genesis Mission HPC-AI initiativeThe post HPC News Bytes 20251201: Hot Chip Startups, TPUs vs NVIDIA, Neoclouds as New Customer Class, DOE's Genesis Mission appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NVIDIAandSynopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced a partnership for design and engineering across industries. As part of the deal, NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Synopsys common stock at a purchase price of $414.79 per share. The multiyear partnership adds to technology collaborations between the companies and is intended to: Accelerate Synopsys applications: Using NVIDIA CUDA-X [...]The post NVIDIA and Synopsys in $2B Engineering and Design Partnership appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

AMARILLO, Texas, Dec. 1, 2025 - Fermi America (Nasdaq: FRMI), in partnership with the Texas Tech University System, today announced it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with MVM EGI Zrt., a hybrid dry-wet cooling company, to develop a cooling system for Fermi's 11-gigawatt private energy grid campus. Under the non-binding MOU, Fermi America [...]The post Fermi America and MVM EGI Announce Cooling Agreement for 11GW Energy Grid in West Texas appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Kawasaki, Japan, Nov. 26, 2025 - Fujitsu today announced the development of a technology for quantifying blue carbon, i.e., carbon absorbed and stored by marine and coastal ecosystems, from seaweed and seagrass, supporting the restoration and conservation of seagrass beds. Part of Fujitsu's development of ocean digital twin technology, the company said it significantly accelerates [...]The post Fujitsu Uses Digital Twin to Accelerate Ocean Blue Carbon Certification appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Espoo, Finland, 26th Nov. 2025 - IQM Quantum Computers today announced over 40 million investment to expand its production facility in Finland. This strategic expansion will accelerate the development, fabrication and testing of advanced quantum processing units and the assembly of quantum computers, paving the way for scalable, error-corrected quantum systems that will power the [...]The post Quantum: IQM to Invest 40M in Finland Production Facility Expansion appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Trump Adminisration today issued an executive order launching the Genesis Mission, described as a Department of Energy-led effort to "transform American science and innovation through the power of AI ....The post DOE Launches HPC-AI-Quantum Genesis Mission' Research Platform appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

San Diego, Nov. 24, 2025 - Kneron, a San Diego-based company developing neural processing units (NPUs) for AI, today announced its KL1140 chip. Itis built to bring LLMs to edge devices, delivering up to 3X greater energy efficiency and a 10X reduction in cost compared to current solutions, according to the company. The KL1140 comes [...]The post Kneron Launches Neural Processing Unit for AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A happy US Thanksgiving Week to you all! As we decompress from the Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis, here's a rapid (9:16) run-through of recent news, including: SC25 quick takes ....The post HPC News Bytes 20251124: SC25 Quick Takes (Thank You St. Louis!), Hyperion HPC-Quantum Market Update, DOE's New Public-Private Supercomputers appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Amazon today announced an investment of up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) U.S. government customers. This investment, set to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI ....The post AWS to Invest up to $50B in AI Supercomputing for US Government Agencies appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Nov. 24, 2025 - The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar showcasing the ALCF's Inference Service on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. Registration information can be found here. The facility's inference servicesprovides cloud-like access to diverse AI models-including large language models (LLMs)-on existing HPC clusters. ALCF's Benoit Cote will demonstrate how to integrate the [...]The post Deploying Inference Services Webinar at ALCF Dec. 3 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ST. PAUL, Minn.- Ecolab Inc., a sustainability company offering water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services, announced the launch of an integrated cooling program for data centers. Ecolab's Cooling as a Service (CaaS) program brings together a suite of cooling management solutions that unlock peak cooling performance all the way from the data center [...]The post Ecolab Announces Integrated CaaS Cooling Program for Data Centers appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Nov. 21, 2025 - ALCC is soliciting proposals for allocation awards for the 2026-2027 allocation year. For more information: ASCR ALCC Call for Proposals ASCR ALCC Proposal Information High performance computing machines available for the allocation cycle include Aurora, the exascale system at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF); Polaris, the 44-petaflop accelerated system at [...]The post ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge Issues 2026 Call for Proposals appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.