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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.

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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.

Cerebras Systemstoday announced what it said is record-breaking performancefor DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B inference, achieving more than 1,500 tokens per second - 57 times faster than GPU-based solutions. Cerebras said this speed enables instant reasoning capabilities for one of the industry's ....The post Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today's world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT's enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI [...]The post Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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SEATTLE, January 29, 2025 - Emerald, a venture capital company, has invested in NLM Photonics to help bring energy-efficient, high performance electro-optic modulation technology to AI, data centers, quantum computing, and more. Other investors include Oregon Venture Fund, Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd., Pack Ventures, StoryHouse Ventures, and other existing NLM investors to support NLM's [...]The post Emerald Invests in NLM Photonics Data Center Efficiency appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SoftBank Corp. and Quantinuum today announced a partnership in quantum computing intended to "unlock innovative quantum computing solutions that will overcome the limitations of classical artificial intelligence and realize next-generation technologies." Terms were not disclosed. SoftBank made news last week at the White House when President ....The post SoftBank and Quantinuum in Quantum Partnership appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris, Jan.28, 2025 - Quantum computing company Alice & Bob announced a raise of 100 million in its Series B funding round, led by Future French Champions (FFC), AVP (AXA Venture Partners) and Bpifrance. FFC is a partnership between QIA and Bpifrance. The funding will accelerate Alice & Bob's goal of building the world's first [...]The post Quantum Computing: Alice & Bob Closes 100M Series B Round appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN DIEGO - January 29, 2025 - DDC Solutions, a provider of data center solutions, today announced the release of their Business Impact Report, New Considerations for Datacenter Risk Exposure," commissioned with S&P Global Market Intelligence, an analyst firm providing essential intelligence. The report states that as the demand for AI accelerators and related equipment [...]The post DDC Report: Data Center Operators Must Lower Risk Exposure as Costs Rise appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We're ecstatic to officially deploy Aurora for open scientific research," said Michael Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.Early users have given us a glimpse of Aurora's vast potential. We're eager to see how the broader scientific community will use the system to transform their research."The post Argonne Releases Aurora Exascale Supercomputer to Researchers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good morning to you on this cold and dry January morning in the Northern Hemisphere. As AI data center fever prevails we offer a rapid (8:04) review of HPC-AI news, including: Massive AI datacenter money for Stargate and from Saudi Arabia, when data centers can't get bigger, India enters chip manufacturing ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250127: Trillions for AI, the Limits of Data Center Largeness, India's Chip Fab Entry appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, Calif., Jan. 27, 2025 - Bodo.ai, an open source start-up focused on transformative Python, has released its high performance computing engine for Python under the Apache License. The need to process ever-larger amounts of data with higher precision, faster speeds, lower costs, and a smaller carbon footprint has grown exponentially. Bodo.ai addresses these [...]The post Bodo.ai Open-Sources HPC Python Compute Engine appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Kevin Yager, the Electronic Nanomaterials Group leader at theCenter for Functional Nanomaterials(CFN), has articulated an overarching vision for the role of AI in scientific research. It's called a science exocortex - exo" meaning outside and cortex" referencing the information processing layer of the human brain.The post Brookhaven Researcher's Exocortex' for AI (Artificial Imagination) appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK,Jan. 23, 2025 - Digital Power Optimization, Inc. (DPO"), a developer and operator of power-dense data centers, today announced it has secured land and a power supply to develop a $200 millionhigh-performance computing facility inWisconsin Rapids, WI. This project will enable up to 20 megawatts of AI computing. DPO is working in partnership with [...]The post $200M HPC Data Center for AI in Wisconsin Launched by DPO and Billerud appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

"The potential of combining HPC and AI to push scientific boundaries drives me to explore new ways of leveraging these technologies together to unlock breakthroughs that neither could achieve alone. It is no exaggeration to say that the fusion of HPC and AI fuels my career path, allowing me to work at the forefront of scientific innovation."The post Vanguards of HPC-AI: ORNL's Dr. Feiyi Wang - Unlocking HPC-AI Breakthroughs that Neither Could Do Alone appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Francisco - January 23, 2025: Today, AI infrastructure startup Pipeshift announced their $2.5 illion seed round to address the challenge of deploying open source AI models, launching a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables engineering teams to orchestrate AI workloads across any infrastructure - cloud or on-premises. The company said more than 80 percent of enterprises [...]The post Pipeshift Raises $2.5M for AI Infrastructure Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Austin, TX - January 22, 2025 - Today, scalable cloud provider DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN) introduced its new GenAI Platform at the company's biannual developer conference, Deploy, in Austin, Texas. The GenAI Platform allows customers to use foundational models from third party providers to build and deploy AI agents in minutes without the need for advanced [...]The post DigitalOcean Launches Generative AI Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston - January 22, 2025 - Research from neutral-atom quantum coputing company QuEra Computing indicates global budgets for quantum applications projected to rise nearly 20 percent in 2025, according to the company. The findings show that while high costs, talent gaps, and uncertainty around ROI remain significant barriers, 65% of respondents feel prepared to adopt [...]The post QuEra: Quantum Budgets to Grow by 20% appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Trump Administration ended its first full day of business with a major AI business announcement, that hundreds of billions of dollars - potentially trillions of dollars - will be invested in the build-out of AI infrastructure and data centers in the U.S. Joining President Trump at a White House press event late this afternoon [...]The post White House Announces $500B AI Data Center Infrastructure Build-Out appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Francisco and Sheffield, UK- January 15, 2025 -Iceotope, a liquid cooling for AI systems company, today announced two leadership appointments designed to transition the company from its roots in technology R&D to mass market adoption. Following the launch of KUL AI, these appointments are intended to position the company for growth powered by AI's [...]The post Liquid Cooling: Iceotope Names New CEO, Non-Executive Chairman appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

FREMONT, CA, January 21, 2025 - Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX), a maker of of mass capacity data storage, today announced shipments of Exos M hard drive samples to select customers in capacities up to 36 terabytes (TB). Based on Mozaic 3+, the company's heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology platform, Exos M delivers storage [...]The post Seagate Introduces Hard Drive Capacities up to 36TB appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.