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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.

St. Louis, November 20, 2025 - ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling in recognition of their project Computing the Full Earth System at 1 km Resolution." The award honors innovative contributions to parallel computing toward solving the global climate crisis. Climate [...]The post At SC25, 26-Member Team Wins ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Full Earth Climate Modelling appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Nov. 21, 2025 - Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL),theUniversity of Texas at Austin's (UT) Oden InstituteandScripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego (UCSD)on Nov. 20 were awarded the prestigious 2025Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prizefor developing a real-time tsunami early warning framework powered by the world's fastest [...]The post LLNL, UT Austin and UCSD Collaboration on Tsunami Forecasting Wins ACM Gordon Bell Prize at SC25 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new TOP500 list in this episode sponsored by CoolIT. We go over HPL, HPL-MxP, HPCG, Green500, geographical distribution, vendor distribution, and other observations.The post @HPCpodcast at SC25: A Breakdown of the New TOP500 List appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), with collaborators at Microsoft Ignite, today unveiled a simulation-driven framework for optimizing manufacturing processes in real time. First deployed by Krones, a packaging and bottling line systems company, the framework was used to create a physically accurate virtual assembly line with optimization outputs accounting for variables, such as bottle shape, [...]The post Synopsys Demonstrates Framework for Optimizing Manufacturing Processes with Digital Twins appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SAN FRANCISCO - Nov 20, 2025 - Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, today announced the general availability of Crusoe Managed Inference, a service designed to run model inference on Crusoe Cloud with low latency, fast time-to-first-token (TTFT), and resilient scaling. Optimized for demanding inference workloads, including large context and long-form text generation, AI [...]The post Crusoe Launches Managed Inference AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Brookfield Asset Management today announced the launch of a $100 billion global AI Infrastructure program in partnership with NVIDIA and the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA"). Brookfield will anchor the program with the Brookfield Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Fund (BAIIF" or the Fund"), which launches today with a target [...]The post Brookfield Partners with NVIDIA on $100B AI Infrastructure Program appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Nov. 19, 2025 - Applications for the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) are being accepted through Jan. 15, 2026, with an informational webinar set for Dec. 3, 2025. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents who plan full-time, uninterrupted study toward a Ph.D. at an accredited U.S. university. The [...]The post DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Application Deadline Is Jan. 15 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ST PAUL, Minn., November 18, 2025-Hyperion Research announced the recipients of the 21st round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards at their annual HPC/AI Market Update Breakfast during SC25. The 2025 winners of the HPC Innovation Awards are: Urgent HPC for Earthquakes Applied as a Service - Organizations: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Mexico's National Seismological [...]The post Hyperion Research Announces Winners of 2025 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

AMD and Eviden announced they will build the "Alice Recoque" supercomputer, to be the first exascale in France and second in Europe. The companies said the system will be powered by AMD EPYC CPUs, codenamed Venice" ....The post AMD and Eviden to Build 554 France-Based Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ST. LOUIS (SC25) - Nov 17, 2025 - Generative AI inference compute company d-Matrixand Andes Technology , a supplier of RISC-V processor cores, announced that d-Matrix has selected the AndesCore AX46MPV for its next-generation Raptor inference architecture. The companies said the collaboration represents a convergence of memory-centric computing and open-standard processor innovation for AI workloads [...]The post d-Matrix and Andes Collaborate on RISC-V Accelerator for AI Inference appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

We know there are many challenges to building a utility-scale quantum computer. That's why we are taking a vendor-agnostic approach-integrating third-party quantum technologies with our HPC and networking capabilities to provide the best solution available and give customers the flexibility they need. We are working to address the challenges of scaling finite-size quantum processing units (QPUs) by providing a tight integration of HPC and QC in multiple layers.The post Enabling Utility-Scale Quantum Computing with HPC-QC Integration appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The new TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers, revealed today at the Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis, shows the HPE-Cray / AMD supercomputer El Capitan, housed at Lawrence Livermore ....The post TOP500: El Cap Stays on Top, Jupiter Joins Exascale Club appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A happy Supercomputing Conference week to you from St. Louis! Here's a fast (9:50) rundown of recent HPC and AI developments: China feeling the bite of AI chip export ....The post HPC News Bytes 20251117: SC25 Starts!, Conflicting Tales of China AI Chip Bans, Quantum in the News, NSF Supercomputing Centers Hit 40 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

EUGENE, OR., November 17, 2025- The E4S Project, today announced the immediate availability of E4S Release 25.11. E4S, an HPSF project, is the open-source, community-drivenHPC-AI Software Ecosystem for Science. This curated, Spack based collection of scientific libraries and tools forms the foundation of some of the world's most advanced scientific applications. E4S 25.11 container images [...]The post E4S Release 25.11 Offers Container Images, NVIDIA Blackwell Support and 125+ HPC and AI Packages appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Boston - Nov 17, 2025 - Neutral-atom quantum computing company QuEra Computing announced it is working with Dell Technologies to help define the future of high-performance computing (HPC). Using Dell solutions, QuEra is demonstrating how quantum processing units (QPUs) can seamlessly integrate into mainstream data center architectures. This milestone will be showcased at Supercomputing 2025 [...]The post QuEra Collaborates with Dell on Quantum-Classical HPC Integration appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

If you follow Taiwan-based technology analyst Dan Nystedt on social media then you're familiar with his insightful commentary and ground-level perspectives on the global tech scene. ....The post @HPCpodcast: Taiwan-Based Analyst Dan Nystedt Talks East-West Tech Tensions, the US-China AI Race and the Global Tech Supply Chain appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and collaborators at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Columbia University report they have achieved a milestone in biological computing: completing the largest and fastest protein ....The post LLNL, AMD and Columbia Report Record Protein Folding Workflow on El Capitan Supercomputer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

We put together an all-star panel for this, insideHPC's fifth annual pre-SC panel discussion on the keynote and key sessions, anticipated news and major trends driving not only next week's Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis .....The post A Look Ahead at SC25: How to Get the Most out of Next Week's Conference in St. Louis appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Nov. 13, 2025 -Cornelis, a provider of high-performance networking, today announced what the company said is record performance score for Ansys Fluent, now part of Synopsys, achieved on the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) benchmark. According to Cornelis, the result demonstrate the power of the Cornelis CN5000 Omni-Path interconnect paired with AMD EPYC processors to accelerate [...]The post Cornelis and Synopsys Report Record Ansys Fluent Performance with AMD EPYCs appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

HPE today announced additions to its supercomputing portfolio feaguring higher compute density[1], three multi-partner, multi-workload compute blades, unified management software and high-performance interconnect support for converged AI and HPC workloads.The post HPE Cray Announces Expanded Supercomputing Portfolio for AI and HPC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.