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San Jose - Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced an industry immersion cooling certification for Supermicro's BigTwin Server with 4th and 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable Processors. With rigorous testing, the Supermicro server, in combination with a defined liquid and immersion tank, is quality/performance tested and is now recognized as a certified immersion server. In addition, [...]The post Supermicro Certified by Intel for Immersion Cooling appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold an online webinar on Thursday, July 17 from 11 am-1 pm CT: Getting Started on Aurora and Polaris Bootcamp." The event will introduce attendees to using Aurora, Argonne's exascale machine, and Polaris supercomputer. The event is aimed at participants who have experience using clusters or supercomputers. Registration is [...]The post Online ALCF HPC Bootcamp July 17: Getting Started on Aurora and Polaris' appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

At AMD's recent Advancing AI" event in San Jose, we had the opportunity to speak with Mahesh Balasubramanian, AMD's Director of Data Center GPU Marketing. We previously interviewed him in 2023 when AMD was rolling out the AMD Instinct MI300X AI Accelerator, so it was good to reconnect and learn more about AMD's advancements upcoming [...]The post A Conversation with AMD's Director of Data Center GPU Marketing, Mahesh Balasubramanian appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory announced that in 2024, NREL's Kestrel high performance computing system powered more than 425 energy research projects across 13 funding areas. Kestrel is NREL's newest HPC system, delivering roughly 56 petaflops of computing power to accelerate energy research, including through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to open [...]The post NREL: Kestrel HPC Advanced 425+ Energy Research Projects in 2024 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A happy Fourth of July week to you! There's been much movement lately by the Big Tech companies developing their own AI chips, a.k.a., ASICs, this includes Meta, Microsoft and Google, to name three. In this episode ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250630: The GPU-ASICs War - Chips from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Why Engineering Projects Get Delayed appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

June 30, 2025 - Empire AI, the New York State-based research consortium that is advancing artificial intelligence for the public good, will receive $40 million for its supercomputing center at the University of Buffalo. The funding, announced by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday, will help launch the center's second phase, known as Empire [...]The post University of Buffalo Awarded $40M to Buy NVIDIA Gear for AI Supercomputing Center appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A prominent exhibitor at ISC was xFusion, a company at the HPC-AI intersection whose computing infrastructure technologies and services embody the power of HPC combined with AI. A Singapore-based company with global ....The post xFusion at ISC 2025: HPC-AI Computing Infrastructure Technologies for Power, Usability and Efficiency appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A new cancer drug candidate developed byLawrence Livermore National Lab,BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics and theFrederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research shows the ability to block tumor growth without a common side effect ....The post Livermore Lab: Cancer Drug Candidate Developed Using HPC and AI Blocks Tumor Growth appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) saw its stock hit record highs today after announcing a product partnership with The Nuclear Company, a builder of nuclear power plants in the U.S.

The EuroHPC JU has inaugurated PIAST-Q in Pozna, Poland. PIAST-Q is a laser-based trapped-ion quantum computer, hosted and operated by PCSS and supplied byAQT, in Innsbruck, Austria. PIAST-Q will offer a performance of 20 physical qubits along with several features for European users. This is the first EuroHPC infrastructure located in Poland. The inauguration ceremony [...]The post Inauguration of PIAST-Q European Quantum Computing in Poland appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Scandiano, Italy, June 24, 2025 - E4 Computer Engineering, an Italian company in the field of ultra-high-tech hardware and software solutions for high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence, quantum computing (QC), cloud computing and data analytics, closed its 2024 financial statements with a turnover of 55.8 mln euros, up 102 percent from fiscal year 2023. The [...]The post E4 Computer Engineering Reports 2024 Revenues of 56M appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW YORK and LAS VEGAS - June 25, 2025-Dataiku announced it has joined theHPE Unleash AI partner program, bringing together enterprise-ready AI orchestration and trusted infrastructure to accelerate the deployment and adoption of generative and agentic AI. With this collaboration, organizations gain a clear path to move beyond experimentation and deliver production-ready AI with the [...]The post Dataiku Announces Universal AI Platform with HPE and NVIDIA Infrastructure appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

LAS VEGAS - June 25, 2025 - HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced an expansion to the HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 server portfolio that includes two new servers powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors built for memory-intensive workloads, and automation features for visibility and control delivered through HPE Compute Ops Management. HPE ProLiant Compute servers [...]The post HPE Expands ProLiant Gen12 Server Portfolio Powered by AMD 5th Gen EPYC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Ethernet wasn't built with AI in mind. While cost-effective and ubiquitous, its best-effort, packet-based nature creates challenges in AI clusters... But fabric-scheduled Ethernet transforms Ethernet into a predictable, lossless, scalable fabric - ideal for AI. It uses cell spraying and virtual output queuing ....The post Re-Engineering Ethernet for AI Fabric appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

At HPE's big Discover event here in Las Vegas today, the company rolled out a series of announcements, including a nAI factory solution built with NVIDIA targeting the exploding AI-at-scale market. The announcements are an expansion of the NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE ....The post HPE Unveils AI Factory Solutions with NVIDIA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

LAS VEGAS - June 24, 2025 - HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced GreenLake Intelligence, an agentic AI framework for hybrid operations that includes agentic AIOps acrossmultiple infrastructure layers. HPE said the offering is integrated across the company's hybrid cloud technology stack and is designed to address siloed and manual workflows, troubleshooting delays and underutilized IT [...]The post HPE Announces GreenLake Intelligence Agentic AI Framework for Hybrid Operations appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Toronto - June 24, 2025 - BUZZ High Performance Computing, a wholly owned subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies Ltd., today launched another NVIDIA Hopper GPU cluster in Quebec, one of three supercomputing clusters it operates across Canada and Sweden. As an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, BUZZ HPC is one of the few Canadian sovereign artificial intelligence [...]The post BUZZ HPC Launches NVIDIA Hopper GPU Cluster appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

June 23, 2025 - Lenovo today expanded Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with new advisory and implementation services, industry solutions and hybrid AI platforms that deliver the modern infrastructure and full-stack capabilities essential to transforming enterprise IT for the age of AI. With the expansion, Lenovo is delivering the complete framework for enterprises to build, scale [...]The post Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage for Enterprise AI with Services, Solutions and Platforms appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good late June morning to you! A healthy portion of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI has focused on quantum computing, here's a quick (7:09) run-through, including ....The post HPC News Bytes 20260623: Fault Tolerant Quantum by 2029?, Quantum Roadmaps, Metrics and M&A, RIKEN and Fujitsu Team on FugakuNEXT appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

LAS VEGAS - HPE Discover 2025 -StorMagic today announced at HPE Discover the availability of its integrated solution through a virtual OEM (V-OEM) collaboration with HPE. Customers with decentralized business applications and data can easily size, order and receive integrated, purpose-built hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions designed for simplicity, reliability, high availability (HA) and affordability, and [...]The post StorMagic Collaborates with HPE for On-Site Hyperconverged Infrastructure appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum, carbon fiber is a staple in aerospace and high-performance vehicles - and now, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found a way to make it stronger.The post 5 Million Simulations: Frontier Exascale Supercomputer for Carbon-Fiber Material Science appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

At ISC 2025 in Hamburg last week, we caught up with Mark Nossokoff, senior analyst with HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research. He shared highlights from the firm's recent market update, released two weeks ago ....The post At ISC 2025: Hyperion Research's Mark Nossokoff on HPC-AI Market Drivers appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ISC 2025 last week, we spoke with Intersect360 Research Senior Analyst Steve Conway on the firm's last HPC-AI industry update, released two weeks ago, along with trends and developments highlighting ....The post At ISC 2025: Intersect360's Steve Conway on HPC's Place in the AI Boom appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Kipu Quantum and IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) announced what they said is a record achievement: the successful solution of "the most complex known protein folding problem" usingKipu's algorithmic framework and IonQ quantum ....The post IonQ and Kipu Quantum Report Protein Folding and Optimization Problem Records appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

At last week's ISC 2025 conference in Hamburg, we spoke with Prof. Volker Lindenstruth, Director of the Center for Scientific Computing at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Researchers ....The post At ISC 2025: Goethe University Discusses AI-Powered Scientific Research on the VDURA Data Platform appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

In this interview, Kikozashvili looks at DriveNets' AI Ethernet solution that is used as a back-end network fabric for large GPU clusters and storage networking solution and how it supports the high-performance Ethernet alternative to InfiniBand.The post At ISC 2025: DriveNets Talks Ethernet-based AI Networking appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

LIVERMORE, Calif. - Sandia National Laboratories has selected nuclear deterrence expert Toby Townsend to lead its California campus, effective immediately. Townsend will serve as Associate Laboratories Director for Sandia's Integrated Security Solutions Division. In this role he will oversee operations at the Livermore campus, manage the California Nuclear Deterrence programs, direct Sandia's Energy and Homeland [...]The post Townsend Picked for Sandia's California Site appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Palo Alto, CA; June 18, 2025 - SandboxAQ today announced the launch of SAIR (Structurally Augmented IC50 Repository), a dataset of protein-ligand pairs with annotated experimental potency data for computational drug discovery. Leveraging NVIDIA DGX Cloud, a development platform for AI training and fine-tuning, and SandboxAQ's advanced AI Large Quantitative Model (LQM) capabilities, SandboxAQ generated [...]The post SandboxAQ Announces SAIR' Open Dataset for Drug Discovery appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NEW YORK CITY - June 17, 2025 - AI operating system company VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced that Voltage Park, the enterprise-grade AI factory company, has partnered with VAST to deliver the high-performance data services required for demanding AI workloads. Voltage Park has deployed the VAST AI Operating System across the [...]The post Voltage Park Partners with VAST Data appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

BEAVERTON, OR- Datavault AI Inc. (Nasdaq: DVLT) announced it will develop an AI-driven multi-modal machine learning system to support biofuel crop optimization. The initiative focuses on increasing fatty acid metabolism efficiency in Brassica napus (canola) using high-performance computational modeling, supporting the EPA's goal to replace up to 140,000 barrels of crude oil per day with [...]The post Datavault AI to Deploy AI-Driven HPC for Biofuel R&D appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

OpenAI announced it has won a $200 million, one-year pilot project contract with the U.S. Department of Defense to help DOD identify and prototype how frontier AI can transform its administrative operations, from improving how service members and their families get health care, to streamlining how they look at program and acquisition data, to supporting [...]The post OpenAI Wins $200M Contract Targeting Defense Department Efficiency appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A DARPAConnect Virtual Pop-Up Event will be held Wednesday, July 9 from 1-3:30 pm CT to provide insights directly from DARPA's program managers and staff on how to navigate the funding ecosystem and align with DARPA's processes and priorities. To register, go to: DARPAConnect Registration page. This interactive event will feature DARPA office directors, program [...]The post DARPA Funding Ecosystem Event July 9 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

MILPITAS, Calif. - June 17, 2025Penguin Solutions(Nasdaq:PENG) today announced the second generation of its Stratus ztC Endurance fault tolerant computing platform with seven nines (99.99999 percent) availability. This new Stratus ztC Endurance family of platforms enables IT teams to ensure the uptime of critical applications and data while consolidating workloads within a manageable IT footprint. [...]The post Penguin Solutions Announces Stratus ztC Endurance Fault Tolerant Computing Platforms appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

New York, June 17, 2025 - ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and IEEE CS, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, have announced that Andre Seznec is the recipient of the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award. Seznec, a Fellow Research Director at INRIA/IRISA (National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology/Research [...]The post Andre Seznec Wins ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A happy day after Father's Day! It was a week full of news, what with ISC and major vendor activities, here's a quick (8:52) run-through: AMD's new GPUs, ROCm 7.0 software and Helios ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250616: Wave of AI Hardware-Software from AMD, Fujitsu Chip, SIGHPC SC25 Travel Grants, HPC Guru Signs Off appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

AMD issued a raft of news at their Advancing AI 2025 event this week, an update on the company's response to NVIDIA's 90-plus percent market share dominance in the GPU and AI markets. And the company offered a sneak peak ....The post AMD Announces New GPUs, Development Platform, Rack Scale Architecture appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

West Palm Beach, FL. - June 12, 2025 - Vultr, a cloud infrastructure company, today announced that it is among the first cloud providers to offer the new AMD Instinct MI355X GPU. Vultr said it is taking pre-orders for early access to AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs, available in Q3, to help customers accelerate their AI [...]The post Vultr Cloud to Provide AI Workloads with AMD Instinct MI355X GPU appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

As the ISC 2025 main program comes to a close today, the conference organization announced that Rosa M. Badia, a prominent European scientist specializing in parallel computing, HPC, AI ....The post ISC 2026 Taps Parallel Computing Expert Rosa M. Badia as Program Chair appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Intel announced plans this week for the new HX2 supercomputer at Imperial College London built on Lenovo servers and powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores). The water-cooled HX2 system, scheduled for deployment later this year, will be part of Imperial College London's Research Computing Service. Residing in a co-location data center in [...]The post Imperial College London Chooses Intel Xeon 6 for 10M Lenovo Supercomputer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

June 12, 2025: IonQ earlier this week it has agreed to acquire Oxford Ionics for US$1.075 billion, the largest deal in the quantum computing industry to date, according to IonQ. The transaction will consist mostly of US$1.065 billion in IonQ shares (representing around 10 percent of IonQ's market cap of ~US$10 billion at the time [...]The post Quantum: IonQ Acquires Oxford Ionics for Record $1B appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Multiverse Computing has developed CompactifAI, a compression technology capable of reducing the size of LLMs (Large Language Models) by up to 95 percent while maintaining model performance, according to the company.The post Multiverse Computing Raises $215M for LLM Compression appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released yesterday at the ISC conference in Hamburg with a new addition to the top 10 and with three exascale-class U.S. HPC systems on top. Tune in to this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems ....The post @HPCPodcast: Digging into the New TOP500 List - How Continents, Countries, Companies and Architectures Fared appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

CHICAGO - Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for hybrid multi-cloud computing resources, today announced the launch ofACTIVATE AI, an evolution of its enterprise-grade infrastructure platform. With AI Resource Integrations, Kubernetes, and Neocloud support, ACTIVATE AI is designed to simplify the deployment and management of scalable AI and ML workloads. AI and high-performance [...]The post Parallel Works Launches ACTIVATE AI with Integrated Kubernetes Support appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y., June 10, 2025 - IBM (NYSE:IBM) unveiled what the company said is its path to build the first large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, setting the stage for practical and scalable quantum computing." Scheduled for delivery by 2029, IBM Quantum Starling will be built in a new IBM Quantum Data Center in Poughkeepsie, New [...]The post IBM Says on Course to Fault-Tolerant Quantum by 2029 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The new TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers, released this morning at the ISC 2025 conference in Germany, shows an expanding European presence among the top ....The post TOP500: El Capitan Stays on Top, US Holds Top 3 Supercomputers, Europe Expands in Leadership HPC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NVIDIA announced today that Germany'sLeibniz Supercomputing Centre, LRZ, will acquire that "Blue Lion" supercomputer that will deliver roughly 30x the compute power of SuperMUC-NG, the current LRZ HPC. The system will run ....The post LRZ to Acquire HPE-NVIDIA Blue Lion' Supercomputer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.