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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.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - June 10, 2025 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for May 2025: On a consolidated basis, revenue for May 2025 was approximately NT$320.52 billion, a decrease of 8.3 percent from April 2025 and an increase of 39.6 percent from May 2024. Revenue for January through May [...]The post TSMC Announces May Revenue 40% YoY Increase appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A rare day in June to you! As much of the HPC community gathers this week in Hamburg for the ISC 2025 supercomputing conference, we reflect on interesting recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: French government to acquire Eviden, Made-in-China 5nm chips from Huawei, World Semiconductor Trade Statistics market forecast, AI eerily defies human controlThe post HPC News Bytes 20250609: It's ISC Week!, French Government to Buy Eviden, Huawei's 5nm Chips, WSTS Semiconductor Forecast, AI Defies Human Control appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ....The post Sandia Labs' Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

EUGENE, OR., June 6, 2025- The E4S Project announced the availability of Release 25.06 that includes new features, including an expanded AI portfolio and support for the NVIDIA Blackwell GPU architecture with CUDA 12.8. E4S, a High Performance Software Foundation project, is an HPC-AI software ecosystem for science. It's a curated, Spack-based collection of scientific [...]The post E4S Release 25.06 for AI and HPC Available from High Performance Software Foundation appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SpiNNcloud announced that Sandia National Laboratories has deployed its SpiNNaker2 brain-inspired supercomputer, "marking a significant milestone in the advancement of computing for national security applications," the Dresden, German-based ....The post SpiNNcloud Deploys Brain-Inspired Supercomputer at Sandia appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The center of the HPC-AI world shifts next week to Hamburg and the ISC 2025 Conference. This is the 40th ISC, and conference organizers expect a healthy increase in the number of exhibitors at this year's event.The post ISC 2025: HPC and AI Luminaries on Trends to Watch in Hamburg Next Week appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Frankfurt/Main, Germany - 4 June 2025 - Northern Data AG (ETR:NB2), a provider of AI and high performance computing solutions, today announced the opening of its new North American AI and HPC data center located in Pittsburgh, PA. The Pittsburgh Data Center, acquired in early 2024, will be operated by Ardent Data Centers, Northern Data's [...]The post Northern Data Group Announces 20MW HPC and AI Data Center in Pittsburgh appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

MIDLAND, Texas - New Era Helium, Inc. (Nasdaq: NEHC), an exploration and production platform in the Permian Basin, today announced that the Texas Critical Data Centers, LLC (TCDC") joint venture has entered into a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with PowerForward Energy Solutions (PFES) to provide 250MW of on-site generation capacity to power its planned AI [...]The post New Era Helium Advances 250MW Permian Basin AI Data Center appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Freiburg, Germany - 5 June 2025 - The Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF announced a system from Quantum Brilliance (QB) is operational at the institute. The Quantum Development Kit (QB-QDK2.0) is integrated into the high-performance computing infrastructure at Fraunhofer IAF, the institute said. The system requires no cryogenics, fits into a standard [...]The post Room Temp Quantum Brilliance System Installed at Fraunhofer IAF appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Today, MLCommonsannounced new results for the MLPerfTraining v5.0 benchmark suite, highlighting the rapid growth and evolution of the field of AI. This round of benchmark results includes a record number of total ....The post MLCommons Releases AI Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 03, 2025 - Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today that it is now shipping the Tomahawk 6 switch series, delivering what the company said is the first 102.4 Terabits/sec of switching capacity in a single chip - double the bandwidth of any Ethernet switch currently available on the market, according to Broadcom. [...]The post Broadcom Ships Tomahawk 6 102.4 Tbps Switch appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RALEIGH, N.C. (June 4, 2025) - Amazon announced it plans to invest $10 billion in a cloud computing and artificial intelligence campus just east of Charlotte, NC. Artificial intelligence is changing the way we work and innovate, and I am pleased that North Carolina will stay at the forefront of all that's ahead as we [...]The post Amazon to Invest $10B in North Carolina AI Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] When it comes to AI and HPC workloads, networking is critical. While this is well known already, the impact your networking fabric performance has on parameters like job completion time can ....The post Seeking Ethernet Alternative to InfiniBand? Start with Performance! appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MILPITAS, Calif. - June 3, 2025 - VDURA today announced Version 11.2 of the VDURA Data Platform, designed to accelerate AI and HPC workloads through native Kubernetes CSI support, end-to-end encryption, and the introduction of the VDURACare Premier support offering. The release also previews V-ScaleFlow, a capability within the VDURA Data Platform that enables seamless [...]The post VDURA Unveils Data Platform V11.2 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Wayne, PA June 03, 2025 - Cornelis Networks, an independent provider of high-performance networking solutions, today launched the CN5000 family, which the company said is the industry's highest-performing end-to-end networking solution purpose-built to maximize AI and HPC performance, supporting deployments with up to 500,000 endpoints. Engineered to address compute underutilization and scaling challenges, CN5000 delivers [...]The post Cornelis Launches CN5000: AI and HPC Scale-out Network appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CANNES, France, June 3, 2025 -LiquidStack today at Datacloud Global Congress unveiled its GigaModular CDU - a modular, scalable Coolant Distribution Unit with up to 10MW cooling capacity, made possible through the unit's modular platform and pay-as-you-grow installation approach. Driven by increases in the adoption of AI, cloud computing, and other data-intensive technologies, the global [...]The post LiquidStack Unveils GigaModular Coolant Distribution Unit appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Melbourne, Australia - Monash University announced its intent to transform Australia's sovereign Artificial Intelligence (AI) research capability by investing $60 million to build and operate an advanced AI supercomputer. This will place the university as a leader in AI-driven research within the international higher education and research sector, the university said. The investment will fill [...]The post Monash University to Invest in AI Supercomputer for Australia's Higher Ed Sector appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good June morning to you! It's been an intensely geopolitical week for HPC-AI, including: Nvidia earnings outperform despite ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250602: NVIDIA Knocking on China's AI Door, EDA Software Hits Trade Walls, China Tech Merger, NERSC's New Supercomputer, UK De-Brexits' HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A recent report inBnamericas stated that Atos Bull has won a supercomputing contract from Brazilian federal oil firm Petrobras. According to the report, Atos Bull submitted a bid of 780mn reais (US$138 million), which was the lowest among ....The post Petrobras Brazil Awards $138M HPC Contract to Atos Bull appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lara Peeters is a trailblazing digital art historian, blending her Master's Degree in art history with a Master after Master degree in Digital Humanities. With a passion for information technology ....The post Vanguards of HPC-AI: Ghent University's Lara Peeters Uses HPC to Fuse Image Analytics and Art appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The U.S. government's drive to hobble China's advanced chip capabilities, mostly focused to date on restricting exports of GPUs used for AI, has spilled over into software used for designing chips - electronic design automation.The post White House Imposing Export Restrictions on EDA Software to China appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Jose and Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - May 28, 2025 - Generative AI inference systems company Recogni Inc. and sustainable AI cloud company DataVolt announced a partnership to build what they say will be the most energy-efficient AI cloud. Recogni's inference system leverages AI logarithmic math on purpose-built silicon and networking to set [...]The post Recogni and DataVolt Partner on Energy-Efficient AI Cloud Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The new system, due in 2026, is named after Jennifer Doudna, the Berkeley Lab-based biochemist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on gene-editing technology. Powered by NVIDIA's next-generation Vera Rubin ....The post DOE Announces Doudna' Dell-NVIDIA Supercomputer at NERSC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

One of the biggest stories this week in the HPC-AI world involves -- surprise! -- NVIDIA. Actually, make that two or three of the biggest stories. One is NVIDIA's stellar quarterly earnings announcement in the face of ....The post Report: NVIDIA and AMD Devising Export Rules-Compliant Chips for China AI Market appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Scandiano, May 28, 2025: E4 Computer Engineering will be among the protagonists at ISC High Performance, Europe's benchmark event for supercomputing, held at the Congress Center in Hamburg from June 10 to 13. With a program of presentations at its booth (Hall H - Booth F40), the Italian company intends to promote discussion on the [...]The post E4 Computer Engineering's Portfolio of HPC, AI and Quantum at ISC 2025 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Groq announced a partnership with Bell Canada to power Bell AI Fabric, the country's largest sovereign AI infrastructure project to establish a national AI network at six sites, targeting 500MW of hydro-powered ...The post Groq Named Inference Provider for Bell Canada's Sovereign AI Network appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

READING, United Kingdom,May 28, 2025 - Aion Silicon (formerly Sondrel), an ASIC and SoC architecture partner, today announced it has secured a$12 million engagement to provide design services for a confidential customer developing RISC-V-based accelerators for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI). The multi-year program leverages Aion Silicon's two decades of SoC expertise to [...]The post Aion Silicon Tapped for $12M RISC-V Accelerator Program for HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.