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The Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) today announced it has selected IQM Radiance as its first purchased on-premises quantum computer to be integrated into high-performance computing (HPC) systems at ORNL.The post IQM to Integrate Quantum Computer into Oak Ridge Lab's HPC Systems appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Parallel file system legend Gary Gride of Los Alamos National Lab, and Molly Presley, a well-known executive in the high performance storage sector and SVP at Hammerspace, joined us at the ISC 2025 conference in Hamburg.The post With Hammerspace and LANL's Gary Grider at ISC 2025: Parallel Data Storage for Advanced Simulations appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (FL), Aug 19, 2025-A cutting-edge orbital data center is set to launch to the International Space Station (ISS), marking an important step forward in advancing space-based computing. The project, sponsored by the ISS National Laboratory, will test the system's ability to provide increased data storage and real-time data processing in space-crucial capabilities [...]The post Orbital Data Center Launching to ISS to Advance Space Computing appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good August morning to you! It was a geopolitically-weighted week in the world of HPC-AI, here's a quick (8:29) overview of recent developments, including: US government to invest in Intel ... ?The post HPC News Bytes 20250818: US to Invest in Intel?; DeepSeek Training Trouble; RISC-V GPU Startup Seeks Funds; NSF-NVIDIA Partnerhip appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Photonic computing company Lightmatter today announced what it called groundbreaking new in optical communications: a 16-wavelength bidirectional Dense Wavelength Division ....The post Photonic Computing: Lightmatter Reports 16-Wavelength Bidirectional Link on Single-Mode Optical Fiber appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The North America data center colocation market has reached a critical tipping point, with vacancy rates plummeting to an unprecedented 2.3 percent amid relentless demand for digital infrastructure, according to ....The post Data Center Availability Crisis at 2.3% Historic Low appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The National Science Foundation today announced a partnership with NVIDIA to develop a set of artificial intelligence-based models for scientific discovery. NSF will contribute $75 million, with NVIDIAproviding an additional $77 million, to support the Open ....The post NSF and NVIDIA in $152M AI for Science Partnership appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Financial Times reported that DeepSeek was forced to delay the releas e of its new R2 large language model due to performance problems with Huawei Ascend processors, highlighting the limits of Beijing's push to replace US technology" ...The post Report: DeepSeek Model Delay Forces Use of NVIDIA GPUs appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

MALTA, N.Y., Aug. 14, 2025 - GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of MIPS, a leading supplier of AI and processor IP. The acquisition is intended to strengthen GF's position in differentiated semiconductor manufacturing and its capabilities in AI, edge computing and other markets. The combination of GF and [...]The post GlobalFoundries Completes Acquisition of MIPS appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

More than a dozen national laboratories and research organizations of the Department of Energy and Department of Defense are among the 158 finalists for R&D World Magazine's annual R&D 100 Awards. More details can be found here. Finalists include: Sandia National Laboratories NASA National Atomic Research Institute Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [...]The post National Labs, DOE and DOD Research Organizations Finalists for R&D 100 Awards appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

WILMINGTON, Del. - AUG 14, 2025- EnterpriseDBannounced it is integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing and AI software with EDB's sovereign data and AI platform, EDB Postgres AI (EDB PG AI). EDB PG AI, built with NVIDIA accelerating computing and NVIDIA AI Enterprise, enables organizations to build and generate value from AI and data platforms using PostgreSQL. [...]The post EDB AI Platform to Be Integrated with NVIDIA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

LAS VEGAS - August 14, 2025 - SuperOps, an AI-powered IT management platform, today announced the launch of its agentic AI marketplace for Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and IT teams, developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services. SuperOps' AI Agent Marketplace, entering beta this September, is designed as a destination where MSPs can select ready-to-use [...]The post SuperOps and AWS to Launch Agentic AI Marketplace in September appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PITTSBURGH, August 12, 2025 - Ansys, part of Synopsys (NASDAQ: SNPS), and NVIDIA signed an agreement to license, sell, and support Omniverse technology embedded in Ansys simulation solutions. Through its integration ofNVIDIA Omniverse, Ansys will deliver easy access to Omniverse technologies and libraries starting with its CFD and autonomous solutions. From deepening insights into aerodynamics [...]The post Ansys to Offer Access to NVIDIA Omniverse appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The upcoming HPC User Forum, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 3-4 at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA, will have a data center focus. Event host and industry analyst firm Hyperion Research said, "Data center growth has been massive over the last few years and NVIDIA is projecting a $1 trillion data center [...]The post Hyperion Research Releases Updated HPC User Forum Agenda for Sept. 3-4 in Reston, VA appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Aug. 13, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science is pleased to announce that the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is now accepting applications for the 2025 solicitation 2 cycle. Applications are due on Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2025, at 5 p.m. ET. More information on the SCGSR program [...]The post DOE Office of Science Accepting Graduate Student Research Awards Applications, Nov. 5 Deadline appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

HOUSTON- HPE (NYSE: HPE) today announced updates to its NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio designed to enhance integration with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and bring the newest NVIDIA AI models and NVIDIA Blueprints to HPE Private Cloud AI. HPE will also ship HPE ProLiant Compute servers that featureNVIDIA Blackwellaccelerated computing to advance generative, agentic and [...]The post HPE Announces Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell and NVIDIA AI Models appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

ROUND ROCK, TX - Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced updates to the Dell AI Data Platform designed toenhance unstructured data ingestion, transformation, retrieval and compute performance to streamline AI development and deployment. The platform's architecture has specialized storage and data engines designed to help connect AI agents to enterprise data. Together, the Dell AI Data [...]The post Dell Announces AI Data Platform Advancements with NVIDIA and Elastic appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

NVIDIA today announced that theNVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU is coming to enterprise servers, speeding the shift from traditional CPU systems to accelerated computing platforms," the company said. With these new 2U mainstream servers, enterprises worldwide can harness theNVIDIA Blackwell architecture in rack-mounted systems. Global system partners including Cisco,Dell Technologies,HPE,LenovoandSupermicrowill offer the [...]The post NVIDIA Announces RTX PRO Servers With Blackwell appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

In this interview, Cristin Merritt provides a preview of Alces Flight's upcoming Sustainable Reality event on October 7 at the historicRoyal Society of Chemistryat Burlington House in London. Launched in 2023, the annual community-focused event explores the four main pillars of supercomputing: hardware, software, people and change management.The post Cristin Merritt on Alces Flight's Sustainable Reality HPC and AI Event, Oct. 7 in London appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

According to a report by Dell'Oro Group, the global data center accelerator market is projected to reach $446 billion by 2029. Accelerators now account for roughly one-third of ....The post Study: Merchant GPUs and Custom Accelerators to Reach $446B, HBM to Exceed $130B by 2029 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system - powered by El Capitan, the world's fastest supercomputer - that could dramatically improve early warning capabilities for coastal communities near earthquake zones. The exascale El Capitan, which has a theoretical peak performance of 2.79 quintillion calculations per second, [...]The post LLNL Scientists Explore Tsunami Warning System on El Cap Supercomputer appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how organizations innovate and compete. As enterprises race to unlock new value from data, a new paradigm - the AI Factory - has emerged. Unlike traditional data centers, which passively store and process information, AI Factories are purpose-built environments designed to manufacture intelligence at industrial scale.The post Building AI Factories: Scalable Infrastructure for Intelligence appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are part of a group recognized for their advancements in chemistry-aware artificial intelligence software.

Aug. 7, 2025 - The National Center for Supercomputing Applicationsand the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were awarded a $25.8 million contract from the U.S.National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency(NGA) for high-performance computing in support of NGA strategic partnerships, advancement of artificial intelligence, and machine learning and logistics for data production on a global scale. NGA Director Vice Admiral [...]The post NCSA Wins $26M NGA HPC Contract appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A cybersecurity platform, under development for eight years at Sandia National Laboratories to detect and analyze advanced malware threats, is now publicly available, giving defenders in the public and private sectors access to tools used to safeguard ....The post 8 Years in the Making: Sandia Team Creates Malware Detection Software with Livermore HPC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Cambridge, UK | 7th August 2025 - Riverlane has released findings from a global survey of more than 300 quantum professionals and academics, revealing strong demand for quantum error correction (QEC) but widespread lack of readiness across the industry. QEC is now seen as essential to building useful quantum computers. Key findings from the 2025 [...]The post Survey: Quantum Error Correction Is Critical but Ecosystem Isn't Ready appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a two-part HPC workshop starting with a virtual event to be held Tuesday-Thursday, Sept. 23-25, followed by hands-on, in-person workshop Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 7-9 at Argonne National Laboratory. Registration information and more details can be found here. This event is designed to advance ALCF users' skills in high-performance computing [...]The post ALCF HPC-AI Workshop to Be Held Sept. 23-25 and Oct. 7-9 appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Santa Clara, CA - AI and data platform company Cloudera announced its acquisition ofTaikun, a leading platform provider for managing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. With this move, Cloudera accelerates the deployment and delivery of the complete Cloudera platform, including Data Services and AI anywhere - from the public clouds to [...]The post Cloudera Acquires Taikun for Managing Kubernetes and Cloud appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Cerebras Systems today announced inference support for gpt-oss-120B, OpenAI's first open-weight reasoning model, running at record inference speeds of 3,000 tokens per second on the Cerebras AI Inference Cloud, according to ....The post Cerebras Reports 3,000 Tokens Per Second Inference on OpenAI gpt-oss-120b Model appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Paris - August 6, 2025 -Scientists from Alice & Boband Inria, France's national institute for research in digital science and technology, have submitted a new study for peer review illustrating the most hardware-efficient method to date for producing magic states on superconducting quantum computers, a critical step toward realizing practical quantum computation. Preparing magic states [...]The post Quantum: Alice & Bob and Inria Report Efficiency Gains for Magic State Preparation appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

COLUMBUS, Ohio,Aug. 5, 2025- Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) today announced the availability of Vertiv OneCore, a scalable prefabricated solution that integrates Vertiv's power, thermal, and IT infrastructure technologies into a factory-assembled system. Designed to accelerate high-density data center deployments, Vertiv OneCore is intended to simplify project execution by reducing on-site complexity and compressing timelines. The solution [...]The post Vertiv Announces Prefabricated Infrastructure for AI, HPC appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

San Francisco, CA - MLCommons has announced results for its MLPerf Storage v2.0 benchmark suite, designed to measure the performance of storage systems for machine learning workloads in an architecture-neutral, representative, and reproducible manner. According to MLCommons, the results show that storage systems performance continues to improve rapidly, with tested systems serving roughly twice the [...]The post MLPerf Releases Storage v2.0 Benchmark Results appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

CAMPBELL, Calif. - August 4, 2025 - Arteris, Inc. (Nasdaq: AIP), a provider of semiconductor system IP for accelerating system-on-chip (SoC) creation, today announced AMD (Nasdaq: AMD) has licensed FlexGen network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IPfor its next generation of AI chiplet design. FlexGen, Arteris' NoC IP technology, will provide data transport in AMD chiplets powering AI [...]The post AMD Licenses Arteris Network-on-Chip Interconnect IP appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SANTA CLARA, CA. - August 5, 2025 - PCI-SIG today announced the PCI Express (PCIe) 8.0 specification will double the data of the PCIe 7.0 specification to 256.0 GT/s and is planned for release to members by 2028. PCI-SIG technical workgroups will be developing the PCIe 8.0 specification with the following feature objectives: Delivering 256.0 [...]The post PCI-SIGAnnounces PCIe8.0 Spec to Reach 256 GT/s appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - August 4, 2025 - D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) announced it has released a collection of offerings to help developers explore quantum artificial intelligence and machine learning innovation, including an open-source quantum AI toolkit and a demo. Available now for download, the quantum AI toolkit enables developers to integrate quantum computers [...]The post D-Wave Introduces Quantum AI Developer Toolkit appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Chatsworth, Calif. - August 4, 2025 -DDN announced it has set a new benchmark for performance and efficiency with its AI400X3 storage appliance in the latest MLPerf Storage v2.0 benchmarks. Powered by DDN's EXAScaler parallel file system, the AI400X3 is engineered to accelerate AI workloads. For large enterprises, this means faster time-to-insight, lower operational costs, [...]The post DDN Touts MLPerf Storage Benchmark Performance appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

SAN JOSE - August 5, 2025 - Phison Electronics (8299TT), a provider of NAND flash controllers and storage solutions, is collaborating on server solutions with Supermicro for high-density workloads. Customers using Supermicro's Petascale Storage Family will be able to leverage Phison's 122.88 TB Pascari D205V SSD, featuring an E3.L form factor and Gen5 NVMe performance. [...]The post Phison and Supermicro Collaborate on Storage for AI and Hyperscale Workloads appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 4, 2025 - Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a semiconductor and infrastructure software company, today announced it is now shipping the Jericho4 ethernet fabric router - a platform for distributed AI infrastructure. Designed to interconnect over 1 million XPUs across multiple data centers, Jericho4 breaks through traditional scaling limits with unmatched bandwidth, [...]The post Broadcom Ships Jericho4 for Distributed AI Computing across Data Center appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Santa Clara, CA., August 4, 2025 - SNIA, a not-for-profit organization for technologies related to handling and optimizing data, today announced Storage.AI, an open standards project designed for efficient data services related to AI workloads. Storage.AI will focus on industry-standard, non-proprietary, and neutral approaches to solving AI-related data problems to optimize the performance, efficiency, and [...]The post SNIA Announces Storage.AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

A good August morning to you! The world (at least the world as we see it) continued to revolve around HPC-AI last week, here's a quick (8:14) discussion of recent developments: Comparing AI strategies: US, EU, China; AI a top-five reason for job losses; agentic AI at McKinsey; AI startup funding boom continuesThe post HPC News Bytes 20260804: Comparing US, EU, China AI Strategies, AI and Job Losses, Agentic AI at McKinsey, AI Startup Funding Stays Hot appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

The Chinese news outlet XinhuaNet reported on Saturday thatChinese engineers unveiled what they call a brain-like computer, dubbed Darwin Monkey, that they say can mimic ....The post Chinese Researchers Unveil Brain-Like' Computer with 2 Billion Pulsed Neurons, 100 Billion Synapses appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) say they have reached a milestone in combining AI with fusion target design by deploying AI agents on two supercomputers to automate and accelerate inertial confinement fusion ....The post LLNL Uses HPC to Push Fusion Target Design with AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Qualcomm, the $39 billion chip design company, may return to the data center chip market, according to a story in The Register. Qualcomm has teased a serious run at the data center market for years and in May CEO Cristiano Amontoldthe Computex ....The post Report: Qualcomm May Return to Data Center AI Chip Market appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Google DeepMind announced the AlphaEarth Foundations, an AI model that functions like a virtual satellite to characterize terrestrial land and coastal waters by integrating huge amounts of Earth observation data ....The post Google DeepMind Launches AlphaEarth Foundations Virtual Satellite appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Micron announced three data center SSDs built with Micron G9 NAND, including what the company said is the first PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD, industry-leading capacity for an E3.S SSD and the lowest latency mainstream Gen5 SSD for AI data centers ....The post Micron Unveils SSDs for AI appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Fremont, CA, July 31, 2025 - Exxact Corporation today announced the release of new workstation configurations powered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-Series and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series processors. The workstations are designed for a range of tasks-from high-end content creation and simulation to scientific analysis and AI development. The AMD Threadripper [...]The post Exxact Introduces Workstations with AMD Ryzen Threadripper CPUs appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

Nicolae Moise, a research scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Ohio State University (OSU), is usingNCSAandOSC high-performance computing resources to explore ....The post NCSA and Ohio Supercomputer Center HPC Take on Atrial Fibrillation appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - July 30, 2025 - D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) announced a development initiative focused on advanced cryogenic packaging. Designed to advance and scale both gate model and annealing quantum processor development, the initiative is intended to expand the company's multichip packaging capabilities, equipment, and processes. D-Wave said it aims to accelerate [...]The post D-Wave Quantum Announces Cryogenic PackagingInitiative appeared first on Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligence.