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Calgary, AB, March 13, 2025- Liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems announced a4000W-ready single-phase direct liquid cooling (DLC) coldplate - which the company said more than doubles the previously accepted limits of single-phase direct liquid cooling. CoolIT continues to lead the industry in performance. We are thrilled to show silicon leaders that single-phase DLC will continue [...]The post CoolIT Announces 4000W Liquid Cooling Coldplate appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 11, 2025 - ASML Holding N.V. (ASML) and imec, a research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies, announce that they have signed a new strategic partnership agreement, focusing on research and sustainability. The agreement has a duration of five years and aims to deliver valuable solutions in two areas by bringing together [...]The post ASML and imec in Semiconductor R&D Partnership appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Just before GTC (and for the 100th episode of the @HPCpodcast, and this one sponsored by liquid cooling company CoolIT), we welcome special guest and high-powered chip industry analyst Dr. Ian Cutress, Chief Analyst at More Than Moore and host of the popular YouTube channel TechTechPotato to discuss the state of AI and advanced chips, new technologies and architectures, the startup scene, and top trends in semiconductor design and manufacturing.The post @HPCpodcast: Dr. Ian Cutress on the State of Advanced Chips, the GPU Landscape and AI Compute, Global Chip Manufacturing and GTC Expectations appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 12, 2025 - The European Space Agency, in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), has inaugurated its high-performance computing (Space HPC) environment at ESRIN, Italy. The opening, on Wednesday 12 March, marks a milestone in ESA's mission to push the boundaries of innovation for European space activities, according to the agency. The ceremony was [...]The post European Space Agency and HPE Launch HPC Space Facility appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) today announced that its board of directors has appointed Lip-Bu Tan as chief executive officer, effective March 18. He succeeds Interim Co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle ....The post Intel Appoints Former Cadence Chief Lip-Bu Tan as CEO appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced a quantum advance published in the journal Science, confirming that its annealing quantum ....The post Quantum vs. Classical HPC: D-Wave Reports Quantum Supremacy on Materials Simulation appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 10, 2025 - GPU cloud company CoreWeave today announced a deal to deliver AI infrastructure to OpenAI, expanding OpenAI's compute capacity for training and delivering its latest models at scale to its hundreds of millions of users. The contract value for this strategic deal is up to $11.9 billion. As part of this deal, [...]The post CoreWeave in $11.9B AI Infrastructure Deal with OpenAI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 12, 2025 - VAST Data today announced enhancements to its data platform, making it the first system to unify structured and unstructured data into a single data space that scales linearly, according to the company. VAST said the new capabilities redefine enterprise AI and analytics by combining real-time vector search, fine-grained security, and event-driven [...]The post VAST Data Adds Capabilities for Agentic Applications appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a provider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today made an addition to its thermal management portfolio, with the introduction of the Vertiv CoolLoop Trim Cooler, in support of air and liquid cooling applications for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. This solution supports diverse climate conditions for hybrid-cooled or [...]The post Vertiv Introduces Heat Rejection System for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling for AI and HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - March 11, 2025 - Fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob today announced what they said is a significant advancement in cat qubit technology to reduce errors in quantum computers. Cat qubits are a relatively recent innovation in superconducting qubit designs that Alice & Bob has been pioneering since 2020 and that recently [...]The post Alice & Bob Reports Quantum Error Correction Improvement by Squeezing' Cat Qubits appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Chatsworth, CA - [March 12, 2025] - AI and data intelligence company DDN announced two appointments to its board of directors: Sven Oehme, DDN's chief technology officer, and Jas Khaira, head of Americas and founding member of the Tactical Opportunities Group at Blackstone. Oehme brings over 30 years of experience in HPC, AI data infrastructure, [...]The post DDN Appoints 2 to Board appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

RENO, Nev-March 11, 2025- Software infrastructure company CIQ announced the availability of a preview of Rocky Linux from CIQ - Hardened, a version of Enterprise Linux that is optimized for environments with stringent security requirements, such as stronger password policies, memory corruption detection, kernel integrity checking and SSH restrictions. The product delivers Rocky Linux via [...]The post CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security-Hardened Enterprise Linux appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Happy Daylight Savings Time (U.S.) to you! Big things happened in the world of HPC-AI last week, here's a brief (7:46) run-through of recent news: TSMC $100 billion investment in Arizona, new "real world" AGI benchmarks unveiled, Europe redoubles on HPC self-sufficiency, Julich's quantum-exascale integration jumpstarts D-Wave stock, Chinese quantum reported 1 million times faster than Google's Willow ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250310: TSMC's $100B for Arizona Fabs, New AGI Benchmarks, JSC's Quantum-Exascale Integration, Chinese Quantum Reported 1Mx Faster than Google's appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In a year when data centers faced their most difficult power challenges, the industry thrived nevertheless. According to the North America Data Center Year-End 2024 Report ....The post Data Center Report: Record-low Vacancy Pushing Hyperscalers into Untapped Markets appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Despite current limitations, there is substantial value in preparing for a future where quantum computing becomes more practical and widespread. Companies are investing heavily in research and talent to be ready when ....The post Does Quantum Computing Deliver Value Now? appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dr. Handel Jones, an expert on the economic, cultural and technology scene in China as well as a noted technopolitical analyst, joins Doug and Shahin for a second appearance on the @HPCpodcast.The post @HPCpodcast: Dr. Handel Jones on the US-China AI Race and the Shifting Technopolitical Balance appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A report from Bloomberg states that some 64,000 of Nvidia's flagship Blackwell GB200 chips will be purchased by OpenAI and Oracle as part of the Stargate AI data center project announced in January at a ceremony ....The post Report: 64,000 Nvidia GB200s for Stargate AI Data Center in Texas appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A 240 million project has been launched to promote HPC and AI autonomy in Europe. The Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, Special Agreement 1 (DARE SGA1) project marks a significant milestone in Europe's ....The post Europe, Seeking HPC and AI Autonomy, Launches 240M DARE Project appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The deadline to take part in ATPESC, the 13th Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, at Argonne has been extended to Sunday, March 16. Students, postdocs, and computational scientists interested in attending ATPESC can review eligibility and application details on theapplication instructions web page. ATPESC will be held from Sunday, July 27 to Friday, August [...]The post Argonne: ATPESC 2025 Application Deadline Extended to March 16 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Laura McGill will become Sandia's 17th Labs director, effective May 1. McGill, who has served as deputy Labs director for Nuclear Deterrence and chief technology officer since January 2021, succeeds James Peery, who is retiring at the end of April.The post Sandia Names Laura McGill Labs Director appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 4, 2025 - GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) and Amazon Web Services today announced a strategic framework agreement (SFA) to electrify and decarbonize data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The agreement is aimed at supporting AWS's data center scaling, and collaborating to address increasing global energy demand, advance grid security and [...]The post GE Vernova and AWS Announce Agreement on Data Center Energy Demand appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AI hardware maker Axelera AI has unveiled Titania, which the company described as a high-performance, low-power and scalable AI inference chiplet. Part of the EuroHPC JU's effort to develop a supercomputing ....The post Axelera AI Wins EuroHPC Grant of up to 61.6M for AI Chiplet Development appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - March 5, 2025 - Ceramic.ai emerged from stealth today with software for foundation model training infrastructure designed to enable enterprises to build and fine-tune generative AI models more efficiently. Founded by Anna Patterson, former Google VP of Engineering and Gradient Ventures founder, Ceramic.ai said it improves AI model training speed and cost-efficiency, [...]The post Ceramic.ai Emerges from Stealth, Reports 2.5x Faster Model Training appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AI cloud platform Fluidstack and Eclairion, a French maker of modular, high-density data centers, have partnered to build what the companies said is Europe's largest GPU supercomputer ....The post Fluidstack and Eclairion to Deliver 18K GPU Supercomputer in France appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MILPITAS, CA - March 4, 2025- VDURA, an AI and high-performance computing data infrastructure company, today announced the launch of its V5000 All-Flash Appliance, engineered to address the escalating demands as AI pipelines and generative AI models move into production. Built on the VDURA V11 data platform, the system delivers GPU-saturating throughput while ensuring the [...]The post VDURA Launches All-Flash NVMeV5000 for AI Factories and GPU Clouds appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Spanish government announced Tuesday it will make a co-investment of 67 million euros in San Sebastian-based Multiverse Computing, developer of software inspired by quantum computing compresses AI models ....The post Spanish Government Announces 67M Investment in Multiverse Computing appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Milpitas, Calif. - March 4, 2025-Penguin Solutions, Inc.(Penguin Solutions; Nasdaq:PENG) today announced the expansion of its ICE ClusterWare software platform, (formerly Scyld ClusterWare) with multi-tenancy support, streamlined workflows and enhanced controls to help enterprises build ptimized AI ecosystems that scale seamlessly-known as Intelligent Compute Environments, the company said. Additionally, Penguin Solutions unveiled its ICE ClusterWare [...]The post Penguin Solutions Expands its AI Management Software Platform and Launches AI Service appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TSMC today said it will expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. by an additional $100 billion.Building on the company's ongoing $65 billioninvestment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC's total investment in the U.S. is expected to reach $165 billion.The post TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Fabs, Packaging, R&D appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy start to March to you! We offer a quick (8:28) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: DOGE-led government layoffs and funding disruptions at U.S. ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250303: DOGE and Fears at U.S. Science Agencies, Cat Qubits for AWS Quantum, GPUs vs. ASICs for AI Compute appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MURRIETA, CA - February 26, 2025 /HNO International, Inc. (OTC PINK:HNOI), a hydrogen-based clean energy company, announces the launch of EcoFlare Power, a division focused on harnessing wasted natural gas from flaring to generate reliable power to produce hydrogen and electricity for high-performance data centers and Bitcoin mining. Each year, billions of cubic feet of [...]The post HNO International Converting Wasted Flared Gas into Energy for Data Centers, Bitcoin Mining and Hydrogen appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We dive into numbers coming out Hyperion's latest HPC-AI market update, including the strong current and projected industry CAGRs, the state of quantum computing (including thoughts ...The post @HPCpodcast: With Hyperion Research on the Big Trends Across HPC-AI, Quantum, Cloud, Optical, Storage and Interconnects appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

"HPC systems have always been hard to leverage well, but with GPUs and other accelerators in the mix it has become truly daunting. Lowering the barrier to entry ... on Kokkos, the ISO C++ committee, and the High Performance Software Foundation is what ...."The post Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia's Christian Trott - Lowering the Barriers to HPC-AI Entry appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Feb. 28, 2025 - SoftBank Corp., ZutaCore and Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) today announced that they implemented ZutaCore's two-phase direct liquid cooling technology*1 in an AI server using NVIDIA accelerated computing. The companies said this is the first implementation*2 of ZutaCore's two-phase DLC*1using NVIDIA H200 GPUs. In addition, SoftBank designed and developed a rack-integrated [...]The post SoftBank, ZutaCore and Foxconn Join on Rack-Integrated Solution with Liquid Cooling for NVIDIA H200s appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

As the Trump Administration with Elon Musk's DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) seeks to cut federal government employee roles, "probationary employees" (those who have not held jobs long enough to garner full civil ....The post Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation Condemns Mass Firings of Science Agency Employees appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory released this update on researchers' use of high performance computing resources to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, which are planets beyond our own solar system. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb ....The post LLNL Examines Exoplanet Atmospheres with HPC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ASCR, the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program within the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, has released a report on the use of exascale -class supercomputers, Frontier and Aurora, using the combination of artificial intelligence tools with genomic data to improve preparedness for potential new pandemics. The large language models (LLMs) used in chat-based [...]The post Exascale: Argonne-led Team Trains AI to Take on Infectious Threats with Frontier and Aurora appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

By Chris Zacharias, CEO, Imgix Imagine an AI capable of transforming a single photograph into a living, breathing scene. Change the lighting, the weather, or even the camera angle with just a few clicks. This is not a distant dream; it is the future of generative imaging AI - and its foundation lies in an [...]The post Generative Imaging AI Will Use Game Engines and Synthetic Data to Train Models appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 25, 2025 - Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) today said it is the first company to ship samples of its 1 (1-gamma), sixth-generation (10nm-class) DRAM node-based DDR5 memory designed for next-generation CPUs to ecosystem partners and select customers. The company said This 1 DRAM milestone builds on Micron's previous 1 (1-alpha) and [...]The post Micron Announces Sample Shipments of 1-gamma DRAM appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Design physicist Kelli Humbird, who has been recognized for her innovative application of machine learning in inertial confinement fusion (ICF) physics, was one of three distinguished LLNL researchers honored with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award. Humbird and LLNL colleagues Tomi Akindele and Holly Carlton were among the nearly 400 [...]The post Three LLNL Scientists Honored with Presidential Early Career Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

February 25, 2025-Quantum Machines (QM), a provider of quantum control solutions, today announced it has raised $170 million in Series C funding, bringing the company's total funding to date to $280 million. The investment comes as the majority of quantum computing companies now rely on QM's technology to build and scale their systems, according to [...]The post Quantum Machines Raises $170M Series C appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

February 25, 2025 - QuEra Computing Inc. has started a collaboration with Deloitte Tohmatsu Group intended to advance the quantum industry in Japan. The collaboration, reinforced by an investment in QuEra by Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory LLC, a group company of Deloitte Tohmatsu, aims to drive innovation among business and academic players in the field. [...]The post QuEra Announces Collaboration with Deloitte Tohmatsu for Quantum in Japan appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A good late February morning to you! Here's a rapid (7:05) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: New in-house-manufactured Microsoft QPU, DARPA's US2QC quantum program, harnessing idle GPUs anywhere on the internet, France's CEA advances in fusion energy researchThe post HPC News Bytes 20250224: Microsoft Reports Quantum Advancement, DARPA's Quantum Program, Harnessing GPUs on the Internet, France Claims Fusion Record appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 24, 2025 - Intel today launched its Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores) for data center and networking portfolios. The company said: TheIntel Xeon 6700/6500 series processor with P-cores is designed for for modern data centers, offering the perfect balance between performance and energy efficiency. Delivering an average of 1.4x better [...]The post Intel Unveils Xeon 6 CPUs with P-cores appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

February 24, 2025 - Today, Lenovo announced three new infrastructure solutions, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, designed for AI data centers. The solutions include next generation Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 servers that deliver breakthrough performance and exceptional versatility to handle any workload while enabling powerful AI capabilities in compact, high-density designs," Lenovo said. Whether deploying [...]The post Lenovo Announces ThinkSystem V4 Servers with Intel Xeon 6 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Q.ANT, a photonic AI chip company, said today it has launched a dedicated production line for its AI chips at the Institute of Microelectronics Stuttgart (IMS CHIPS).Capable of producing up to 1,000 wafers per year, the pilot line enables Q.ANT to refine its chip architecture to meet evolving market requirements. It also serves as the [...]The post Q.ANT and IMS CHIPS Launch Pilot Production Line for Photonic AI Chips in Stuttgart appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Problems associated with GPU deployment - interminable order wait times, high prices and, particularly, dire need - are leading to new GPU access strategies. An article in today's Wall Street Journal, Your Gaming PC Could Help Train AI Models," reports that underused GPUs inspire startups to stitch together .....The post AI Data Center Workaround? Startups Pursue Networked Aggregation of Idle GPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.