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The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment, or INICITE, program has announced the 2026 Call for Proposals, inviting researchers to apply for access to some of the world's most powerful high-performance computing systems. The proposal submission window runs from April 11 to June 16, 2025, offering an opportunity for scientific teams to [...]The post DOE's INCITE Issues 2026 Call for Proposals appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

At the recent DCD NYC event, we had the opportunity to speak with Steve Jennings, Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing at ZincFive, about the role of nickel-zinc (NiZn) batteries in supporting green data centers in then North America and EMEA markets. As data centers increasingly adopt sustainable solutions, such as renewable energy, NiZn [...]The post ZincFive Profile: The Power of Batteries for Data Centers - Nickel-Zinc Batteries for Greener Data Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A happy Tax Day (U.S.) Eve to you! It's been an eventful week in the HPC-AI industry, here's a rapid (8:39) run-down of recent news, including: Argonne's AI-based ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250414: Argonne's Reactor Monitor, AI on the Moon, TSMC under $1B Penalty Threat, HPC-AI in Growth Mode appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Intel Corporation today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 51 percent of its Altera business to Silver Lake, a technology investing firm. The transaction, which values Altera at $8.75 billion, establishes Altera's operational independence ....The post Intel Selling 51% of Altera FPGA Business for $8.7B appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NVIDIA today said it is working with manufacturing partners to design and build factories that will produce NVIDIA AI supercomputers -- i.e., "AI factories" -- entirely in the United States... NVIDIA said that within four years, it plans to produce up to half a trillion ....The post NVIDIA to Manufacture AI Supercomputers in U.S. appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Quantum industry professionals are optimistic that quantum utility will be achieved within the next decade, research from Economist Impacttoday reveals. According to the study, which surveyed quantum professionals across the UK, Europe, North America ....The post Survey: 83% Say Quantum Utility to Be Achieved within a Decade appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Salt Lake City, Utah - April 10, 2025 - BluSky AI Inc. (OTCPink: BSAI) announced that it is becoming a modular data center company. BluSky AI said it focuses on scalable and efficient compute infrastructure. By planning to deliver innovative modular data center solutions, BluSky AI said it is positioned to provide the backbone of [...]The post BluSky AI Inc. Introduces Modular AI Data Center Solutions appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles, received the Best Short Paper Award 2023 in the PMBS (Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, Simulation) workshop at the Supercomputing Conference, and scored first ....The post Vanguards of HPC-AI: Erlangen HPC Center's Ayesha Afzal and the Acceleration of Science appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK and LONDON - April 10, 2025 - Salute, a lifecycle data center services company, will acquire Keysource Group, a European provider of data center and critical environment solutions, and Advanced Data Center Consulting Group (ADCC), a provider of AI-focused training and consulting. Salute said the acquisitions deepen their regional and technical capabilities. With [...]The post Keysource and ADCC are now officially part of the Salute brand following completed acquisition appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The European Commission this week announced an AI Continent Action plan that calls for investments in AI and HPC accompanied by multiple AI factories across Europe. The EC said 13 of these factories ....The post European Commission Launches AI Action Plan with 13 AI Gigafactories appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dr. Seid Koric has been awarded the 2025Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medalfrom the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The competitive national award, established in 2011, recognizes career-long achievements that advance the boundaries of engineering research. Koric, aresearch professorin the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering [...]The post NCSA's Seid Koric Wins ASME National Engineering Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. - Apr. 10, 2025 - TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for March 2025: On a consolidated basis, revenue for March 2025 was approximately NT$285.96 billion, an increase of 10.0 percent from February 2025 and an increase of 46.5 percent from March 2024. Revenue for January through March [...]The post TSMC March 2025 Revenue Up 46.5% YoY appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

April 9, 2025 - Fermilab announced that one of its computing projects received the second-largest award and was the largest particle physics project granted supercomputer time from the DOE Office of Science INCITE program. The project will continue to explore numerical simulations to address questions in particle physics. When tackling a complex project, the tools [...]The post Fermilab Project Receives 2025 DOE INCITE Award appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

April 9, 2025 - The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has issued a call for proposals for the selection of entities or consortia of entities to establish AI Factory Antennas linked to selected AI Factories across Europe. The AI Factory Antennas will work in coordination with the EuroHPC AI Factoriesand will be included in all [...]The post EuroHPC JU Issues Call for AI Factories Antennas appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS, May 9, 2025 - Today at Google Cloud Next 2025, AI and data intelligence solutions vendor DDN announced it is working with Google Cloud on AI-powered infrastructure with Google Cloud Managed Lustre based on DDN's EXASCaler. Accessible on Google Cloud, this solution features a persistent parallel file system, delivering speed, scalability, and efficiency [...]The post DDN Collaborating with Google Cloud on AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Google Cloud today introduced its seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit, "Ironwood," which the company said is it most performant and scalable custom AI accelerator and the first designed specifically for inference. Ironwood scales up to 9,216 liquid cooled chips linked via Inter-Chip Interconnect ....The post Google Launches Ironwood' 7th Gen TPU appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

BOSTON -April 8, 2024 -LeostreamCorporation today announced a partnership with Lenovo to make the Leostream Remote Desktop Access Platform available to Lenovo partners and customers. The partnership is intended to give global users a single source to procure the Leostream Platform alongside Lenovo products from its Infrastructure Solutions Group. With the Leostream Platform in hardware [...]The post Leostream Partners with Lenovo appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Seattle, April 8 2025 - Enterprise data management and hybrid cloud file storage compan y Qumulo today announced Qumulo NeuralCache, a predictive caching solution designed to enhance data performance for AI-driven enterprise applications and critical line-of-business workloads. Integrated into Qumulo's Cloud Data Fabric, this technology leverages an ensemble of AI and machine learning models to [...]The post Qumulo Launches NeuralCache for AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

New York, April 9, 2025 - ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Jingsheng Jason Cong, the holder of the Volgenau Chair for Engineering Excellence at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, is the recipient of the 2024 ACM Charles P. Chuck" Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award. Cong is recognized for fundamental contributions [...]The post Jason Cong Wins ACM Breakthrough in Computing Award for Contributions to FPGAs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced today its latest market tracking for the technical computing HPC/AI/quantum computing market for 2024 shows the highest annual growth in decades.The post Hyperion: HPC-AI Market Grew 23.5% in 2024, to Exceed $100B by 2028 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) today made announcements across its data center server, storage and data protection portfolios. Here's a rundown of the new offerings: Dell PowerEdge R470, R570, R670 and R770 ....The post Dell Unveils Xeon 6 Servers, New Storage Appliances and Software for HPC-AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The University of Edinburgh has announced the installation of an AI cluster consisting of four CS-3s using Cerebras's 3rd generation of Wafer Scale Engine processors Operated by the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the university's Edinburgh International Data Facility, the new cluster follows previous Cerebras CS-1 and CS-2 systems. It is part of the [...]The post University of Edinburgh Installs Cerebras AI Cluster appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Beaverton, OR- April 8, 2025 - TheUALinkConsortium today announced the ratification of the UALink 200G 1.0 Specification, which defines a low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect for communication between accelerators and switches in AI computing pods. The UALink 1.0 Specification enables 200G per lane scale-up connection for up to 1,024 accelerators within an AI computing pod, delivering the [...]The post UALink Consortium Releases Ultra Accelerator Link 200G 1.0 Spec appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Multiverse Computing today released two new AI models compressed by CompactifAI, Multiverse's AI compressor: 80 percent compressed versions of Llama 3.1-8B and Llama 3.3-70B. Both models have 60 percent fewer parameters than the original models, 84 percent greater energy efficiency, 40 percent faster inference, and yield a 50 percent cost reduction ....The post Multiverse Says It Compresses Llama Models by 80% appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

April 7, 2025 - Pure Storage has announced a partnership with CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics), which aims, through the CERN openlab collaboration, to accelerate development of ICT solutions for the Large Hadron Collider. The partnership will explore how Pure Storage DirectFlash technology can support future scientific research. CERN generates a massive amount [...]The post Pure Storage Partners with CERN openlabs on Flash for Science appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO - April 7, 2025 - Rescale, a digital engineering platform, today announced a $115 million Series D with participation from Applied Ventures, Atika Capital, Foxconn, Hanwha Asset Management Deeptech Venture Fund, Hitachi Ventures, NEC Orchestrating Future Fund, NVIDIA, Prosperity7, SineWave Ventures, Translink Capital, University of Michigan, and Y Combinator bringing total funding raised [...]The post Rescale Secures $115M Series D appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Good April day to you! It was a wild week for more than the HPC-AI sector last week, here's a brief (7:39) look at some key developments: U.S. tariffs, the technology sector and advanced chips, Intel-TSMC ....The post HPC News Bytes 20250407: Tariffs and the Technology Industry, Intel-TSMC Deal?, DARPA Taps Wafer Scale, Sandia and Laser-Based Cooling, Optical I/O News appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with other institutions, have successfully used an AI-driven platform to preemptively optimize an antibody to neutralize a broad diversity of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) ....The post LLNL Scientists Use AI to Optimize Antibodies Against Mutations and to Speed Pandemic Preparedness appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The annual ISC High Performance conference, organized by the ISC Group, is just over two months away. It will take place from June 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany. In this interview, we hear from two of the conference organizers about the highlights we can expect ....The post ISC 2025: What to Expect at This Year's Conference in Hamburg, Germany appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

GOLDEN, CO, April 4, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to co-locate data centers and new energy infrastructure on DOE lands. DOE has released a Request for Information (RFI) to inform possible use of DOE land for artificial intelligence infrastructure development to support growing demand for data centers. DrfiOE has identified 16 [...]The post DOE Identifies 16 Federal Sites for Data Center and AI Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The online technology publication The Information reported today that Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company have reached a tentative agreement to form a joint venture in which TSMC would operate Intel's chipmaking facilities.The post Report: TSMC to Operate Intel Fabs under Tentative Joint Venture appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Minnesota-based startup Maxwell Labs has entered into an R&D agreement with Sandia and the University of New Mexico to demonstrate laser-based photonic cooling for computer chips. The company is working to develop the new technology to regulate the temperature of chips, while aiming to lower the power ....The post Sandia Labs Tests Laser-Based Photonic Data Center Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 3, 2025 - Photonic Inc., a leader in distributed quantum computing, is pleased to announce its selection for Stage A of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)Quantum Benchmarking Initiative(QBI). In this effort, Photonic intends to demonstrate to DARPA that its large-scale quantum computing approach will reach industrial scale. Open to [...]The post Photonic Inc. Selected for DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage A appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Boston and Paris - April 3, 2025 - Fault-tolerant quantum computing company Alice & Bob today announces its selection as a performer in the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI). Under this program, Alice & Bob will contribute to QBIs mission of verifying and validating whether fault-tolerant quantum computers can [...]The post Alice & Bob Selected by DARPA for the Quantum Benchmarking Initiative appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WALTHAM, Mass., April 3, 2025 - Metadata-driven unstructured data management Starfish Storage today announced it has won the Data Solution of the Year for Education" award in the 6thannual Data Breakthrough Awards program conducted byData Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes companies, technologies and products in the data technology market today. Starfish provides unstructured [...]The post Starfish Storage Named Data Solution of the Year for Education' appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 31, 2025 - Preferred Computational Chemistry Inc. (PFCC) announces that it will team up with ENEOS Corp. to enable AI-driven formulation optimization of chemicals and materials using NVIDIA ALCHEMI software. The collaboration was announced at NVIDIA GTC. The collaboration focuses on R&D for industrial performance and sustainability with a focus on such areas as [...]The post Data Center Cooling: PFCC and ENEOS Collaborate on Materials R&D with NVIDIA ALCHEMI Software appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.- Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter announced Passage L200, which the company said is the rst 3D co-packaged optics (CPO) product. Designed to integrate with the latest XPU and switch silicon designs, Passage L200 supports unprecedented AI performance scaling by eliminating interconnect bandwidth bottlenecks, the company said. The L200 3D CPO family includes both [...]The post Lightmatter Announces Passage L200, Co-Packaged Optics for AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 -Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced results from the largest commercial Fluent CFD simulation ever run on AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. Leveraging the power of the Frontier exascale supercomputer, powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs, Ansys and energy company Baker Hughes scaled Fluent to 1,024 GPUs, offering unparalleled insight into [...]The post Ansys, Baker Hughes, and Oak Ridge Report Supercomputing Record on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

AI compute company Cerebras Systems said it has been awarded a new contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a system combining their wafer scale technology with wafer scale co-packaged optics of Ottawa-based Ranovus to deliver several orders of magnitude better compute performance at a fraction of the power draw." Cerebras [...]The post DARPA Taps Cerebras and Ranovus for Military and Commercial Platform appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Today, MLCommons announced new results for its MLPerf Inference v5.0 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking. The rorganization said the esults highlight that the AI community is focusing on generative AI ....The post MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v5.0 Benchmark Results appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Lumen Technologies and Ciena recently reported they have established a 1.2 terabit wavelength service trial across 3,050 kilometers (more than 1,800 miles) on Lumen's Ultra-Low-Loss (ULL) fiber network,. This makes it the world's longest 1.2 terabit non-regenerated signal, according ....The post Lumen and Ciena Report 1.2 Tbps Wavelength Service from Denver to Dallas appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs announced the TeraPHY optical I/O chiplet, which Ayar said is the first optical Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe), designed to maximize AI infrastructure performance and efficiency while reducing latency and power consumption.The post Optical I/O: Ayar Labs Launches 8 Tbps UCIe Optical Chiplet for AI Scale-Up Architectures appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

TSMC today held a 2 nanometer (2nm) capacity expansion ceremony at the construction site of Fab 22 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing together representatives from government as well as construction and supplier ....The post TSMC Holds 2nm Capacity Expansion Ceremony, Volume Production Slated for Second Half of Year appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

On the heels of winning a 30,000 GPU cluster deal with Oracle, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a move into the AI infrastructure arena, reflecting a trend toward integration - or verticalization - of chip makers and the AI factory, defined by at least one company (data center company Vertiv) the AI unit of compute." [...]The post AI Factory: AMD in $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2025 - Today, AMD(NASDAQ: AMD) announced 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors power the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard shapes. 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, CPUs for enterprise, AI and cloud1, enable OCI Compute E6 shapes to deliver up to a 2X increase in cost to performance, compared to [...]The post Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E6 Shapes with 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

DAVIDSON, N.C., March 27, 2025 - Trane - by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), announced the development of two new air-cooled chiller offerings - Magnetic Bearing chillers and Ascend chillers for facility chilled water cooling applications. Trane's Magnetic Bearing Chiller provides cooling capacity to address the escalating capacity needs of data center thermal management systems. Introduction [...]The post Trane Announces Data Center Air-Cooled Chillers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 27, 2025 - Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced the signing of the procurement contract with the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) to deliver EuroQCS-Italy, a quantum computer to be hosted in Italy. Owned by the EuroHPC JU, the processor will be hosted and operated byCINECAin Bologna, Italy and integrated [...]The post Pasqal Selected for 140-Qubit Quantum Computer to Be Hosted at CINECA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 25, 2025 - Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform, announced it is deploying and managing exascale clusters across Iceland and Europe in collaboration with Borealis Data Center, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. Our mission has always been to support the most exceptional AI labs, researchers and enterprises on the planet," said Cesar Maklary, co-founder and president [...]The post Fluidstack to Deploy Exascale GPU Clusters in Europe with NVIDIA, Borealis Data Center and Dell appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LAS VEGAS, March 28, 2025 - Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS), a diversified holding company, today announced the successful installation of its first Nvidia GPU deployment for a new Silicon Valley-based cloud services provider. The company said this marks a significant step in its transformation of its Michigan data center into an artificial intelligence [...]The post Hyperscale Data Completes First Installation of Nvidia GPUs for HPC Customer appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.