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DENVER, March 28, 2025-Gates (NYSE: GTES), a manufacturer of power transmission and fluid power solutions, today announced the launch of Data Master MegaFlex, a large-diameter data center cooling hose that joins the Data Master small-diameter hose, launchedin 2024. The Data Master MegaFlex unlocks new opportunities within data centers and will enable Gates to serve a [...]The post Gates Announces Large-Diameter Hose for Data Center Cooling appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 27, 2025, Reno, Nev. - CIQ today announced the availability of federation capabilities in their Fuzzball performance-intensive computing platform. This release is designed to allow engineering teams and business analysts to easily connect, manage and share compute resources for all performance-intensive workloads (HPC and AI) for global deployments across different sites, and across hybrid/on-premises [...]The post CIQ Fuzzball Federation Capabilities for Deployment of AI and HPC Workloads Across Regions, Clouds and Data Centers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

NEW YORK, March 27, 2025 - Upper90 Capital Management, LP, an asset-backed private credit firm, announced today the closing of an approximately $225 million credit facility for Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider. The investment will be used to support the expansion of Crusoe Cloud, the company's scalable cloud platform purpose-built for enterprise AI [...]The post Upper90 Closes $225M Credit Facility to Crusoe to Expand AI Cloud Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Nvidia, hot off the festivities of its big GTC conference last week in San Jose, dominates the GPU market with a roughly 95 percent share. But the question remains whether and how other chip suppliers will make inroads into the GPU sector. The top potential inroad-making candidate is AMD with its Instinct MI AI accelerators. [...]The post Report: Oracle to Deploy AI Cluster with 30,000 AMD MI355X Accelerators appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 27, 2025, CORNING, NY - Corning Inc. (NYSE:GLW) today launched Corning GlassWorks AI solutions, which the company described as a one-stop shop of customized data center products and services to help operators build the dense fiber infrastructure required for generative AI. The portfolio provides cable and connectivity solutions along with network planning, design and [...]The post Corning Launches GlassWorks Cable and Connectivity for AI Data Center Infrastructures appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a webinar covering the process of porting CUDA code to SYCL, with a focus on high-performance math libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT, to be held Tuesday, April 29. Registration is here. ALCF's Thomas Applencourt and Abhishek Bagusetty will discuss key challenges, such as differences in API, memory management, [...]The post ALCF Announces CUDA to SYCL Webinar April 29 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 27, 2025, PALO ALTO, Calif.- Enterprise orchestration platform provider Workato announced the next phase of the Agentic Enterprise with Workato One at the company's Work to the Power of AI event in New York today. Workato One offers the capabilities needed to build and deploy secure, trusted, enterprise-ready agents with full business context across [...]The post Workato Launches Platform Combining AI and Orchestration appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory tested a quantum computing approach to an old challenge: solving classical fluid dynamics problems. For the test problem, the research team ....The post Quantum Advantage On Paper': Oak Ridge Tests a Quantum Computing Approach for Fluid Dynamics appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Bristol, London and Washington, D.C, 26 March 2025: Quantum algorithms company Phasecraft said it has developed a novel approach to quantum simulation that improves efficiency while cutting computational costs. The method, known as THRIFT (Trotter Heuristic Resource Improved Formulas for Time-dynamics), is designed to optimize the quantum simulation according to the different energy scales found [...]The post Phasecraft: Algorithm Improves Quantum Simulation Efficiency appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Torsten Hoefler, a professor at ....The post Torsten Hoefler Wins ACM Prize in Computing for Contributions to HPC and AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

LONDON and TORONTO - March 25, 2025 -Alphawave Semi (LSE: AWE), maker of connectivity and compute silicon for technology infrastructure, has announced its portfolio of optoelectronics products addressing the high-speed interconnect semiconductor market, which is forecast to exceed $4-billion by 2028. The portfolio consists of DSPs for PAM4 and emerging Coherent-lite modulation. These are capable [...]The post Alphawave Semi Unveils Optoelectronics Silicon Products for Hyperscalers and AI Interconnect appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Manchester, England, March 25, 2025 - PEAK:AIO, a software-defined storage provider built for GPU-powered AI workloads, today announced its AI Data Servers have been chosen by Scan Computers to power its latest expansion of GPU-as-a-Service (GPUaaS). Scan's new NVIDIA DGX Blackwell B200 cluster, one of the first in EMEA, represents a multi-million-pound investment in AI [...]The post PEAK:AIO Storage Chosen for Scan Computer's GPUaaS with NVIDIA DGX B200 Cluster appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

CARROLLTON, Texas, March 25, 2025 - Data center liquid cooling company LiquidStack today announced that it has opened a second manufacturing facility in Carrollton, Texas. Located two blocks from LiquidStack's headquarters and manufacturing site in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, the new 17,000 square foot facility will increase the company's production capacity, while serving as a [...]The post LiquidStack Opens Second Manufacturing Facility in Texas appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Reykjavik, Iceland - March 21st, 2025 -atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announced that two of their senior executives have received industry recognition for their contributions to the digital infrastructure sector. Fredrik Jansson, Chief Strategy and Marketing & Communications Officer at atNorth, has been shortlisted for theEMEA Digital Infrastructure [...]The post atNorth Leaders Recognized for Digital Infrastructure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

In what is becoming an annual tradition for the @HPCpodcast, we present "Live from Nvidia GTC 2025," covering highlights from the Nvidia extravaganza with an AI-everywhere theme.

During quantum day at Nvidia's GTC 2025 conference in San Jose, SEEQCandNVIDIA announced they havecompleted an end-to-end fully digital quantum-classical interface protocol demo ....The post SEEQC and Nvidia Report First Digital Quantum QPU-GPU Interface appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 18, 2025, SAN FRANCISCO -Writer, a generative AI platform for the enterprise, today announced the release of its 2025 AI Survey: Generative AI Adoption in the Enterprise." The study, conducted in partnership with independent research firm Workplace Intelligence, is intended to provide a lens into the experiences of knowledge workers and C-suite executives actively [...]The post Writer Survey: 42% of C-Suite Say Gen AI Is Tearing Their Companies Apart appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

San Jose, GTC 2025 - March 18, 2025 - Supermicro announced support for the new NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs on a range of workload-optimized GPU servers and workstations. Specifically optimized for the NVIDIA Blackwell generation of PCIe GPUs, the broad range of Supermicro servers will enable more enterprises to leverage accelerated [...]The post Supermicro Expands Enterprise AI Portfolio with Blackwell Servers appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Columbus, Ohio [March 18, 2025] - Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a rovider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today announced the launch of four new systems designed to address challenges driven by the rapid growth of AI applications. Vertiv's expanded capabilities in infrastructure management, prefabricated modular deployment, advanced thermal management, and DC power distribution provide options [...]The post Vertiv Unveils 4 AI Digital Infrastructure Systems appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN FRANCISCO / ABILENE, TX / March 18, 2025 / - Today Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, announced construction has begun on the next phase of its AI data center at the Lancium Clean Campusin Abilene, Texas. The second phase of construction, expected to be completed in mid-2026, includes six additional buildings, bringing [...]The post Crusoe Expands AI Data Center Campus in Abilene to 1.2 GW appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced it offers early access to the NVIDIA HGX B200. Vultr Cloud GPU, accelerated by NVIDIA HGX B200, will provide training and inference support for enterprises looking to scale AI-native applications via Vultr's 32 cloud data center regions worldwide. We are pleased to [...]The post Vultr Announces Early Availability of NVIDIA HGX B200 appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

ST. LOUIS (March 18, 2025)- World Wide Technology (WWT), a technology solutions provider, today announced the launch of new AI solutions developed in collaboration with NVIDIA designed to enable faster, more secure adoption of the game-changing technology. Built in WWT'sAI Proving Groundlab, the WWT solutions revealed at NVIDIA GTC include an AI coding assistant, an [...]The post World Wide Technology Debuts oding Assistant, Digital Humans and Agents with NVIDIA AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN MATEO, CA (March 18, 2024) - Luminary Cloud and nTop today announced a new integration with NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo that the companies say reduces physics-based AI design optimization from weeks or months to mere hours. By connecting nTop's parametric geometry generation, Luminary's GPU-native simulation and simulation management platform, and NVIDIA's PhysicsNeMo via APIs, engineers can [...]The post Luminary Cloud and nTop Announce Integraton with NVIDIA Physics AI appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - March 18, 2025- Data infrastructure company NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) today made an agentic AI announcement that taps the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design.By collaborating with NVIDIA, NetApp intends to enable businesses to better leverage their data to fuel AI reasoning inference. In the era of intelligence, businesses need to rethink [...]The post NetApp Announce Agentic AI Reasoning Solutions with NVIDIA appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

SAN JOSE - March 18, 2025 - AI data platform company VAST Data today announced the availability of VAST InsightEngine starting with NVIDIA DGX systems and expanding to NVIDIA-Certified Systems from server providers. This combination is designed to provide enterprise customers with a first-of-its-kind turnkey, real-time AI data processing and retrieval platform designed to eliminate [...]The post VAST Data Announces Enterprise-Ready AI Stack with NVIDIA DGX appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

A Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone! As the accelerated computing world congregates in San Jose, here's a rapid (6:36) rundown of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: What's coming from Intel's new CEO, did D-Wave achieve quantum supremacy?, "AI Woodstock" GTC25 in San Jose this week.The post HPC News Bytes 20250317: Intel's New CEO, Is D-Wave Quantum Superior?, AI Woodstock' at GTC appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

We hear talk of AI's growing programming prowess to the point that it could, extrapolating things out, come to dominate base-level ....The post Will Programmers Become Unnecessary? HPC-AI Researchers at MIT Report Programming Advance appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

Paris - March 13, 2025-Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, today announced an integration with Microsoft's services for cloud-based access to Pasqal's technology. Microsoft Azure Quantum cloud service customers can now leverage Pasqal's quantum computer, which uses neutral-atom technology and offers a range of analog quantum computational capabilities to solve complex computing issues. The demand [...]The post Pasqal Quantum Available on Azure appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 14, 2025 - Early bird registration is now open for the annual ISC conference, to be held Tuesday-Friday, June 10-13 in Hamburg. The conference organizations announced discounted fees are available until April 23. Here's a ink to various pass types and their benefits. To help planning, the program schedule is now accessible on both [...]The post HPC: ISC 2025 Registration Is Now Open appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

HAMBURG, Germany, March 14, 2025 - The ISC 2025 conference has announced that climate scientist and meteorologist Prof. Dr. Bjorn Stevens will deliver a keynote address for ISC's midweek keynote on Wednesday, June 11. In his presentation entitled The New Landscape of Climate Computing" he will talk about how artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing [...]The post ISC 2025 Midweek Keynote Explores New Climate Forecasting Paradigms appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

March 14, 2025 - Registration is open for the spring HPC User Forum, to be held in Santa Fe, NM and hosted by HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research: https://www.hpcuserforum.comor directly at:https://www.hpcuserforum.com/hpc-user-forum-spring-2025/ Here's the updated agenda: Tuesday, April 8th: 7:15-8:00 am Breakfast and Badging 8:00-8:30 am Welcome and Meeting Overview Welcome & Logistics, Piyush Mehrotra [...]The post Agenda Updated for HPC User Forum, April 8-9 in Santa Fe appeared first on High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC.

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.