HPC France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M Paris makes sovereignty play as it becomes sole shareholder
HPC UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power 'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics
HPC Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fears
HPC Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure
HPC Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.
HPC Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations
Systems Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers
Software Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models
Off-Prem What Do You Do When You Want GPFS On The Cloud? Sycomp now provides managed GPFS services on demand
Supercomputing Month GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce
Supercomputing Month HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show Arm and RISC-V would like a word
Supercomputing Month Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential
Supercomputing Month The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower
Supercomputing Month UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers
SC25 Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt
The Future of the Datacenter Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum
SC25 SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference
Supercomputing Month Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel €544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower
SC25 Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing
SC25 Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year
Supercomputing Month HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-gen Cray supercomputers Promised for 2027 racks, mixing Nvidia and AMD silicon in one liquid-cooled box
Supercomputing Month AI isn't throttling HPC. It is HPC Your real problem: 40kW racks, melting datacenters and rising power bills
Supercomputing Month Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030
Supercomputing Month AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff
Supercomputing Month HPE's Discovery to succeed Frontier supercomputer with next-gen Cray tech Oak Ridge's $500M system due in 2028, paired with a separate Lux AI cluster arriving two years earlier
Supercomputing Month NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind The one chip startup building accelerators for something other than AI boasts performance up 10x that of modern GPUs using a fraction the power
Supercomputing Month UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher
AI + ML Four more execs man the decks at leaky sales vessel Atos 'Leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation' plays buzzword bingo as 'seasoned leaders' climb on board
HPC Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more
Supercomputing Month Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science
HPC Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns
Systems Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon
Science US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent'
SC25 Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs
SC25 UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions
SC25 SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks
European Supercomputing Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside
European Supercomputing Jupiter, Europe’s most powerful super, takes maiden flight - but misses exascale orbit Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall?
European Supercomputing UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'
HPC French state formally bids €410M for Atos' slimmed-down HPC assets Vision AI won't be part of sale but strategic supercomputers will
Systems Intel Xeon 6 CPUs make their name in AI, HPC There isn’t a datacenter workload whose performance or efficiency isn’t improved by using Xeon 6 chips
European Supercomputing EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain
HPC First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?
HPC Dead or alive, Britain hands Schrödinger's industry £121M UK's play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical
HPC ISC 2025: Hitting the Big 4-0 Join the HPC, AI and QC communities in June to explore the future of performance-centric computing
HPC US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies
Nvidia GTC Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute
HPC ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in
HPC Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty €240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI
Security Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more!
HPC Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon 20 years? More like five for real-world workloads, says q-AI lead
HPC What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right? Tackling disease, tick. High-energy physics, tick. Nuke security, also tick
HPC Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027
HPC Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems
HPC GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation Specialty in cognitive non-routine tasks means high-skilled city workers affected
HPC French state waves up to €625M for Atos's Advanced Computing assets Another offer IT services giant possibly can't refuse
HPC Eviden wins €60M Finnish supercomputing award amid Atos turmoil Despite parent's financial turbulence, subsidiary continues to secure major contracts
HPC Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too
HPC LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view
HPC LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide's rackscale compute platform System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing
HPC HPE goes Cray for Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs, crams 224 into a single cabinet Meanwhile, new ProLiant servers offer choice of Gaudi, Hopper, Instinct acceleration
Systems Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027
HPC ParTec expands supercomputer patent fight from Microsoft to Nvidia Wants injunction on GPUs that use what it alleges is its own IP
Systems AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded
HPC Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer How does 90 exaFLOPS sound?
HPC Atos stumbles again as French government says 'non' to purchase of key assets Ailing IT services giant still in hot pursuit of agreement on Big Data & Security unit
HPC UK's Arm-based Isambard 2 supercomputer powers off for good Isambard 3 and AI sibling set to pick up the torch
HPC India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers Rudra machines use local designs for server, interconnect, and cooling – but seemingly not a planned 96-core Arm CPU
Systems DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security
HPC Oak Ridge boffins enlist Quantum Brilliance to make supercomputers sparkle at room temp Diamond-based accelerators could help smash science problems
Science Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it?
HPC DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense Officials claim it'll be able to develop defensive solutions in 'days, if not hours'
HPC Japan's Fugaku supercomputer released in virtual version that runs in AWS Graviton processors get the job of helping RIKEN achieve HPC world domination
HPC AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight
HPC UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer Shortsighted or a chance to refocus? Tech sector is not happy
HPC China stops worrying about lack of GPUs and learns to love the supercomputer The workaround is going to be inevitable in the future anyway, say Chinese boffins
AI + ML Europe launches 'AI Factories' initiative in hopes of competing globally Yes, you've heard the term 'AI Factories' before but Europe has its own spin
Science The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts'
HPC Oak Ridge casts nets in search of Frontier supercomputer's heir US national lab expects Discovery to deliver 'three to five times more computational throughput'
HPC HPE to build supercomputer to 'enhance Japan's AI sovereignty' Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker's CEO talks up mega bitbarn 'AI factories'
Systems Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks
Public Sector Atos's UK auditor raises 'material uncertainty' about future Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern
HPC Atos in chaos as bailout talks unravel faster than you can say 'restructuring' Time for plan B (or will it be C?)
HPC Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now
HPC Microsoft sued by ParTec in Texas over AI supercomputer patents German HPC outfit asks for damages, injunction that would see Azure AI shut down
HPC Atos gets a reprieve with restructure plan from Onepoint consortium Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them...
HPC Atos defers its own D-Day to ponder financial rescue decision Restructure saga kicked into next week, investors unamused
HPC It's make your mind up time as Atos sets deadline to pick rescue package June 5 the day to opt for Onepoint-led consortium or Daniel Křetínský's EPEI
HPC Nvidia's future in scientific computing hinges on a melding of AI and HPC But if they can't, AMD is well positioned to mop up
HPC After bashing Nvidia for ‘arming’ China, Cerebras's backer G42 alarms US govt with suspected Beijing ties
HPC A lone Nvidia GPU speeds past the physics-straining might of a quantum computer – in these apps at least
HPC Engineers are supposed to solve difficult problems. Waiting in a queue for time on the supercomputer shouldn’t be one of them
Government Tech Week EU infrastructure risk project to address potential climate, 'resource' shortage catastrophes
HPC If today's tech gets you down, remember supercomputers are still being used for scientific progress
