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 […]
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Spack Builder Todd Gamblin of LLNL on the Why’s and How’s of Change in HPC
February 20, 2025 by
In our continuing series on current and future leaders of HPC-AI, Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s Todd Gamblin has a well-deserved reputation in the HPC software community as a passionate ….
HPC News Bytes 20250217: Arm Selling Its Own Chips to Meta?, Big xAI, Big Power, Big… Pollution?, TSMC in Intel Fab Takeover?, Europe’s Big AI Investment, Exascale in Industry
February 17, 2025 by
A happy mid-winter day to you! The HPC-AI world produced its usual extraordinary onslaught of news this past week, here’s …
Exascale: GE Aerospace Goes Airborne with Frontier and Aurora
February 14, 2025 by
Since 2022, GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) has competed successfully for more than 3 million supercomputing hours under a U.S. Department of Energy peer-reviewed proposal process, incuding time on two of the three American exascale supercomputers — Frontier ….
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Oak Ridge Lab’s Verónica G. Melesse Vergara — Unleashing ‘Breakthrough Science’
February 5, 2025 by
“One of the most fun aspects of HPC engineering is that you get to solve a broad range of problems getting an application to run well and run at scale – sometimes to even run at all. There is always something new to learn and the feeling of finding a solution ….”
Argonne Releases Aurora Exascale Supercomputer to Researchers
January 28, 2025 by
“We’re ecstatic to officially deploy Aurora for open scientific research,” said Michael Papka, director of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. “Early users have given us a glimpse of Aurora’s vast potential. We’re eager to see how the broader scientific community will use the system to transform their research.”
UK’s Edinburgh Supercomputer Project May Come Back to Life after ‘Pause’
January 17, 2025 by
The announcement last August by the UK’s then-new Labour Government that it was ending an £800 million supercomputer project at Edinburgh University was greeted by the HPC community with consternation — particularly in Scotland. But the project may have new life.
HPE ‘Hunter’ Supercomputer Now in Operation at HLRS Powered by AMD APUs
January 16, 2025 by
On the heels of a Bloomberg report that HPE has won a $1 billion deal with Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) social network for AI-optimized servers, a major European supercomputing center announced today the start of operations of an HPE-Cray supercomputer powered by AMD processors …..
Trying to Read China’s New Top 100 Supercomputing List
January 8, 2025 by
Since 2017, China stopped taking part in the LINPACK benchmark used by the TOP500 organization to rank the world’s most power supercomputers. Yet for the past several years, the Chinese Society of Computer Science has released a listing of the country’s top 100 supercomputers. Yet China’s HPC opacity remains ….
Jan. 5 Registration Deadline for ASC25 Student Supercomputer Challenge
November 24, 2024 by
ATLANTA, Nov. 22, 2024 –The ASC Student Supercomputer Challenge 2025 (ASC25) kicked off its inaugural briefing session at SC24, unveiling a timeline for the upcoming competition. Aspiring undergraduate teams from around the world are encouraged to register by January 5, 2025, through the official website. (http://www.asc-events.net/StudentChallenge/ASC25/Register.php) ASC25 will uphold its renowned format, featuring three key […]
