The deadline to take part in ATPESC, the 13th Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, at Argonne is today. ATPESC will be held from Sunday, July 27 to Friday, August 8, 2025 in the Chicago area. There are no fees to participate. Domestic airfare, meals, and lodging are provided. Students, postdocs, and computational scientists interested […]
TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Fabs, Packaging, R&D
March 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
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 billion investment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC’s total investment in the U.S. is expected to reach $165 billion.
HPC News Bytes 20250303: DOGE and Fears at U.S. Science Agencies, Cat Qubits for AWS Quantum, GPUs vs. ASICs for AI Compute
March 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
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. ….
HNO International Converting Wasted Flared Gas into Energy for Data Centers, Bitcoin Mining and Hydrogen
March 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
@HPCpodcast: With Hyperion Research on the Big Trends Across HPC-AI, Quantum, Cloud, Optical, Storage and Interconnects
February 28, 2025 by
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 …
Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Christian Trott – Lowering the Barriers to HPC-AI Entry
February 28, 2025 by
“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 ….”
SoftBank, ZutaCore and Foxconn Join on Rack-Integrated Solution with Liquid Cooling for NVIDIA H200s
February 28, 2025 by
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*1 using NVIDIA H200 GPUs. In addition, SoftBank designed and developed a rack-integrated […]
Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation Condemns Mass Firings of Science Agency Employees
February 27, 2025 by
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 ….
LLNL Examines Exoplanet Atmospheres with HPC
February 27, 2025 by
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 ….
Exascale: Argonne-led Team Trains AI to Take on Infectious Threats with Frontier and Aurora
February 26, 2025 by
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 […]
