A good late February morning to you! Here’s a rapid (7:05) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: New in-house-manufactured Microsoft QPU ....

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Feb. 18, 2025 — French research organization CEA reported that on 12 February, the CEA’s WEST tokamak maintained a nuclear fusion plasma for more than 22 minutes, a 25 percent improvement over the previous record. “This leap forward demonstrates how our knowledge of plasmas and technological control of them over longer periods is becoming more […]

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SAN FRANCSCO – Feb. 18, 2025 – CEA-Leti, in its collaboration with Quobly, CEA-List and CEA-Irig, reported today it has developed a solution using FD-SOI CMOS technology that provides simultaneous, microsecond readouts of tens of quantum devices, while reducing the readout power consumption by 10x and footprint by 2x. Combined with Quobly’s strategy to build […]

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The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a hosting agreement with the French national research organization GENCI for its next exascale supercomputer, called Alice Recoque, which will be operated by CEA, a French research agency. The system will be ....

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Paris, June 19, 2024 – A 100+ qubit quantum processing unit (QPU), acquired by GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif), was delivered at TGCC, the CEA computing centre, the three organizations have announced. As the first QPU to be delivered to a third party by Pasqal, a neutral atom quantum computing company, is part of the High-Performance […]

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A good June day to you! What follows is a rapid (7:59) run-though of the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: At Computex 2024: Nvidia Rubin and Vera ....

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May 12, 2024 — Nvidia has announced nine new supercomputers using Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips that combined deliver 200 exaflops, or 200 quintillion calculations per second, of AI processing power. The new supercomputers include EXA1-HE, in France, from CEA and Eviden; Helios at Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet, in Poland, from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE); Alps […]

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Paris – April 17, 2024 – CEA (The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission) and Eviden, the Atos advanced computing business unit, today announce the delivery of the EXA1 HE supercomputer, based on Eviden’s BullSequana....

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June 20, 2023 — The European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has selected the Jules Verne Consortium to host and operate in France the second EuroHPC exascale supercomputer to exceed the threshold of 1 billion billion calculations per second. This new exascale supercomputer will be managed by GENCI (as hosting entity), the French […]

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ST PAUL, Minn., August 9, 2022 — HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research  announced that registration is now open for two International HPC User Forums in October. The first event, hosted by CEA and TERATEC will be held in Paris on Monday and Tuesday, October 3-4, 2022 at the Cercle National des Armées | CNA Paris. […]

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