A good mid-winter morning to you on this US Presidents Day! Today, we’re discussing the big, red-hot issue of traditional HPC’s place in a technology world dominated by AI – even as some of us will shout (into the wind) that LLM-based AI is an HPC workload, that generative AI could not have happened without ….
HPC News Bytes 20260216: Moonshot for ‘Scientific Computing in an AI World,’ NSF’s $100M for Quantum
February 16, 2026 by Leave a Comment
MIT Prof. Saman Amarasinghe Wins ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy HPC Award
October 15, 2025 by
ACM and IEEE Computer Society have named Saman Amarasinghe of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the recipient of the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award. The award recognizes ….
Baya Systems Collaborates with Tenstorrent on Subsystem for TT-Ascalon Processors
September 25, 2025 by
Santa Clara, Calif. – September 25, 2025 — Baya Systems, developer of a software-driven, chiplet-ready fabric IP for scalable AI and high-performance computing, today announced: successful interoperability between Baya’s WeaveIP fabric and Tenstorrent’s TT- Ascalon processor portfolio and becoming one of the first members of Tenstorrent’s Open Chiplet Atlas (OCA). Both companies are working on […]
DoD Greenlights Parallel Works Hybrid Multi-Cloud HPC Platform
September 15, 2025 by
Sept. 15, 2025, CHICAGO — Parallel Works, a provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for hybrid multi-cloud computing resources, today announced its ACTIVATE High Security Platform (HSP) is the first hybrid multi-cloud computing solution to receive the Authority to Operate (ATO) by the Department of Defense (DoD). Granted by the High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), the […]
NCSA Wins $26M NGA HPC Contract
August 8, 2025 by
Aug. 7, 2025 — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign were awarded a $25.8 million contract from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for high-performance computing in support of NGA strategic partnerships, advancement of artificial intelligence, and machine learning and logistics for data production on a global scale. NGA Director Vice Admiral […]
At ISC 2025: E4 Computer Engineering and NVIDIA Discuss Their High Performance European Alliance
July 8, 2025 by
In this interview at the ISC 2025 HPC-AI conference in Germany, we sat down with the Italy-based engineering firm E4 Computer Engineering and NVIDIA ….
Google Cloud Managed Lustre with DDN EXAScaler Now Available for AI and HPC
July 8, 2025 by
Chatsworth, Calif. — July 8, 2025 — AI and data intelligence solutiosn compa ny DDN today announced that Google Cloud Managed Lustre, a managed, high-performance parallel file system service, powered by DDN’s EXAScaler technology, is now generally available. Designed to accelerate the most demanding workloads in AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and data-intensive enterprise environments, Google Cloud Managed […]
xFusion at ISC 2025: HPC-AI Computing Infrastructure Technologies for Power, Usability and Efficiency
June 27, 2025 by
A prominent exhibitor at ISC was xFusion, a company at the HPC-AI intersection whose computing infrastructure technologies and services embody the power of HPC combined with AI. A Singapore-based company with global ….
@HPCPodcast: Digging into the New TOP500 List — How Continents, Countries, Companies and Architectures Fared
June 11, 2025 by
The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released yesterday at the ISC conference in Hamburg with a new addition to the top 10 and with three exascale-class U.S. HPC systems on top. Tune in to this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by liquid cooling company CoolIT Systems ….
‘Sparsification’: PNNL Preps Data for Quantum
April 23, 2025 by
Quantum computing holds great promise in such such as computational chemistry and high-speed networking. But they’re so different from classical HPC systems that scientists are working out how to feed them ….
