IBM Nighthawk r2 Tops 100,000 Circuits per Second with New Reset Architecture
IBM has made its Nighthawk r2 quantum processor available through the IBM Quantum Platform, with a new qubit-reset architecture that the company says delivers up...
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Sovereign AI Without Data Silos–Implementing Data Sovereignty in a Distributed IT Landscape
The conversation around sovereign AI has changed dramatically over the past few years. What began largely as a discussion about geopolitics and data residency has become a much broader architectural…
The ISC Student Cluster Competition; Retrospective from a Judge’s Perspective
This was my eighth year to judge the International Supercomputing Conference Student Cluster Competition (ISC High Performance SCC); third to cover both remote and on-site contests. I haven’t attended in-person…
Unsolved for 90 Years, OpenAI Says AI Cracked Millennium Prize Problem in 88 Hours
OpenAI says one of its AI systems has solved a math problem that has stumped mathematicians for nearly a century. The Navier–Stokes problem is one of seven Millennium Prize Problems,…
Amazon Deal Shines Light on Qualcomm’s High-Bandwidth Compute Strategy
As one of the world’s preeminent chip companies for mobile devices, Qualcomm has a storied history of squeezing the maximum performance from chips with limited power and thermal envelopes. That…
Quantum Hardware Is Ready for HPC, But Software Is Not, Alice & Bob Say
Quantum practitioners should stop wondering if quantum computer hardware is ready soon and start worrying about when the HPC software stack...
Data Movement's Where the Value Is, Says Former Cray CEO Ungaro
There will always be an insatiable demand for compute, former Cray CEO Peter Ungaro told Google Cloud’s Jay Boisseau and Adnan...
2026 HPCwire 35 Legends Announced
HPCwire has revealed the second half of the 35 Legends Class of 2026, profiling the luminaries who made today’s HPC ecosystem possible. See who they are!
NAIRR Shifts from Pilot into Operations Mode
After more than two years in pilot mode, the National Science Foundation this week announced that it’s releasing the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR)...
What is OpenWALDO and Why Did Greg Kurtzer Need to Create It?
Greg Kurtzer is biased. As the creator of CentOS, Rocky Linux, Apptainer (Singularity), and Warewulf, he clearly has a bias toward open source software, to...
MLCommons Bolsters MLPerf Storage Benchmark with KV Cache, Vector DB, and S3 Support
MLCommons today unveiled a new benchmark that tests how well storage vendors handle KV cache and vector database workloads, two important components of running AI...
Genesis Mission Takes on Astronomy’s Growing Computing Challenge
The recently launched Genesis Mission includes a wide range of projects aimed at using advanced computing and AI to tackle some of the biggest challenges...
August 2026 HPC Career Notes
It’s time once again for HPC Career Notes, our monthly feature that’s designed to keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in...
Data Centers Are Under Attack. Is the Anger Justified?
Anger over the construction of AI data centers has triggered political leaders to call for bans and moratoriums on the…
Nvidia to Nab Hugging Face, the ‘GitHub for AI,’ for $12.9B: Report
GPU giant Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face, an AI model, data, collaboration and platform with more than 13…
Nobel Laureate David Baker Takes Aim at the Virtual Cell with GenBio AI
What if scientists could test a new drug or make changes to a cell without even touching one in the…
Inside Intel’s ‘Fan-out Fabric’ in ‘Diamond Rapids,’ Its Seventh-Gen Xeon Chip
This week at Hot Chips, Intel shared more details of its upcoming seventh-generation Xeon chip, codenamed “Diamond Rapids,” which will…
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Inside the Next Generation of Optical Interconnects
The future of optical interconnects is very bright, thanks to the advantages they hold over copper networking in terms of…
It’s Not an HPC System, But Cerebras’ New CS-4 Is an AI Monster
Cerebras builds the biggest, most powerful chips in the industry with its Wafer Scale Engine 3, and so it’s not…
What Hyperscalers Should Know About CXL
The AI infrastructure conversation has shifted as AI inference becomes a larger part of workloads around the world. The cost…
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