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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…

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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 that surround it will be good to go, Alice…


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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 Khaleel last week. But moving data is “where the…

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IBM Nighthawk r2 Tops 100,000 Circuits per Second with New Reset Architecture

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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 to 25 times the circuit…

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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...

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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...

2026 HPCwire 35 Legends Announced

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!


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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...

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2026 State of AI Infrastructure Report

The 2026 State of AI Infrastructure Report, based on a survey of 600 U.S. IT and business leaders, reveals that infrastructure—more than AI models or accelerators—is now the critical determinant of enterprise AI success. As organizations transition from experimentation to production, four key pressures have emerged: rising infrastructure complexity, strained...

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