Can AMD Lower CUDA’s Moat with ROCm.AI?
As part of its Advancing AI launch event last week, AMD unveiled ROCm.ai, a new “developer experience” that introduces AI coding agents into AMD’s ROCm...
Off the Wire Press Releases
AMD’s FP64 Boost with MI430X Is Even Bigger Than Expected
Computer scientists who can’t get enough FP64 performance for their modeling and simulation workloads, and who aren’t interested yet in trying out emulation methods such as the Ozaki scheme, may…
JUNIQ: Europe’s Quantum Buffet
Prior to the June International Supercomputing Conference, ISC High Performance 2026, in Hamburg, Germany, Sean Feeney (Texas A&M University PhD Student/Computer Science/Quantum) and I visited the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)…
HPC Career Notes: July 2026
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 the HPC community, including promotion,…
Genesis Mission Awardee Hopes to Challenge ASML with X-Ray Lithography
When it comes to bottlenecks in the semiconductor supply chain, there is a massive one right at the top: ASML. The Dutch manufacturer is a functional monopoly, owning 100% of…
What the First Genesis Mission Projects Reveal About DOE's AI Priorities
Over the past several days, a steady stream of Genesis Mission announcements has arrived from national laboratories, universities and tech companies...
ISC 2026: Objects in the Quantum Crystal Ball Are Closer Than They Appear!
The International Supercomputing Conference, ISC High Performance 2026, drew a record 4,035 attendees and 188 exhibitors from 64 and 26 countries,...
Nominations Open for Readers’ Choice Awards
Nominations for HPCwire 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards are now open! Click to nominate your favorite HPC individuals, projects, or technologies for 2026.
Seven Days to a Career: PEARC26 Launches Its First Full-Week Student Program
For most attendees, ACM PEARC26 begins Sunday, July 26, at the Minneapolis Convention Center. For a record of 107 students, it starts two days earlier....
Inside Genesis Mission’s ‘All of Government’ Approach to AI for Science
There are now 20 different government agencies participating in the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission project to advance science and engineering through AI. During the...
Why Memory Pool Architectures Will Redefine KV Cache for AI Inference
The conversation surrounding AI infrastructure has correctly identified the key value (KV) cache as a critical bottleneck in scaling AI inference. As models push toward...
A Home of Their Own: PEARC26 Debuts a Dedicated Research Software Engineering Special Track
When ACM PEARC26 happens July 26-30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center, it will mark two firsts at once. The conference series, which began as PEARC17...
AMD Takes On Nvidia with MI455X GPUs and Helios Racks
During its Advancing AI 2026 launch event in San Francisco yesterday, AMD formally unveiled its latest generation GPUs, including the AI-oriented Instinct MI455X and the...
Genesis Mission Summit 2026: Big Ambitions and a Familiar Blind Spot
The first Genesis Mission Summit was, by design, a day about momentum. Conner Prochaska, ARPA-E Director and the event’s emcee,…
Putting AI for Science and Engineering Into Overdrive at Genesis Mission Summit
The integration of AI into scientific and engineering workflows will kickstart an unprecedented period of progress, Energy Secretary Chris Wright…
WEKA Launches NeuralMesh 6 and WEKApod as AI Inference Pushes Infrastructure Limits
WEKA has introduced two new AI infrastructure products: NeuralMesh 6, which the company calls its most significant software release to…
DOE Unveils Awards for Nearly 300 Genesis Mission Projects
The Department of Energy today announced plans to fund 278 projects as part of Genesis Mission, its ambitious AI for…
Featured Whitepaper
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...
New Open Weight AI Models from China Renew Calls for Regulation
We’ve seen the release of two highly capable AI models from China over the past week, including Moonshot AI’s Kimi…
Why GPU Utilization Is the Wrong North Star for Production AI Inference
It’s 2 AM and the on-call engineer pulls up the dashboard. GPU utilization sits at 87%. No alerts have fired.…
Oratomic’s $300M Bet on Low-Qubit Quantum Computing
Oratomic, a quantum computing startup that emerged from stealth just four months ago, has raised a $300 million Series A…
Charting RISC-V’s Future in HPC
There are more than 30 billion RISC-V cores deployed in the world, and some analysts estimate the open processor architecture…
Technology Leaders Showcase
HPCwire Resource Library
Whitepaper
2026 State of AI Infrastructure Report
MEET OUR EDITORS
Alex Woodie
Editorial Director +
HPCwire Managing Editor
Jaime Hampton AIwire Managing Editor
Ali Azhar BigDATAwire Managing Editor
Drew Jolly QCwire Managing Editor
Douglas Eadline Contributing Editor
Addison Snell Contributing Editor
Elizabeth Leake Contributing Editor
FEATURED ADVANCE SCALE JOB
Citadel Securities
Position: High Performance Computing Engineer
Location: Switzerland
FEATURED EVENT
August 23-25
Since 1989, HOT CHIPS has been one of the semiconductor industry’s leading conferences on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits.
Current Stories
