Spectral Compute Aims to Set CUDA Free. Will It Succeed?
Nvidia is primarily known as a hardware company thanks to the wild success of its GPUs. But Nvidia is also a force in the world...
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Cadence Completes Agentization of Chip and System Design Software
Cadence Design Systems has been delivering agentic AI capabilities with its semiconductor and system design tools for some time. With today’s launch of AuraStack AI Super Agent, the company has…
How HPC and Simulation Are Powering the Next Wave of Physical AI
As investment in Physical AI accelerates, simulation is taking on a much larger role than simply generating synthetic training data. HPC-based physics simulation is increasingly being used to improve model…
Can SiPearl Revive the European HPC and AI Chip Industry?
The stars appear to be aligning for SiPearl, the French chip startup that was founded in 2020 to develop an all-European chip for sovereign AI and HPC workloads. The company…
ASC26 Wuxi Wrap Up: Awards & Trophies
The last five days were very challenging for the 125 students participating in the ASC26 competition. It began with a long weekend of building their cluster and getting the environment…
Hyperion Research Sees Quantum Market Nearing Commercial Inflection Point
The quantum computing market is entering a new phase as commercial deployments are beginning to complement cloud-based experimentation, according to Bob...
PEARC Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Conference Series
The upcoming PEARC26 conference scheduled to take place July 26-30 in Minneapolis, Minnesota will be special in at least one way:...
Full and Complete Coverage of ISC 2026
Check out our ISC 2026 editorial coverage, press releases, booth tour videos, daily recap videos, and photos from the show floor, all in one place.
From Supercomputers to Scientific Collaborators: Argonne’s Vision for AI-Driven HPC
Scientists have relied on HPC facilities to help them process large volumes of data, execute sophisticated simulations, and power large-scale research. However, as AI becomes...
ASC26: PRSM Awards and Other Fun Stuff
The PRSM Awards for Excellence in Cable Management have been an institution in student cluster competitions for nearly two years now. Like everything else in...
Are GPUs Still Needed? Maybe Not, HPC Experts Say
The rise of an GPU-less supercomputer called LineShine on the TOP500 list last week has provoked questions about supercomputer architectures. Namely, do we still need...
In Search of Better Mixed Precision Strategies for HPC
When is it okay to drop double-precision in favor of single precision? Can one use mixed precisions within the same program? How does lower precision...
ASC26: The Wuxi Rumble
The ASC student cluster competition returned to Wuxi, aka “The Pearl of Taihu” for its 2026 edition. Competition fans will remember Wuxi from 2017 when students got...
Genesis Workbench Launched by Databricks and Nvidia
AI is becoming an increasingly important tool for drug discovery. However, for many pharmaceutical and biotech companies, the challenge isn’t…
Green500 Shows Performance per Watt Is Becoming HPC’s New Arms Race
Raw performance has long been the benchmark for success in HPC. However, as AI and exascale systems grow larger, power…
CIQ Simplifies HPC Admin on Containerized Infra with Fuzzball Update
It’s easy to get bogged down micromanaging HPC infrastructure. But focus too much on one aspect, and other things can…
HPC Career Notes: June 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…
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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...
Jack Dongarra Discusses a Changing HPC World in ISC 2026 Closing Keynote
The HPC world is changing, according to Jack Dongarra, who delivered his first ever ISC keynote here in Hamburg, Germany…
ISC 2026: China, Sustainability, and the Questions Nobody Can Answer
ISC26 in Hamburg delivered its usual mix of benchmark drama, big ideas, and uncomfortable questions, but this year had one…
From Executive Order to Execution: Inside DOE’s Quantum Genesis Initiative
Most quantum computing announcements revolve around hardware: more qubits, new processors, and better error correction. DOE’s Quantum Genesis initiative points…
IBM Touts Sub-1nm Nanostack Chip Technology
IBM today announced the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, which it developed using a novel “nanostack” technique that…
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