HPC News Bytes 20250512: China’s SMIC Foundry, Cisco and ‘Quantum Beowulf,’ HPSF Open Source HPC Stack, U.S. Science Brain Drain

 

Good mid-May day to you! From the world of HPC-AI we offer a brief (9:10) rundown of recent goings on, including:

– A look at SMIC, China’s partially state-owned semiconductor foundry

– Cisco makes pitch for distributed quantum computing à la Beowulf clusters

– An update on HPSF.io open source HPC software stack

– The journal Nature sees US science brain drain as EU allocates €500M to attract international scientists

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