The new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, released this morning at the ISC 2025 conference in Germany, shows an expanding European presence among the top 20 supercomputers while the top three systems, all of them American, remained the same. The El Capitan system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California remains […]
TOP500: El Capitan Stays on Top, US Holds Top 3 Supercomputers, Europe Expands in Leadership HPC
June 10, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Sandia Labs’ Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs
June 6, 2025 by Leave a Comment
We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ….
SpiNNcloud Deploys Brain-Inspired Supercomputer at Sandia
June 5, 2025 by Leave a Comment
SpiNNcloud announced that Sandia National Laboratories has deployed its SpiNNaker2 brain-inspired supercomputer, “marking a significant milestone in the advancement of computing for national security applications,” the Dresden, German-based ….
Amazon to Invest $10B in North Carolina AI Infrastructure
June 4, 2025 by
RALEIGH, N.C. (June 4, 2025) – Amazon announced it plans to invest $10 billion in a cloud computing and artificial intelligence campus just east of Charlotte, NC. “Artificial intelligence is changing the way we work and innovate, and I am pleased that North Carolina will stay at the forefront of all that’s ahead as we […]
HPC News Bytes 20250602: NVIDIA Knocking on China’s AI Door, EDA Software Hits Trade Walls, China Tech Merger, NERSC’s New Supercomputer, UK ‘De-Brexits’ HPC
June 2, 2025 by
Good June morning to you! It’s been an intensely geopolitical week for HPC-AI, including: Nvidia earnings outperform despite ….
White House Imposing Export Restrictions on EDA Software to China
May 30, 2025 by
The U.S. government’s drive to hobble China’s advanced chip capabilities, mostly focused to date on restricting exports of GPUs used for AI, has spilled over into software used for designing chips – electronic design automation.
DOE Announces ‘Doudna’ Dell-NVIDIA Supercomputer at NERSC
May 29, 2025 by
The new system, due in 2026, is named after Jennifer Doudna, the Berkeley Lab-based biochemist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on gene-editing technology. Powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin ….
Code Conversion, Reasoning, Visualization and Other LLMs for Science at Argonne
May 23, 2025 by
Large language models (LLMs) applications range from text processing to predicting virus variants. As the datasets on which LLM models are trained become increasingly massive — including trillions of parameters ….
IRI Coming into View: Berkeley and Oak Ridge Link Supercomputing Resources via Data Pipeline
May 21, 2025 by
The U.S. Department of Energy’s next-genertion leadership computing strategy features the Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI), which aims to link the DOE’s vast experimental and HPC ….
HPC News Bytes 20250520: Computex Commences, Intel 18A Fab Panther Lake, the US and HPC Leadership, a New Chiplet Alliance
May 20, 2025 by
Happy mid-spring day to you! The world of HPC-AI is hopping, as usual, with much in the way of recent news, including: Jensen Huang speaks as Computex commences in Taiwa ….
