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France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M

Paris makes sovereignty play as it becomes sole shareholder

UK splashes £45M on AI supercomputer to help crack fusion power

'Sunrise' beast will run AI-heavy simulations of plasma behavior and reactor physics

Close up of datacenter equipment illuminated by lots of green light

Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter

Planners backed it, campaigners blasted it, and officials sided with emissions fears

Japan doubles down on Trump's Genesis AI supercomputing effort

RIKEN links up with Argonne, Fujitsu, and Nvidia to build next-gen infrastructure

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Nvidia leans on emulation to squeeze more HPC oomph from AI chips in race against AMD

AMD researchers argue that, while algorithms like the Ozaki scheme merit investigation, they're still not ready for prime time.

Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers

Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations

Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing

How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers

Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm

And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models

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What Do You Do When You Want GPFS On The Cloud?

Sycomp now provides managed GPFS services on demand

GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are

Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce

HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show

Arm and RISC-V would like a word

Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon

HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential

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The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC

From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower

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UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite

Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers

Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title

Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt

Open Compute Project figuring out how to get quantum computers into classical datacenters

It’s an ethereal and weighty problem, not a powerful conundrum

Among the largest booths on the SC25 showfloor was Mitsubishi Heavy Industry

SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions

Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference

Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel

€544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower

Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI

Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing

Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run

EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year

HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-gen Cray supercomputers

Promised for 2027 racks, mixing Nvidia and AMD silicon in one liquid-cooled box

AI isn't throttling HPC. It is HPC

Your real problem: 40kW racks, melting datacenters and rising power bills

Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers

The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030

AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI

How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff

HPE's Discovery to succeed Frontier supercomputer with next-gen Cray tech

Oak Ridge's $500M system due in 2028, paired with a separate Lux AI cluster arriving two years earlier

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NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind

The one chip startup building accelerators for something other than AI boasts performance up 10x that of modern GPUs using a fraction the power

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Replaying ancient steps

How HPC is igniting discoveries in dinosaur locomotion (and beyond)

UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders

Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher

Four more execs man the decks at leaky sales vessel Atos

'Leading provider of AI-powered digital transformation' plays buzzword bingo as 'seasoned leaders' climb on board

Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer follow-up adds Nvidia GPUs

Fujitsu doesn’t have the project all to itself any more

Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super

The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science

Nvidia CEO says China wouldn't risk building military supers with American AI chips

With half the AI devs in the world, if China can't build on American hardware, they'll build on their own, Jensen warns

Europe's exascale dreams inch closer as SiPearl finally tapes out Rhea1 chip

Design sent to TSMC as startup wraps €130M funding round and targets 2026 silicon

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US Department of Defense will stop sending critical hurricane satellite data

No replacement in the wings for info streamed from past their prime rigs, 'termination will be permanent'

Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth

Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs

UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops

Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions

SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip

Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks

Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers

Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside

Jupiter, Europe’s most powerful super, takes maiden flight - but misses exascale orbit

Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall?

UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy

Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'

French state formally bids €410M for Atos' slimmed-down HPC assets

Vision AI won't be part of sale but strategic supercomputers will

Intel Corporation's headquarters in Santa Clara, California

Intel Xeon 6 CPUs make their name in AI, HPC

There isn’t a datacenter workload whose performance or efficiency isn’t improved by using Xeon 6 chips

EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer

And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain

First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales

Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?

Dead or alive, Britain hands Schrödinger's industry £121M

UK's play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical

ISC 2025: Hitting the Big 4-0

Join the HPC, AI and QC communities in June to explore the future of performance-centric computing

US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members

Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies

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By 2027 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expects racks to surge to 600kW with the debut of the Rubin Ultra NVL576

Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks

Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute

ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads

PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in

Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty

€240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI

Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions

PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more!

Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon

20 years? More like five for real-world workloads, says q-AI lead

What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right?

Tackling disease, tick. High-energy physics, tick. Nuke security, also tick

The AMD-based Hunter supercomputer deployed at HLRS at the University of Stuttgart, Germany

Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027

The NVLink switch has traditionally been integrated into Nvidia's SXM carrier boards, like the Blackwell HGX board.

Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer

System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems

HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers

That's Cray cray

GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation

Specialty in cognitive non-routine tasks means high-skilled city workers affected

French state waves up to €625M for Atos's Advanced Computing assets

Another offer IT services giant possibly can't refuse

Eviden wins €60M Finnish supercomputing award amid Atos turmoil

Despite parent's financial turbulence, subsidiary continues to secure major contracts

The GB200 NVL4 is essentially two GB200 Superchips glued together minus the off-board NVLink

Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW

You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too

LLNL's El Capitan system is powered by 44,544 AMD APUs and boasts 1.74 petaFLOPS of FP64 performance

LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance

Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view

Close-up of Oxide's cloud server blade thing

LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide's rackscale compute platform

System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing

HPE demonstrates its latest liquid-cooled Cray EX blades using AMD's 96-core Epyc 4 CPUs.

HPE goes Cray for Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs, crams 224 into a single cabinet

Meanwhile, new ProLiant servers offer choice of Gaudi, Hopper, Instinct acceleration

Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs

Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027

ParTec expands supercomputer patent fight from Microsoft to Nvidia

Wants injunction on GPUs that use what it alleges is its own IP

AMD's Bergamo Eypc processors feature 128 cores and 256 threads spread across eight core-complex dies.

AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips

House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded

Orchestrating the future of HPC workloads

Discover unified solutions for data and compute

The Nvidia Blackwell GPU powering the B100, B200, and GB200 accelerators features a pair of reticle limited compute dies which communicate with each other via a 10TB/s NVLink-HBI interconnect.

Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer

How does 90 exaFLOPS sound?

Atos stumbles again as French government says 'non' to purchase of key assets

Ailing IT services giant still in hot pursuit of agreement on Big Data & Security unit

UK's Arm-based Isambard 2 supercomputer powers off for good

Isambard 3 and AI sibling set to pick up the torch