HPC News Bytes 20251229: Nvidia’s $20B Non-Acquisition of Groq, Quantum-HPC Hybrids, NCAR Closure

 

A happy holiday break to all! The past week in HPC-AI, a week expected to be a quiet one, was not. Here’s a fast (9:30) run-down of recent developments, including:

– Nvidia’s $20 billion non-acquisition deal with Groq

– Quantum-classical HPC news round-up: hybrid systems and applications

– Quantum control, scale, error correction

– The White House’s plan to close down NCAR and its climate science supercomputer

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