HPC News Bytes 20250520: Computex Commences, Intel 18A Fab Panther Lake, the US and HPC Leadership, a New Chiplet Alliance

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 Taiwan, Jack Dongarra makes his case for the vital need for traditional HPC, how the new Chiplet Alliance complements the UCIe Consortium

NVIDIA Announces DGX Cloud Lepton for GPU Access across Multi-Cloud Platforms

NVIDIA today announced at the Computex confence in Taiwan NVIDIA DGX Cloud Lepton — an AI platform with a compute marketplace that connects developers building agentic and physical AI applications ….

DDN Teams With NVIDIA on AI Data Platform Reference Design

CHATSWORTH, Calif.– AI and data intelligence vendor DDN today announced the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, built in collaboration with NVIDIA to support organizations’ generative AI strategies by simplifying how unstructured data is stored, accessed and activated. With more than 90 of new data being unstructured — from documents and videos to code and conversations — […]

Netherlands’ HQ/2 Collaboration Releases Open-Architecture Quantum System

May 15, 2025 — The Netherlands’ HectoQubit/2 project has released the Tuna-5 system via the Quantum Inspire public cloud platform. Developed within the HectoQubit/2 project — a collaboration between QuTech, TNO, and four Dutch quantum startups (QuantWare, Qblox, Orange Quantum Systems, and Delft Circuits) — Tuna-5 is an integrated quantum system built using an open-architecture approach and leveraging […]

NeuReality Announces Inference Appliance Is Preloaded with AI Models

Caesarea, Israel – May 14, 2025 – NeuRealityannounced that its NR1 Inference Appliance now comes preloaded with enterprise AI models, including Llama, Mistral, Qwen, Granite1, plus support for private generative AI clouds and on premise clusters. The company said the appliance is up and running in under 30 minutes and “delivers 3x better time-to-value, allowing customers […]

Women in HPC Announces WHPC Travel Fellows for ISC 2025

Women in HPC has named Sarah Johnston and Khyati Sethia as winners of the 2025 WHPC Travel Fellowships. They will present their research at next month’s ISC high performance computing conference in Hamburg next month. “We are thrilled to ….

Jack Dongarra Makes a Stand for Traditional HPC: US Lacks Plan, ‘Risks Falling Behind’

HPC community éminence grise Jack Dongarra has issued an opinion piece in the thought leadership publication The Conversation in which makes a stands for traditional HPC and declares that ….

ALCF Developer Session: Accelerating AI Training and Inference for Science on Aurora Exascale Supercomputer

May 15, 2025 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an overview of key AI frameworks, toolkits, and strategies to achieve high-performance training and inference on the Aurora exascale supercomputer for scientific applications. This virtual session will be held from 11 am-noon CT on Wednesday, May 28. Register here. Members of the Argonne National […]

atNorth to Host 6G AI Sweden’s National AI Cloud

Stockholm, Sweden – May 15th, 2025 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced the company is hosting infrastructure development of a national AI cloud in partnership with 6G AI Sweden. 6G AI Sweden has an agreement to acquire Nvidia’s latest AI-powered chips, the H200 and Blackwell GB200, which will support the […]

Supermicro Announces DLC-2 Direct Liquid Cooling Updates

SAN JOSE, May 14, 2025 — Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced updates for to its Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) solution that incorporate new technologies for cooling various server components, accommodate warmer liquid inflow temperatures, and introduce mechanical designs for more AI per watt. The company said its DLC-2 solution reduces data center power consumption by up […]