A good early March day to you! Advanced computing made big news this past week, here’s a quick (9:50) recap of recent developments, including: – AI for military use: Anthropic, OpenAI and DOD – The evolving SambaNova-Intel partnership and the new SN50 chip – Previews of big conferences coming up: GTC 2026 and Mobile World Congress previews.
HPC News Bytes 20260302: Anthropic Wars with DOD, Intel and SambaNova’s AI Chip Partnership, GTC and Mobile World Congress Previews
March 2, 2026 by
AMD and Meta Expand Partnership with 6 GW of AMD GPUs for AI Infrastructure
February 24, 2026 by
AMD’s strategic struggle to carve out a growing piece of the GPU pie from market dominator NVIDIA took a positive turn for the challenger today with the announcement that AMD and Meta have agreed to a 6-gigawatt deal for AMD Instinct GPUs in an agreement estimated at $100 billion. The companies said …..
Quantum: IonQ Selected to Support Missile Defense Agency SHIELD IDIQ Contract
February 24, 2026 by
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — February 23, 2026 — Quantum company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) announced it was awarded a contract under the Missile Defense Agency Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract with a ceiling of $151 billion. This contract encompasses a range of work areas that allows for the rapid delivery of […]
2 Argonne Scientists Win DOE Early Career Research Awards
February 24, 2026 by
Two researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’sArgonne National Laboratory have won 2025 Early Career Research Program awards from the DOE Office of Science. David Kaphan and Yong Zhao ….
HPC News Bytes 20260223: ‘Portable’ Nuclear Joins the Scramble for AI Power, Quantum Teleportation, Silicon Photonics for Quantum Chips
February 23, 2026 by
Good February morning to you! The HPC-AI (with emphasis on AI) generated its usual quantity of news of late, here’s a brief ….
Deutsche Telekom and Qunnect Test Quantum Teleportation Over Live Berlin Network
February 20, 2026 by
Quantum teleportation is a building block for the quantum internet of the future enabling the transfer of quantum information between locations. It does this by recreating an identical ….
Quantum: Photonic Inc. Names Executive Chair and Four Directors
February 20, 2026 by
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing and communications technologies company, today announced the appointment of a new executive chair and four new directors to its board following its recent $180 million CAD ($130 million USD) investment round. Joining Photonic Founder Dr. Stephanie Simmons, Chief Executive Officer Dr. Paul Terry, Dr. Hermann Hauser, and Lorrie Norrington on the […]
Oak Ridge Engineers and Plant Biologists Automate Plant Transformation for Scientific Discovery
February 19, 2026 by
Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports that plant scientists have teamed with manufacturing systems engineers at the lab ….
D-Wave Joins Southeastern Quantum Collaborative as an Inaugural Member
February 19, 2026 by
PALO ALTO, Calif. – February 19, 2026 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. today joined the Southeastern Quantum Collaborative (SQC) as an inaugural member, along with The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Davidson Technologies, IBM and Alabama A&M University. The SQC will bring together academia, industry and government to accelerate the advancement and application of quantum information science and technology across the Southeast. In addition, it […]
Amazon Announces GA of EC2 Hpc8a Instances with 5th Gen AMD EPYC for HPC
February 18, 2026 by
Amazon today announced the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Hpc8a instances, a new high performance computing-optimized instance type powered by the latest 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors with a maximum frequency of up to 4.5 GHz, AWS said. These instances are designed for compute-intensive, tightly coupled HPC workloads, including computational fluid […]
