Sandia’s Newest and Least Conventional Supercomputer Takes the Stage

Sandia National Laboratories has announced the arrival of its newest most unconventional supercomputer. Designed through a collaboration between Sandia and NextSilicon, the “Spectra” prototype ….

The Infrastructure Revolution for AI Factories

Organizations risk being held back not by their compute power but by access to the data needed to fuel it. When input/output performance falls short or data orchestration can’t keep GPUs continuously supplied with data ….

Taking on ASML: U.S. Invests $150M in Gelsinger-Backed EUV Startup

Those machines have been called the most complex in the world, and no wonder. An EUV machine has more than 100,000 parts, they’re the size of a school bus, cost roughly $350 million and weigh around 200 tons.

Law Firm: US Stepping Up Prosecutions of Illegal Exports of HPC and AI Tech

Technology companies and other industry players can expect to see more ECRA and money laundering charges filed against individuals and entities that export technologies subject to Export Administration Regulations controls.

HPC News Bytes 20251124: SC25 Quick Takes (Thank You St. Louis!), Hyperion HPC-Quantum Market Update, DOE’s New Public-Private Supercomputers

A happy US Thanksgiving Week to you all! As we decompress from the Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis, here’s a rapid (9:16) run-through of recent news, including: SC25 quick takes ….

AWS to Invest up to $50B in AI Supercomputing for US Government Agencies

Amazon today announced an investment of up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) U.S. government customers. This investment, set to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI ….

@HPCpodcast at SC25: A Breakdown of the New TOP500 List

Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new TOP500 list in this episode sponsored by CoolIT. We go over HPL, HPL-MxP, HPCG, Green500, geographical distribution, vendor distribution, and other observations.

AMD and Eviden to Build €554 France-Based Exascale Supercomputer

AMD and Eviden announced they will build the “Alice Recoque” supercomputer, to be the first exascale  in France and second in Europe. The companies said the system will be powered by AMD EPYC CPUs, codenamed “Venice” ….

Enabling Utility-Scale Quantum Computing with HPC-QC Integration

We know there are many challenges to building a utility-scale quantum computer. That’s why we are taking a vendor-agnostic approach—integrating third-party quantum technologies with our HPC and networking ….

TOP500: El Cap Stays on Top, Jupiter Joins Exascale Club

The new TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, revealed today at the Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis, shows the HPE-Cray / AMD supercomputer El Capitan, housed at Lawrence Livermore ….