A happy holiday break to all! Here’s a fast (9:30) run-down of recent developments, including: Nvidia’s $20B Groq deal, quantum-classical HPC news round-up, quantum control, scale, error correction, the White House’s plan to close down NCAR and its climate science supercomputer ….
HPC News Bytes 20251229: Nvidia’s $20B Non-Acquisition of Groq, Quantum-HPC Hybrids, NCAR Closure
December 29, 2025 by
HPC News Bytes 20251222: Sub-Nanosecond High Frequency Trading, Federated AI Learning at 3 National Labs, AI “Doomers” Speak Out
December 22, 2025 by
Happy Holiday weeks to you! For this, our penultimate weekly episode of the year, Shahin ….
FriendliAI Partners with NVIDIA on Nemotron 3 for Agentic AI Inference
December 19, 2025 by
Redwood City, CA – FriendliAI, an AI inference platform company, announced a partnership with NVIDIA to launch the Nemotron 3 model family, available on FriendliAI’s Dedicated Endpoints. Developers can deploy Nemotron 3 models on FriendliAI’s inference platform. Highlights include: Up to 13× faster token generation via hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE architecture and multi-token prediction (MTP) technique MoE routing […]
EuroHPC JU Issues €4M HPC-AI Benchmarking Call for Proposals, March 24 Deadline
December 17, 2025 by
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has launched a call for benchmarking proposals for HPC systems in Europe. This call for proposals, HORIZON-EUROHPC-JU-2024-BENCHMARK-05 ….
VAST Data Selected by SciNet and SHARCNET in Canada
December 17, 2025 by
NEW YORK CITY – December 17, 2025 – VAST Data today announced that SciNet at the University of Toronto, and SHARCNET at the University of Waterloo have adopted VAST as their data and AI operating system, building on previously announced deployments with Canadian-based infrastructure providers that are using VAST to power large-scale GPU services, according […]
Photonic Inc.’s Dr. Stephanie Simmons Named to UNESCO 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology Quantum 100
December 17, 2025 by
Vancouver, BC, Dec. 17, 2025 – Photonic Inc., a distributed quantum computing company, today announced that its founder and Chief Quantum Officer, Dr. Stephanie Simmons, has been included in the Quantum 100, an initiative as part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ 2025). The Quantum 100 celebrates the people advancing quantum science worldwide […]
UKRI Maps £38.6 Billion R&D Budget, £1 Billion for Quantum, Over 4 Years
December 17, 2025 by
The UK Research and Innovation agency today announced it will invest its record four-year £38.6 billion allocation from government, incluging £1 billion for quantum computing R&D. The allocations explainer provides information on how UKRI funding will be invested across priority ‘buckets’ as set out by Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall and UKRI CEO Ian Chapman […]
Qilimanjaro and Oxigen Data Center Collaborate on Multimodal Quantum-HPC Integration
December 17, 2025 by
Barcelona, Dec. 16, 2025 – Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech and Oxigen Data Center announced a collaboration to explore how multimodal quantum computers can be integrated into commercial data centers. The companies said they intend to lay the foundations for the next generation of hybrid quantum infrastructure. This collaboration will highlight Qilimanjaro’s analog quantum computers, which require less […]
@HPCpodcast Industry View: A Portrait of LRZ’s Upcoming HPE Cray Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA Vera Rubin – the Combined Forces of HPC and AI for Science
December 16, 2025 by
In this episode, we dig into the design and deployment of an upcoming leadership-class supercomputer at the ….
NVIDIA Acquires Slurm Workload Management Provider SchedMD
December 16, 2025 by
NVIDIA announced it has acquired SchedMD — developer of Slurm, an open-source workload management system for high-performance computing and AI. NVIDIA said it will continue to develop and distribute Slurm as open-source ….
