Last week, the editor of this publication had the honor and pleasure of participating in the 80th anniversary celebration of France-based research institute CEA at the French Embassy in ….
insideHPC Takes Part in CEA’s 80th Anniversary at French Embassy in Washington
February 18, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Amazon Announces GA of EC2 Hpc8a Instances with 5th Gen AMD EPYC for HPC
February 18, 2026 by Leave a Comment
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 […]
Tower Semiconductor and Scintil Photonics Announce Availability of DWDM Lasers for AI Infrastructure
February 17, 2026 by Leave a Comment
MIGDAL HAEMEK, Israel, and GRENOBLE, France, February 17, 2026 – Tower Semiconductor (NASDAQ/TASE: TSEM), a foundry for analog semiconductor solutions, and Scintil Photonics, heterogeneous integrated photonics company for AI infrastructure, today announced availability of the world’s first heterogeneously integrated Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) laser sources for AI infrastructure using Scintil’s SHIP (Scintil Heterogeneous Integrated […]
HPC News Bytes 20260216: Moonshot for ‘Scientific Computing in an AI World,’ NSF’s $100M for Quantum
February 16, 2026 by Leave a Comment
A good mid-winter morning to you on this US Presidents Day! Today, we’re discussing the big, red-hot issue of traditional HPC’s place in a technology world dominated by AI – even as some of us will shout (into the wind) that LLM-based AI is an HPC workload, that generative AI could not have happened without ….
Bull Accelerates Innovation with New High-Speed Interconnect Investment
February 12, 2026 by
The Bull brand, regrouping Atos Group’s Advanced Computing and AI activities, was officially launched on January 29, 2026, bringing back a historically rooted technology name.
IBM Introduces Autonomous Flash Storage with Agentic AI
February 10, 2026 by
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled a new generation of IBM FlashSystem, co-run by agentic AI, designed to support autonomous storage. IBM said the new products offer resilience through ….
HPC News Bytes 20260209: Who Has AI Sovereignty?, Bullish on Eviden, Intel’s Latest GPU Attempt, AI Predictions
February 9, 2026 by
A good Valentine’s Day week to you! It was a somewhat retrospective, reflective week in the world of HPC and AI, here are our brief (9:50) thoughts ….
Quantum Motion Opens European Offices in Spain
February 5, 2026 by
San Sebastian, Spain (5 February 2026) – Quantum Motion today announced the opening of its offices in Spain, establishing a base for quantum system development, integration and deployment in the European Union. The new site, located in the newly inaugurated nanoGUNE Quantum Tower, supports Quantum Motion’s scale-up of silicon-based quantum computing systems and strengthens the […]
Intel and SoftBank Subsidiary Collaborate on Memory for AI and HPC
February 4, 2026 by
Intel Corp. announced a collaboration with SoftBank Corp. subsidiary SAIMEMORY to develop a memory technology called the Z-Angle Memory (ZAM) program. The collaboration focuses on next generation memory ….
HPC News Bytes 20260202: Microsoft’s Inference Chip, H200 (Not H20) GPUs for China, Mega AI Data Center Deals
February 2, 2026 by
A happy month of February to you! The big players have dominated the HPC-AI news front of late, here’s a fast (8:44) recap of recent developments, including: Microsoft Maia 200 ….
