HPC News Bytes 20251103: 4 Exascale HPC’s Coming to National Labs; NVIDIA, Nokia and 6G; Intel Said to Be in SambaNova Talks

Good November morning to you! It was a hefty HPC-AI news week last week, here’s a rapid ….

Accelerating Breakthroughs in Higher Education & Research with NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition

NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, accelerated by the groundbreaking NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, delivers unparalleled GPU accelerated performance and energy ….

VAST Data Federal and Leidos Introduce Agentic Cybersecurity with NVIDIA AI

VIENNA, Va. & WASHINGTON – October 28, 2025 – VAST Data Federal, a VAST Data subsidiary, today announced a partnership with Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) to deliver a scalable model for cyber defense, which will be shown at NVIDIA GTC DC. Leidos, powered by NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and the VAST AI Operating System, is designed […]

HPE to Build AMD-Powered Exascale and AI Supercomputers for Oak Ridge

HPE and AMD today announced they have been selected to build two systems for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a successor to the Frontier exascale-class HPC system, along with an AI supercomputing ….

Achieving AI Scale-Up Supremacy with Co-Packaged Optics

AI architectures are approaching an inflection point, and that is why a new generation of scale-up architectures is needed. Enabling thousands of XPUs to operate as one massive chip for trillion-parameter AI models ….

UK’s STFC Launches 24 PLFLOPS AI Supercomputer for Industry

The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre has launched a supercomputer designed to help UK industry accelerate innovation through artificial intelligence and advanced computing. A 24.41 petaflop system, it can perform 24.41 quadrillion floating-point calculations per second. The GPU-based system is designed for AI workloads and advanced visualisation. Located within STFC’s £30 million […]

HPC News Bytes 20251020: Exascale Day!, Happy 50th and 100th to you Seymour Cray, City-Sized AI Supercomputers, HPC-Quantum Integration

A good autumnal morning to you! The future and the past of HPC-AI is much on our minds today as we observe great deeds done and ….

TSMC Reports YoY Q3 Revenue Increase of 30%

HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Oct. 16, 2025 — TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced consolidated revenue of NT$989.92 billion, net income of NT$452.30 billion, and diluted earnings per share of NT$17.44 (US$2.92 per ADR unit) for the third quarter ended September 30, 2025. Year-over-year, third quarter revenue increased 30.3%, while net income and diluted EPS […]

AMD Showcases ‘Helios’ Rack-Scale Platform on the OCP Open Rack Wide Spec

Today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased a static display of its “Helios” rack scale platform for the first time. Developed based on the new Open Rack Wide (ORW) specification, introduced by Meta, AMD said Helios extends the AMD open hardware philosophy from silicon to system […]

OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators

When it comes to AI compute, the big cloud platform providers are chip-agnostic, adopting processors from the big chip companies (mostly NVIDIA) along with their own custom-designed GPUs ….