If it’s not too late to take stock of 2025 in HPC-AI, then holding up the Supercomputing Conference as a trends test site might be a good approach. I’m no perennial* but I’ve been to about half of the 37 SCs , including all 11 since 2015. Looking ….
NVIDIA Releases Details on Next-Gen Vera Rubin AI Platform — 5X the Performance of Blackwell
January 6, 2026 by
Those who anticipated NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang would delay delivering an update on its next big AI chip — the Vera Rubin processor first discussed last March at the company’s GTC conference in San Jose — until the upcoming GTC conference in two months were surprised last night when Huang released details about the chip […]
Argonne Researchers Win Lusk Best Paper Award at EuroMPI Conference
December 5, 2025 by
Five researchers from Argonne National Laboratory have won the Ewing “Rusty” Lusk Best Paper award at EuroMPI/USA 2025, held at the University of North Carolina in October. EuroMPI is an event for discussion of new developments and applications of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for high performance parallel computing. The award-winning paper, “Implementing True MPI Sessions and […]
HPC News Bytes 20251103: 4 Exascale HPC’s Coming to National Labs; NVIDIA, Nokia and 6G; Intel Said to Be in SambaNova Talks
November 3, 2025 by
Good November morning to you! It was a hefty HPC-AI news week last week, here’s a rapid ….
Achieving AI Scale-Up Supremacy with Co-Packaged Optics
October 21, 2025 by
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 ….
Ayar Labs Appoints Vivek Gupta Chief Strategy Officer
October 9, 2025 by
SAN JOSE – Oct. 9, 2025 – Ayar Labs, a co-packaged optics (CPO) company, today announced that Vivek Gupta has joined as the company’s first Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). “This is a momentous time for the company, as we scale to commercial production and strengthen customer partnerships,” said Mark Wade, CEO and co-founder of Ayar Labs. […]
Scintil Photonics Raises $58M
September 9, 2025 by
GRENOBLE, France, Sept. 09, 2025 — Scintil Photonics today announced the completion of a $58 million (€50M) Series B funding round led by Yotta Capital Partners and NGP Capital, with participation from NVIDIA. The round includes new participation from BNP Paribas Développement, alongside existing investors including Supernova Invest, Bpifrance Digital Venture, Innovacom, Bosch Ventures, Applied […]
Ayar Labs and Alchip in Co-Packaged Optics Partnership
September 8, 2025 by
SAN JOSE – Sept. 7, 2025 – Co-packaged optics (CPO) company Ayar Labs, and ASICS company Alchip Technologies announced a strategic partnership to accelerate AI scale-up infrastructure. The collaboration fulfills hyperscaler demands for advanced AI accelerators and platforms that deliver enhanced performance, efficiency, and scalability. The partnership brings together Ayar Labs’ CPO technology, Alchip’s packaging […]
Building Jupiter: An Exascale Supercomputer, and a Room to Put It In
September 4, 2025 by
Connecting 24,000 GPUs mounted in 125 racks, with 36,000 high performance network cables for a machine which uses 17MW running full tilt – and getting it all running smoothly as a single system is hard – but doing all that ….
OpenLight Raises $34M for AI Data Center Photonics
August 27, 2025 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 26, 2025 — OpenLight, a Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (PASIC) chip design and manufacturing company, today announced the close of its oversubscribed $34M Series A. The round is co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn Investment Group. Other participants include Mayfield; Juniper Networks, now part of HPE; Lam Capital, the corporate venture […]
