IBM in $11B Acquisition of Confluent

ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and data streaming company Confluent today announced they have entered into an agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for $31 per share, representing an enterprise value of $11 billion. Confluent provides an […]

At SC24: Hammerspace on Making Data Accessible, Globally Shared and Silo-Free

At SC24, we caught up with Floyd Christofferson, Vice President of Product Marketing at data management platform vendor Hammerspace, a company at the headwaters of making data an instantly accessible and ….

‘Rocky Linux from CIQ’ Launched

RENO, Nev. — October 8, 2024 — CIQ has announced Rocky Linux from CIQ, intended for organizations that utilize on Rocky Linux and need a validated version for security and compliance . Available today, Rocky Linux from CIQ is identical to the community edition of open source Rocky Linux but adds contractual benefits including verified packages, guaranteed […]

@HPCpodcast: ECP Software Leader Mike Heroux on Building and Sustaining Exascale-Class Codes

The @HPCpodcast is delighted to have Dr. Michael Heroux as ….

@HPCpodcast: DOE’s Chalk Talks Lab Supercomputing Budgets, ECP’s Legacy and Women in HPC

The future of supercomputing isn’t what it used to be, and few know that better than Christine Chalk, federal program ….

Consortium for Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) to Hold 11 Virtual Sessions June 11-13

WASHINGTON, DC. — The recently established Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software (CASS) has announced 11 virtual sessions on scientific software, scheduled for June 11 – 13, 2024. The virtual sessions, labeled the 2024 CASS Community Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Days, are sponsored by CASS and hosted by the Partnering for Scientific Software Ecosystem Stewardship (PESO) project, a member team of […]

Eviden Launches AI Computing Portfolio

Eviden today announced the BullSequana AI  product line that includes five AI server ranges for AI model inferencing at the edge, tuning existing models in enterprise data centers, and training foundation models with AI supercomputers. Eviden said the BullSequana AI 1200H is ….

Flare Gas Data Center Company Crusoe Picks HPE for Green GenAI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced its HPE Cray supercomputers were selected by Crusoe, a builder of modular data centers, to power new cloud services designed to drive sustainable computing for generative AI and other compute-intensive workloads. Crusoe will leverage custom HPE Cray XD supercomputers to train and tune large-scale AI models….

Two Columbia Univ. Researchers Awarded John von Neumann Theory Prize

BALTIMORE, Oct. 16, 2023 – The 2023 John von Neumann Theory Prize, awarded by INFORMS, is bestowed to Christos H. Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis for their significant contributions to the field of operations research and analytics. The combined work of Papadimitriou and Yannakakis, both from Columbia University, has focused on computational complexity theory and providing an […]

Atropos Health in Clinical Development Agreement with Janssen R&D

PALO ALTO, CA – September 27, 2023 – Data-driven healthcare company Atropos Health announced an agreement with Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Janssen), a Johnson & Johnson company, aimed at helping accelerate clinical development with real-world data analysis. Building upon an existing collaboration, under the new agreement, Atropos and Janssen data scientists will utilize Atropos’s […]