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 ….
HPC News Bytes 20251020: Exascale Day!, Happy 50th and 100th to you Seymour Cray, City-Sized AI Supercomputers, HPC-Quantum Integration
October 20, 2025 by
Cloudera’s Dream of a Universal Data Platform May Be Nearing Realization
October 20, 2025 by
Cloudera’s “magnificent obsession,” that of building a single, universal data platform with a single, unified control plane, is something the company has thought about and worked ….
OpenAI and Thermo Fisher Scientific in Life Sciences Collaboration
October 17, 2025 by
WALTHAM, Mass. — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) announced AI utilization plans with OpenAI in a collaboration intended to improve drug development. As part of this collaboration, Thermo Fisher is embedding Open AI APIs into areas of its business that range from product development, service delivery, customer engagement and operational efficiency. The collaboration will: […]
DOE Announces Fusion Power Roadmap, Including HPC and AI Strategy
October 17, 2025 by
Oct. 17, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy released its Fusion Science and Technology (FS&T) Roadmap, a national strategy to accelerate the development and commercialization of fusion energy on the most rapid, responsible timeline in history. The Roadmap defines DOE’s Build–Innovate–Grow strategy to align public investment and private innovation to deliver commercial fusion power […]
AI Science Factory Company Lila Announces Close of $350M Series A, with NVIDIA Backing
October 17, 2025 by
Oct. 17, 2025 — Lila Sciences has announced the close of its $350M Series A, bringing Lila’s total capital raised to $550M. The company said it is using this financing to accelerate the buildout of its AI science factories and bring its “scientific superintelligence platform” to the scientifi c community. Lila Sciences emerged from two […]
Air Force Issues Call for Proposals for AI Data Centers
October 17, 2025 by
Oct. 17, 2025 — The U.S. Department of the Air Force announced it is accepting proposals for the development of artificial intelligence data centers . The Air Force said projects must include greater than 100 megawatts of new load and at least $500 million in capital expenditures, adding that it is seeking monetary consideration for […]
AMD Showcases ‘Helios’ Rack-Scale Platform on the OCP Open Rack Wide Spec
October 15, 2025 by
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 […]
Arm and Meta Announce Extension of AI Partnership
October 15, 2025 by
Arm and Meta announced the extension of their partnership to scale AI across multiple layers of compute – spanning AI software and data center infrastructure. The multi-year partnership builds on the ongoing hardware and software co-design efforts between the two companies, combining Arm AI chips with Meta’s AI-driven products, infrastructure, and open technologies. “From milliwatt-scale […]
OpenAI and Broadcom to Deploy 10 GW of OpenAI-Designed AI Accelerators
October 14, 2025 by
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 ….
Flex Announces Platform for AI Infrastructure Deployment
October 14, 2025 by
SAN JOSE — Oct. 13, 2025 — Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) today announced what is said is the first integrated platform designed for gigawatt data centers supporting AI and HPC. By uniting power, cooling, compute, and Flex’s global services into pre-engineered, modular reference designs for data centers, the new infrastructure platform enables operators to deploy infrastructure […]
