Screening 50B Small Molecules: AI-Driven Cancer Research at Argonne with Aurora Exascale HPC

At Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago researchers are using AI and high performance computing to develop new methods aimed at accelerating ….

Ansys, Baker Hughes, and Oak Ridge Report Supercomputing Record on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer

PITTSBURGH, April 1, 2025 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced results from the largest commercial Fluent CFD simulation ever run on AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. Leveraging the power of the Frontier exascale supercomputer, powered by AMD EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs, Ansys and energy company Baker Hughes scaled Fluent to 1,024 GPUs, offering unparalleled insight into […]

Fluidstack to Deploy Exascale GPU Clusters in Europe with NVIDIA, Borealis Data Center and Dell

March 25, 2025 – Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform, announced it is deploying and managing exascale clusters across Iceland and Europe in collaboration with Borealis Data Center, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. “Our mission has always been to support the most exceptional AI labs, researchers and enterprises on the planet,” said Cesar Maklary, co-founder and president […]

Quantum vs. Classical HPC: D-Wave Reports Quantum Supremacy on Materials Simulation

D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced a quantum advance published in the journal Science, confirming that its annealing quantum ….

@HPCpodcast: With Hyperion Research on the Big Trends Across HPC-AI, Quantum, Cloud, Optical, Storage and Interconnects

We dive into numbers coming out Hyperion’s latest HPC-AI market update, including the strong current and projected industry CAGRs, the state of quantum computing (including thoughts …

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Christian Trott – Lowering the Barriers to HPC-AI Entry

“HPC systems have always been hard to leverage well, but with GPUs and other accelerators in the mix it has become truly daunting. Lowering the barrier to entry … on Kokkos, the ISO C++ committee, and the High Performance Software Foundation is what ….”

Exascale: Argonne-led Team Trains AI to Take on Infectious Threats with Frontier and Aurora

ASCR, the Advanced Scientific Computing Research program within the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, has released a report on the use of exascale -class supercomputers, Frontier and Aurora, using the combination of artificial intelligence tools with genomic data to improve preparedness for potential new pandemics. The large language models (LLMs) used in chat-based […]

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Spack Builder Todd Gamblin of LLNL on the Why’s and How’s of Change in HPC

In our continuing series on current and future leaders of HPC-AI, Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s Todd Gamblin has a well-deserved reputation in the HPC software community as a passionate ….

HPC News Bytes 20250217: Arm Selling Its Own Chips to Meta?, Big xAI, Big Power, Big… Pollution?, TSMC in Intel Fab Takeover?, Europe’s Big AI Investment, Exascale in Industry

A happy mid-winter day to you! The HPC-AI world produced its usual extraordinary onslaught of news this past week, here’s …

Exascale: GE Aerospace Goes Airborne with Frontier and Aurora

Since 2022, GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) has competed successfully for more than 3 million supercomputing hours under a U.S. Department of Energy peer-reviewed proposal process, incuding time on two of the three American exascale supercomputers — Frontier ….