March 12, 2025 — The European Space Agency, in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), has inaugurated its high-performance computing (Space HPC) environment at ESRIN, Italy. The opening, on Wednesday 12 March, marks a milestone in ESA’s mission to push the boundaries of innovation for European space activities, according to the agency. The ceremony was […]
HPC News Bytes 20250310: TSMC’s $100B for Arizona Fabs, New AGI Benchmarks, JSC’s Quantum-Exascale Integration, Chinese Quantum Reported 1Mx Faster than Google’s
March 10, 2025 by
Happy Daylight Savings Time (U.S.) to you! Big things happened in the world of HPC-AI last week….
@HPCpodcast: Dr. Handel Jones on the US-China AI Race and the Shifting Technopolitical Balance
March 7, 2025 by
Dr. Handel Jones, an expert on the economic, cultural and technology scene in China as well as a noted technopolitical analyst, joins Doug and Shahin for a second appearance on the @HPCpodcast.
Europe, Seeking HPC and AI Autonomy, Launches €240M DARE Project
March 6, 2025 by
A €240 million project has been launched to promote HPC and AI autonomy in Europe. The Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, Special Agreement 1 (DARE SGA1) project marks “a significant milestone in Europe’s ….
Argonne: ATPESC 2025 Application Deadline Extended to March 16
March 6, 2025 by
The deadline to take part in ATPESC, the 13th Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, at Argonne has been extended to Sunday, March 16. Students, postdocs, and computational scientists interested in attending ATPESC can review eligibility and application details on the application instructions web page. ATPESC will be held from Sunday, July 27 to Friday, August […]
Sandia Names Laura McGill Labs Director
March 6, 2025 by
Laura McGill will become Sandia’s 17th Labs director, effective May 1. McGill, who has served as deputy Labs director for Nuclear Deterrence and chief technology officer since January 2021, succeeds James Peery, who is retiring at the end of April.
HPC News Bytes 20250303: DOGE and Fears at U.S. Science Agencies, Cat Qubits for AWS Quantum, GPUs vs. ASICs for AI Compute
March 3, 2025 by
A happy start to March to you! We offer a quick (8:28) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: DOGE-led government layoffs and funding disruptions at U.S. ….
@HPCpodcast: With Hyperion Research on the Big Trends Across HPC-AI, Quantum, Cloud, Optical, Storage and Interconnects
February 28, 2025 by
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
February 28, 2025 by
“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 ….”
Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation Condemns Mass Firings of Science Agency Employees
February 27, 2025 by
As the Trump Administration with Elon Musk’s DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) seeks to cut federal government employee roles, “probationary employees” (those who have not held jobs long enough to garner full civil ….
