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 […]
CoreWeave in $11.9B AI Infrastructure Deal with OpenAI
March 12, 2025 by
March 10, 2025 — GPU cloud company CoreWeave today announced a deal to deliver AI infrastructure to OpenAI, expanding OpenAI’s compute capacity for training and delivering its latest models at scale to its hundreds of millions of users. The contract value for this strategic deal is up to $11.9 billion. As part of this deal, […]
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….
Data Center Report: Record-low Vacancy Pushing Hyperscalers into Untapped Markets
March 10, 2025 by
In a year when data centers faced their most difficult power challenges, the industry thrived nevertheless. According to the North America Data Center Year-End 2024 Report ….
@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.
GE Vernova and AWS Announce Agreement on Data Center Energy Demand
March 6, 2025 by
CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 4, 2025 – GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) and Amazon Web Services today announced a strategic framework agreement (SFA) to electrify and decarbonize data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The agreement is aimed at supporting AWS’s data center scaling, and collaborating to address increasing global energy demand, advance grid security and […]
TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Fabs, Packaging, R&D
March 3, 2025 by
TSMC today said it will expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. by an additional $100 billion. Building on the company’s ongoing $65 billion investment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC’s total investment in the U.S. is expected to reach $165 billion.
