Amazon today announced an investment of up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) U.S. government customers. This investment, set to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI ….
Deploying Inference Services Webinar at ALCF Dec. 3
November 24, 2025 by
Nov. 24, 2025 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar showcasing the ALCF’s Inference Service on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. Registration information can be found here. The facility’s inference services provides cloud-like access to diverse AI models—including large language models (LLMs)—on existing HPC clusters. ALCF’s Benoit Côté will demonstrate how to integrate the […]
ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge Issues 2026 Call for Proposals
November 21, 2025 by
Nov. 21, 2025 — ALCC is soliciting proposals for allocation awards for the 2026-2027 allocation year. For more information: ASCR ALCC Call for Proposals ASCR ALCC Proposal Information High performance computing machines available for the allocation cycle include Aurora, the exascale system at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF); Polaris, the 44-petaflop accelerated system at […]
LLNL, UT Austin and UCSD Collaboration on Tsunami Forecasting Wins ACM Gordon Bell Prize at SC25
November 21, 2025 by
Nov. 21, 2025 — Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of Texas at Austin’s (UT) Oden Institute and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) on Nov. 20 were awarded the prestigious 2025 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for developing a real-time tsunami early warning framework powered by the world’s fastest […]
DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Application Deadline Is Jan. 15
November 19, 2025 by
Nov. 19, 2025 — Applications for the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) are being accepted through Jan. 15, 2026, with an informational webinar set for Dec. 3, 2025. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents who plan full-time, uninterrupted study toward a Ph.D. at an accredited U.S. university. The […]
Hyperion Research Announces Winners of 2025 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
November 18, 2025 by
ST PAUL, Minn., November 18, 2025—Hyperion Research announced the recipients of the 21st round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards at their annual HPC/AI Market Update Breakfast during SC25. The 2025 winners of the HPC Innovation Awards are: Urgent HPC for Earthquakes Applied as a Service – Organizations: Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Mexico’s National Seismological […]
TOP500: El Cap Stays on Top, Jupiter Joins Exascale Club
November 17, 2025 by
The new TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, revealed today at the Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis, shows the HPE-Cray / AMD supercomputer El Capitan, housed at Lawrence Livermore ….
HPC News Bytes 20251117: SC25 Starts!, Conflicting Tales of China AI Chip Bans, Quantum in the News, NSF Supercomputing Centers Hit 40
November 17, 2025 by
A happy Supercomputing Conference week to you from St. Louis! Here’s a fast (9:50) rundown of recent HPC and AI developments: China feeling the bite of AI chip export ….
LLNL, AMD and Columbia Report Record Protein Folding Workflow on El Capitan Supercomputer
November 14, 2025 by
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and collaborators at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Columbia University report they have achieved a milestone in biological computing: completing the largest and fastest protein ….
Argonne-led Q-NEXT Quantum Center Renewed for Five Years
November 6, 2025 by
LEMONT, Ill., Nov. 6, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy announced it has renewed five-year funding for Q-NEXT, a National Quantum Information Science Research Center (NQISRC) led by Argonne National Laboratory in partnership with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, both DOE national labs. The renewal ensures that Q-NEXT will continue to lead the charge in advancing quantum information […]
