Vanguards of HPC-AI: Oak Ridge Lab’s Verónica G. Melesse Vergara — Unleashing ‘Breakthrough Science’

In our Vanguards of HPC-AI series, we now feature Verónica G. Melesse Vergara, Section Head, HPC Operations in the National Center for Computational Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She became involved in scientific computing in 2008 as an undergraduate at Reed College in Portland, and her involvement in HPC began in 2009 at […]

Supermicro Launches Rack-Scale Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell

San Jose, Calif. – February 5, 2025 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) announced full availability of its AI data center Building Block Solutions  accelerated by the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. The Supermicro Building Block portfolio provides the core infrastructure elements necessary to scale Blackwell solutions. The portfolio includes a broad range of air-cooled and liquid-cooled systems […]

With Accelerator SOC, South Korean Institute Says Country on Track to Become 5th HPC Manufacturer

The ETRI said that after its commercialization, this technology “will be a game-changer for Korea to become the world’s fifth nation to manufacture supercomputers,” after the U.S., China, Japan and the E.U. (France).  The system-on-a-chip is named “K-AB21” ….

Trane Expands Thermal Management with Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling

DAVIDSON, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate company, announced the expansion of its thermal management systems. A company focused on sustainable thermal management systems for commercial buildings and infrastructure, Trane is adding to its data center thermal management systems with liquid cooling capabilities and introducing the Trane […]

HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LANL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers

The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons from DeepSeek, Intel GPU rack scale architecture redux, Livermore Lab and OpenAI for national security, small modular (nuclear) reactors for Google data centers

EuroHPC JU Acquires €8.5M Qilimanjaro Quantum Annealer to be at Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Feb. 1, 2025 — The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a procurement contract with Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech for MareNostrum-Ona, a quantum annealer to be hosted at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Spain. The system, co-funded with a total acquisition cost of €8.5 million ($8.8 million USD), will initially offer at least 10 physical qubits, with […]

Women in HPC and Alces Flight Announce Move the Needle Project Results

Feb. 3, 2025 — The team at Alces Flight, a UK-based company specializing in high performance computing and volunteers from Women in HPC announced the final report and facilitation guide from the Move the Needle Project, which ran throughout 2024 and examined practical approaches to goal-setting, accountability, and continuous improvement focused on the people side […]

Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security

Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoning for complex scientific problems — on the lab’s Venado supercomputer, which uses NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, to conduct national security research. “As threats to the nation become ….

Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference

Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is record-breaking performance for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B inference, achieving more than 1,500 tokens per second – 57 times faster than GPU-based solutions. Cerebras said this speed enables instant reasoning capabilities for one of the industry’s ….

Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI […]