LRZ to Acquire HPE-NVIDIA ‘Blue Lion’ Supercomputer

NVIDIA announced today that Germany’s Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, LRZ, will acquire that “Blue Lion” supercomputer that will deliver roughly 30x the compute power of SuperMUC-NG, the current LRZ HPC. The system will run ….

Lenovo to Deliver AI Supercomputer for the European Institute of Oncology

Milan, 09 June 2025 – Lenovo will provide the IEO Monzino Group with a high performance computing system to accelerate scientific research in oncology and cardiology at the European Institute of Oncology and the Monzino Cardiology Center. Lenovo will deliver the IEO Monzino Group with a 475 TFlops HPC system, consisting of Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 V3 […]

Sandia Labs’ Doug Kothe: The Mission-Driven Rewards of Working at the U.S. National Labs

We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ….

SpiNNcloud Deploys Brain-Inspired Supercomputer at Sandia

SpiNNcloud announced that Sandia National Laboratories has deployed its SpiNNaker2 brain-inspired supercomputer, “marking a significant milestone in the advancement of computing for national security applications,” the Dresden, German-based ….

Monash University to Invest in AI Supercomputer for Australia’s Higher Ed Sector

Melbourne, Australia — Monash University announced its intent to transform Australia’s sovereign Artificial Intelligence (AI) research capability by investing $60 million to build and operate an advanced AI supercomputer. This will place the university as a leader in AI-driven research within the international higher education and research sector, the university said. The investment will fill […]

Petrobras Brazil Awards $138M HPC Contract to Atos Bull

A recent report in Bnamericas stated that Atos Bull has won a supercomputing contract from Brazilian federal oil firm Petrobras. According to the report, Atos Bull submitted a bid of 780mn reais (US$138 million), which was the lowest among ….

DOE Announces ‘Doudna’ Dell-NVIDIA Supercomputer at NERSC

The new system, due in 2026, is named after Jennifer Doudna, the Berkeley Lab-based biochemist who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for her work on gene-editing technology. Powered by NVIDIA’s next-generation Vera Rubin ….

QuEra Installs Quantum System in Japan

Tsukuba, Japan – May 28, 2025 – QuEra Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced it has installed its first quantum computer outside of its own labs – at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba. QuEra said the gate-based neutral-atom computer is a key step in Japan’s national quantum […]

Saudi Arabia Unveils AI Deals with NVIDIA, AMD, Cisco, AWS

Saudi Arabia announced AI development deals with four leading U.S. technology firms, chip companies NVIDIA and AMD, networking company Cisco and cloud platform Amazon Web Services. The partnerships were formed ….

Fujitsu and RIKEN Develop 256-Qubit Superconducting Quantum Computer

Kawasaki and Wako, Japan, April 22, 2025 — Fujitsu Limited and RIKEN announced the development of a 256-qubit superconducting quantum computer, established at the RIKEN RQC-FUJITSU Collaboration Center. This quantum computer builds upon the advanced technology of the 64-qubit iteration, launched with the support of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)(1) […]