AMD and Eviden to Build €554 France-Based Exascale Supercomputer

AMD and Eviden announced they will build the “Alice Recoque” supercomputer, to be the first exascale  in France and second in Europe. The companies said the system will be powered by AMD EPYC CPUs, codenamed “Venice” ….

HPE to Build AMD-Powered Exascale and AI Supercomputers for Oak Ridge

HPE and AMD today announced they have been selected to build two systems for Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a successor to the Frontier exascale-class HPC system, along with an AI supercomputing ….

UK’s STFC Launches 24 PLFLOPS AI Supercomputer for Industry

The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre has launched a supercomputer designed to help UK industry accelerate innovation through artificial intelligence and advanced computing. A 24.41 petaflop system, it can perform 24.41 quadrillion floating-point calculations per second. The GPU-based system is designed for AI workloads and advanced visualisation. Located within STFC’s £30 million […]

Swiss Quantum Technology in €10M Deal to Deploy D-Wave Quantum

PALO ALTO, Calif. & COMO, Italy – October 15, 2025 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) (“D-Wave” or the “Company”), a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services and the world’s first commercial supplier of quantum computers, today announced an agreement with Swiss Quantum Technology SA (“SQT”) to deploy a D-Wave Advantage2 annealing quantum computer […]

Petrobras Puts Lenovo ‘Harpia’ HPC into Operation

Brazillian petroleum corporation Petrobras has put the Lenovo”Harpia” supercomputer into operation. The machine, to be used for seismic imaging,  is the largest of the five Lenovo HPC systems Petrobas  has ….

SiPearl Launches Sovereign HPC Processor Athena1

SiPearl, the European fabless designer of sovereign processors for HPC, AI and data centers, today announced the launch of the Athena1 processor for dual-use applications. Based on Rhea1, SiPearl’s first generation ….

Microsoft Standing up $3.3B ‘Most Powerful’ AI Data Center in Wisconsin with $4B Facility to Follow

In its not-so-modest opinion, Microsoft calls it the world’s most powerful AI data center. In a blog post from vice chair and president Brad Smith, he calls it ….

Stony Brook Univ. Wins $14M NSF Grant for Ampere-Qualcomm HPC System

STONY BROOK, NY – September 16, 2025 – The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $13.77 million grant to Stony Brook University’s Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), in collaboration with the University at Buffalo. The award titled, Sustainable Cyber-infrastructure for Expanding Participation, will deliver HPC-class computing and data resources. This funding will be used to procure and […]

Building Jupiter: An Exascale Supercomputer, and a Room to Put It In

Connecting 24,000 GPUs mounted in 125 racks, with 36,000 high performance network cables for a machine which uses 17MW running full tilt – and getting it all running smoothly as a single system is hard – but doing all that ….

Monash University to Build Australian HPC with NVIDIA and Dell

Monash University in Australia is developing and deploying MAVERIC, in collaboration with NVIDIA, Dell Technologies and the CDC Data Centres (CDC). The AI supercomputer will use first-in-Australia technology and will be designed to solve complex problems across a vast and multifaceted span of human endeavours. Monash University Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Sharon Pickering, said the collaboration […]