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
September 4, 2025 by
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
August 20, 2025 by
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 […]
LRZ to Acquire HPE-NVIDIA ‘Blue Lion’ Supercomputer
June 10, 2025 by
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
June 10, 2025 by
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
June 6, 2025 by
We recently talked with Doug Kothe, who has served in senior management ….
SpiNNcloud Deploys Brain-Inspired Supercomputer at Sandia
June 5, 2025 by
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
June 3, 2025 by
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
June 2, 2025 by
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
May 29, 2025 by
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 ….
