March 12, 2025 — The European Space Agency, in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), has inaugurated its high-performance computing (Space HPC) environment at ESRIN, Italy. The opening, on Wednesday 12 March, marks a milestone in ESA’s mission to push the boundaries of innovation for European space activities, according to the agency. The ceremony was […]
JSC Acquires D-Wave Quantum Computer
February 13, 2025 by
PALTO ALTO, Calif. and JÜLICH, Germany — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) announced today that FZJ has purchased a D-Wave quantum computer, becoming the first high-performance computing center in the world to own a D-Wave Advantage annealing quantum computing system. With the purchase of the […]
HPC News Bytes 20250120: Trump and the CHIPS Act, Quantum Stocks, Intel’s Potential Buyer, HPE’s $1B Deal
January 20, 2025 by
A happy Inauguration / Martin Luther King Jr. Day to you! The HPC-AI world continues to produce major news,here’s a quick (6:06) review: the Trump Administration’s reported CHIPS Act softening, quantum computing stocks take hit after Jensen-Zuck statements, Intel’s mystery acquirer, HPE’s $1 billion win
HPE ‘Hunter’ Supercomputer Now in Operation at HLRS Powered by AMD APUs
January 16, 2025 by
On the heels of a Bloomberg report that HPE has won a $1 billion deal with Elon Musk’s X (Twitter) social network for AI-optimized servers, a major European supercomputing center announced today the start of operations of an HPE-Cray supercomputer powered by AMD processors …..
HPE to Build €250M Liquid Cooled HPC at Leibniz Supercomputing Center
December 13, 2024 by
The Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany has commissioned Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) to build an Nvidia-powered €250 million high-performance computer, “Blue Lion.” The system will utilize the HPE Slingshot ….
NEC Wins HPC Order from Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology and National Institute for Fusion Science
November 12, 2024 by
Tokyo, November 13, 2024 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has received an order for a next-generation supercomputer system from Japan’s National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), under the National Research and Development Agency, and the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), part of the National Institutes of Natural Sciences under the Inter-University Research Institute […]
How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World
October 16, 2024 by
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] How exascale systems have been stood up has been recounted in detail, as has the dramatic moment when Frontier achieved exascale status. Now the focus has shifted to the work research organizations are doing with exascale, how it’s actually changing the world ….
TACC’s ‘Vista’ AI Supercomputer in Production for Open Science Community
September 4, 2024 by
The Texas Advanced Computing Center today announced that Vista, a new AI-centric system, is in full production for the open science community. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Vista marks a departure from the x86-based architecture of ….
UK’s University of Southampton Deploys HPE ‘Iridis’ 6 HPC System
August 29, 2024 by
Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced it has built a sixth generation HPC cluster, Iridis 6, for the University of Southampton… The cluster was built using HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers powered by 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors for computational science at-scale ….
TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System
August 28, 2024 by
Aug. 26, 2024 — The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced it has chosen Sabey Data Centers (SDC Austin) as its colocation partner for the Horizon supercomputer. Horizon is part of the nation’s newly announced National Science Foundation-funded Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF), which will revolutionize America’s computational research for the next […]
