The UK government announced it has injected £36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres sixfold. This includes backing a new National Computational Resource supercomputer ….
UK Invests £36M in AMD-Powered Supercomputer at the Univ. of Cambridge
January 28, 2026 by Leave a Comment
HPC News Bytes 20260126: Intel and Other Chip Stocks in Spotlight, Industry-Wide Supply Shortage, Micron Build-Up in Upstate New York, US Chip Investments by Region
January 26, 2026 by
Good late January morning to you! The HPC-AI industry threw its weight around last week in its usual fashion, here’s a ….
What I Saw at the Revolution
January 15, 2026 by
If it’s not too late to take stock of 2025 in HPC-AI, then holding up the Supercomputing Conference as a trends test site might be a good approach. I’m no perennial* but I’ve been to about half of the 37 SCs , including all 11 since 2015. Looking ….
HPC News Bytes 20260112: Big Chip News at CES, TSMC’s Arizona Expansion, Sandia’s Neuromorphic News
January 12, 2026 by
A good January day to you! There was major chip news last week, most of it coming out of the big CES show in Las Vegas, along with other developments ….
Genesis Mission: DOE Announces Agreements with 24 Organizations
December 18, 2025 by
The U.S. Department of Energy announced agreements with 24 organizations interested in collaborating to advance the Genesis Mission, a national effort to use the power of artificial intelligence to support discovery science, national security and energy innovation. The organizations that have signed memorandums of understanding (MOUs) as of today have either expressed interest to DOE […]
Vultr and AMD Expand AI Supercluster Collaboration
December 4, 2025 by
West Palm Beach, FL. – Dec. 4, 2025 – Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced an expansion of its AI workload collaboration with AMD (NASDAQ: AMD). Vultr will launch an AI supercluster, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs deployed in its new Springfield, Ohio cloud data center. This 50 MW expansion delivers unprecedented performance […]
HPE to Offer AMD Helios AI Rack-Scale Architecture with Ethernet
December 2, 2025 by
At HPE’s Discover Barcelona 2025 event today, the company said it is offering the AMD “Helios”AI rack-scale architecture with Ethernet, intended to speed up deployment of at-scale artificial intelligence training and inferencing for cloud service providers.
LLNL, AMD and Columbia Report Record Protein Folding Workflow on El Capitan Supercomputer
November 14, 2025 by
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and collaborators at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Columbia University report they have achieved a milestone in biological computing: completing the largest and fastest protein ….
The Journey to Exascale
November 7, 2025 by Leave a Comment
High-performance computing (HPC) has fundamentally changed the world of scientific research. Complex challenges that previously were unapproachable due to compute performance limitations and the massive power demands of legacy platforms can now be effectively addressed via powerful new advances in HPC. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is at the forefront of HPC, pushing its […]
AMD Showcases ‘Helios’ Rack-Scale Platform on the OCP Open Rack Wide Spec
October 15, 2025 by
Today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased a static display of its “Helios” rack scale platform for the first time. Developed based on the new Open Rack Wide (ORW) specification, introduced by Meta, AMD said Helios extends the AMD open hardware philosophy from silicon to system […]
