Energy Secretary Wright to Visit Argonne Tomorrow for Aurora Exascale Dedication

WASHINGTON— The U.S. Department of Energy announced that Secretary of Energy Chris Wright will travel to Lemont, Illinois, on tomorrow to visit Argonne National Laboratory and participate in the dedication of the Aurora exascale supercomputer. Secretary Wright will deliver remarks, join Argonne leadership and partners for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Media must arrive no later than […]

SiPearl Tapes-out HPC and AI Chip Rhea1, Closes €130m Series A, for European Tech Sovereignty

SiPearl, the company building European processors for supercomputing and AI, said it has “completed the conception” of the Rhea1 processor, which the company said has 80 Arm ….

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 ….

Jack Dongarra Makes a Stand for Traditional HPC: US Lacks Plan, ‘Risks Falling Behind’

HPC community éminence grise Jack Dongarra has issued an opinion piece in the thought leadership publication The Conversation in which makes a stands for traditional HPC and declares that ….

Screening 50B Small Molecules: AI-Driven Cancer Research at Argonne with Aurora Exascale HPC

At Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago researchers are using AI and high performance computing to develop new methods aimed at accelerating ….

Fluidstack to Deploy Exascale GPU Clusters in Europe with NVIDIA, Borealis Data Center and Dell

Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform, announced it is deploying and managing exascale clusters across Iceland and Europe in collaboration with Borealis Data Center, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. “Our mission has ….

Fluidstack to Deploy Exascale GPU Clusters in Europe with NVIDIA, Borealis Data Center and Dell

March 25, 2025 – Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform, announced it is deploying and managing exascale clusters across Iceland and Europe in collaboration with Borealis Data Center, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. “Our mission has always been to support the most exceptional AI labs, researchers and enterprises on the planet,” said Cesar Maklary, co-founder and president […]

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Sandia’s Christian Trott – Lowering the Barriers to HPC-AI Entry

“HPC systems have always been hard to leverage well, but with GPUs and other accelerators in the mix it has become truly daunting. Lowering the barrier to entry … on Kokkos, the ISO C++ committee, and the High Performance Software Foundation is what ….”

Vanguards of HPC-AI: Spack Builder Todd Gamblin of LLNL on the Why’s and How’s of Change in HPC

In our continuing series on current and future leaders of HPC-AI, Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s Todd Gamblin has a well-deserved reputation in the HPC software community as a passionate ….

HPC News Bytes 20250217: Arm Selling Its Own Chips to Meta?, Big xAI, Big Power, Big… Pollution?, TSMC in Intel Fab Takeover?, Europe’s Big AI Investment, Exascale in Industry

A happy mid-winter day to you! The HPC-AI world produced its usual extraordinary onslaught of news this past week, here’s …