A happy holiday break to all! Here’s a fast (9:30) run-down of recent developments, including: Nvidia’s $20B Groq deal ….
HPC News Bytes 20251229: Nvidia’s $20B Non-Acquisition of Groq, Quantum-HPC Hybrids, NCAR Closure
December 29, 2025 by
HPC News Bytes 20251117: SC25 Starts!, Conflicting Tales of China AI Chip Bans, Quantum in the News, NSF Supercomputing Centers Hit 40
November 17, 2025 by
A happy Supercomputing Conference week to you from St. Louis! Here’s a fast (9:50) rundown of recent HPC and AI developments: China feeling the bite of AI chip export ….
Stony Brook Univ. Wins $14M NSF Grant for Ampere-Qualcomm HPC System
September 16, 2025 by
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 […]
News Bytes 20250818: DeepSeek Model Training Troubles; RISC-V GPU Startup Seeks Funds
August 18, 2025 by
A good August morning to you! It was a geopolitically-weighted week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:29) overview of recent developments, including: US government to invest in Intel?; training trouble for Chinese AI ….
HPC News Bytes 20250818: US to Invest in Intel?; DeepSeek Training Trouble; RISC-V GPU Startup Seeks Funds; NSF-NVIDIA Partnerhip
August 18, 2025 by
A good August morning to you! It was a geopolitically-weighted week in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a quick (8:29) overview of recent developments, including: US government to invest in Intel … ?
NSF and NVIDIA in $152M AI for Science Partnership
August 15, 2025 by
The National Science Foundation today announced a partnership with NVIDIA to develop a set of artificial intelligence-based models for scientific discovery. NSF will contribute $75 million, with NVIDIA providing an additional $77 million, to support the Open ….
Georgia Tech Wins $20M NSF Grant for ‘Nexus’ Supercomputer
July 16, 2025 by
Georgia Tech and its research partners have received a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build an AI-centered supercomputer that will support researchers nationwide, the institute announced. The Nexus supercomputer at Georgia Tech will provide an array of AI software and hardware that apply to a range of science and engineering […]
NSF Launches 6 Quantum Pilot Projects
December 16, 2024 by
Dec. 16, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation has launched six pilot projects “to bridge scientific gaps between current quantum technological capabilities and those needed to fully harness quantum properties of energy and matter for practical uses,” the NSF said. Click HERE to learn more. The six projects join five others that the agency announced in […]
January 14 Deadline: NSF $15M Funding Opportunity to Safeguard Open Source Ecosystems
September 23, 2024 by
Sept. 23, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation launched a $15 million funding opportunity to address vulnerabilities of open-source ecosystems. Preliminary proposals for the Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open-Source Ecosystems (Safe-OSE) are due Tuesday,Jan. 14, 2025, by 5 p.m. (submitting organization’s local time). To learn more, read the Safe-OSE funding opportunity and register […]
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 ….
