DOE Awards $320M for Genesis Mission, AI for Science

DOE said the awards will begin building the integrated American Science and Security Platform, a discovery engine designed to double the productivity and impact of American science and engineering investments within a decade.

Sandia’s Newest and Least Conventional Supercomputer Takes the Stage

Sandia National Laboratories has announced the arrival of its newest most unconventional supercomputer. Designed through a collaboration between Sandia and NextSilicon, the “Spectra” prototype ….

Law Firm: US Stepping Up Prosecutions of Illegal Exports of HPC and AI Tech

Technology companies and other industry players can expect to see more ECRA and money laundering charges filed against individuals and entities that export technologies subject to Export Administration Regulations controls.

ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge Issues 2026 Call for Proposals

Nov. 21, 2025 — ALCC is soliciting proposals for allocation awards for the 2026-2027 allocation year. For more information: ASCR ALCC Call for Proposals  ASCR ALCC Proposal Information High performance computing machines available for the allocation cycle include Aurora, the exascale system at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF); Polaris, the 44-petaflop accelerated system at […]

IBM Collaborates Across Four National Quantum Innovation Centers for Quantum-Centric Supercomputing

Nov. 4, 2025 — Today, the United States Department of Energy announced the continued funding of the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers (NQISRCs). IBM released the following statement: We applaud the DoE for continuing to promote quantum science in the United States, and we are committed to the success of these centers and accelerating […]

Dollar Coin Celebrates Cray-1 50th Anniversary

The United States Mint has released the designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program, and one of them honors a monumental moment in the history of HPC: the announcement of the Cray-1 supercomputer.

Azure Unveils NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Supercomputing Cluster for OpenAI

Microsoft Azure announced the NDv6 GB300 VM series, which the company said is the first supercomputing-scale production cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, built for OpenAI ….

Quantum: ‘Optical Tweezers’ Help Caltech Researchers Claim Qubit Record

Caltech physicists report they have created the largest qubit array assembled to-date: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of qubits.

Chandrasekaran to Receive ACM Computing Honor

The University of Delaware announced that Professor Sunita Chandrasekaran has been named winner of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)’s SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award ….

HPC News Bytes 20250915: What to Infer about NVIDIA’s Rubin CPX GPU, Oracle’s Big OpenAI Big, Google Cloud, UK Defence and Digital Sovereignty

A good mid-September morning to you! The world of HPC-AI served up a plentiful amount of news ….