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The Influence of HPC-ers: Setting the Standard for What’s “Cool”
Jan. 16, 2025

A look back to supercomputing at the turn of the century

When I first attended the Supercomputing (SC) conferences back in the early 2000s as an IBMer working in High Performance Computing (HPC), it was obvious this conference was intended for serious computer science researchers and industries singularly focused on pushing the boundaries of computing. Linux was still in its infancy. I vividly remember having to re-compile kernels with newly released drivers every time there was a new server that came to market just so I could get the system to PXE boot over the network. But there was one …


The Evolution, Convergence and Cooling of AI & HPC Gear
Nov. 7, 2024

Years ago, when Artificial Intelligence (AI) began to emerge as a potential technology to be harnessed as a powerful tool to change the way the world works, organizations began to kick the AI tires by exploring it’s potential to enhance their research or business. However, to get started with AI, neural networks needed to be created, data sets trained, and microprocessors were needed that could perform matrix-multiplication calculations ideally suited to perform these computationally demanding tasks. Enter the accelerator.


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ACM Recognizes 71 Computing Leaders as 2025 Fellows

NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2026 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 71 new Fellows. ACM Fellows are registered members of the society and were selected by their peers for achieving remarkable results through their technical innovations and/or service to the field. This year’s honorees hail from 14 countries and were chosen from […]

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KAUST Establishes Quantum Foundry for National Quantum Hardware Development in Saudi Arabia

Jan. 21, 2026 — King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has established the KAUST Quantum Foundry, a program designed to strengthen Saudi Arabia’s ability to fabricate commercial and reproducible quantum hardware. By enabling structured, shared access to KAUST quantum cleanrooms, the Foundry supports device prototyping and process development, allowing industry and academic partners […]

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Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge “SkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch

The first company that can make a UALink switch with high radix – meaning lots of ports – and high aggregate bandwidth across those ports that can compete toe-to-toe with Nvidia’s NVSwitch memory fabric and NVLink ports is going to make a lot of money.

Upscale AI Nabs Cash To Forge “SkyHammer” Scale Up Fabric Switch was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Quantum: Rigetti Lands $8.4M Order from India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 20, 2026 — Rigetti Computing India P L, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rigetti Computing, Inc., announced it has received an $8.4 million order to deliver a 108-qubit quantum computer to the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an Indian R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. The […]

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Report: Data Center Liquid Cooling Market to Grow at 52% CAGR

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The Data Center Liquid Cooling Market was valued at USD 870 Million in 2024, and is projected to reach USD 10.70 billion by 2030, rising at a CAGR of 51.93%. Liquid cooling solutions are ....

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Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform?

No, we did not miss the fact that Nvidia did an “acquihire” of AI accelerator and system startup and rival Groq on Christmas Eve.

Is Nvidia Assembling The Parts For Its Next Inference Platform? was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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The Influence of HPC-ers: Setting the Standard for What’s “Cool”
Jan. 16, 2025

A look back to supercomputing at the turn of the century

When I first attended the Supercomputing (SC) conferences back in the early 2000s as an IBMer working in High Performance Computing (HPC), it was obvious this conference was intended for serious computer science researchers and industries singularly focused on pushing the boundaries of computing. Linux was still in its infancy. I vividly remember having to re-compile kernels with newly released drivers every time there was a new server that came to market just so I could get the system to PXE boot over the network. But there was one …


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11/2025 Highlights

On the 66th edition of the TOP500 El Capitan remains No. 1 and JUPITER Booster becomes the fourth Exascale system.

The JUPITER Booster system at the EuroHPC / Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany at No. 4 submitted a new measurement of 1.000 Exflop/s on the HPL benchmark. It is the fourth Exascale system on the TOP500 and the first one outside of the USA.

El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora are still leading the TOP500. All three are installed at DOE laboratories in the USA.

The El Capitan system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California, USA remains the No. 1 system on the TOP500. The HPE Cray EX255a system was remeasured with 1.809 Exaflop/s on the HPL benchmark. LLNL also achieved 17.41 Petaflop/s on the HPCG benchmark which makes the system the No. 1 on this ranking as well.

El Capitan has 11,340,000 cores and is based on AMD 4th generation EPYC processors with 24 cores at 1.8 GHz and AMD Instinct MI300A accelerators. It uses the Cray Slingshot 11 network for data transfer and achieves an energy efficiency of 60.9 Gigaflops/watt.

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