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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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January 2026 HPC Career Notes

It’s time once again for HPC Career Notes, our monthly feature that’s designed to keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the HPC community, including promotion, new company hires, and accolade. Check in each month for an updated list and you may even come across someone you know, or better yet, […]

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Gartner Takes Another Stab At Forecasting AI Spending

The market researchers at Gartner have extended their forecast out to 2027 and dropped 2024 from the view since it is now more than a year past.

Gartner Takes Another Stab At Forecasting AI Spending was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

FAMES Pilot Line Inaugurated to Advance Ultra-Low-Power Semiconductors in Europe

Jan. 30, 2026 — The FAMES pilot line at CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France was inaugurated today. It is the first of the five Chips Act pilot lines to become operational, marking a major milestone for the Chips for Europe Initiative. Pilot lines are shared facilities where companies and researchers can test new chip designs, equipment, and processes at […]

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Report: AI Scale Pushing Enterprise Infrastructure toward Failure

NEW YORK, Jan. 29, 2026 — Cockroach Labs, a cloud-agnostic distributed SQL databases with CockroachDB, today announced findings from its second annual survey, “The State of AI Infrastructure 2026: Can Systems Withstand AI Scale?” The report reveals a growing concern that AI use is starting to overwhelm the traditional IT systems meant to support it. As […]

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Microsoft Is More Dependent On OpenAI Than The Converse

Everyone is jumpy about how much capital expenses Microsoft has on the books in 2025 and what it expects to spend on datacenters and their hardware in 2026.

Microsoft Is More Dependent On OpenAI Than The Converse was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Argonne Partners with RIKEN, Fujitsu and NVIDIA on AI for Science and HPC

Argonne National Laboratory has entered into a partnership with RIKEN, Fujitsu Limited and NVIDIA to advance artificial intelligence and high performance computing to accelerate scientific discovery. The agreement, based on a memorandum of understanding signed January 27, will aligns with DOE’s Genesis Mission, a national initiative to use AI ....

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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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