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As Q-Day Nears, A New Approach to Data Security for HPC and AI
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/as-q-day-nears-a-new-approach-to-data-security-for-hpc-and-ai/
Published: December 12, 2025 18:39
.... HPC and AI providers (have) a challenge and an opportunity. They must reimagine how to secure sensitive data without disrupting performance. They can now leverage new forms of encryption that protect sensitive data while in use without creating…
IDC: Worldwide Server Market Grew 61% YoY in Q3
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/idc-worldwide-server-market-grew-61-yoy-in-q3/
Published: December 12, 2025 15:55
NEEDHAM, Mass., December 11, 2025 – According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, the server market reached a record $112.4 billion dollars in revenue during the third quarter of the year. This represents a…
Siemens and GlobalFoundries to Collaborate on AI-Driven Chip Manufacturing
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/siemens-and-globalfoundries-to-collaborate-on-ai-driven-chip-manufacturing/
Published: December 11, 2025 19:14
Siemens and GlobalFoundries (GF) said today they have entered a collaboration to use their AI capabilities to enhance semiconductor manufacturing and advanced industries . In a memorandum of understanding, the companies say they will focus on automation…
DOE Awards $320M for Genesis Mission, AI for Science
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/doe-awards-320m-for-genesis-mission-ai-for-science/
Published: December 11, 2025 16:50
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.
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Argonne Nuclear Energy Researchers Bachmann and Shaver Named to 40 Under 40 List
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/argonne-nuclear-energy-researchers-bachmann-and-shaver-named-to-40-under-40-list/
Published: December 11, 2025 16:41
For the second consecutive year, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory have been named to the American Nuclear Society’s Nuclear News’ 40 Under 40 list. Nuclear engineers Amanda Bachmann and Dillon Shaver ....
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Photonic Announces Approach to Quantum Resource Estimation
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/photonic-announces-approach-to-quantum-resource-estimation/
Published: December 11, 2025 15:30
VANCOUVER, BC, December 10, 2025 — Photonic Inc., today announced an approach to Quantum Resource Estimation (QRE) for measuring and comparing quantum performance. This method accounts for the costs of distributed quantum computing using Quantum…
Personal ‘AI Supercomputer’ Runs 120B-Parameter LLMs On-Device, Tiiny AI Says
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/tiiny-ai-claims-personal-ai-supercomputer-runs-120b-parameter-llms-on-device/
Published: December 10, 2025 21:22
It's often said that supercomputers of a few decades ago pack less power than today's smart watches. Now we have a company, Tiiny AI Inc., claiming to have built the world's smallest personal AI supercomputer that can run a 120-billion-parameter large…
Lenovo Announces Data Management Solutions
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/lenovo-announces-data-management-solutions/
Published: December 10, 2025 19:57
December 10, 2025 – Lenovo today announced new data storage, virtualization solutions and data management services, designed to help customers modernize their IT and data infrastructure for powering enterprise applications and AI ready capabilities.…
TSMC November Revenue up 25% YoY
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/tsmc-november-revenue-up-25-yoy/
Published: December 10, 2025 19:34
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Dec. 10, 2025 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for November 2025: On a consolidated basis, revenue for November 2025 was approximately NT$343.61 billion, a decrease of 6.5 percent from October 2025…
ALCF to Hold April INCITE GPU Hackathon, Jan. 31 Application Deadline
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/alcf-to-hold-april-incite-gpu-hackathon-jan-31-application-deadline/
Published: December 10, 2025 18:52
Dec. 10, 2025 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold its 2026 ALCF INCITE GPU Hackathon in April, an opportunity to work with mentors to prepare code and boost its performance for the upcoming INCITE call for proposals as well as DOE’s ASCR…
Couchbase Announces GA of AI Platform with NVIDIA Integration for Agentic AI
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/couchbase-announces-ga-of-ai-platform-with-nvidia-integration-for-agentic-ai/
Published: December 10, 2025 16:38
SAN JOSE – Dec 10, 2025 – AI database developer platform company Couchbase today announced the general availability of Couchbase AI Services, a suite of capabilities for building and deploying agentic AI applications. By bringing together data and models…
EIC Accelerator Backs Quantum Dice with €2m Grant
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/eic-accelerator-backs-quantum-dice-with-e2m-grant/
Published: December 10, 2025 13:55
Oxford, UK – 9th December, 2025 – Quantum Dice, a UK-based quantum photonics and probabilistic computing company, has secured a €2 grant from the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator programme, with the project now officially underway following…
Cloud Native Qumulo Now Runs on Google Cloud
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/cloud-native-qumulo-now-runs-on-google-cloud/
Published: December 9, 2025 21:20
SEATTLE — Dec. 10, 2025 — Qumulo, an unstructured data management company, today announced that Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) is running on Google Cloud and can be procured on the Google Cloud Marketplace. With exabyte-plus scalability and full support for any…
Penguin Solutions Expands SMART Modular DDR5 SODIMM Memory Portfolio
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/penguin-solutions-expands-smart-modular-ddr5-sodimm-memory-portfolio/
Published: December 9, 2025 21:03
FREMONT, Calif. — Penguin Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: PENG), a provider of high-performance computing and AI infrastructure solutions, today announced the release of its SMART 64GB DDR5-6400 ECC CSODIMM memory modules, the newest addition to its DDR5 SODIMM…
Siemens and nVent to Release Liquid Cooling and Power Reference Architecture for AI Data Centers
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/siemens-and-nvent-to-release-liquid-cooling-and-power-reference-architecture-for-ai-data-centers/
Published: December 9, 2025 20:22
Siemens and nVent are collaborating to develop a liquid cooling and power reference architecture for hyperscale AI workloads. The new joint architecture developed by Siemens and nVent is designed to help build 100 MW hyperscale AI data centers built to…
Cornelis Networks and Supermicro Collaborate on Integrated AI-HPC Offering
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/cornelis-networks-and-supermicro-collaborate-on-integrated-ai-hpc-offering/
Published: December 9, 2025 17:18
Dec. 9, 2025: Cornellis Networks and Supermicro have announ ced Supermicro’s FlexTwin server platforms are now validated with Cornelis’ CN5000 networking for AI and HPC clusters. Cornelis’ CN5000 400Gbps networking platform is designed to address…
Sandia’s Newest and Least Conventional Supercomputer Takes the Stage
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/sandias-newest-and-least-conventional-supercomputer-takes-the-stage/
Published: December 8, 2025 22:39
Sandia National Laboratories has announced the arrival of its newest most unconventional supercomputer. Designed through a collaboration between Sandia and NextSilicon, the “Spectra” prototype ....
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HPC News Bytes 20251208: Marvell’s Celestial AI-Optical I/O Buy, ASML’s U.S. EUV Laser Competitor, HPC and Parkinson’s Research at SDSC
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/hpc-news-bytes-20251208-marvells-celestial-ai-optical-i-o-buy-asmls-u-s-euv-laser-competitor-hpc-and-parkinsons-research-at-sdsc/
Published: December 8, 2025 19:57
A good December day to you! The world of HPC-AI generated a notably colorful array of developments last week, here’s a quick (9:12) run-through of recent news: Marvell in AI with Celestial AI, co-packaged optical I/O, lasers for extreme ultraviolet…
IBM in $11B Acquisition of Confluent
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/ibm-in-11b-acquisition-of-confluent/
Published: December 8, 2025 14:54
ARMONK, N.Y. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 8, 2025 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) and data streaming company Confluent today announced they have entered into an agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Confluent for…
DDN Introduces AI Data Architecture, Addresses NAND Shortages
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/ddn-introduces-ai-data-architecture-addresses-nand-shortages/
Published: December 5, 2025 20:45
Chatsworth, CA — AI data platform provider DDN announced new capabilities across its EXA and Infinia product lines desitned to enable organizations to enhance AI performance and GPU utilization even as global NAND shortages drive SSD prices up by 75–125…
Report: AI Back-End Networks Continue Shift to Ethernet
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/report-ai-back-end-networks-continue-shift-to-ethernet/
Published: December 5, 2025 20:17
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Dec. 5, 2025 – According to a recently published report from industry analyst firm Dell’Oro Group, Ethernet accounted for more than two-thirds of data center switch sales in AI back-end networks both during the quarter and across the…
Argonne Researchers Win Lusk Best Paper Award at EuroMPI Conference
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/argonne-researchers-win-lusk-best-paper-award-at-eurompi-conference/
Published: December 5, 2025 17:50
Five researchers from Argonne National Laboratory have won the Ewing “Rusty” Lusk Best Paper award at EuroMPI/USA 2025, held at the University of North Carolina in October. EuroMPI is an event for discussion of new developments and applications of the…
The Infrastructure Revolution for AI Factories
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/the-infrastructure-revolution-for-ai-factories/
Published: December 4, 2025 20:57
Organizations risk being held back not by their compute power but by access to the data needed to fuel it. When input/output performance falls short or data orchestration can’t keep GPUs continuously supplied with data, everything slows down. The…
CIQ Fuzzball Integration with PBS Professional and Slurm
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/ciq-fuzzball-integration-with-pbs-professional-and-slurm/
Published: December 4, 2025 20:55
RENO, Nev., – December 4, 2025 – CIQ, the founding support and services partner of Rocky Linux and high-performance software infrastructure company, today announced that Fuzzball, its container orchestration platform, now integrates with PBS Professional…
Vultr and AMD Expand AI Supercluster Collaboration
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/vultr-and-amd-expand-ai-supercluster-collaboration/
Published: December 4, 2025 19:23
West Palm Beach, FL. – Dec. 4, 2025 – Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, today announced an expansion of its AI workload collaboration with AMD (NASDAQ: AMD). Vultr will launch an AI supercluster, powered by AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs…
Red Hat Expands Inference Collaboration with AWS AI chips
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/red-hat-expands-inference-collaboration-with-aws-ai-chips/
Published: December 4, 2025 18:54
Raleigh, N.C. – Red Hat today announced an expanded collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for generative AI (gen AI) on AWS with Red Hat AI and AWS AI silicon. With this collaboration, Red Hat focuses on empowering IT decision-makers with the…
ZincFive Raises $30M for AI Data Center Batteries
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/zincfive-raises-30m-for-ai-data-center-batteries/
Published: December 4, 2025 16:33
PORTLAND, Oregon — Dec. 4, 2025 — ZincFive, the a nickel-zinc (NiZn) battery-based company, today announced it has closed an oversubscribed $30 million Series F funding round. With this funding, the company has raised $254 million since its founding in…
Taking on ASML: U.S. Invests $150M in Gelsinger-Backed EUV Startup
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/taking-on-asml-u-s-invests-150m-in-gelsinger-backed-euv-startup/
Published: December 3, 2025 21:01
In AI chips, it may be time to regard nothing, no matter what, as surprising. Driven by quenchless global demand, the advanced chip sector is changing, morphing and growing at a pace rarely seen in the technology industry. That said, it is undeniably…
Quantum Brilliance Names Brian Wong Board Chair
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/quantum-brilliance-names-brian-wong-board-chair/
Published: December 3, 2025 19:11
Sydney, Australia – December 3, 2025 (U.S.) – Quantum Brilliance, a diamond-based quantum technology company, today announced that Brian Wong has been appointed as the independent board chair. Wong will work with the board and executive team to provide…
Study: 6% of AI Managers Say Their Data Infrastructure Is AI Ready
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/study-6-of-ai-managers-say-their-data-infrastructure-is-ai-ready/
Published: December 3, 2025 18:26
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Dec. 3, 2025 – Only 6 percen t of enterprise AI leaders say their data infrastructure is fully ready for AI: a readiness gap that has become one of the biggest constraints on AI progress. That’s a central finding of CData Software’s new…
Quantum: Delft Circuits Appoints Martin Danoesastro CEO, Announces €8 in New Financing
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/quantum-delft-circuits-appoints-martin-danoesastro-ceo-announces-e8-in-new-financing/
Published: December 3, 2025 17:56
Delft, Netherlands (December 3, 2025) — Delft Circuits, a company focused on high-density I/O solutions for quantum computers, today announces the appointment of Martin Danoesastro as Chief Executive Officer, and an €8 million extension of the company’s…
Law Firm: US Stepping Up Prosecutions of Illegal Exports of HPC and AI Tech
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/law-firm-us-stepping-up-prosecutions-of-illegal-exports-of-hpc-and-ai-tech/
Published: December 2, 2025 21:44
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.
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HPE to Offer AMD Helios AI Rack-Scale Architecture with Ethernet
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/hpe-to-offer-amd-helios-ai-rack-scale-architecture-with-ethernet/
Published: December 2, 2025 20:08
At HPE's Discover Barcelona 2025 event today, the company said it is offering the AMD “Helios”AI rack-scale architecture with Ethernet, intended to speed up deployment of at-scale artificial intelligence training and inferencing for cloud service…
NVIDIA Partners With Mistral AI on Open Models
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/nvidia-partners-with-mistral-ai-on-new-open-models/
Published: December 2, 2025 19:45
Mistral AI announced today the Mistral 3 family of open-source multilingual, multimodal models, optimized across NVIDIA supercomputing and edge platforms. Mistral Large 3 is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model — instead of firing up every neuron for every…
DOE Funds $800M, Selects TVA and Holtec for Deployment of Small Modular Reactors
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/doe-funds-800m-selects-tva-and-holtec-for-deployment-of-small-modular-reactors/
Published: December 2, 2025 19:41
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Holtec Government Services to support early deployments of advanced light-water small modular reactors (SMRs) in the United States. The…
HPC News Bytes 20251201: Hot Chip Startups, TPUs vs NVIDIA, Neoclouds as New Customer Class, DOE’s Genesis Mission
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/hpc-news-bytes-20251201-hot-chip-startups-tpus-vs-nvidia-neoclouds-as-new-customer-class-does-genesis-mission/
Published: December 1, 2025 18:08
A good, frosty December day to you! The short holiday week last week produced interesting developments in the world of HPC-AI, here’s a rapid (8:31) run-through of recent news, including: CRN's top 10 hottest chip startups, TPUs vs. GPUs, neoclouds as a…
NVIDIA and Synopsys in $2B Engineering and Design Partnership
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/nvidia-and-synopsys-in-2b-engineering-and-design-partnership/
Published: December 1, 2025 17:58
NVIDIA and Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS) today announced a partnership for design and engineering across industries. As part of the deal, NVIDIA invested $2 billion in Synopsys common stock at a purchase price of $414.79 per share. The multiyear…
Fermi America and MVM EGI Announce Cooling Agreement for 11GW Energy Grid in West Texas
https://insidehpc.com/2025/12/fermi-america-and-mvm-egi-announce-cooling-agreement-for-11gw-energy-grid-in-west-texas/
Published: December 1, 2025 17:55
AMARILLO, Texas, Dec. 1, 2025 — Fermi America (Nasdaq: FRMI), in partnership with the Texas Tech University System, today announced it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with MVM EGI Zrt., a hybrid dry–wet cooling company, to develop a…