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 new customer class, DOE’s Genesis Mission HPC-AI initiative
HPC News Bytes 20251201: Hot Chip Startups, TPUs vs NVIDIA, Neoclouds as New Customer Class, DOE’s Genesis Mission
December 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
DOE Launches HPC-AI-Quantum ‘Genesis Mission’ Research Platform
November 25, 2025 by
The Trump Adminisration today issued an executive order launching the Genesis Mission, described as a Department of Energy-led effort to “transform American science and innovation through the power of AI ….
Kneron Launches Neural Processing Unit for AI
November 25, 2025 by
San Diego, Nov. 24, 2025 – Kneron, a San Diego-based company developing neural processing units (NPUs) for AI, today announced its KL1140 chip. It is built to bring LLMs to edge devices, delivering up to 3X greater energy efficiency and a 10X reduction in cost compared to current solutions, according to the company. The KL1140 comes […]
HPC News Bytes 20251124: SC25 Quick Takes (Thank You St. Louis!), Hyperion HPC-Quantum Market Update, DOE’s New Public-Private Supercomputers
November 24, 2025 by
A happy US Thanksgiving Week to you all! As we decompress from the Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis, here’s a rapid (9:16) run-through of recent news, including: SC25 quick takes ….
AWS to Invest up to $50B in AI Supercomputing for US Government Agencies
November 24, 2025 by
Amazon today announced an investment of up to $50 billion to expand AI and supercomputing capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) U.S. government customers. This investment, set to break ground in 2026, will add nearly 1.3 gigawatts of AI ….
Deploying Inference Services Webinar at ALCF Dec. 3
November 24, 2025 by
Nov. 24, 2025 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar showcasing the ALCF’s Inference Service on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. Registration information can be found here. The facility’s inference services provides cloud-like access to diverse AI models—including large language models (LLMs)—on existing HPC clusters. ALCF’s Benoit Côté will demonstrate how to integrate the […]
ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge Issues 2026 Call for Proposals
November 21, 2025 by
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 […]
At SC25, 26-Member Team Wins ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Full Earth Climate Modelling
November 21, 2025 by
St. Louis, November 20, 2025 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling in recognition of their project “Computing the Full Earth System at 1 km Resolution.” The award honors innovative contributions to parallel computing toward solving the global climate crisis. Climate […]
Synopsys Demonstrates Framework for Optimizing Manufacturing Processes with Digital Twins
November 20, 2025 by
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Synopsys, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNPS), with collaborators at Microsoft Ignite, today unveiled a simulation-driven framework for optimizing manufacturing processes in real time. First deployed by Krones, a packaging and bottling line systems company, the framework was used to create a physically accurate virtual assembly line with optimization outputs accounting for variables, such as bottle shape, […]
Crusoe Launches Managed Inference AI
November 20, 2025 by
SAN FRANCISCO – Nov 20, 2025 – Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure provider, today announced the general availability of Crusoe Managed Inference, a service designed to run model inference on Crusoe Cloud with low latency, fast time-to-first-token (TTFT), and resilient scaling. Optimized for demanding inference workloads, including large context and long-form text generation, AI […]
