Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, speaking at the Italian Tech Week conference, this week predicted a gigawatt-scale data center will be running in space within the next 10-plus years. A key reason to place massive data centers in space: full-time and unfettered solar power as an energy source. “These giant training clusters, those will be better […]
Frontier Exascale: CFD Methodology Gets Gordon Bell Nomination for Georgia Tech, NYU Researchers
October 3, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced that Georgia Tech and NYU researchers used a new computational technique, called information geometric regularization (IGR), (see earlier coverage of this work) to conduct the largest computational fluid dynamics simulation of fluid flow. The simulations were run on the Frontier exascale-class HPC system at the Department of Energy’s Oak […]
SiPearl Launches Sovereign HPC Processor Athena1
October 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
SiPearl, the European fabless designer of sovereign processors for HPC, AI and data centers, today announced the launch of the Athena1 processor for dual-use applications. Based on Rhea1, SiPearl’s first generation ….
VDURA Selected for Large Defense GPU Installation
October 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
AI and HPC infrastructure company VDURA, formerly called Panasas, today announced it has been selected by a Tier-1 U.S. federal system integrator to support a large defense GPU deployment. While details ….
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to Host International HPC Summer School in 2026
October 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre announced that Perth, Western Australia, has been selected to host the International High-Performance Computing Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences (IHPCSS). This is the first time the summer school will take place in the Southern Hemisphere since its inception in 2010. Applications for the IHPCSS will open in early 2026, […]
Blend360 Launches Agentic AI Foundry on Snowflake AI Cloud
October 2, 2025 by Leave a Comment
NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2025 — AI services company Blend360 today announced BlendX, Blend’s Agentic AI Foundry for Enterprises. The offering is designed to accelerate the delivery of production-ready AI solutions on Snowflake’s AI Data Cloud. Embedded within Blend360’s AI services, BlendX empowers organizations to rapidly develop and deploy Agentic AI solutions through reusable components, pre-built […]
ACM-IEEE Names Winners of HPC Fellowships
October 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
New York, Oct. 1st, 2025 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the IEEE Computer Society announced today that Ana Veroneze Solórzano of Northeastern University and Yafan Huang of The University of Iowa are the recipients of the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowships. Aristotle Martin of Duke University received an honorable mention this year. The George Michael Memorial Fellowship honors exceptional PhD students […]
Idaho National Lab Earns 3 Funding Awards
October 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Sept. 30, 2025 — The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has received three funding awards from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Technology Commercialization Fund program. The funding, totaling $1.4 million with an additional cost share of $800,000, will help further the lab’s groundbreaking work in grid resilience, nuclear power plant reliability […]
DOE Seeks Proposals for AI Data Centers, Energy Projects at Oak Ridge, Dec. 1 Deadline
September 30, 2025 by
OAK RIDGE, TN — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Environment Management Office (EM) and Office of Science (SC) today issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) seeking proposals from companies to build and power AI data centers at DOE’s Oak Ridge Reservation. Additional information on the RFP can be found on SAM.gov. Proposals are due by December […]
Quantum: BCG X and QuEra Join Forces
September 30, 2025 by
BOSTON — QuEra Computing, a neutral‑atom quantum computing company, today announced that Boston Consulting Group’s BCG X AI Science Institute has joined the QuEra Quantum Alliance, a partner program intended to accelerate the development of neutral-atom quantum computers. The collaboration combines BCG’s digital strategy and transformation expertise with QuEra’s scalable neutral-atom systems and application codesign, […]
