January 13, 2026 — The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) is accepting proposals until March 16 for Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) partnership projects to prepare modeling and simulation, data-intensive, workflow, and AI applications for highly effective use on the OLCF system to be named Discovery that will arrive in 2028. Applications will be […]
OLCF Issues Call for Mod/Sim Proposals for Next-Gen ‘Discovery’ Supercomputer, March 16 Deadline
January 13, 2026 by Leave a Comment
HPC News Bytes 20251229: Nvidia’s $20B Non-Acquisition of Groq, Quantum-HPC Hybrids, NCAR Closure
December 29, 2025 by
A happy holiday break to all! Here’s a fast (9:30) run-down of recent developments, including: Nvidia’s $20B Groq deal ….
DOE Awards $320M for Genesis Mission, AI for Science
December 11, 2025 by
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.
Sandia’s Newest and Least Conventional Supercomputer Takes the Stage
December 8, 2025 by
Sandia National Laboratories has announced the arrival of its newest most unconventional supercomputer. Designed through a collaboration between Sandia and NextSilicon, the “Spectra” prototype ….
Law Firm: US Stepping Up Prosecutions of Illegal Exports of HPC and AI Tech
December 2, 2025 by
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.
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 […]
IBM Collaborates Across Four National Quantum Innovation Centers for Quantum-Centric Supercomputing
November 4, 2025 by
Nov. 4, 2025 — Today, the United States Department of Energy announced the continued funding of the National Quantum Information Science Research Centers (NQISRCs). IBM released the following statement: We applaud the DoE for continuing to promote quantum science in the United States, and we are committed to the success of these centers and accelerating […]
Dollar Coin Celebrates Cray-1 50th Anniversary
October 17, 2025 by
The United States Mint has released the designs for the 2026 American Innovation $1 Coin Program, and one of them honors a monumental moment in the history of HPC: the announcement of the Cray-1 supercomputer.
Azure Unveils NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 Supercomputing Cluster for OpenAI
October 10, 2025 by
Microsoft Azure announced the NDv6 GB300 VM series, which the company said is the first supercomputing-scale production cluster of NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems, built for OpenAI ….
Quantum: ‘Optical Tweezers’ Help Caltech Researchers Claim Qubit Record
September 26, 2025 by
Caltech physicists report they have created the largest qubit array assembled to-date: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a grid by lasers. Previous arrays of this kind contained only hundreds of qubits.
