- DARPA HARQ Heterogeneous quantum architectures
- HARQ program, IonQ, memQ
- TSMC and ASML bullish on AI demand
- Stanford AI Index 2026 insights
- Global AI competition

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- Intel Tesla Terafab
- Intel Google CPU IPU
- Fujitsu U. Osaka early-FTQC
- Caltech data sample streaming for quantum computing in AI
- UALink 1.0 Specs vs NVLink

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- Nvidia invests $2bn in Marvell
- NVLink Fusion
- Why big companies invest in small ones
- Andrew Ng on anti-AI activism
- 32, 16, 8, TurboQuant at 3.5 bits... do I hear 1?
- PrismML’s Bonsai-8B 1-bit LLM

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-Arm enters the chip business with Arm AGI CPU
- Is AI inference increasing the CPU:GPU ratio?
- Google’s TurboQuant algorithm
- Data center energy efficiency
- Bringing back a 2,000-year-old cement battery
- India’s chip industry
- TSMC's 2nm capacity crunch
- $20B for a TeraFab ?

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- GTC postview, list of announcements
- GPUs and China
- DoE $293m funding RFA for technology challenges
- Volume on HPC-AI-Quantum co-design, call for contributions
- Turing Award goes to QKD inventors, quantum cryptography pioneers

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- GTC, G stands for growth
- Nvidia’s historical and future market segments
- Nvidia Nemotron agentic model, LPU team
- Chipper clouds: Cerebras+AWS, d-Matrix+Gimlet Labs
- AI’s next big thing? AMI’s "world model” JEPA
- AMI’s massive $1B+ *seed* round
- European AI companies
- InsideHPC signs off

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- AI+HW 2035: Shaping the Next Decade
- CPUs are in short supply too
- What is causing IT shortages
- Foxconn is upbeat about 2026
- Foxconn, its rivals, and its customers
- EuroHPC Summit 2026 postponed

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- AI for military use; Anthropic, OpenAI, DoD
- SambaNova: Intel partnership, new SN50 chip
- GTC 2026
- Mobile World Congress 2026

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- AI power needs
- Small Modular Reactors (SMR)
- US military, DOE, airlift small reactor
- Quantum "teleportation"
- How does Quantum Communication work?
- Silicon photonics for quantum computing

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- "Ride the Wave, Build the Future: Scientific Computing in an AI World", by Dongarra, Reed, Gannon
- Call for National Moonshot Program for future HPC systems
- DOE Genesis Mission, 26 Challenges for National Science and Technology
- NSF $100M National Quantum and Nanotechnology Infrastructure, NQNI
- State of The Quantum Computing Industry
- Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for Quantum Computing

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- Sovereign AI: what is it, and does anyone have it?
- Bullish on Eviden: Europe’s top system company restores old name
- Intel to build server GPUs of its own
- MIT Technology Review AI Predictions

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- Microsoft Maia 200 for Inference
- Nvidia H200 (not H20) for China
- Corning-Meta Data Center
- Nvidia-CoreWeave AI Deal
- Neoclouds’ role in Chip vs Cloud competition

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- Intel earnings, outlook
- Industry-wide supply shortage
- Shrinking windows of vendor price quotes
- Micron fuels upstate New York tech hub
- Chip investments in US regions

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Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President & Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company.

AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to storage systems especially important. We discuss a broad range: technical optimizations for AI storage, DPUs and future directions, alignment with streaming, HPC, and accelerated computing, pilot to production and training to inference technical and operational challenges, sovereign AI and data sovereignty, and more. Join us!

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- OpenAI and Cerebras
- Taiwan Pledges $250B US investment
- TSMC in Arizona
- Intel 18A fab and Apple
- Inside an AI lab online movie is a 300-million-view hit

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- CES 2026
- Nvidia Vera Rubin, in-house co-Design
- AMD Helios, MI400 MI500
- TSMC GigaFab Arizona
- Intel Panther Lake, 18A Fab
- Sandia National Lab Neuromorphic Computing for PDE Math

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- China's access to H200 GPUs
- Meta acquires Manus
- Sandia's new photonics chip

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- Nvidia Groq $20B deal
- Quantum-HPC hybrid systems and applications
- Quantum control, scale, error correction
- NCAR Closure

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- Nvidia H200 exports to China
- H20, H200, Chinese chips: how do they stack up?
- Few fast GPUs vs many slow GPUs
- China’s electricity production
- Datacenter electricity use in the US
- Cell-phone sized AI supercomputer
- HPC at the edge
- Regulating AI

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- Marvell in AI, Celestial AI
- Co-Packaged Optics, Photonics Interconnects
- Lasers for EUV, xLight FEL Lasers, ASML Cymer's LPP Lasers
- ASML, Canon, Nikon
- Chinese efforts in chip manufacturing: SMEE, SiCarrier
- Canon's Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL)
- China's Xizhi Electron Beam Lithography
- Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)'s simplified optics in EUV
- SDCS Research on Parkinson's Disease

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- CRN's Top 10 Semiconductor Companies of 2025
- Google TPU vs. Nvidia
- Neoclouds, New Customer Class
- DOE Genesis Mission National Initiative

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- SC25 quick takes
- Thank you St. Louis
- Hyperion Research annual SC briefing
- Hyperion quantum computing update
- New public-private partnership model for DOE's new supercomputers

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Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new TOP500 list. They go over HPL, HPL-MxP, HPCG, Green500, geographical distribution, vendor distribution, and other observations.

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- Chip Restrictions in China
- Quantum Computing: IBM, Quantinuum, D-Wave, US DOE, UK NMI-Q, Julich
- SDSC 40th Anniversary, the original 5 NSF centers
- SC25 glance ahead

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- Quantum-accelerated supercomputing
- NVQLink, QCS, QEC
- Tesla Intel collaboration?
- Is the chip era ending?
- SC25 offers new options for those impacted by US Government shutdown

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- New Exa-Class Supercomputers at DOE labs, HPE, AMD, NVIDIA, Oracle,
- AI-RAN, Telecoms+AI, Nvidia+Nokia+partners
- Intel+SambaNova ?

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- Google Claims Verifiable Quantum Advantage
- Quantum Computing Applications and Current Status
- US Govt’s Rumored Interest in Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms
- NextSilicon’s New Chip
- A Bit of History on Reconfigurable Computing, Data Flow Architecture, Systolic Arrays

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- How about an AI system that needs 2x the energy NYC uses?
- A GPU for every person
- HPC-Quantum hybrid systems
- Exascale Day 10/18, ExaFlops or ExaWatts?
- Seymour Cray 100th birthday
- Cray-1 50th anniversary
- US Mint's new dollar coin featuring the Cray-1
- Cray-1 masterclass in... branding!

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- AMD OpenAI
- AMD Oracle
- Intel Clearwater Forest (Xeon 6+)
- Intel Fab52 18A looks like is catching up with TSMC
- SC25 conference looks like another big one

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We had the opportunity to catch up again with Professors Keren Bergman to discuss the latest developments in all things optical: co-packaged photonics/opto-eletcronics/silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and optical computing.

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- Provably unconditional quantum (information) supremacy
- Big clouds balance own vs merchant GPUs
- Big unexpected players in HPC/AI infratech

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- "World Models” aim for the next big thing in AI
- Microsoft’s $3.3B datacenter, with a $4B one to Follow
- OpenAI talks central-park-sized datacenter, times 13
- In-Chip ‘Microfluidics’ cooling
- Caltech tames 6,100 neutral atom qubits with 12,000 optical tweezers

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- Nvidia, Intel, and $5B
- Is APU the way to go?
- Nvidia, Enfabrica, and $0.9B
- Interconnects and Networking key to AI Data Center
- PsiQuantum and $1 Billion
- Investment continues to grow for Quantum Tech

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- Nvidia Rubin CPX
- AI Inference, Prefill, Decode, Context
- Oracle and OpenAI
- Nvidia and OpenAI in the UK
- UK MOD Google Cloud
- Digital Sovereignty

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- Cooler AI: Cutting energy costs with Adiabatic Reversible Computing
- More Heat in Chip Wars: OpenAI joins the race to design custom AI silicon
- Ironwood Rising: Google’s next-gen chip may debut in Neoclouds
- Made in India: Nation unveils its latest fully homegrown chip
- HPC User Forum 2025
- Europe’s Exascale: Jülich unveils its 64-bit powerhouse
- Quantum Cash Flow: Industry kicks off September with billion-dollar momentum

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- MIT Quantum Index report 2025
- AMD+IBM for supers+quantum
- Here comes tent-as-a-datacenter
- Nvidia Earnings
- Hot Chips conference recap

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- FugakuNEXT, Japan's next leadership supercomputer led by RIKEN
- Fujitsu MONAKA CPU
- Fujitsu's 1000-qubit Superconducting Quantum Computer
- CPU-GPU-QPU hybrid systems coming
- US Government's equity stake in Intel: "Arsenal of Democracy" or "intervention"?
- Softbank bets on Intel
- New geopolitical football: H20 GPUs

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We are delighted to again welcome Nestor Maslej of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University to discuss the latest edition of the the annual Stanford AI Index and Stanford Global AI Vibrancy Tool.  Nestor has degrees from Harvard and Oxford in addition to being a fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation. We touch on several of the 12 key findings of the report as we highlight important issues in AI such as its impact on jobs, geopolitics, and social trust.

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- Will US Government invest in Intel?
- How are Chinese AI chips performing for new LLMs?
- No slowdown in funding for new AI chip startups
- NSF and NVIDIA chip in for Science

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- TSMC employees caught in 2nm espionage charges
- Trump calls for Intel CEO to resign
- Curtain fall for Tesla's Dojo supercomputer
- Paper review: Generative AI as a Geopolitical Factor in Industry 5.0
- David Patterson on federal cuts for research
- Jack Dongarra on supercomputing, AI, quantum computing, and geopolitics

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- Comparing AI strategies: US, EU, China
- AI emerges as one of top 5 reasons for job losses
- AI startup funding continues to boom
- VCs find it more challenging to raise their own funds

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- US AI Action Plan
- STMicro NXP MEMS sensors
- Nvidia H20, TSMC packaging capacity

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- Top-20 AI Supercomputers
- 1-million-GPU systems
- Rapidus of Japan's 2nm fab
- IBM Power11, Sypre accelerator
- HotChips conference
- CUDA for RISC-V

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- SemiAnalysis on the business of AI: GPUs, Neoclouds, Inference Providers, Applications
- 2nm fab race: TSMC, Intel, Samsung aim to ship this year
- IFS external customers
- Nvidia valuation: a trillion here a trillion there!

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- IDC projects a $366B global server market in 2025, 45% y/y growth annually over 2024, 134% y/y growth in Q1
- The European Quantum Act announced its Quantum Strategy aiming to leverage deep science for global quantum leadership by 2030
- TSMC's 3nm fab in Arizona ahead of schedule, first batch of wafers expected in 2027
- US lifts EDA software export restrictions to China

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- GPU-ASIC War
- Hyperscalers’ CPUs, “GPUs", DPUs, QPUs
- Google TPU-7 and Open AI?
- Meta’s AI chip tape out
- Microsoft’s AI chip delays
- Why do engineering projects get delayed?
- Chip co-designers break into chip supply chain

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- Fault Tolerant Quantum Computer in 2029?
- Quantum computing roadmaps, performance benchmarks, industry metrics, M&A
- RIKEN and Fujitsu team up again for Fugaku.next, Japan’s next-gen flagship supercomputer

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- AMD MI350X and MI355X new GPUs
- AMD ROCm 7.0 software
- AMD Helios rackscale system
- Fujitsu Monaka chip,
- SIGHPC Travel Grants for SC25
- HPCGuru signs off

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The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released today at the ISC conference, with a new addition to the top 10. Tune in as Shahin and Doug go through the list with their commentary and analysis as they go over the details, key takeawats, how continents, companies, and architectures fair, and cover the full suite of benchmarks: HPL, Green500, HPCG, HPL-MxP (AI), IO500, and MLPerf.

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- French gov't to acquire Eviden
- Made-in-China 5nm chips
- WSTS semiconductor market forecast
- Can AI end the world? Stephen Hawking's warning

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- Nvidia Earnings
- US Senators react to Nvidia’s plans for facility in China
- New compliant chips for China by Nvidia and AMD
- Trade restrictions reach EDA software
- Vertical integration reaches China: Sugon-Hygon merger
- AMD-Sanmina split ZT Systems
- DOE NERSC’s “Doudna” supercomputer
- UK-EU dial up supercomputer re-collaboration

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- Big AI in hot pursuit of AGI and SI
- Stargate plans for US center with 400K GPUs, other sites in Mid-East and Asia
- Would Nvidia invest in PsiQuantum?
- Photonic and silicon-based Quantum Computing line up
- D-Wave rolls out new Advantage 2
- RISC-V turns 15, positions itself "as a pillar of digital sovereignty on the world stage"
- ISC25 June 10th in Hamburg with 195 exhibitors from 31 countries

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- Computex 2025
- NVLink Fusion, DGX Cloud Lepton
- Intel 18A Fab Panther Lake, Gaudi 3 PCIe, Intel Arc Pro
- Jack Dongarra, US Leadership in HPC
- Matrix Algebra, 64 bit precision
- Chiplet Alliance, UCIe consortium
- "Motherchip" vs. Motherboard

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- SMIC, China's Semiconductor Industry
- Cisco in quantum networking, quantum scale-out
- HPSF.io open source HPC stack
- The journal Nature sees US science brain drain as EU allocates €500m to attract international scientists

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- Japan's Rapidus 2nm chips
- McKinsey's $7T datacenter forecast
- Nvidia, trade restrictions, national competitiveness
- Geoffrey Hinton's AI warning

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- Salishan Conferenc
- HPC-AI Divergenece
- FugakuNext Zettascale?
- TSMC A14 Fab, Intel 18A Fab
- AmKor CoWoS Packaging Arizona
- Intel Earnings, AI strategy

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- This week in GPU geopolitics
- Intel and Silverlake in Altera FPGA deal
- Storage is what's next as investment soars
- 2nm chips are coming to Taiwan and Arizona

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- Argonne's nuclear reactor digital twin helps monitor, manage, train
- An AI factory in the sky? Building data centers in space or on the moon using Space Based Solar Power (SSP)
- TSMC may face US$1B penalty
- Chinese AI players order $16B of Nvidia H20s
- Hyperion Research says HPC-AI market grew a whopping 23.5% in 2024, poised to exceed $100B by 2028

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- US Tariffs and Technology Sector
- Intel-TSMC Joint Venture?
- DARPA fuels Waferscale co-packaged optics via Cerebras and Ranovus
- Sandia National Lab to test laser-based photonic cooling via Maxwell Labs
- 8 Tbps optical UCIe chiplet for scale-up by Ayar Labs
- Lightmatter 3D co-packaged optics

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- AMD MI355X to debut with a 30,000 GPU cluster at Oracle cloud
- ASML to open repair hub in China
- EuroHPC-JU's CINECA selects 140-Qubit Pasqal system
- ORNL sees a path for quantum performance advantage for Fluid Dynamics
- Classiq, Deloitte Tohmatsu, and Mitsubishi Chemical compress quantum circuits by 97% and 54%
- Prof Torsten Hoefler of ETH wins ACM Prize in Computing

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- GTC25 Quantum Day
- Post-Quantum Cryptography guidelines
- Quantum Blockchain?
- NVMe-enabled HDD storage with SSD cache

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In what is becoming an annual tradition, we are "Live from Nvidia GTC25" AI-everywhere show. We cover everything from industry landscape to Hopper to Blackwell to Rubin and Feynman, plus silicon photonics for cluster interconnect fabric (star of the show, really), the complexity of inference for customers, low-end systems, power and cooling (did we hear 600 KW per rack?), software including cluster-level AI-workload-focused open-sourced Dynamo "OS", and storage (the semantic kind).

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- What to expect from Intel's new CEO
- Did D-Wave achieve quantum computational supremacy on a useful problem?
- "AI Woodstock" GTC25 is in San Jose, CA this week

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Just before the GTC25 conference, and in the 100th episode of the full format @HPCpodcast, we welcome a very special guest, the great Dr. Ian Cutress, Chief Analyst at More Than Moore and host of the popular video channel TechTechPotato to discuss the state of AI and advanced chips, new technologies and architectures, the startup scene, and top trends in semiconductor design & manufacturing. Join us!

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- TSMC $100B investment in Arizona Factories
- EuroHPC Project DARE using RISC-V
- Julich Hybrid Supercomputer with D-Wave
- Quantum Computing Stock Price Volatility
- Chinese Quantum Computer Betters Google's Willow
- Supercomputing Asia 2025 (SCA25) held this week in Singapore

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Dr. Handel Jones, author of the book When AI Rules the World: China, the U.S., and the Race to Control a Smart Planet, and CEO of International Business Strategies, Inc.  joins us again to discuss the geopolitics of technology. Dr. Jones was a specia; guest of this podcast in episode 48 in January 2023. Fast moving technologies matched with big changes in global politics and policy creates a potent mix. So we were delighted to have the opportunity to revisit many of the topics we covered last time and explore new topics.

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- Government layoffs funding disruptions cause uncertainty and concern for scientific leadership
- Cat Qubits: AWS Ocelot, Alice and Bob
- ASIC vs GPUs vs Accelerators

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We are delighted to have as special guests today three of the top analysts in the HPC, AI, Cloud, and Quantum fields, representing the industry analyst firm Hyperion Research. Earl Joseph is Hyperion CEO, Mark Nossokoff, Research Director, and Bob Sorensen, Senior VP of Research.

Join us for an In Depth discussion of the current state and future trends in HPC, AI, Quantum, Cloud Computing, Exascale, Storage, Interconnects and Optical I/O, and Liquid Cooling.

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- New in-house-manufactured Microsoft QPU: Majorana 1
- DARPA US2QC program
- (Funding) and harnessing idle GPUs anywhere on the internet
- France's CEA advances in fusion energy research

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- Arm to sell its own CPU? Meta as first customer?
- Big AI, Big Power, Big Chill... Big Pollution?
- Intel's fate puts national security and market forces into focus
- Europe falls in-line to avid falling behind in AI
- GE Aerospace gains access to exascale power via DOE INCITE program

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- Big AI land grab
- Nuclear power for data centers
- New European-origin quantum system in Spain
- Softbank eyes Ampere

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In this In-Depth feature of the @HPDpodcast, Addison Snell, co-founder and CEO of Intersect360 joins Shahin and Doug as they discuss a wide range of topics in HPC, AI, and Quantum Computing.

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- DeepSeek, 1+5 lessons
- Rack Scale Arch redux, Intel GPU roadmap change
- LLNL and OpenAI, national security apps, fully on-prem?
- Google and Kairos Power, Small Modular (nuclear) Reactors

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- Massive AI datacenter investments: $500B Stargate, $600B Saudi
- When datacenters can’t get bigger
- India enters the chip manufacturing market

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- CHIPS Act in Trump Administration
- Quantum Computing stocks
- Intel's mystery acquirer
- HPE's $1B win

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Datacenter power and cooling has rapidly emerged as a critical topic in HPC and AI. System roadmaps only point to additional requirements. In this episode of the @HPCpodcast's Industry View, we are joined by Chris Orlando, Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of DDC Solutions to discuss high density cooling, dynamic control, safety and compliance, and the enduring role of air cooling in the datacenter.

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- China's TOP100
- AI PCs, workstations, workgroup servers
- DataCenter Capacity Growth
- MPI ABI

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Review of SC24, RISC-V Summit, and AWS Reinvent. Topics include: HPC and AI Clouds, CXL, Liquid Cooling, Optical Interconnects, Optical Computing, Novel CPUs and GPUs, the state of RISC-V in servers and supercomputers, TOP500, Chiplets, AWS CPU and GPU strategies.

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- Beyond EUV lithography, LLNL, DOE
- ASML, GPUs, China, trade sanctions
- AI infrastructure build-out
- TSMC 2nm Chips in 2025

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- China, Advanced GPUs, Advanced AI
- High Tech companies pursue government contracts
- Neuromorphic chips, artificial fast neurons
- Farewell 2024, thank you @HPCpodcast listeners

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- Long-Thinking AI
- UALink + optical
- Arm-Qualcomm lawsuit

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- Google "Willow" quantum chip: hype or reality?
- European supercomputing site chooses US vendor: LRZ's Blue Lion
- China-US technology clash and mutual retaliation
- ORNL supercomputers accelerate research on this fast-growing tree

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Special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC class AI systems in a managed services model, the landmines organizations need to avoid, and the opportunities for seizing success. This episode is part of the @HPCpodcasts Industry View feature, which takes on major issues in the world of HPC, AI, and other advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders.

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- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires
- Marvell-AWS supplier alliance
- Chinese quantum computer Tianyan-504

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- Do LLMs understand?
- Collaborative Agentic AI
- Frontier simulates the universe
- France builds more nuclear reactors
- TSMC's 2nm chips in the US slated for 2028

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- Supercomputing show SC24 moves closer to mainstream
- Hyperion's HPC Market Sizing
- Huawei AI chips, trade restrictions

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SC24 is off to a great start with over 17,000 attendees, 480 exhibitors from 29 countries, and new TOP500 list that features a new champion! "The new El Capitan system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, U.S.A., has debuted as the most powerful system on the list with an HPL score of 1.742 EFlop/s." Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new list. As usual, they go over notable additions, performance efficiency, power efficiency in the Green500 list, the difficult HPCG benchmark that usually sets the lower bound of system performance.

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- Supercocmputing-24 conference starts today
- TSMC, CHIPS Act, semiconductor demand
- Sandia National Lab and Cerebras

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A lively discussion about the Age of Computation, Ultra Ethernet, datacenter power and cooling, the creative process for AI, model certainty for AI, AI and emergent behavior, and other HPC topics.

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- TSMC revenue jump
- TSMC barred from making leading-edge chips abroad
- AMD-Fujitsu team up for a new superchip?
- AMD, Intel, Nvidia datacenter revenue
- Green energy momentum in the US

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Special guest David Kanter of ML Commons joins Shahin Khan and Doug Black to discuss AI performance metrics. In addition to the well-known MLPerf benchmark for AI training, ML Commons provides a growing suite of benchmarks and data sets for AI inference, AI storage, and AI safety. David is a founder, board member of ML Commons and the head of MLPerf benchmarks.

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- India rising
- High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) in short supply
- Novel accelerator architectures
- CHIPS Act funds Extreme Ultra Violet Lithography technology in the US

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- TSMC delivers good news for chip manufacturing in the US
- Denmark builds AI supercomputer with Eviden and Nvidia
- White House tasks NNSA/DOE with assessing AI risk for National Security

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- Exascale Day, Zettascale, Avogadro's Number
- Did a Chinese quantum computer crack military grade encryption?
- The great Rear admiral Dr. Grace Hopper
- The First Computer Bug
- Hyperion Research innovation award
- Q2B Conference

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- AMD's new CPU, GPU, DPU, NIC
- Foxconn's big supercomputer at Hon Hai Kaohsiung Center in Taiwan
- AI drives Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry
- Yann LeCun's take on AGI

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- IDC report on datacenter energy use and growth
- NTT Research on the state of optical computing
- AI experts weigh in on the future impact of AI

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- Intel Xeon 6, Gaudi 3, MRDIMM, AMX
- Intel 3 Fab, TSMC, Samsung, Chip subsidies
- AMD Turin, AMD UDNA
- Quantum update

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In this episode of the @HPCpodcasts Industry View we are joined by Patrick Caporale of Lenovo to discuss memory-centric architectures, Non Von-Neumann architectures, advances in I/O, CPU-Memory-I/O gap, computational storage, NUMA, disk, tape, Ultra Ethernet Consortium, Ultra Accelerator Link, CXL, tiered storage, power and cooling, heat capture, and more.

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- AI-fueled M&A rumors: Intel, Qualcomm, Ampere
- Three Mile Island resurrected to feed GPUs for Microsoft
- Beyond GPUs lie specialized chiplets

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We discuss the Aurora supercomputer, Exascale, AI, reliability at scale, technology adoption agility, datacenter power and cooling, cloud computing, quantum computing.

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- Oracle Cloud 130K Blackwell plan
- AI inference battleground
- Storage for AI
- Rhea takes Jupiter to Jülich

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- Nvidia Blackwell delays
- Inference champions
- AI regulations
- Supercomputing in Russia

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- Hot Chips 2024 conference
- LANL electricity needs enter the senate race
- A small modular nuclear reactor in a 30-inch borehole a mile under?
- AMD in $4.9B deal to buy ZT Systems

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Dr. Mike Heroux joins us to discuss HPC software in general and the Exascale  Computing Project (ECP) software efforts in particular.  Topics include performance vs. portability and maintainability, heterogeneous hardware,  the impact of AI on workloads and tools, the emergence of Research Software Engineer as a needed role and a career path, the convergence of commercial and HPC software stacks, and what's on the horizon.

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- AI-centric servers form new market segment
- NIST announcement heralds Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) milestone
- English Professors win NSF grant to study supercomputing's impact on society, geopolitics

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- UK Govt. cuts to exascale and AI projects
- Investment in AI inference rises
- AI models: open source vs. guardrails in
- Will SC24 be the largest supercomputing event ever?

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- Intel Financial Results
- Nvidia Blackwell Delays
- Which programming language is most energy efficient?
- Discoveries led by exascale software

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- Nvidia to build GPUs specially for the Chinese market to comply with export control
- Morgan Stanley report projects 60,000 to 70,000 Nvidia AI racks in 2025
- China and TOP500, no new news
- NTT and U. Tokyo use Graphene Plasmon in pursuit of faster opto-electronics

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- AI survey by S&P Global Market Intelligence commissioned by Vultr
- OpenAI proposes 5 levels of AI based on capability
- SoftBank acquires Graphcore

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In this special instance of our Industry View feature we are joined by Jonathan Ha who is Senior Director of Product Management for AI at Penguin Solutions. We discuss the design and deployment of large scale AI infrastructure: why AI at scale is such a critical need, where the challenges lie, and what it takes to do it right.

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- SMIC Wafer Yields for Huawei Ascend 910B AI Chip
- Goldman Sachs Report on Gen AI ROI, Readiness
- New Startup Fuels Special-Purpose Chip Trend

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- Intel's Silicon Photonics Milestone
- Intel's 144-core-now, 288-core-next-year Xeon Sierra Forrest CPU
- Quantum Advantage: Time vs. Space
- Microsoft Concludes Undersea Datacenter Project

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We are delighted to be joined by Christine Chalk, physical scientist at U.S. Department of Energy and federal program manager for the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility.  Christine is also responsible for budget formulation for Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) and management of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee and the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Topics include the ECP project and what made it so successful, how policy turns into a budget, and the growing importance of the role of women in HPC.

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- GPU price wars?
- Rectangular wafers for more/bigger chips
- AI assistant for science
- AI Supercomputer in Japan, New exascale in the EU

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- New paper on "Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress" with an all-star author list
- Investments in Taiwan, Chip War
- AI Chip Landscape, Specialty AI Chips gain traction
- Where would AI datacenters fin energy? Fusion, Geothermal, Hydrogen Fuel Cells
- Apple Silicon in Datacenter?

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- Clinical trials for cancer fighting drug discovered by LLNL and BridgeBio
- Sandia and Submer say immersing the whole rack can get big power savings
- In defense of the CHIPS Act
- New paper "Scalable MatMul-free Language Modeling" promises low memory low power AI

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Shahin and Doug are joined by Nestor Maslej of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) at Stanford University. He tracks the advancement of AI in his role as Research Manager and Editor in Chief of the annual Stanford AI Index and Stanford Global AI Vibrancy Tool.  Nestor has degrees from Harvard and Oxford and is also a fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation.

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- Computex-24, Nvidia Rubin, Nvidia Vera, AMD MI325X, AMD Turin
- Ultra Accelerator Link (UAlink)
- EU's 2nd Exascale System at CEA France
- Is AI getting ahead of itself?

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- Techno-politics, China, TSMC, and ASML remote disablement
- CryptoSuper500 report on Bitcoin as Specialized Supercomputing
- X-ai says it will build AI supercomputer with 100,000 H100 GPUs
- AI regulations in EU go into effect next month
- Nvidia GPUs continue strong in earnings season

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- Who will join the Exascale club next?
- Nvidia "paints it green"
- Other AI chips impress
- Student Cluster Competition winners

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The new TOP500 at ISC24 conference is here with a new addition to the Exaflop Club, a new HPL-MxP (AI) champion, new top three in Green500, and also a look at HPCG, the difficult benchmark that usually sets the lower bound of system performance. Tune in as Shahin and Doug go through the list with their commentary and analysis.

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- ISC24 conference begins today
- Substantial investments in Quantum Tech continue
- Geopolitics of chips and scenario planning around TSMC, again
- Electricity shortage and grid capacity for AI datacenters

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Special guest and last year's ISC-2023 program chair John Shalf joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the rise of specialized architectures in the Post Moore'a Law era. This is a topic John will discuss at Wednesday night's keynote at the ISC conference in Hamburg, Germany next week. John is department head for computer science research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He formerly was CTO at the National Energy Research Supercomputing Center (NERSC).

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- ASML and US-China Trade Wars
- Tik Tok Ban Bill in the US
- Intersect360 HPC-AI Market Size in 2023
- Women in HPC at ISC24

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Cristin Merritt joins Shahin and Doug to discuss Women in HPC, its goals and mission, six lessons learned about "moving the needle" on the organizational transformation that is needed to address lack of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and the activities planned by International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) and Women in HPC (WHPC) for the ISC24 conference to be held in Hamburg, Germany next week from May 12–16.

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- Infra-Tech, Datacenter Shortage of Parts, Property, and Power
- AI winter, AI bubble, dot-AI bust
- Trade bans, Chain of Custody
- Sandia National Lab's Hala Point Neuromorphic Supercomputer

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- New supercomputers at Los Alamos and France-CEA
- Stanford AI Index Report
- Bitcoin Halving
- Argonne-UIC Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability

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- Intel Vision 2024 Event, Intel Gaudi 3, Xeon 6
- Meta MTIA accelerator chip
- Nvidia GPU shortage easing
- Category Theory, Categorical Deep Learning, Geometric Deep Learning
- China economic growth plans, high end manufacturing industrial policy

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- TSMC Arizona Back on Schedule
- Dutch Government Support for ASML
- Intel Foundry profitability
- TSMC expands CoWoS capacity
- SK hynix $3.9B for Indiana HBM Fab and R&D with Purdue
- Quantinuum and Microsoft show major improvement for qubit fidelity

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- Microsoft OpenAI $100B Stargate supercomputer
- Eviden winning deals, growing and hiring
- Alibaba RISC-V datacenter chip
- Linear Pluggable Optics Multi-Source Agreement, LPO-MSA
- Nvidia banning CUDA translation software like ZLUDA

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We caught up with Matt Sieger, Project Director for the 6th iteration of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF-6) to get a glimpse of the project, its objectives, status, and timelines. Meet Discovery, the supercomputer that plans to succeed Frontier, the current #1 (at 1.19 exaflops in 64 bits) while Summit, the current #7 (at 148.8 64-bit petaflops) continues to work alongside it.

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- Nvidia GTC24
- Intel fab and US CHIPS Act
- Who isn't in the Ultra Ethernet Consortium?
- Samsung HBM-or-GPU blend

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Live from Nvidia GTC24 AI-everywhere show, Doug and Shahin get together in the usual coffee-shop-chat style of the @HPCpodcast.  They cover the wide range of announcements made by Nvidia, discuss the contrast between the Nvidia model and some other players, and share some color on the event itself.

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- European AI Act
- 5nm Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine 3
- A faster matrix-multiply algorithm?
- Meta's GenAI Infrastructure

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- IndiaAI Mission, including a 10,000-GPU supercomputer
- Countries court chip manufacturers for local fabs
- AI value-chain consolidation from fabs to apps to clouds
- Atos spinout of Eviden caught in financial complexity

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- GPU Shortage, HPE, Dell Financial Results
- GPU allocation: CSP, On-prem, AI PCs, Embedded AI
- Chip Capacity, Intel Fabs in Germany, Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing
- Singapore AI program, Mid-career Training
- AI business justification, AI talent shortage

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- Intel Foundry Event, “Systems Foundry” Era
- Nvidia Earnings, Valuation, AI Learning vs AI Inference, In-Memory Computing for AI
- HPC in Space, Data Centers on the Moon
- ISC-24 Conference

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- Honda taps Cadence Design System digital twin supercomputer for CFD, air taxi R&D
- Chip news: Nvidia, TSMC, SKHynix, IBM AIU, OpenAI
- Kathy Yelick to Deliver ISC 2024 Keynote on Post-Exascale Computing
- Google settles with Singular Computing over claims of stolen AI chip tech

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- Argonne National Lab's Nexus Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI)
- Delays in Intel's Fab in Ohio, CHIPS Act
- Mitchel Institute report on Quantum Information Science and Technologies
- Controlling Emergent AI, High Calory Data

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- Italy's Eni Acquiring 600 PFLOPS System
- Intel's Advanced Fab in New Mexico, UMC partnership
- NSF's Advanced Computing National AI Research Resource Pilot
- D-Wave's 1,200+ Qubit Advantage2 Prototype
- IonQ's 35 algorithmic qubit system

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