The Next Platform, Tuesday, June 30th, 2026
Three HPC Gurus Ask: Do We Still Need GPUs?
Leading HPC researchers argue that CPUs with advanced matrix engines may eliminate the need for discrete GPUs.
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HPCwire, Tuesday, June 9th, 2026
Modernizing HPC Infrastructure in an SSD-Constrained Era
Amid the NAND shortage, intelligent data tiering can cut SSD dependence without sacrificing HPC and AI performance.
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OrionX.net, Monday, May 4th, 2026
HPC News Bytes - 20260504
HPC News Bytes covers Nvidia's technology, CPU-only supercomputers, China's LineShine, and Japan's Fugaku.next.
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HPCwire, Thursday, April 9th, 2026
AWS Delivers High-Performance NFS Access With S3 Files
HPC sites that may have avoided Amazon's S3 object store as a data repository may want to take a second look now that it has launched S3 Files, a new offering that gives customers high-performance NFS-based file system access to their data stored in S3 buckets.
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The Next Platform, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
CPU-Only Compute Still Matters To A Lot Of HPC Centers
It has taken three decades for HPC to move to the cloud, and the truth is that a lot of simulation and modeling applications are still coded to run on CPUs.
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DCD, Wednesday, February 11th, 2026
Ethernet Is Winning The AI Supercomputing Battle
HPE's Slingshot shows how 'Ethernet plus' beats proprietary interconnects
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OrionX, Monday, December 29th, 2025
Analyst Roundtable: AI, Social Media, Bitcoin, Quantum - OXD34
Analyst roundtable covering the big ideas in technology that are changing the world, with Adrian Cockcroft, Stephen Perrenod, Chris Kruell, and Shahin Khan.
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The Next Platform, December 10,2025
Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant
We are still mulling over all of the new HPC-AI supercomputer systems that were announced in recent months before and during the SC25 supercomputing conference in St Louis, particularly how the slew of new machines announced by the HPC national labs will be advancing not just the state of the art, but also pushing down the cost of the FP64 floating point operations that still drives a lot of HPC simulation and modeling work.
more → The Next Platform, Monday, December 1st, 2025
The Road To HPC And AI Profits Is Paved With Good Intentions
With a profitable PC business that has 25 percent of global shipments (thanks in large part to its acquisition of IBM's PC business two decades ago) plus a respectable smartphone business (by virtue of its Motorola acquisition), the client device business at Lenovo is finally back to where it was during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic and is consistently delivering what are decent profits for this cut-throat part of the IT sector.
more → The Register, Thursday, November 27th, 2025
HPC Won't Be An X86 Monoculture Forever - And It's Starting To Show
Arm and RISC-V would like a word
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siliconANGLE, Wednesday, November 26th, 2025
Three Insights You Might Have Missed From theCUBE's Coverage Of SC25
The conversation around high-performance computing has changed dramatically in less than four years.
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The Register, Monday, November 24th, 2025
How High-End Supercomputer Filesystem DAOS Can Break Out Of Its Niche
DAOS needs user education, NVIDIA GPU access, and better manageability to grow
more → HPCwire, Monday, November 24th, 2025
DDN Looks to Smooth GenAI Adoption in the Enterprise with Integrated Software, Services
Hyperscalers like Google are starting to show profits from their generative AI investment, which is catching the eyes of enterprises.
more → insideHPC, Thursday, November 20th, 2025
@HPCpodcast At SC25: A Breakdown Of The New Top500 List
SC25 showed the continued growth of the HPC and AI community with about 16,500 attendees, 560 exhibitors, and the usual fastest network, SCinet, this time with a peak bandwidth of 13.7 TBytes/s. And as usual, the latest edition of the TOP500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers was released on Monday.
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HPCwire, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
'Explosive Growth' In HPC, Hyperion Says
Fueled by the AI boom, the on-prem HPC market grew by 23.4% in 2024, the highest rate of growth in decades, Hyperion Research CEO Earl Joseph said Tueday at the SC25 conference.
more → HPCwire, Monday, November 17th, 2025
The Top HPC Development I'v Seen In 40 Years
Steve Conway recently announced his near-retirement. We couldn't let Steve slip into indulging his hobbies (reading, music, traveling, biking, kayaking) without asking one more question: what is the top HPC development you've seen during your 40-year career? What follows is his written response.
more → The Register, Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
AI Isn't Throttling HPC. It Is HPC
In recent discussions with industry vendor sales/marketing types, I've been hearing that HPC demand is falling off while AI system demand is continuing to increase. I've also seen articles implying that AI is somehow displacing HPC. Huh?
more → HPCwire, Thursday, November 6th, 2025
Future of Storage for HPC and AI: Final Observations
In the fifth and final piece of this series on the future of storage for AI and HPC, we'll attempt to summarize the information we have covered over the past month, draw some conclusions around the analysis, and lay out a path for one possible future.
more → HPCwire, Monday, October 20th, 2025
The Future Of Storage For AI And HPC: The Requirements, They Are A Changing
When the great Yogi Bera once quipped, 'The future ain't what it used to be,' he probably had no idea he was describing the future of data storage for AI.
more → Analytics Insight, Tuesday, October 14th, 2025
How 5G Is Reshaping Mobile Network Architecture
In this new, modern era of connectivity, operators must enhance their workflows and technology or risk falling behind. Once 5G became the industry's golden standard, companies had to adjust how they design, deploy, and manage their mobile networks.
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HPC Wire, Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
What's Up with HPC Interconnects? A Q&A with HotI
The AI revolution has exposed new bottlenecks in HPC architectures, particularly at the network level. As GPUs and other AI accelerators get faster, they're outrunning the capability of storage to keep them fed with data.
more → HPCwire, Wednesday, September 24th, 2025
Why Quantum Computing and HPC Are the Future Power Couple
In computing, the biggest breakthroughs often happen behind the scenes. You won't see them in the latest smartphone launch or streaming app update, but their impact can shape industries, scientific discovery, and national infrastructure.
more → HPCwire, Monday, June 23rd, 2025
Can Ethernet Replace Infiniband?
When it comes to AI and HPC workloads, networking is critical.
more → HPCWire, Thursday, June 12th, 2025
Intersect 360 Research Releases Mid-year HPC-AI Market Data and Forecasts
Market Research Firm Internet 360 Research has released their Worldwide HPC-AI and Enterprise AI 2024 Total Market Size and 2025-2029 Forecast: Products and Services report and their 2025 HPC-AI Market Update Webinar Slides (available free to HALO members)
more → insideHPC, Wednesday, June 11th, 2025
@HPCPodcast: Digging into the New TOP500 List - How Continents, Countries, Companies and Architectures Fared
The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released yesterday at the ISC conference in Hamburg with a new addition to the top 10 and with three exascale-class U.S. HPC systems on top.
more → The Next Platform, Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
Top500 Supers: Even Accelerators Can't Bend Performance Up To The Moore's Law Line
The International Super Computing 2025 conference is going on this week in Hamburg, Germany and is celebrating its 40th anniversary.
more → OrionX, Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
@HPCpodcast-102: TOP500 at ISC25 Conference
The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released today at the ISC conference, with a new addition to the top 10.
more → Technative, Monday, June 9th, 2025
High Performance Computing: The Future Of Research Innovation
High Performance Computing is critical to the cutting-edge research underpinning some of our most pressing global challenges.
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HPCWire, Friday, June 6th, 2025
HPC Finally Found Its Killer App - Can It Survive?
Where We Are: On June 3, Intersect360 Research released our most recent market numbers for the HPC market. At the top level, things look great. We found a 24.1% growth in the HPC-AI market! What could be wrong?
more → RTInsights, Friday, May 23rd, 2025
Beyond Speed: Why Modern HPC Must Prioritize Data Durability To Maximize ROI
By embracing durability as a strategic priority, organizations can mitigate risks, protect their investments, and enable innovation in an increasingly data-reliant world.
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insideHPC, Tuesday, April 8th, 2025
Hyperion: HPC-AI Market Grew 23.5% in 2024, to Exceed $100B by 2028
HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced today its latest market tracking for the technical computing HPC/AI/quantum computing market for 2024 shows the highest annual growth in decades.
more → insideHPC, Friday, March 21st, 2025
@HPCpodcast: Live from GTC 2025, Among the Crowds for the New AI Compute Landscape
In what is becoming an annual tradition for the @HPCpodcast, we present 'Live from Nvidia GTC 2025,' covering highlights from the Nvidia extravaganza with an AI-everywhere theme.
more → TheNextPlatform, Friday, February 21st, 2025
Sizing Up Compute Engines For HPC Work At 64-Bit Precision
If you want a CPU that has the floating point performance of a GPU, all you have to do is wait six or so years and the CPU roadmaps can catch up.
more → HPCWire, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
Tipping Points In HPC: A Hyperion Research Perspective
No one will argue that we are experiencing a big change in HPC. The advent of GenAI has skewed the entire IT market toward an AI future, affecting everything from hardware to data centers.
more → HPCWire, Monday, January 27th, 2025
Five Big Questions for HPC-AI in 2025
2024 ended in a bang for the HPC-AI market. SC24 had record attendance, the Top500 list had an impressive new number one with El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the market for AI boomed, with hyperscale companies spending more than double their already lofty investments in 2023.
more → insideHPC, Friday, January 17th, 2025
@HPCpodcast Industry View: A Deep Dive into High-Density Data Center Cooling and Efficiency Strategies with DDC Solutions
In this 'Industry View' episode of the @HPCpodcast, Chris Orlando of DDC Solutions discusses the rapidly changing landscape of high density data center cooling, monitoring, safety and compliance, hybrid liquid-air solutions and other strategies for data center power efficiency.
more → How-To Geek, Monday, January 13th, 2025
Are Supercomputers Dead?
When was the last time you heard or read about "supercomputers"? These days it's all about data centers and their number-crunching abilities, so what's happening to the hypercars of the computer world?
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OrionX, Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
@HPCpodcast-95: Adrian Cockcroft on SC24, RISC-V Summit, AWs Reinvent
This is a great time to review what we learned at some of the key conferences that were held towards the end of last year.
more → HPCWire, Thursday, December 19th, 2024
HPC In 2024: A Look Back And A Glance Into 2025
2024 was an action-packed year in the high-performance computing arena. There was some movement in the Top500, with El Capitan taking over the top spot but not surpassing the two exaflops milestone.
more → HP News, Thursday, December 12th, 2024
HP Wolf Security Study Reveals Platform Security Gaps That Threaten Organizations At Every Stage Of The Device Lifecycle
The report highlights cybersecurity challenges facing organizations across the lifecycle of their endpoint devices - from supplier audit failures to weak BIOS passwords, Fear of Making Updates (FOMU), a $8.6B lost/stolen device epidemic, and growing e-waste.
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HPCWire, Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
The Other List: SC24 IO500 Results
Each year, in the shadow of the Top500, another important HPC performance list is is released at SC. While the Top500 is a measure of compute performance, the IO500 provides a list of the top IO systems in HPC.
more → Search Data Center, Friday, November 22nd, 2024
AI, Supercomputing Share Stage With Enterprise AI At SC24
AI's effects on supercomputing helped shift the focus toward enterprise demands at SC24, as vendors such as Dell and HPE showcased new offerings.
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The Next Platform, Friday, November 22nd, 2024
Ford Lead Says HPC, GPUs, AI Are Keys to Driving Progress
Like all auto manufacturers, Ford is pursuing what can only be described as a profound digital transformation.
more → SiliconANGLE, Friday, November 22nd, 2024
On theCUBE Pod: Live From SC24 And The Latest On Earnings And Supercomputing Advancements
Going into this year's SC24 event, theCUBE Research industry analysts John Furrier and Dave Vellante were confident the show would deliver in terms of content and activity.
more → theCUBEresearch, Thursday, November 21st, 2024
The Evolution Of Liquid Cooling In AI Systems: Insights From SC24 (38 M)
As artificial intelligence continues to redefine the computing landscape, the heat dissipation challenges posed by AI chips demand increasingly sophisticated cooling solutions.
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StorageNewsletter.com, Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
SS24: Unstructured Data Management For AI Gains Traction
HPC is once again in the spotlight at SuperCompute 2024 (SC24) in Atlanta, GA this month. AI and supporting digital business initiatives are paramount in enterprise IT.
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TheNextPlatform, Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
AI Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC.
more → HPCWire, Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
An Inside Look At El Capitan: Facts Beyond The Numbers
Top500 this week crowned El Capitan as the fastest supercomputer in the world. It has a peak speed of 1.72 exaflops, which is about 20 times faster than its predecessor at LLNL, Sierra.
more → insideHPC, Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List of Top Supercomputers
SC24 here in Atlanta is off to a great start with more than 17,000 attendees (a 21 percent increase over 2023), 480 exhibitors from 29 countries and a new TOP500 list that features a new champion supercomputer!
more → The Register, Monday, November 18th, 2024
LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view
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