TACC Modeling Points to ‘Heavy Seed’ Origins for JWST’s Little Red Dots
A team led by Volker Bromm used TACC supercomputers Lonestar6 and Stampede3 to model early‑universe black‑hole formation, finding that heavy‑seed (direct‑collapse) black holes best match JWST’s Little Red Dot observations. The study, published in the Astrophysical Journal, contrasts heavy‑seed models with light‑seed stellar‑remnant scenarios, showing the latter overproduce the observed black‑hole mass function. By employing the A‑SLOTH code and a merger‑tree “genetic” technique, researchers reproduced the mass distribution and halo properties of the compact, high‑redshift sources. The work highlights supercomputing’s essential role in interpreting JWST data.
Wellcome Leap Announces $2M Prize in $50M Quantum for Bio Challenge Program
Wellcome Leap announced that Algorithmiq earned the $2 million prize in its $50 million Quantum for Bio (Q4Bio) Challenge, marking the first end‑to‑end quantum‑classical workflow that simulates a photosensitizer drug for photodynamic cancer therapy. The program, launched in 2023, devoted $40 million to...
LLNL Combines Machine Learning and 3D Printing for Shockwave Control Experiments
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Imperial College London and collaborators have used a machine‑learning optimization algorithm together with polymer 3D printing to create a void‑filled target that suppresses the Richtmyer‑Meshkov instability during shock‑wave experiments. The AI‑designed void geometry reshapes the incoming...
Atos Drives DestinE Ecosystem Growth with ESA-Led Service Deployment and Call
Atos announced that the European Space Agency has tasked it with launching an Open Competition to expand the DestinE ecosystem, a European Union‑co‑funded digital twin of Earth. Twelve innovative service providers were selected to deliver advanced applications, ranging from hyper‑local...
DataCool Launches Next-Generation Data Center Cooling Platform Amid Surging AI-Driven Demand
DataCool, a JohnsonMarCraft HVAC division, unveiled three new cooling systems—Alpine, Glacier and Kodiak—designed for AI‑driven, high‑density data centers. The platform spans 2,000 to 100,000 CFM and up to 300 tons of capacity, offering modular, scalable architecture for edge to hyperscale sites....
Canada Opens Applications for AI Supercomputing Infrastructure Program
Canada has opened the AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program, a competitive call for proposals to design, build, and operate a large‑scale AI‑optimized supercomputer. The initiative is funded by historic investments announced in the 2024 and 2025 federal budgets and forms...
Argonne Models Thousands of Cyclone Scenarios to Evaluate Coastal Infrastructure Risk
Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory used high‑performance computing to generate thousands of synthetic tropical cyclone scenarios for the Bay of Bengal, a region prone to extreme storm‑tide flooding. The simulations evaluate low‑frequency, 1,000‑year flood events that could threaten critical infrastructure...
Oracle and AWS Collaborate to Expand Multicloud Networking
Oracle announced a new multicloud networking link that directly connects its Oracle Interconnect with AWS Interconnect‑multicloud, delivering a private, high‑performance bridge between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Amazon Web Services. The service will launch later this year in the AWS...
AI Is Bringing Added Complexity for HPC Sites. How Are They Handling It?
AI workloads have transformed CINECA’s supercomputing environment, adding layers of software, storage and orchestration beyond traditional HPC. Since 2023 the Italian consortium expanded from a single Slurm‑based stack on Lustre to include Kubernetes, OpenStack, S3 object stores and AI‑focused frameworks...
Los Alamos Leads Research in Versatile Quantum Computing
Los Alamos scientists have demonstrated that existing analog quantum computers, specifically D‑Wave quantum annealers, can be repurposed as experimental platforms for fundamental physics research. By performing the first hysteresis experiments on quantum hardware, they showed that magnetic memory effects can...
EuroHPC Inaugurates ‘Lucy’ Photonic Quantum System in France
EuroHPC JU inaugurated Lucy, a photonic quantum computer with 12 qubits, at France’s TGCC supercomputing centre. The system, built by Quandela and attocube, costs €8.5 million (about $9.3 million) split evenly between EuroHPC and France. Lucy will be integrated into the Joliot‑Curie...
Need Some CPUs? Good Luck With That
The AI boom has moved from GPUs to a surge in CPU demand, leaving cloud providers and PC makers scrambling for capacity. Microsoft’s GitHub and AWS report severe shortages as AI reasoning models require intensive CPU cycles for validation, reinforcement...
DARPA Launches HARQ Program to Advance Heterogeneous Quantum Architectures
DARPA has inaugurated the Heterogeneous Architectures for Quantum (HARQ) program to break the single‑qubit limitation that hampers current quantum computers. The effort will bring together 19 teams from 15 universities and companies to develop both software frameworks (MOSAIC) and hardware...
Brookhaven Lab: A Silicon-Compatible Path Toward Scalable Quantum Systems
Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers have fabricated superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) using transition‑metal silicide layers on silicon substrates. The process adapts standard CMOS lithography and etching techniques, enabling the creation of constriction‑type junctions instead of conventional Josephson junctions. Operating the...
Accenture Federal Services to Deliver Early Operating Capability for DOE’s Genesis Mission CM2US
Accenture Federal Services is spearheading a high‑velocity engineering sprint to deliver an early operating capability for the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission CM2US initiative. Working with all DOE national labs and Databricks Federal, the team will launch an AI‑ready digital...
