QuantumCore Emerges From Waterloo’s IQC with $10.7M to Address Quantum Readout Challenges
QuantumCore, a spin‑out of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing, has secured CAD 10.7 million (≈ $7.8 million USD) in dilutive and non‑dilutive financing and listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange. The startup is developing a cryogenic‑to‑room‑temperature amplifier that boosts read‑out signals from superconducting quantum chips, a bottleneck for scaling qubit counts. It raised CAD 9 million privately and obtained a CAD 1.7 million NSERC Alliance Grant to access university labs. Since its launch six months ago, QuantumCore has hired five engineers and opened a lab in Waterloo’s tech hub.
PsiQuantum Appoints Lip-Bu Tan to Board of Directors
PsiQuantum announced that Lip‑Bu Tan, Intel CEO and veteran semiconductor executive, has joined its board of directors. Tan brings decades of experience scaling chip design and manufacturing, complementing PsiQuantum’s push to build utility‑scale, fault‑tolerant quantum computers using silicon photonics. The...
PRACE Publishes 4th Edition of Its Scientific and Innovation Case for HPC in Europe
PRACE has released the fourth edition of its Scientific and Innovation Case, mapping the state of high‑performance computing (HPC) in Europe through 2034. The report documents progress on pre‑exascale and exascale systems and adds new chapters on artificial intelligence, quantum...
Celestica DS6000-Series 1.6TbE Switches Now Available to Order
Celestica announced that its DS6000‑series 1.6TbE switches are now available for order, marking the shift from development to production. Powered by Broadcom’s Tomahawk 6 silicon, each unit delivers up to 102.4 Tbps of non‑blocking capacity across 64 1.6TbE (OSFP224) ports. The line ships...
IBM and Dallara to Advance AI and Quantum-Powered Design for High-Performance Vehicles
IBM and the Dallara Group announced a joint effort to accelerate high‑performance vehicle design using AI‑driven surrogate models and exploratory quantum computing. The partnership combines Dallara’s racing‑car expertise with IBM’s physics‑based AI, notably the Gauge‑Invariant Spectral Transformers (GIST), to replace...
Fabric.AI Targets AI Infrastructure Bottlenecks with MicroLED Optical Interconnects
Fabric.AI, formerly StableX Technologies, has launched its Neural I/O chip, a MicroLED‑based optical interconnect designed to eliminate data‑movement bottlenecks in AI compute clusters. Developed with Kopin Corporation, the chip replaces copper and laser links with programmable MicroLED transceivers that deliver...
UCLA, BSC Research Shows Stronger Heat-Trapping Role for Desert Dust in Climate Models
A UCLA‑led study published in Nature Communications finds that airborne desert dust traps roughly twice as much heat as most climate models assume, contributing about 10% of the warming attributed to human‑emitted CO₂. The research combines satellite imagery, aircraft sampling,...
Xanadu and ORNL Bring PennyLane Quantum Software to Frontier Supercomputer
Xanadu Quantum Technologies and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have enabled the open‑source PennyLane quantum software library to run on the Frontier exascale supercomputer. The integration adds MPI support to PennyLane’s Lightning simulator, allowing distributed quantum‑circuit simulations across multiple AMD‑powered nodes....
ACM Details AI Leadership Summit, Aug. 2026
ACM announced the AI Leadership Summit, scheduled for August 30‑September 2, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. The four‑day event will bring together top researchers, industry leaders, educators, and policymakers, featuring Turing Award laureates Andrew Barto and Yann LeCun among other distinguished speakers. Sessions will...
NVIDIA and Google Cloud Collaborate to Advance Agentic and Physical AI
NVIDIA and Google Cloud announced new AI infrastructure at Google Cloud Next, featuring Vera Rubin‑powered A5X bare‑metal instances and a suite of Blackwell GPUs that promise up to ten‑fold reductions in inference cost per token and massive scaling to nearly...
JEDEC Previews LPDDR6 Roadmap Expanding LPDDR Into Data Centers and Processing-in-Memory
JEDEC previewed a next‑generation LPDDR6 roadmap that extends the mobile‑focused memory standard into data‑center and accelerated‑computing markets. The update adds a narrower per‑die interface, flexible metadata handling, and targets 512 GB densities per module. JEDEC is also developing a SOCAMM2 module...
EuroHPC JU Signs Contract to Boost AI Capabilities with IT4LIA AI Factory
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a €290 million contract with E4 Computer Engineering and Dell Technologies to deliver an AI‑optimized supercomputer for Italy’s IT4LIA AI Factory. The liquid‑cooled system, built on NVIDIA Grace CPUs, Blackwell GPUs and Quantum‑X800 InfiniBand, will exceed...
Airsys Introduces LiquidRack for Rack-Level Liquid Cooling in AI and Edge Deployments
Airsys announced LiquidRack, a rack‑level liquid‑cooling platform aimed at mid‑density AI, data‑center, telecom and edge workloads. The system integrates fluid distribution, pumping and control directly at the rack, supporting 0.5‑8 kW per server and up to 80 kW per rack. It eliminates...
Students Wanted for HPC-AI Society Annual Meeting
The HPC‑AI Society will host its annual meeting on April 30 at Shell’s Houston headquarters, aiming to draw students into high‑performance computing (HPC) careers. President Doug Norton emphasizes that AI workloads now run on 80% of HPC sites, blurring the line...
OVHcloud, DEEP and Clever Cloud Selected by European Commission for Sovereign Cloud Framework
A European consortium of OV OVHcloud, DEEP by POST Luxembourg, and Clever Cloud has been chosen by the European Commission to deliver sovereign cloud services to EU institutions. The contract, worth up to €180 million (about $196 million) over six years, supports the...
Inside Nvidia’s Silicon Photonics Roadmap
Nvidia unveiled its next‑generation scale‑up system, NVL1152 “Kyber,” which will pack 1,152 GPUs—16 times the capacity of the current NVL72 rack. The machine, slated for the 2028 “Feynman” GPU generation, will combine copper interconnects with silicon photonics and co‑packaged optics...
Accelsius Announces General Availability of NeuCool IR150 and Launches NeuCool HyperStart Program
Accelsius announced the general availability of the NeuCool IR150, the first fully integrated 42U rack that combines a two‑phase coolant distribution unit with up to 150 kW of cooling capacity. The plug‑and‑play system is designed for hyperscale, neocloud and enterprise data...
The Rise of Experimental Data Lakes
Experimental data lakes are emerging as a new scientific data foundation, capturing raw instrument output together with full experimental context. They differ from traditional enterprise lakes by handling messy, high‑volume data and preserving metadata for reuse. The shift is driven...
MGHPCC Powers Breakthroughs in Biomedical Research with High-Performance Computing
The Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is powering data‑intensive biomedical research across the state. Harvard’s Huttenhower Group leverages its massive compute capacity to parse terabytes of gut microbiome sequences, while Yale’s O’Hern Group runs high‑resolution simulations of breast‑cancer...
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....
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...
DOE and Argonne Join GM, Stellantis and MathWorks to Launch EcoCAR Innovation Challenge
The U.S. Department of Energy and Argonne National Laboratory have launched the 15th EcoCAR Innovation Challenge, selecting 20 universities to design advanced electric and hybrid vehicles. General Motors and Stellantis are co‑sponsoring the competition, each providing a distinct vehicle platform...
Microsoft Eyes New 3,200-Acre Datacenter Development in Wyoming
Microsoft announced plans to acquire roughly 3,200 acres near Cheyenne, Wyoming, to build a new hyperscale datacenter, expanding its footprint that began in 2012. The development will be split between a 200‑acre parcel in Bison Business Park and a 3,000‑acre...
Bull and Equal1 Partner to Accelerate Hybrid Quantum-HPC Integration in Europe
Bull, a European HPC and AI leader, and Dublin‑based Equal1 have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to fuse Bull’s Qaptiva supercomputing platform with Equal1’s silicon‑spin quantum servers. The collaboration will create a high‑speed connector that lets classical supercomputers run quantum‑accelerated...
What Stanford’s HAI Report Says About AI in Science
The Stanford HAI AI Index 2026 shows frontier AI models now matching or exceeding human baselines on PhD‑level science, mathematics, and coding tasks, highlighted by a 30‑point jump on the Humanity’s Last Exam benchmark. The top six models—Anthropic, xAI, Google,...
IBM Demonstrates Extreme Scale for Content-Aware Storage with 100B Vector Database
IBM showcased its Content‑Aware Storage (CAS) platform by scaling a vector database to 100 billion vectors on a single server, delivering sub‑700 ms query latency with over 90% recall. The system leverages Samsung’s 30.72 TB PCIe Gen5 SSDs, IBM’s ESS 6000 flash storage, and a...
Supermicro Introduces Compact, Energy-Efficient Systems to Accelerate Adoption of Intelligent Edge AI
Supermicro unveiled a new family of edge‑optimized servers built on AMD’s EPYC 4005 Zen 5 processors. The lineup includes a mini‑1U box, a short‑depth 1U rackmount, and a slim tower, each delivering up to 16 cores, DDR5 memory, PCIe Gen 5 and optional...
University of Tennessee Explores Quantum Methods to Scale Stochastic Optimization Workflows
University of Tennessee’s Industrial and Systems Engineering department has secured a two‑year, $300,000 NSF grant to develop quantum‑computing tools for multi‑stage stochastic optimization. Professors James Ostrowski and Rebekah Herrman will combine quantum superposition encoding with classical post‑processing to tackle two‑step...
Brookhaven Lab: Turning Uncertainty Into a Design Tool for AI-Engineered Molecules
Researchers at DOE’s Brookhaven Lab and Texas A&M have introduced an uncertainty‑guided fine‑tuning approach for variational autoencoders (VAEs) used in generative molecular design. By focusing on an active subspace of latent‑space parameters, the method quantifies and exploits model uncertainty to...
CoreWeave Announces Multi-Year Agreement With Anthropic
CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement with Anthropic to run the Claude family of large language models on its high‑performance AI cloud. The partnership will bring production‑scale compute online later this year and marks Anthropic as the ninth of the top...
OSC Expands Computer and Data Science Training at Mount Union with HPC Access
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has deepened its partnership with the University of Mount Union, giving students in computer science and data analytics direct access to high‑performance computing (HPC) resources. Faculty use OSC’s Open OnDemand portal to launch Jupyter notebooks,...
Los Alamos Researchers Show Some Quantum Learning Models Are Classically Simulable
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers published a perspective in Nature Communications showing that quantum machine‑learning models designed to avoid barren plateaus are often classically simulable. By restricting variational quantum circuits to small subspaces, they demonstrated end‑to‑end classical surrogates that match...
BrainChip Unveils Radar Reference Platform to Bridge the ‘Identification Gap’ in Edge AI
BrainChip Holdings launched a Radar Reference Platform that couples a FMCW radar module with its Akida neuromorphic processor to deliver real‑time object classification at the edge. The solution adds a deep‑learning layer that extracts micro‑Doppler signatures, allowing it to differentiate...
CIQ Rolls Out ARCA Single-Stack Solution for Academic HPC Operations
CIQ, the founding support partner of Rocky Linux, announced the Academic Research Computing Advantage (ARCA), a single‑vendor, fully supported HPC stack for R1 research universities and supercomputing centers. The solution bundles RLC Pro, Warewulf Pro, Fuzzball, Ascender Pro, Apptainer and...
Lenovo Expands Enterprise Storage Portfolio with Completion of Infinidat Acquisition
Lenovo announced the completion of its acquisition of Infinidat, a high‑end enterprise storage specialist. The deal adds Infinidat’s AI‑ready, cyber‑resilient storage platform to Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, expanding its portfolio for data‑intensive workloads. Infinidat will operate as a dedicated business...
Terra Quantum Eyes Public Markets Through $3.25B SPAC Deal
Terra Quantum AG announced a non‑binding LOI to merge with Mountain Lake Acquisition Corp. II in a SPAC transaction that values the Swiss quantum‑technology firm at $3.25 billion. The deal would list Terra Quantum on Nasdaq, giving it direct access to public...
AWS Delivers High-Performance NFS Access with S3 Files
Amazon Web Services introduced S3 Files, a service that presents S3 buckets as an NFS 4.1 file system, giving high‑performance, low‑latency file access to data stored in object storage. The offering targets HPC and AI workloads that need POSIX semantics without...
IQM Announces 1st US Quantum Technology Center in the University of Maryland’s Discovery District
IQM Quantum Computers, a Finnish leader in superconducting quantum computing, announced the opening of its first U.S. Quantum Technology Center in the University of Maryland’s Discovery District. The center is part of Maryland’s Capital of Quantum initiative, a five‑year, $1 billion...
Rigetti Announces General Availability of 108-Qubit System
Rigetti Computing has made its 108‑qubit Cepheus‑1‑108Q system generally available through its Quantum Cloud Services platform and Amazon Braket. The modular chiplet‑based architecture stitches together twelve 9‑qubit chiplets, delivering a median two‑qubit gate fidelity of 99.1% with ~60 ns gate times...