NTT Unveils Tech to Enhance AI Performance for 6G and Next-Gen Computing
NTT, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA will showcase IOWN photonics‑based networking at MWC Barcelona 2026, highlighting its role in powering 6G and next‑generation AI workloads. The group announced a university‑industry project that merges 6G and IOWN to enable autonomous AI agents with ultra‑low latency. A separate demo demonstrated In‑Network Computing (INC) Edge linking 5G and all‑photonics networks to accelerate AI video inference using distributed GPUs. Executives will present PEC devices and optical quantum computing as energy‑saving foundations for future data‑center and edge infrastructure.
BSC Deploys AI at the Service of Companies at MWC
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s AI Factory took center stage at Mobile World Congress’s 4YFN showcase, unveiling a catalog of 24 AI‑driven services organized into six strategic pillars. By January 2026 the factory had already delivered 505 services, trained 314 participants...
Welinq and Pasqal Accelerate Networked Quantum Computing with Neutral-Atom Tech
Welinq and Pasqal have deepened their partnership to accelerate networked quantum computing using neutral‑atom processors. Backed by a €4 million InterQo grant from Île‑de‑France Region and BPI France, the two firms will integrate photonic interconnects into Pasqal’s QPUs and deploy Welinq’s...
Xanadu and Mitsubishi Chemical Detail Quantum Algorithms for EUV Semiconductor Research
Xanadu Quantum Technologies and Mitsubishi Chemical have published a pre‑print detailing quantum simulation algorithms aimed at improving extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography, a key step in advanced semiconductor manufacturing. The approach models the quantum‑driven radiation‑induced blur that limits pattern fidelity, using...
ORNL Launches the Next-Generation Data Centers Institute
Oak Ridge National Laboratory has launched the Next Generation Data Centers Institute (NGDCI) to tackle the exploding electricity demand of AI‑driven data centers. The institute will combine ORNL’s strengths in energy science, high‑performance computing, cybersecurity and grid research to make...
Broadcom Ships 3.5D Face-to-Face Compute SoC
Broadcom announced the start of shipments for the industry’s first 2nm custom compute SoC built on its 3.5D eXtreme Dimension System in Package (XDSiP) platform. The chip leverages Face‑to‑Face (F2F) 3D integration to combine 2.5D and 3D‑IC techniques, delivering unprecedented...
CIQ Launches RLC Pro Enterprise Linux Subscription for Production AI and HPC Environments
CIQ announced Rocky Linux from CIQ Pro (RLC Pro), a commercially supported Enterprise Linux subscription that bundles long‑term support, FIPS 140‑3 validation, indemnification and direct bug‑fix services. The offering targets AI, high‑performance computing and regulated industries, promising 3‑5 year lifecycle stability without forced...
Pawsey Expands High-Memory Resources on Setonix for Data-Intensive Workloads
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has doubled the high‑memory CPU nodes on its Setonix system from eight to sixteen, each equipped with dual 64‑core AMD EPYC 7763 processors and 1 TB of shared RAM. The expansion responds to a user‑survey‑identified demand for...
Berkeley Lab Explores Thermodynamic Computing for AI
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researchers unveiled a thermodynamic computing prototype that harnesses thermal noise to generate simple images, mimicking generative AI behavior. By exploiting fluctuations instead of suppressing them, the system flips conventional digital logic and operates via Langevin dynamics....
Eyeing the Massive HPC Opportunity for Unlocking Agentic AI with Silicon Photonics
Silicon photonics is emerging as a viable alternative to copper interconnects for high‑performance computing (HPC) systems that power agentic AI workloads. Nvidia’s NVL72 uses copper‑based NVLink, but its bandwidth and latency are straining under next‑generation inference demands. French startup Scintil...
Supermicro Debuts High-Density MicroBlade Server Featuring AMD EPYC 4005
Supermicro unveiled its MicroBlade platform, the industry’s first blade server built around AMD’s EPYC 4005 series and delivering the highest compute density on the market. The 6U chassis can host up to 40 nodes, while a standard 48U rack can...
NCC Croatia Brings CFD and HPC to Superyacht Engineering Workflows
NCC Croatia partnered with Lürssen Design Centre Kvarner to embed computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and high‑performance computing (HPC) into superyacht ventilation design. Engineers received hands‑on training and used OpenFOAM on NCC’s supercomputer to model a real‑world duct network. The simulations...
Ciena Unveils New Pluggable Optical Engine to Meet Data Center AI Demands
Ciena introduced the Vesta 200 6.4T CPX, a pluggable co‑packaged optical (CPO) engine that delivers the industry’s highest density and up to 70% lower power consumption. The module supports 200 Gb/s per lane, retimer‑free linear‑drive operation and a 20 dB electrical loss budget, enabling...
Simon Fraser University Signs MOUs to Advance Sustainability at Cedar Supercomputing Centre
Simon Fraser University has signed memoranda of understanding with Cerio, Corix and Moment Energy to deepen the sustainability of its Cedar Supercomputing Centre, Canada’s most powerful academic HPC system. The centre already runs on clean hydroelectric power and boasts a...
Marvell to Showcase PCIe 8.0 SerDes Demonstration at DesignCon 2026
Marvell Technology announced it will showcase a PCIe 8.0 SerDes operating at 256 GT/s during DesignCon 2026 in Santa Clara. The demo, presented at booth #904, uses the TE Connectivity AdrenaLINE Catapult connector and the Alaska P PCIe 6.0 retimer platform. PCIe 8.0, slated for finalization...
QEC4QEA to Support Development of Quantum-Enhanced Applications Across Europe
QEC4QEA, a new Quantum Excellence Centre funded by EuroHPC JU and Horizon Europe, receives roughly €4.9 million to accelerate quantum‑enhanced application development across Europe. The centre links end‑users with quantum developers, experts and computing providers, offering guidance, tools, training and hybrid quantum‑HPC resources....
Morehouse College Selected as Host Site for NSF Supercomputing Project
Morehouse College has secured an initial $5 million award from the National Science Foundation to host Horizon, a flagship supercomputer within the $457 million Leadership-Class Computing Facility. The project, led by the Texas Advanced Computing Center, will place one of the Southeast’s...
Lemhi Supercomputer Expands Idaho Research Capacity
The Lemhi supercomputer, deployed through a partnership between Idaho National Laboratory and the state’s three public research universities, replaces the aging Falcon system and delivers markedly faster performance. Hosted at INL’s Collaborative Computing Center, Lemhi provides remote, on‑demand high‑performance computing...
Cadence Completes Acquisition of Hexagon’s Design and Engineering Business
Cadence announced the completion of its €2.7 billion acquisition of Hexagon’s Design and Engineering business, integrating MSC Software’s Nastran and Adams tools into its multiphysics portfolio. The deal, financed with 70% cash and 30% Cadence stock, expands Cadence’s System Design and...
LLNL: Advanced Simulation and Modeling Pave a Path Forward for Single-Crystal Battery Materials
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers published a comprehensive review in Chemical Reviews describing how advanced, physics‑based simulation can decode the complex relationships among processing, structure, and performance of single‑crystal battery materials. By spanning atomistic to cell‑level scales, the multiscale models...
From HPC Experiments to a Movement: The Rise of SimOps in HPC
In 2012 the UberCloud team launched a public call for engineers to test real‑world simulations on remote HPC resources, sparking a decade‑long series of cloud‑based experiments. Early case studies showed modest success rates, but the 2015 introduction of purpose‑built HPC...
GOOD Conference Program Highlights Innovations of Global Open OnDemand Community
The second annual Global Open OnDemand (GOOD) Conference will run March 9‑12, 2026 at the University of Utah, gathering developers, users, and contributors from the worldwide Open OnDemand community. Organized by NumFOCUS and funded by the NSF, the event features...
Yotta Plans $2B NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra Supercluster Deployment in India
Yotta Data Services announced a $2 billion deployment of 20,736 liquid‑cooled NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, creating one of Asia’s largest AI superclusters. The system, slated to go live by August 2026 at its Greater Noida hyperscale data centre, includes a four‑year, $1 billion...
NSF CISE: Making Quantum Computers Resilient to Adversarial Attacks
Researchers at Rice University and Johns Hopkins, funded by multiple NSF CISE grants, introduced a new adversarial state corruption model and accompanying algorithms that enable quantum computers to operate despite noisy or malicious disturbances. The framework assumes attackers can tamper...
Viridien Partners with NVIDIA to Advance HPC for Seismic Imaging Workflows
Viridien announced a partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate its seismic imaging workflows using NVIDIA's high‑performance computing platforms. The collaboration will optimize Viridien’s algorithms for GPU accelerators, including tensor cores and mixed‑precision techniques, aiming to boost imaging speed, accuracy, and efficiency....
Qunnect and Cisco Demonstrate Metro-Scale, High-Speed Quantum Entanglement Swapping Over Commercial Fiber
Qunnect and Cisco have demonstrated metro‑scale quantum entanglement swapping over 17.6 km of commercial fiber in New York City, achieving record rates of 1.7 million local pairs and 5,400 pairs per hour across deployed fiber. The system maintained over 99 % polarization fidelity...
Aliro Raises $15M to Advance Physics-Based Network Security
Aliro announced a $15 million oversubscribed funding round led by Gutbrain Ventures, with participation from Cisco Investments, Argon Ventures, and Wonderstone Ventures. The Boston‑based startup is commercializing a physics‑based network security platform that uses quantum entanglement to replace cryptographic assumptions with...
