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 by 2028, promises up to 1 TB/s bidirectional bandwidth to meet AI, ML and high‑speed networking workloads. Marvell positions the demonstration as a path‑finding step for hyperscalers preparing next‑generation data‑center architectures.
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...