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Cerebras builds the biggest, most powerful chips in the industry with its Wafer Scale Engine 3, and so it’s not surprising to see that the company dunking on GPU makers with the CS-4 system it officially unveiled this week. The CS-4 is a veritable monster, with 750 PFLOPS of AI compute and 129.6 petabytes per […] The post It’s Not an HPC System, But Cerebras’ New CS-4 Is An AI Monster appeared…
The AI infrastructure conversation has shifted as AI inference becomes a larger part of workloads around the world. The cost of compute is no longer the only constraint. The real bottleneck is increasingly memory, as supply is tightening into 2027, if not longer, according to Counterpoint Research. HBM remains expensive and capacity-limited. Scaling out with […] The post What Hyperscalers Should…
BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 20, 2026 — Micron Technology, Inc. today unveiled Micron Research Labs, a U.S.-based long-horizon premier research institution headquartered in Boise and backed by a planned $10 billion investment over the next decade. Building on Micron’s technology and manufacturing leadership, the new hub will bring together customers, academia, government and the broader semiconductor […]…
Aug. 20, 2026 — In a project selected for funding by the Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and partners from other national laboratories, universities and industry will apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable precise and adaptive resonance control in particle accelerators. Their work aims to lower operating costs by millions […] The…
Annual forum highlights ORNL’s leadership in advancing hybrid quantum-HPC technologies and building the future quantum computing workforce Aug. 20, 2026 — Researchers, software developers and technology leaders from across the global quantum computing ecosystem gathered at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in July for the seventh annual Quantum Computing User…
Aug. 20, 2026 — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is one of five institutions assisting a new national initiative headed by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to “create a unified environment for research computing, data and scientific applications across several U.S. National Science Foundation-supported national computing centers and two cloud platforms.”…
New NVIDIA GPU acceleration for Apache Spark in Cloudera Data Engineering delivers zero-code performance gains, lower cloud costs, and faster AI-ready data pipelines SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 20, 2026 — Cloudera today announced native GPU acceleration for Apache Spark 4.1 in Cloudera Data Engineering, enabled by the NVIDIA CUDA-X library, cuDF. The NVIDIA cuDF plug-in […] The post Cloudera and NVIDIA…
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 20, 2026 — The SimOps Foundation today announced the results of its evaluation of Open OnDemand against the SimOps Best Practices Framework. The open-source HPC access platform, developed by the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), is recognized as SimOps Compliant and joins the SimOps Software Stack for engineering simulation and High-Performance Computing (HPC). […] The post…
WAYNE, Pa. and TOKYO, Aug. 20, 2026 — Cornelis and NEC Corporation have announced an expanded collaboration that builds on the companies’ successful work together in Europe and will help organizations across Japan and the broader Asia-Pacific region deploy next-generation AI and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure using Cornelis high-performance networking solutions. The expanded…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 20, 2026 — QC Ware, the organizer of Q2B conferences and a developer of computational chemistry and quantum computing software, has announced that the 2026 Q2B Copenhagen Conference will take place on September 9-10, 2026, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference is presented in joint partnership with a Danish Consortium comprising the Ministry […] The post Q2B Copenhagen…
