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Quantum and AI: A Marriage Made of Valid Expectations or Hype?

Editor’s Note: The blending of Quantum and AI — QuantumAI — is a hot topic currently. What exactly does that mean? HPCwire asked Bob Sutor, a longtime high-tech researcher and quantum industry veteran (bio at end of article) to weigh on the subject. You may be familiar with Bob as the author of Dancing with Qubits and ... Full article

Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still under rapid development. One of the challenges in HPC and technical computing is finding where GenAI “fits in” and, more importantly, ... Full article

Quantinuum Announces Generative Quantum AI Framework Gen QAI

Quantinuum just announced a new generative quantum AI framework, Gen QAI. The company says its new framework leverages quantum-generated data to enable commercial applications in areas like drug development, predictive modeling in financial markets, and logistics and supply chain optimization. The company’s H2 quantum computer is driving this new framework, as it claims the computer ... Full article

DeepSeek R1 Stuns the AI World

The AI world has been taken by storm. China's new open-source reasoning model, the DeepSeek R1, has sparked concerns that advances in AI by Chinese firms could threaten the revenue prospects of tech giants in the West and the AI supremacy long held by the U.S. The model was developed by the Chinese AI startup ... Full article

How Will AI and Quantum Work Together? Quantinuum’s View

There’s great deal of discussion in the quantum computing (QC) world about running AI on quantum hardware and the development of so-called QuantumAI. The promise seems high, but so do the obstacles, such as the high volume of data used in AI model training. Trapped ion quantum computer specialist, Quantinuum, today posted a blog, “Quantum Computers ... Full article

Cerebras and Mayo Clinic Unveil Advanced Genomic AI Model

The intersection of AI and healthcare reached an exciting new milestone this week, as a new and groundbreaking genomic foundation model was unveiled at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco. Cerebras and Mayo Clinic have collaborated to develop a world-class genomic foundation model aimed at harnessing the power of advanced AI and HPC ... Full article

AI’s Role in Revolutionizing Scientific Research

Scientific researchers are responsible for conducting experiments and making discoveries that improve our lives or, sometimes, even save them. However, the process of scientific research — from forming and testing a hypothesis to making groundbreaking discoveries available for public or commercial use — is complex, costly, and time-consuming. Without the right tools at their disposal, ... Full article

Nvidia’s Little Desktop AI Box with Big Unified GPU/CPU Memory

At the 2025 CES event, Nvidia announced a new $3000 desktop computer developed in collaboration with MediaTek, which is powered by a new cut-down Arm-based Grace CPU and Blackwell GPU Superchip. The new system is called “project DIGITS” (not to be confused with Nvidia's Deep Learning GPU Training System: DIGITS). The platform offers a series ... Full article

AI’s Impact on Jobs, Trust, and Innovation: Insights from Accenture’s Technology Vision 2025

AI is the new digital, Accenture says in its latest Technology Vision 2025 report. This 25th edition of the company’s research, titled “AI: A Declaration of Autonomy,” frames AI as not only a pivotal technology but also a catalyst for entirely reshaping workflows and business processes. AI will permeate every part of the enterprise, with its transformative ... Full article

NCSA Director Bill Gropp on SC24, Focus in 2025

Editor's Note: In this note of reflection, Bill Gropp, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), takes us through a year of achievements at NCSA. From the launch of the DeltaAI supercomputer to groundbreaking partnerships in AI, healthcare, and quantum research, Gropp highlights NCSA's critical role in advancing innovation and collaboration, underscoring the center's ... Full article

Google Cloud’s 2025 AI Trends: The Evolution of Search, CX, and Security

Google Cloud has released its “AI Business Trends 2025” report with predictions for how AI will shape business in the coming year. The company has identified five key areas where enterprise AI will shine: multimodal AI, AI agents, assistive search, AI-powered customer experience, and AI-enhanced security. Multimodal AI models can process information from text, images, ... Full article

NSF Awards SDSC a Grant for NAIRR Pilot Research on Nvidia’s DGX Cloud

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) announced it has been awarded an Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award from the U.S. National Science Foundation to provide IT support to research groups who will use Nvidia’s DGX Cloud platform. SDSC, part of the School of Computing, Information and Data Sciences at UC San Diego, says ... Full article

Shining a Light on AI Risks: Inside MLCommons’ AILuminate Benchmark

As the world continues to navigate new pathways brought about by generative AI, the need for tools that can illuminate the risk and reliability of these systems has never felt more urgent. MLCommons is working to shine a light into the black box of AI with its new safety benchmark for large language models, AILuminate ... Full article

AWS Delivers the AI Heat: Project Rainier and GenAI Innovations Lead the Way

At AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas, Amazon unveiled a series of transformative AI initiatives, including the development of one of the world's largest AI supercomputers in partnership with Anthropic, the introduction of the Nova series of AI foundation models, and the availability of the Trainium2 AI chip, positioning itself as a formidable competitor in ... Full article

DeltaAI Unveiled: How NCSA Is Meeting the Demand for Next-Gen AI Research

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has just launched its highly anticipated DeltaAI system. DeltaAI is an advanced AI computing and data resource that will be a companion system to NCSA’s Delta, a 338-node, HPE Cray-based supercomputer installed in 2021. The new DeltaAI has been funded by the ... Full article

Kempner Institute’s AI Cluster Named One of the World’s Fastest ‘Green’ Supercomputers

Researchers at Harvard now have access to one of the fastest and greenest supercomputers in the world. Built to support cutting-edge research at the Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence, and Harvard University more broadly, the Kempner’s AI cluster has just been named the 32nd fastest “green” supercomputer in the world in the Green500, the ... Full article

Cerebras Sets New Record in Molecular Dynamics at 1.1M Simulations per Second

Cerebras Systems, a pioneer in wafer-scale processing, in collaboration with researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos National Laboratories, has set another world record and important breakthrough in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. For the first time in the history of the field, researchers achieved more than 1 million simulation steps per second. A single Cerebras Wafer Scale ... Full article

Nvidia Shows Renewed Interest in Top500 List, but Not for GPUs

Nvidia is showing keen interest in the Top500 list and says it will put more systems with its GPUs and technologies on the list. However, Nvidia’s interest is to give credibility to its networking technologies, not to prove the performance of its GPUs. Two supercomputing systems with Nvidia’s Spectrum-X networking are debuting in the Top ... Full article

SC2024: A Guide to Get the Most from the Show

The supercomputing world — or shall we call it the HPC and AI world — will convene in Atlanta this week to attend the Supercomputing 24 show. SC24 is a celebration of scientific computing and high-performance hardware. The cream of hardware and cloud companies — Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle – are all there. The ... Full article

Role Reversal: Google Teases Nvidia’s Blackwell as It Softens TPU Rivalry

Customers now have access to Google’s homegrown hardware — its Axion CPU and latest Trillium TPU — in its Cloud service. At the same time, Google gave customers a teaser on Nvidia’s Blackwell coming to Google Cloud, which should arrive early next year. “We’re… eagerly anticipating the advancements enabled by Nvidia’s Blackwell GB200 NVL72 GPUs, ... Full article

Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration

Quantinuum Announces Generative Quantum AI Framework Gen QAI

DeepSeek R1 Stuns the AI World

How Will AI and Quantum Work Together? Quantinuum’s View

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