@HPC Podcast Archives - OrionX.net

- Gartner's AI predictions - AI Costs, autonomy, accountability - Aurora DAOS storage: 800 servers, 30TB/s - DARPA QBI - Quantum startup funding - Thorium nuclear clock - TSMC–GlobalFoundries packaging deal - Rapidus 2nm update - AI in math "Denial of Human Validation" attack! [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HPCNB_20261012.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 202...

- Tencent on Oracle GPU cloud - Autowarcom and Edge-HPC - Google Suncatcher gets feet wet - HBM further eats into DRAM wafer budget [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/HPCNB_20261005.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20261005 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Alibaba’s full-stack play - Chinese system players - Chinese EUV lithography? - SiPearl Rhea1 - Europe Gets Its CPU Back - Data center politics - Data center constraints everywhere [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HPCNB_20260928.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260928 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Critical Minerals, AI, and U.S.–China Talks - Open Weights vs. Open Source - Memory: The Next Sovereignty Target - Fujitsu MONAKA for All - DOE’s Science-First Quantum Roadmap for the Nation [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HPCNB_20260921.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260921 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Can AI and high-performance computing get better answers with fewer bits? HPC pioneer John Gustafson , author of Every Bit Counts , joins Doug Black and Shahin Khan to challenge the default reliance on 64-bit floating point, and explain why numerical precision belongs at the center of the debate over computing performance, memory bandwidth and energy use. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/...

- The Rise and Rise of AI Doomerism - AI's Global Power Constrain - AI to Help Control Fusion Energy Process - AI Solves yet another hard math problem - Taiwan's AI-Server Boom [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HPCNB_20260914.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260914 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- IBM Nighthawk r2 - Diraq at Equinix - From Better QPUs to Better Infrastructure - Agentic AI for Physical Science Experiments - AI and Jobs: Watch Hiring, Not Only Layoffs - Technopolitics: Restrictions and Dependencies [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/HPCNB_20260907.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260907 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Brazil Plays Both Sides of the AI Stack - Nvidia's AI Economics Expand Up the Stack - Nvidia + HuggingFace? - IBM Puts Arm Inside the Mainframe - Hot Chips roundup - Quantum Computing roundup [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HPCNB_20260831.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260831 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Hot Chips, Hot Interconnects, SC26 - The Fall HPC Conference Season - Google Diversifies Custom Silicon - Industrialization of Custom Silicon - Cerebras CS-4 System - White House National Security Science and Technology Strategy [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HPCNB_20260824.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260824 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Riemann Hypothesis advances via AI - AI agents need inference budget for computational research - AMD Reasserts FP64 - Algorithmic vs Numerical Emulation - zHBM, HBF expand memory-storage hierarchy - China’s answer to IBM-AMD QEC and NVQLink - THQLink built on TH-Express [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HPCNB_20260817.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 2026081...

- AI Optics and Export Controls - China and the Memory Shortage - AI’s Debt-Funded Buildout - AMD Bets on Hard-Wired AI [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HPCNB_20260810.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260810 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Open Secure AI Alliance - Open vs. closed AI - European AI gigafactories - Sovereign AI policy to architecture - Trusting results from Quantum Computers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/HPCNB_20260803.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260803 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Genesis Mission launches - National discovery infrastructure - AMD Helios rackscale platform - Optical fiber as memory - Rethinking model-weight storage - AI agents escaping containment - Ken Thompson's 1983 Turing Award lecture [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HPCNB_20260727.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260727 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Japan's 140MW 27,500 Rubin system, Physical AI - Regulatory action on chips, AI coming - China positions for global AI ecosystem - World AI Cooperation Organization [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HPCNB_20260720.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260720 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Meta Iris accelerator chip - New class of vendors in Chips - ORNL on-prem Quantum Computer - Satoshi Matsuoka’s papers on Precision, Memory, Open Models - Is the U.S. “blowing it” in AI? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HPCNB_20260713.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260713 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Jim Keller's fab for fabs - First Arm AGI servers spotted at Computex - 3D-printed Small modular Rector module? - Fuel Cell Technology - Data Center Water Use [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HPCNB_20260706.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260706 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- IBM demonstrates sub-1nm chip tech - IBM as we see it - Executive orders for quantum innovation and risk mitigation - US, UK, EU roadmaps for PQC readiness - ORNL next-gen supercomputer Discovery’s Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HPCNB_20260629.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260629 appeared first on Or...

The new TOP500 list of the most powerful supercomputers was released today at the ISC conference , with a surprising new system in the top spot.  After nearly a decade of staying on the sidelines, China re-entered the race with the first system to exceed 2 exaflops in 64-bits on the HPL benchmark.  As usual, Shahin and Doug go through the list and the stats with their commentary and analysis, look...

- Electron-on-helium qubits - Is the new Huawei Kirin chip equivalent of a TSMC 3nm chip? - Intel launches 18A-P node, with Power Boost dual-contact transistor - Intersect360 announces market size and forecast - TOP500 analysis coming later this week [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HPCNB_20260622.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260622 appeared first on Ori...

- SpaceX IPO. And HPC - Anti-Nvidia Data-Center Startups - Cerebras IPO as a "bet on Nvidia Fatigue”? - PNNL/ASHRAE/NEMA AI Data Center Energy Performance Framework - ISC2026 Conference next week [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HPCNB_20260615.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260615 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Microsoft Build: AI-native software, new chips, quantum progress - Microsoft Maia 200, Cobalt 200, Majorana 2 - Nvidia’s Windows PC push and RTX Spark - Europe’s proposed CADA, AI Act, AI Continent Action Plan - Global AI strategies: US, China, Canada, India, Japan, and Europe [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/HPCNB_20260608.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 2...

- Huawei's Tau Scaling, LogicFolding: breakthrough or brilliant positioning? - China’s new tech disclosure strategy continues - Wafer-scale chips in China? - Snowflake’s $6B AWS deal and what it says about AI inference demand - The Return of CPU Computing - NVIDIA’s CPU-only Vera-based Supercomputer and the rise of agentic AI infrastructure - OpenAI math breakthrough and what it says about AI-assi...

- CHIPS Act awards for Quantum Tech - IBM foundry for superconducting quantum - Global Foundries factory for various quantum modalities - NSF X-Labs, other initiatives - Emergence of what might be called a National Discovery Infrastructure - Cerebras IPO - IPO Mania: SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic - ~$650B: Just 4 hyperscalaers's announced AI investments for 2026 - Intel + Tenstorrent acquisition rumor...

From Double-Wide Racks to "Deep Space RISC-V" - HPE Juniper Broadcom AMD Helios - OCP Open Rack Wide - Sale-up on Ethernet, UALoE - China signals strength - China’s Jiuzhang 4.0 photonic quantum computer - High Availability and "Rad-Hard” chips in space - NASA's New Radiation-Hardened AI Processor [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/HPCNB_20260518.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC N...

- Nvidia, Corning, big optical fiber deal - Optical computing - New MRC RDMA on Ethernet fabrics - MRC vs RoCEv2 and Infiniband - AMD strengths in GPUs and CPUs - Ocean wave energy for data centers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/HPCNB_20260511.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260511 appeared first on OrionX.net .