@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black

- GTC25 Quantum Day - Post-Quantum Cryptography guidelines - Quantum Blockchain? - NVMe-enabled HDD storage with SSD cache [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/HPCNB_20250324.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250324 appeared first on OrionX.net .

In what is becoming an annual tradition, we are "Live from Nvidia GTC25" AI-everywhere show. We cover everything from industry landscape to Hopper to Blackwell to Rubin and Feynman, plus silicon photonics for cluster interconnect fabric (star of the show, really), the complexity of inference for customers, low-end systems, power and cooling (did we hear 600 KW per rack?), software including cluste...

- What to expect from Intel's new CEO - Did D-Wave achieve quantum computational supremacy on a useful problem? - "AI Woodstock" GTC25 is in San Jose, CA this week [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/HPCNB_20250317.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250317 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Just before the GTC25 conference, and in the 100th episode of the full format @HPCpodcast, we welcome a very special guest, the great Dr. Ian Cutress , Chief Analyst at More Than Moore and host of the popular video channel  TechTechPotato to discuss the state of AI and advanced chips, new technologies and architectures, the startup scene, and top trends in semiconductor design & manufacturing....

- TSMC $100B investment in Arizona Factories - EuroHPC Project DARE using RISC-V - Julich Hybrid Supercomputer with D-Wave - Quantum Computing Stock Price Volatility - Chinese Quantum Computer Betters Google's Willow - Supercomputing Asia 2025 (SCA25) held this week in Singapore [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/HPCNB_20250310.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 2...

Dr. Handel Jones, author of the book When AI Rules the World: China, the U.S., and the Race to Control a Smart Planet , and CEO of International Business Strategies, Inc.   joins us again to discuss the geopolitics of technology. Dr. Jones was a specia; guest of this podcast in episode 48 in January 2023. Fast moving technologies matched with big changes in global politics and policy creates a pot...

- Government layoffs funding disruptions cause uncertainty and concern for scientific leadership - Cat Qubits: AWS Ocelot, Alice and Bob - ASIC vs GPUs vs Accelerators [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/HPCNB_20250303.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250303 appeared first on OrionX.net .

We are delighted to have as special guests today three of the top analysts in the HPC, AI, Cloud, and Quantum fields, representing the industry analyst firm Hyperion Research. Earl Joseph  is Hyperion CEO, Mark Nossokof f, Research Director, and Bob Sorensen , Senior VP of Research. Join us for an In Depth discussion of the current state and future trends in HPC, AI, Quantum, Cloud Computing, Exas...

- New in-house-manufactured Microsoft QPU: Majorana 1 - DARPA US2QC program - (Funding) and harnessing idle GPUs anywhere on the internet - France's CEA advances in fusion energy research [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HPCNB_20250224.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250224 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Arm to sell its own CPU? Meta as first customer? - Big AI, Big Power, Big Chill... Big Pollution? - Intel's fate puts national security and market forces into focus - Europe falls in-line to avid falling behind in AI - GE Aerospace gains access to exascale power via DOE INCITE program [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HPCNB_20250217.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes &...

- Big AI land grab - Nuclear power for data centers - New European-origin quantum system in Spain - Softbank eyes Ampere [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HPCNB_20250210.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250210 appeared first on OrionX.net .

In this In-Depth feature of the @HPDpodcast, Addison Snell , co-founder and CEO of Intersect360 joins Shahin and Doug as they discuss a wide range of topics in HPC, AI, and Quantum Computing. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/097@HPCpodcast_ID_Addison-Snell_Intersect360-HPC-AI-Market_20250205.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-97: Addison Snell on HPC, AI, Hyperscalers &#82...

- DeepSeek, 1+5 lessons - Rack Scale Arch redux, Intel GPU roadmap change - LLNL and OpenAI, national security apps, fully on-prem? - Google and Kairos Power, Small Modular (nuclear) Reactors [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HPCNB_20250203.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250203 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Massive AI datacenter investments: $500B Stargate, $600B Saudi - When datacenters can’t get bigger - India enters the chip manufacturing market [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/HPCNB_20250127.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250127 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- CHIPS Act in Trump Administration - Quantum Computing stocks - Intel's mystery acquirer - HPE's $1B win [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/HPCNB_20250120.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250120 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Datacenter power and cooling has rapidly emerged as a critical topic in HPC and AI. System roadmaps only point to additional requirements. In this episode of the @HPCpodcast's Industry View, we are joined by Chris Orlando , Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of DDC Solutions to discuss high density cooling, dynamic control, safety and compliance, and the enduring role of air cooling in the datacen...

- China's TOP100 - AI PCs, workstations, workgroup servers - DataCenter Capacity Growth - MPI ABI [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/HPCNB_20250113.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250113 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Review of SC24, RISC-V Summit, and AWS Reinvent. Topics include: HPC and AI Clouds, CXL, Liquid Cooling, Optical Interconnects, Optical Computing, Novel CPUs and GPUs, the state of RISC-V in servers and supercomputers, TOP500, Chiplets, AWS CPU and GPU strategies. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/095@HPCpodcast_SP_Adrian-Cockcroft_SC24-RISCV_AWS-Reinvent-Q2B-Events_2025010...

- Beyond EUV lithography, LLNL, DOE - ASML, GPUs, China, trade sanctions - AI infrastructure build-out - TSMC 2nm Chips in 2025 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/HPCNB_20250106.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250106 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- China, Advanced GPUs, Advanced AI - High Tech companies pursue government contracts - Neuromorphic chips, artificial fast neurons - Farewell 2024, thank you @HPCpodcast listeners [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HPCNB_20241230.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20241230 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Long-Thinking AI - UALink + optical - Arm-Qualcomm lawsuit [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HPCNB_20241223.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20241223 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Google "Willow" quantum chip: hype or reality? - European supercomputing site chooses US vendor: LRZ's Blue Lion - China-US technology clash and mutual retaliation - ORNL supercomputers accelerate research on this fast-growing tree [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HPCNB_20241216.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20241216 appeared first on OrionX.net .

Special guest Ryan Smith joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the vexing challenges of implementing HPC class AI systems in a managed services model, the landmines organizations need to avoid, and the opportunities for seizing success. This episode is part of the @HPCpodcasts Industry View feature, which takes on major issues in the world of HPC, AI, and other advanced technologies through the lens of...

- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retires - Marvell-AWS supplier alliance - Chinese quantum computer Tianyan-504 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HPCNB_20241209.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20241209 appeared first on OrionX.net .

- Do LLMs understand? - Collaborative Agentic AI - Frontier simulates the universe - France builds more nuclear reactors - TSMC's 2nm chips in the US slated for 2028 [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HPCNB_20241202.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20241202 appeared first on OrionX.net .