Exascale machines, accelerator roadmaps, and the infrastructure behind every large-scale workload.
The first AmSC funding call centers on integration, even as Genesis expands DOE’s AI compute footprint.
ETH Zurich’s year-long transfer was not a model launch. It was a decision to keep a continuously updated Earth-observation archive close to Swiss compute, and less dependent on upstream US data services.
FDA is expanding non-animal methods while ARPA-H funds human drug-safety models. Public materials omit runtime, hardware, and deployment cost.
Mission and its AI framing predate Genesis; its public requirements remain centered on stockpile simulation and application performance.
Simulation still fills the world's research supercomputers. Funding and vendor roadmaps have tilted to AI, and some practitioners feel pressure to pitch their machines that way.
Dongarra, Hoefler, and Matsuoka now ask whether supercomputing needs GPUs at all, and the CPU-only machine atop the Top500 is their test vehicle.
LineShine, the system NSCC Shenzhen unveiled at the top of the 67th list, sustained 2.198 exaflops on LINPACK and took #1 on HPCG with zero accelerators and a domestic processor, interconnect, and operating system.
Two papers, Matsuoka's FP8-emulation preprints and the Dongarra 'Ride the Wave' paper, point to a field adapting scientific computing to AI silicon it no longer controls.
A federal judge halted NSF's handoff of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center. The problem wasn't legality; it was that NSF's process was 'arbitrary and capricious,' and the expertise running the machine can't be quickly replaced.
Finland's new 33.9 PF Roihu supercomputer triples national capacity and shares its hydroelectric Kajaani site with EuroHPC's LUMI - a two-tier sovereign-plus-EuroHPC campus under one operator.
NextSilicon's Maverick-2 dataflow accelerator has met Sandia's Vanguard system-acceptance requirements on HPCG, LAMMPS, and SPARTA. The harder question comes this fall, when Sandia decides whether to move Spectra toward more demanding, mission-like ASC supercomputing workloads.
