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Argonne Moves ChemGraph Leaderboard to Monthly Runs as It Studies Score Variance
Across 71 public runs, GPT-4o-labelled scores ranged from 62.5% to 97.5%. Argonne says the files cannot always distinguish model behavior from system failures.
DOE's Genesis Mission Is a Federation Bet Built Over New Supercomputers
The first AmSC funding call centers on integration, even as Genesis expands DOE’s AI compute footprint.
Why Pharma Is Building Its Own AI Supercomputers
Biology models now train on proprietary experiments and feed results back to the lab. That closed loop strengthens the case for owning the machine.
Why Switzerland Put a 100-Petabyte NASA Replica Beside It’s Alps Supercomputer
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.
ARPA-H Is Funding In Silico Drug Testing. Its Compute Footprint Is Still Opaque.
FDA is expanding non-animal methods while ARPA-H funds human drug-safety models. Public materials omit runtime, hardware, and deployment cost.
Why Simulation Supercomputers Are Being Pitched as AI Infrastructure
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.
The FP64 Debate Didn't Produce a Winner. It Produced a Joint Byline.
Dongarra, Hoefler, and Matsuoka now ask whether supercomputing needs GPUs at all, and the CPU-only machine atop the Top500 is their test vehicle.
Reconstructing FP64: How Supercomputing's Establishment Is Adapting Science to AI Silicon
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 Court Froze NSF's Supercomputer Handoff. The Operating Model Is the Story.
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.
Nebius's $50 Billion Sells Out. Public Science Gets None of It.
Nebius's $50B backlog: 94% to Meta and Microsoft, zero to NAIRR, CloudBank, or DOE Genesis. The largest neocloud sells out before science can access it.
Apple's Mac Shortage Signals Memory Supply Chain Has Reorganized Around Data Center AI
Apple cut Mac memory ceilings and delayed M5 Ultra by four months as HBM production for data center AI consumes edge LPDDR5X allocation.
Sustainability and Quantum Systems Move to Center of Jack Dongarra HPC Award
Devesh Tiwari named fifth recipient of the Jack Dongarra Early Career Award, with the committee citing production-deployed energy work and NISQ-era systems research.
Queen's and SFU Want to Build Canada's First Top-10 Supercomputer
Canada currently ranks 78th on the Top500. They'll Need Ottawa's Help.
Canada's Trillium supercomputer cracks a 50-year stellar mystery months after going online
A half-century-old question in astrophysics now has an answer, and the story behind it is as much about compute infrastructure as it is about stars.