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Monumental numeral 64 under reconstruction from thousands of small blocks, one digit complete and the other half-built behind scaffolding, illustrating FP64 precision being emulated from 8-bit arithmetic.
HPCanalysis

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.

Top500ISC
Matt Walters·
Interior of a Japanese supercomputing facility with open server rack showing GPU accelerators alongside a Fujitsu CPU module, representing FugakuNEXT's hybrid architecture pairing MONAKA-X CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs over NVLink Fusion.
HPCanalysis

Japan's Next Flagship Machine Abandons the Top500 Chase

FugakuNEXT pairs Fujitsu MONAKA-X CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs, ending Japan's all-Arm sovereign architecture and betting on throughput over benchmarks.

Exascale ComputingTop500
SCN Staff·
A row of HPE Cray cabinets at Argonne's ALCF spelling "Aurora" in large white letters across teal, green, and magenta panels.
HPCnews

Argonne Turns a Plain-English Prompt Into 11,182 GCMC Runs on Aurora

A planner/executor agent hierarchy drove a 5,591-MOF screening campaign across 256 Aurora nodes. Orchestration overhead came in under 90 seconds per run.

Exascale ComputingNational Labs & Government
SCN Staff·
Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
HPCnews

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.

Research ComputingTop500
SCN Staff·