Inside MemKV, MinIO’s 3.5G Solution for KV Cache Acceleration
MinIO rolled out its second major product earlier this month. Dubbed MemKV, the software expands the KV cache layer in AI inference clusters, thereby enabling...
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HPC Career Notes for May 2026
It’s time once again for HPC Career Notes, our monthly feature that’s designed to keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the HPC community, including promotion,…
FuriosaAI and Broadcom Team Up to Build Rack-Scale Inference Clusters
FuriosaAI and Broadcom are teaming up to develop a next-generation AI inference cluster that combines hundreds of FuriosaAI’s third-generation chips with Broadcom’s high-bandwidth, low-latency Ethernet interconnect. The as-yet unnamed system…
Extreme Weather Reinforces the Case for More Compute, Better Efficiency, and Fewer Data Centers
As we head into summer, data centers around the world are facing a challenging weather pattern similar to what we saw in 2025. Last July, the average global temperature hit…
Huawei Bets on a New Semiconductor Playbook to Overcome Chip Restrictions
U.S. sanctions were designed to limit China’s access to the most advanced semiconductor technologies. The sanctions include limited access to advanced chips from companies like NVIDIA and AMD. What this…
Inside Argonne’s Plan to Build Robot Scientific Assistants
Artificial intelligence is poised to give scientists a leg up with abstract components of scientific reasoning. That’s the target for the...
Harness the Power of Rack-Scale Performance for Large-Scale AI
AI has entered an industrial phase, no longer confined to isolated models or experimental deployments. AI now operates as always-on AI...
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The Great AI Agent Suicide Pact Proves Governance Is Dead-The Industry’s Favorite New Way to Self-Destruct
There is a certain rhythm to the technology industry that I’ve observed over several decades: We find a shiny new tool, we promise it will...
Commerce Takes Portfolio Approach with $2B Quantum Investment Initiative
Yesterday the U.S. Department of Commerce announced letters of intent (LOIs) with nine quantum computing and manufacturing companies for more than $2 billion in proposed...
Genesis Content: Where Does GenAI Get Its Next Meal?
Something about building GenAI LLMs bugs me. Before I begin, let me be clear: I am a supporter of AI technologies, particularly in science. Lately,...
Google and Blackstone Team Up to Launch TPU Venture
For years, hyperscalers built infrastructure largely for their own cloud ecosystems. However, AI is starting to break that model. The sheer cost of accelerators, data...
Quantum Computing 101: Introduction to QC
Quantum computing is a field of computer science that utilizes quantum mechanics to process information at very high speeds and solve problems that may be...
Can a Sparse-AI Hardware Architecture for Data Centers Work?
In order to fit today’s neural networks onto hardware, some practitioners utilize some type of weight-pruning method to compress the…
Google Advances AI for Science with New Tools and Tech
Google is launching a series of new tools to help scientists leverage AI technology as a force multiplier to accelerate…
Scale AI Joins DOE’s Genesis Mission as Scientific AI Shifts Toward Data Infrastructure
AI infrastructure and software company Scale AI has signed an MOU with the Department of Energy to support the Genesis…
Sandia Lab Gives Approval to Spectra Supercomputer
The Spectra supercomputer built by Penguin Solutions using Maverick-2 chips from NextSilicon received fully system acceptance by Sandia National Laboratories,…
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HPC Spending Cooled in ‘25, Hyperion Says
After a blowout year in 2024, HPC spending slowed a bit in 2025, posting a more modest–but still very impressive–gain…
Slurm vs. Kubernetes in the Age of AI
Which scheduler should you use for AI workloads, Slurm or Kubernetes? It’s a debate that generates passionate arguments on both…
Cerebras IPO Signals Growing Pressure on the GPU Scaling Model
For most of the AI boom, the general assumption regarding AI hardware was to keep scaling GPU clusters and the…
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