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Drew Jolly

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QCwire Managing Editor. HPCwire, AIwire & BigDATAwire Contributing Editor
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Drew Jolly @amjolly.bsky.social · Apr 22

Construction of the Horizon supercomputer at TACC could be delayed—or scrapped entirely—if a federal budget dispute isn’t resolved soon. “A stop-work order would be a disaster.”

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NSF Budget Dispute Threatens Progress on TACC’s Horizon System

Construction of the Horizon supercomputer at TACC could be delayed—or scrapped entirely—if a federal budget dispute isn’t resolved soon. According to Science, uncertainty around the National Science F...

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Drew Jolly

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Johns Hopkins Team Unveils New Framework for Mapping Noise in Quantum Processors
#QuantumComputing #HPCwire
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Johns Hopkins Team Unveils New Framework for Mapping Noise in Quantum Processors - HPCwire

Nov. 21, 2025 — Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have achieved a breakthrough in quantum noise charact...

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November 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM

Drew Jolly

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Foxconn Launches Taiwan’s 1st Sovereign AI Supercomputing Center with NVIDIA GB300 Infrastructure
#Foxconn #HPC #NVIDIA
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Foxconn Launches Taiwan’s 1st Sovereign AI Supercomputing Center with NVIDIA GB300 Infrastructure - HPCwire

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 21, 2025 — At this year’s Hon Hai Tech Day, Visionbay.ai, Foxconn’s dedicated business unit for AI supercomputing and cloud operations, made its first public debut, announcing pla...

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November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Drew Jolly

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ACM Recognizes Team for 1 km Global Earth System Simulation with Gordon Bell Climate Prize
#SC25 #HPCwire
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ACM Recognizes Team for 1 km Global Earth System Simulation with Gordon Bell Climate Prize - HPCwire

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 20, 2025 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 26-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling in recognition of their project “Computin...

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November 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM

Drew Jolly

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ACM Gordon Bell Prize Honors Breakthrough in Real-Time Tsunami Modeling
#SC25 #HPCwire
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ACM Gordon Bell Prize Honors Breakthrough in Real-Time Tsunami Modeling - HPCwire

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 20, 2o25 — ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named an eight-member team drawn from US institutions as the winner of the 2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for their project, “Real...

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November 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM

Drew Jolly

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Meanwhile, in Germany... No specific info on node count, etc. You're killing me, Equinix...

Equinix Hosts New Lenovo-Built HPC to Advance Merck’s AI-Driven Research
#Lenovo #HPC
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Equinix Hosts New Lenovo-Built HPC to Advance Merck’s AI-Driven Research - HPCwire

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., HONG KONG and DARMSTADT, Germany, Nov. 20, 2025 — Equinix, Inc. today announced Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, has successfully launche...

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November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM

Drew Jolly

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IBM and Cisco Set Roadmap for Connecting Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers Across Data Centers
#QuantumComputing #HPCwire
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IBM and Cisco Set Roadmap for Connecting Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers Across Data Centers - HPCwire

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. and SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 20, 2025 — Today, IBM and Cisco announced an intention to collaborate on the groundwork for networked distributed quantum computing, to be realized as...

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November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM

Drew Jolly

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"The show provided a tiny booth sign indicating the NIST booth... I talked to the NIST member who made the effort to attend SC25, he noted that they just returned to work last week, that NIST was unable to fully prepare for SC25, and that he was still waiting to be paid."

Doug Eadline @thedeadline.bsky.social · 6d

A few #SC25 observationS

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SC25 Observations: More Pumps than Processors - HPCwire

Each year at SC, I like to report on some of the experiences and observations I find as the show progresses. There is so much more going on, and I’m sure I missed a lot of news and events. There is a ...

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November 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM

Drew Jolly

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DOE Announces Partnership with Fermilab and Qblox to Manufacture Quantum Control Platform for US Research and Innovation
#QuantumComputing #HPC
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DOE Announces Partnership with Fermilab and Qblox to Manufacture Quantum Control Platform for US Research and Innovation - HPCwire

WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2025 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Technology Commercialization today announced a partnership between Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) and Qblo...

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November 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM

Drew Jolly

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HPCwire Reveals Winners of the 22nd Annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards During SC25
#HPCwire #SC25
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HPCwire Reveals Winners of the 22nd Annual Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards During SC25 - HPCwire

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17, 2025 — HPCwire, the leading publication for news and information for the high performance computing industry, announced the winners of the 2025 HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice...

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November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM

Drew Jolly

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HPE Leads TOP500 as Six of the Ten Fastest Supercomputers Run on Its Tech
#HPE #HPC #SC25
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HPE Leads TOP500 as Six of the Ten Fastest Supercomputers Run on Its Tech - HPCwire

Nov. 17, 2025 — The world’s three fastest exascale supercomputers were built and delivered by HPE according to the recent TOP500 list, reflecting HPE’s global leadership in delivering high performance...

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November 17, 2025 at 7:49 PM

Drew Jolly

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HPC-AI Advisory Council Announces Results of 8th APAC HPC-AI Competition
#HPC #SC25
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HPC-AI Advisory Council Announces Results of 8th APAC HPC-AI Competition - HPCwire

Six-month competition challenged students to optimize open-source computational chemistry and large language model inference ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17, 2025 – The HPC-AI Advisory Council (HPCAIAC), together ...

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November 17, 2025 at 5:58 PM

Drew Jolly

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ASC26 Registration Now Open, Universities Worldwide Invited to Compete
#ASC26 #SC25 #HPC
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ASC26 Registration Now Open, Universities Worldwide Invited to Compete - HPCwire

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 17, 2025 — The ASC Committee has officially opened registration for ASC26 Student Supercomputer Challenge and will hold a briefing session at Supercomputing 2025 (SC25) in St. Louis on...

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November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Drew Jolly

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E4S Release 25.11 Now Available with New Container Images, Support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU Architecture and More Than 125 HPC and AI Packages
#HPC #HPSF #HPCwire
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E4S Release 25.11 Now Available with New Container Images, Support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU Architecture and More Than 125 HPC and AI Packages - HPCwire

E4S Release 25.11 Now Available with New Container Images, Support for NVIDIA Blackwell GPU Architecture and More Than 125 HPC and AI Packages EUGENE, Ore., Nov. 17, 2025— The E4S Project, today annou...

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November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Drew Jolly

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HPCwire’s Managing Editor, Alex Woodie, is moderating a must-see panel at #SC25 —
"AI Factory Supercomputers Are Not HPC Supercomputers"
Link: ow.ly/MVJU50XroT3