hpc

Synopsys has rolled out a cloud‑native, simulation‑driven framework that promises to bring high‑fidelity computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and factory‑scale digital twins into the operational tempo of the shop floor — a multi‑vendor architecture demonstrated with bottling‑line specialist Krones...

Synopsys’ new simulation-driven framework unveiled at Microsoft Ignite promises to turn slow, high‑fidelity CFD workflows into near‑real‑time decision tools for the factory floor — a multi‑vendor stack that combines Synopsys’ accelerated physics, GPU‑native Ansys Fluent, NVIDIA Omniverse/OpenUSD...

Microsoft Azure’s HBv5 virtual machines have reached general availability, delivering a seismic shift in cloud HPC by pairing a custom AMD EPYC 9V64H processor with on‑package HBM3 memory and delivering nearly 7 TB/s of sustained memory bandwidth — a change that transforms which classes of HPC...

Microsoft and AMD’s co-designed EPYC 9V64H — the CPU at the heart of Azure’s new HBv5 virtual machines — changes the calculus for memory‑bound HPC in the cloud by bringing HBM3 directly to an EPYC‑class CPU and delivering an order‑of‑magnitude uplift in sustained memory bandwidth for real‑world...

Oracle’s sudden emergence as a credible AI cloud contender has shifted the conversation: a company long defined by databases is now pitching a bold, capital‑intensive roadmap that — if every assumption holds — could place Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) among the industry’s leaders for AI...

NVIDIA and a coalition of partners have announced what they describe as the United Kingdom’s largest coordinated push to build onshore AI supercomputing capacity: an industrial-scale programme of “AI factories” and sovereign compute zones that promises up to £11 billion of investment and as many...

Oracle’s latest financial quarter did more than surprise investors — it rewrote the short-term narrative for how legacy enterprise vendors can compete in an AI-first cloud market by converting a mountain of booked contracts into a five‑year infrastructure roadmap that, if executed, would elevate...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday delivered a broad, operationally important set of security updates on September 9, 2025, covering Windows, Microsoft Office, SQL Server and related platform components — with industry trackers reporting roughly 80–86 CVEs patched and several high‑priority...

Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday consolidates a large and varied set of fixes: Microsoft shipped updates covering roughly eighty CVEs across 15 product families, with a cluster of Elevation of Privilege (EoP) and Remote Code Execution (RCE) issues dominating the tally and a small set of...

Microsoft pushed its September 2025 monthly security updates on Patch Tuesday, delivering a broad set of fixes that address dozens of vulnerabilities across Windows client, server, and Microsoft server products — including multiple emergency severity fixes for remote code execution and a...

Microsoft’s High Performance Compute (HPC) Pack is under scrutiny after a reported deserialization vulnerability that — if the technical description is accurate — would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code over a networked HPC cluster; however, the specific identifier CVE-2025-55232 could...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...

Microsoft’s rollout of ND H200 v5 instances for Azure Machine Learning is a substantial, full‑stack upgrade that pairs Microsoft’s cloud orchestration with NVIDIA’s newest H200 Tensor Core GPUs to give teams a rare combination of massive on‑GPU memory, dense compute, and high‑bandwidth...

The AI infrastructure era is consolidating around three firms that sit at the intersection of design, fabrication, and deployment: Nvidia for compute architectures and software stacks, TSMC for the advanced manufacturing that turns designs into reality, and Microsoft for the cloud fabric and...

AMD’s “Rome” EPYC announcement and the related Computex chatter about deeper Azure collaboration mixed accurate engineering milestones with translation-smoothed promotional claims, but the core story is straightforward: AMD’s 2nd‑generation EPYC (Rome) legitimately reshaped server economics and...

Glenn Lockwood, a prominent figure in the high-performance computing (HPC) world and a respected voice in the supercomputing community, has recently made headlines by announcing his departure from Microsoft. This move is significant not only because of Lockwood’s stature—gained through his...

When Clarios—the global leader in advanced energy storage—set out to overhaul its high-performance computing (HPC) strategy, the destination was clear: faster insights, increased agility, and the resilience to keep innovating. Yet the road there was anything but certain. Like many manufacturing...

Microsoft's recent unveiling of the Azure ND GB200 v6 Virtual Machines (VMs) marks a significant milestone in the evolution of AI infrastructure. These VMs, powered by NVIDIA's GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips, are poised to redefine the cost-performance dynamics in AI computing. Architectural...

Change is brewing in the world of AI development as AMD hints at expanding ROCm support from Linux to Windows—an update that has the potential to reshape the landscape for developers, enterprises, and even everyday Windows enthusiasts. For years, this capability has lingered near the top of user...

For anyone who’s ever battled with an HPC cluster, watching as cryptic SLURM commands and arcane SSH rituals defeated your best intentions, there’s a new glimmer of hope on the as-a-service horizon. Azure, along with its regular cast of cloud and silicon heroes, is unleashing a dynamic duo: Open...