Suhaib Khan
@suhaibkhan.bsky.social
Interested in HPC & large storage systems
France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M
France buys nuclear supercomputing spinoff Bull from Atos for €404M
Paris makes sovereignty play as it becomes sole shareholder The French government has finally closed a deal to purchase the Advanced Computing assets of tech giant Atos, leading to the re-emergence of an old industry name: Bull.…
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The #Nvidia Groq 3 language processing unit is designed specifically to handle AI inference. The chip uses SRAM memory integrated within the processor itself to speed up the flow of data. spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-groq-3
By converting 13.8-kV AC grid power to 800V DC at the data center perimeter, most intermediate conversion steps are eliminated. This reduces the # of fans and power-supply units, leads to higher reliability, improved energy efficiency, and a smaller footprint. spectrum.ieee.org/data-center-dc
Is DC Power the Future of AI Data Centers?
Could switching to 800 V DC be the key to more efficient data centers?
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Building extreme (#AI) scale data centers New #datacenter designers are rewriting their rule book to handle power, cooling, and network infrastructure at a scale that would’ve seemed ridiculous five years ago. spectrum.ieee.org/5gw-data-cen... @spectrum.ieee.org
What Will It Take to Build the World’s Largest Data Center?
What does it take to build a data center a quarter the size of Manhattan? Dive into the world of AI-driven construction and find out.
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STH Q1 2026 Letter from the Editor: #AI Got Scary Good If I go somewhere and read, then I want it written by a human. If no one is going to take the time to write it, it does not make sense to spend my time reading it. www.servethehome.com/sth-q1-2026-... @servethehome.com.web.brid.gy
STH Q1 2026 Letter from the Editor AI Got Scary Good
In our STH Q1 2026 Letter from the Editor we go behind the scenes at STH to see what you normally do not get to see
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No one remembers history. When IBM and Microsoft partnered on OS/2, IBM got upset when a MS employee rewrote some code to be smaller and more efficient because “negative lines of code!”. Measure the wrong thing and you’ll get the wrong behavior. Incentives matter. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
Thomas Fuchs@thomasfuchs.at · 6mo agoIf you're not familiar with software development, seeing "lines of code produced" as a metric of quality is like paying a cook by the amount of salt they use.
AI is turning scientists into publishing machines—and quietly funneling them into the same crowded corners of research. spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-r...
Are Scientists Sacrificing Originality for Speed With the Use of AI?
New analysis suggests AI tools narrow the range of ideas explored
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Nvidia’s New #Rubin Architecture Thrives on Networking Some computations happen while data is enroute spectrum.ieee.org/nvidia-rubin... @spectrum.ieee.org
Nvidia’s Vera Rubin Architecture Thrives on Networking
Nvidia's Rubin GPU boasts 50 petaflops of 4-bit computation, but the real magic lies in its six new chips working together.
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AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse Newer models are more prone to silent but deadly failure modes spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-de... #AI @spectrum.ieee.org
Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways
One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?
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The problem with saying "just tier to HDD if flash prices are too high" is HDDs are scarce too. HDD manufacturers opted not to invest in expanding fab capacity b/c they'd never recover the capex given declining HDD sales. HDDs are a myopic investment right now. blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/09/s...
Sky-high flash prices: data reduction or tier to disk?
As SSD prices rise we wonder whether we’re seeing a panic-buying storage media price rise bubble or is AI-driven demand real? In either case, what should we do about it? SSDs cost more than disks so a...
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The Rubin platform uses codesign across six chips — the NVIDIA Vera CPU, NVIDIA Rubin GPU, NVIDIA NVLink™ 6 Switch, NVIDIA ConnectX®-9 SuperNIC, NVIDIA BlueField®-4 DPU and NVIDIA Spectrum™-6 Ethernet Switch — to slash training time and inference token costs. nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/rubin-p...
NVIDIA Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI With Rubin — Six New Chips, One Incredible AI Supercomputer
NVIDIA today kickstarted the next generation of AI with the launch of the NVIDIA Rubin platform, comprising six new chips designed to deliver one incredible AI supercomputer.
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“AGI” has turned into a term of hype rather than a term with a precise meaning. Andrew Ng proposes a new version of the Turing Test, the Turing-#AGI Test. www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/is...
New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou
The Batch AI News and Insights: Happy 2026! Will this be the year we finally achieve AGI? I’d like to propose a new version of the Turing Test...
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NASA's SPHEREx is creating a 3D map of the sky every six months over a two-year period, delivering a sweeping view of the cosmos. Behind the scenes, teams from NASA JPL, Caltech, the NEID project, and TACC built the mission’s first fully automated science data pipeline. Learn more: bit.ly/4b7yufa
Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer
Nvidia spends $5B on Intel bailout, instantly gets $2.5B richer
The deal negotiated in September locked Nvidia into a purchase price of $23 per share. Intel shares traded at $36 on Monday Nvidia’s $5 billion Intel stock purchase is already worth $7.58 billion, turning the recently approved bailout of its rival into a shrewd financial play.…
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📢 REX-IO 2026 Workshop: Call for Papers! 📢 I'm happy to announce the 6th Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads at ACM HPDC 2026! Submissions are due March 31, 2026 (11:59PM AoE). 📜 🦖 Further info: sites.google.com/view/rexio/ #HPC #supercomputing
NVIDIA explains why they used FP8 as a scaling factor in NVFP and not MXFP-style E8M0. The idea is to preserve the largest value in each block. buff.ly/SjwVr6w (16:00 ff) We found this to be very true in a study and managed to recover some MXFP accuracy with micro-rotations: buff.ly/gXaCAhF
Schedule for #HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at FOSDEM'26 (on Sun 1 Feb 2026, in Brussels) has been published: fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
FOSDEM 2026 - HPC, Big Data & Data Science
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A well written (mostly) non-technical #AI primer by @thedeadline.bsky.social www.hpcwire.com/2025/12/16/a...
A (Mostly) Non-Technical AI Primer - HPCwire
I have studied and watched artificial intelligence grow over the last forty years. Like many, back in 1968, I was inspired by HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The question on my mi...
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NERSC recently did a wholesale replacement of its FDR InfiniBand storage fabric to RoCE. The IB was a greenfield installation back when I started in 2015, and replacing it with a competing technology in production is quite the feat. Glad to hear it succeeded. www.nersc.gov/news-and-eve...
Network Upgrades Pave the Way to a Faster Future | NERSC
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U. S.
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IDC: $314.2B in GPU-accelerated systems in first 3 Q of 2025 How sustainable is this crazy server spending? ODMs are now pushing almost 60% of worldwide server revenues, up from 45% last year. www.nextplatform.com/2025/12/16/h... #AI #HPC @nextplatform.bsky.social
The best version of #HPC: NCSA director Bill Gropp on ‘imagining an HPC utopia’ www.eurekalert.org/news-release... @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social
NCSA director Bill Gropp on ‘imagining an HPC utopia’
Nearing his upcoming partial retirement, NCSA Director Bill Gropp shares his vision on what a utopia could look like for high-performance computing.
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NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD — the leading developer of #Slurm, an open-source workload management system for #HPC and #AI blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-...
NVIDIA Acquires Open-Source Workload Management Provider SchedMD
NVIDIA will continue to distribute SchedMD’s open-source, vendor-neutral Slurm software, ensuring wide availability for high-performance computing and AI.
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The EuroHPC Federation Platform will bring @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social systems together, making it easier for researchers and industry to find, access and use computing resources across Europe from a single place. Next step: the launch of MyEuroHPC web interface in March 2026 🔗 csc.fi/en/blog/euro...
I wrote up my notes from #SC25. Have a look: blog.glennklockwood.com/2025/12/sc25... I’ll keep picking away at the editing, but would love to hear more from others about what stood out to them. I wasn’t at the conference itself as much this years as in the past, so I know I missed a lot. #HPC
SC'25 recap
The annual SC conference was held last week, drawing over 16,000 registrants and 560 exhibitors to in St. Louis, Missouri to talk ab...
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A brave stake in the ground that defines what is (and isn’t) a parallel file system. I generally agree with Chris’ explanation. But I’m sure he’ll get hate from parallel storage elitists who don’t like how inclusive his take is.
@chris-mellor.bsky.social · 8mo agoAn attempt - Parallel file systems explained: Metadata, striping, and throughput - blocksandfiles.com/2025/11/26/p...
DOE to build an integrated discovery platform by linking together #supercomputers and other facilities at its 17 National Laboratories with industry and academia drawing on the expertise of roughly 40,000 scientists, engineers, and technical staff. www.theregister.com/2025/11/25/t...
Trump orders nationwide AI Genesis Mission to drive science
: DOE told to build a unified research platform linking federal compute, datasets, and national labs
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NVIDIA will introduce liquid-cooled busbars into the racks for its Vera Rubin platform, part of a broader evolution of data center racks and power design to support more powerful AI computing. open.substack.com/pub/datacent...
As Densities Soar, AI Racks Add Liquid-Cooled Busbars
NVIDIA, Meta Bring Liquid Cooling into Power Chain for Extreme-Density Racks
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Intel: We’re simplifying the Diamond Rapids platform with a focus on 16 Channel processors and extending its benefits down the stack to support a range of unique customers and their use cases. (Source: Intel Spokesperson to STH) www.servethehome.com/intel-cancel... @servethehome.com.web.brid.gy
Intel Cancels its Mainstream Next-Gen Xeon Server Processors
A major next-generation Intel Xeon platform has been removed from the company's roadmap. We have the details on the Diamond Rapids shift
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