HPC News Bytes 20251117: SC25 Starts!, Conflicting Tales of China AI Chip Bans, Quantum in the News, NSF Supercomputing Centers Hit 40

A happy Supercomputing Conference week to you from St. Louis! This will be a big news week for HPC and AI, and so was last week – here’s a fast (9:50) rundown of recent developments:– China feeling the bite of AI chip export restrictions while working workarounds– Quantum computing: IBM, Quantinuum, D-Wave, US DOE, UK NMI-Q, Julich-NVIDIA– SDSC 40th anniversary, the original five National Science Foundation centers– SC25 opens today, with a glance aheadYou can find our podcasts at insideHPC’s @HPCpodcast page, on Twitter, on the OrionX.net podcast page, on iTunes and Google. Here’s the the RSS feed. We’re also available on Spotify and iTunes.The NVIDIA L40S Data Center GPU, provided by PNY, represents a significant leap forward in the realm of high-performance computing. This GPU is engineered to meet the demanding needs of modern data centers ….A White paper by Philip Howard, Bloor Research International Ltd on critical considerations for Hadoop deployments and the role of appliances.Name *Email *Website ΔEUGENE, OR., November 17, 2025— The E4S Project, today announced the immediate availability of E4S Release 25.11. E4S, an HPSF project, is the open-source, community-driven HPC-AI Software Ecosystem for Science. This curated, Spack based collection of scientific libraries and tools forms the foundation of some of the world’s most advanced scientific applications. E4S 25.11 container images […]