HPC News Bytes 20260105: Denied H20s, China Now Granted H200s, Meta Acquires Manus, Sandia’s Photonics Quantum Chip
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Image by kjpargeter on FreepikA happy and prosperous 2026 to you! The world of HPC-AI transitioned to the new year while generating its fair share of news, here’s a rapid (8:35) recap of recent developments, including:– The Trump Administration, having denied NVIDIA H20 GPUs to China, stirs controversy by granting access to H200s– Meta acquires AI startup Manus– Sandia’s new photonics chip for … portable quantum?You can find our podcasts at insideHPC’s @HPCpodcast page, on Twitter, at the OrionX.net blog, on iTunes, and on Google. Here’s the OrionX.net podcast page, and our 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 ….This Data Engineering Survey: 2021 Impact Report summarizes key findings from the inaugural survey and provides a glimpse into the current and future state of data engineering and DataOps. The report highlights some of the major trends uncovered in this year’s survey including the adoption of cloud data platforms, what platforms are winning (and emerging), what data engineers find to be their biggest challenges, and how organizations are handling sensitive data.Name *Email *Website ΔA happy holiday break to all! Here’s a fast (9:30) run-down of recent developments, including: Nvidia’s $20B Groq deal, quantum-classical HPC news round-up, quantum control, scale, error correction, the White House’s plan to close down NCAR and its climate science supercomputer ….