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Join Shahin Khan and Doug Black as they discuss Supercomputing, AI, and Quantum technologies and the applications, markets, and policies that shape them. Weekly "HPC News Bytes", plus periodic "In-Depth" exchanges with experts and "Industry View" from business leaders. OrionX.net/podcast.

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@HPCpodcast-107: Paul Bloch of DDN on AI Storage –...

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2026/01/23

Our special guest today is Paul Bloch, President & Co-founder of DDN, the high performance storage and intelligent data platform company. AI runs on massive amounts of fast and reliable data, which makes topics related to storage systems especially important. We discuss a broad range: technical optimizations for AI storage, DPUs and future directions, alignment with streaming, HPC, and accelerated computing, pilot to production and training to inference technical and operational challenges,

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HPC News Bytes – 20260119

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2026/01/19

- OpenAI and Cerebras- Taiwan Pledges $250B US investment - TSMC in Arizona - Intel 18A fab and Apple - Inside an AI lab online movie is a 300-million-view hit [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260119.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260119 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20260112

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2026/01/12

- CES 2026 - Nvidia Vera Rubin, in-house co-Design - AMD Helios, MI400 MI500 - TSMC GigaFab Arizona - Intel Panther Lake, 18A Fab - Sandia National Lab Neuromorphic Computing for PDE Math [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260112.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260112 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20260105

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2026/01/05

- China's access to H200 GPUs- Meta acquires Manus - Sandia's new photonics chip [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/HPCNB_20260105.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20260105 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251222

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/12/22

- High Frequency Trading race to save nanoseconds- AI federated learning at DOE labs - Perspective from "AI nobility" who are also "AI doomers" [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251222.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251222 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251215

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/12/15

- Nvidia H200 exports to China- H20, H200, Chinese chips: how do they stack up? - Few fast GPUs vs many slow GPUs - China’s electricity production - Datacenter electricity use in the US - Cell-phone sized AI supercomputer - HPC at the edge - Regulating AI [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/HPCNB_20251215.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251215 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251208

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/12/08

- Marvell in AI, Celestial AI- Co-Packaged Optics, Photonics Interconnects - Lasers for EUV, xLight FEL Lasers, ASML Cymer's LPP Lasers - ASML, Canon, Nikon - Chinese efforts in chip manufacturing: SMEE, SiCarrier - Canon's Nano Imprint Lithography (NIL) - China's Xizhi Electron Beam Lithography - Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)'s simplified optics in EUV - SDCS Research on Parkinson's Disease [audio

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HPC News Bytes – 20251201

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/12/01

- CRN's Top 10 Semiconductor Companies of 2025- Google TPU vs. Nvidia - Neoclouds, New Customer Class - DOE Genesis Mission National Initiative [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251201.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251201 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251124

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/11/24

- SC25 quick takes- Thank you St. Louis - Hyperion Research annual SC briefing - Hyperion quantum computing update - New public-private partnership model for DOE's new supercomputers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251124.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251124 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-106: TOP500 at SC25 Conference

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/11/20

Join Shahin and Doug as they analyze and discuss the new TOP500 list. They go over HPL, HPL-MxP, HPCG, Green500, geographical distribution, vendor distribution, and other observations.[audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/106@HPCpodcast_SP_TOP500_SC25_20251119.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-106: TOP500 at SC25 Conference appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251117

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2025/11/17

- Chip Restrictions in China- Quantum Computing: IBM, Quantinuum, D-Wave, US DOE, UK NMI-Q, Julich - SDSC 40th Anniversary, the original 5 NSF centers - SC25 glance ahead [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251117.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251117 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-105: Dan Nystedt on Chips, China, AI Tech

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/11/14

Dan Nystedt, vice president of research at Tri-Orient Investments, joins us to discuss the Asian tech scene: geopolitical tensions and Taiwan's role, rivalries in chip manufacturing and AI, complexities of the global tech supply chain, and China's rare earth dominance and geopolitical impact.[audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/105@HPCpodcast_ID_Dan-Nystedt_Chips-AI-China_20251113.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-105: Dan Nystedt on Chips, China, AI Tech appeared first on

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HPC News Bytes – 20251110

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/11/10

- Quantum-accelerated supercomputing- NVQLink, QCS, QEC - Tesla Intel collaboration? - Is the chip era ending? - SC25 offers new options for those impacted by US Government shutdown [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251110.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251110 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251103

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/11/03

- New Exa-Class Supercomputers at DOE labs, HPE, AMD, NVIDIA, Oracle, - AI-RAN, Telecoms+AI, Nvidia+Nokia+partners - Intel+SambaNova ? [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/HPCNB_20251103.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251103 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251027

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/10/27

- Google Claims Verifiable Quantum Advantage- Quantum Computing Applications and Current Status - US Govt’s Rumored Interest in Equity Stakes in Quantum-Computing Firms - NextSilicon’s New Chip - A Bit of History on Reconfigurable Computing, Data Flow Architecture, Systolic Arrays [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HPCNB_20251027.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251027 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251020

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/10/20

- How about an AI system that needs 2x the energy NYC uses?- A GPU for every person - HPC-Quantum hybrid systems - Exascale Day 10/18, ExaFlops or ExaWatts? - Seymour Cray 100th birthday - Cray-1 50th anniversary - US Mint's new dollar coin featuring the Cray-1 - Cray-1 masterclass in... branding! [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HPCNB_20251020.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251020 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251013

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/10/13

- AMD OpenAI - AMD Oracle - Intel Clearwater Forest (Xeon 6+) - Intel Fab52 18A looks like is catching up with TSMC - SC25 conference looks like another big one [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HPCNB_20251013.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251013 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-104: Silicon Photonics, w Keren Bergman (2)

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/10/13

We had the opportunity to catch up again with Professors Keren Bergman to discuss the latest developments in all things optical: co-packaged photonics/opto-eletcronics/silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), and optical computing. [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/104@HPCpodcast_SP_Keren-Bergman_Silicon-Photonics_20251012.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-104: Silicon Photonics, w Keren Bergman (2) appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20251006

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/10/06

- Provably unconditional quantum (information) supremacy- Big clouds balance own vs merchant GPUs - Big unexpected players in HPC/AI infratech [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HPCNB_20251006.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20251006 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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HPC News Bytes – 20250929

@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black ·

2025/09/29

- "World Models” aim for the next big thing in AI- Microsoft’s $3.3B datacenter, with a $4B one to Follow - OpenAI talks central-park-sized datacenter, times 13 - In-Chip ‘Microfluidics’ cooling - Caltech tames 6,100 neutral atom qubits with 12,000 optical tweezers [audio mp3="https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/HPCNB_20250929.mp3"][/audio] The post HPC News Bytes – 20250929 appeared first on OrionX.net.

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