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Supercomputing News 9 July 2025 - 19 September 2025

10X Faster Than Any Supercomputer: Inside Microsoft’s AI Mega-Datacenter

10X Faster Than Any Supercomputer: Inside Microsoft’s AI Mega-Datacenter

In summary, Microsoft’s new AI datacenter in Wisconsin – billed as the world’s most powerful – embodies the scale and ambition of today’s AI era. It merges cutting-edge silicon, novel cooling and networking, and massive cloud integration to enable “frontier” AI models that were previously impossible. By tightly coupling hundreds of thousands of GPUs into one system, Microsoft is effectively launching a cloud-based supercomputer for AI, boosting both its Azure platform and partners like OpenAI. This effort is a cornerstone of Microsoft’s strategy to democratize AI – delivering advanced AI services globally via Azure’s network of 400+ datacenters. At the
High-Performance Computing Highlights (June–July 2025): Exascale Era, HPC-AI Convergence, and Global Supercomputing Advances

High-Performance Computing Highlights (June–July 2025): Exascale Era, HPC-AI Convergence, and Global Supercomputing Advances

El Capitan at LLNL leads the June 2025 TOP500 with 1.742 exaFLOPS (HPL) using HPE Cray EX hardware, AMD 4th Gen EPYC CPUs, and MI300A accelerators. Frontier at ORNL is #2 with 1.353 exaFLOPS on HPL, powered by HPE Cray EX235a and AMD 3rd Gen EPYC CPUs plus MI250X GPUs. Aurora at Argonne is #3, delivering 1.012 exaFLOPS on HPL with Intel Xeon Max CPUs and Data Center GPU Max accelerators. JUPITER Booster at Jülich debuted at #4 with 0.793 exaFLOPS (partial) on a BullSequana-based system using NVIDIA Grace Hopper GH200 chips and built by Atos Eviden, containing about 4.8
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