Compute, storage, and networking: A 2025 retrospective
US manufacturing booms, Nvidia splashes the cash, and quantum machines advance
Long Reads - HPC & Quantum (EN)
In-depth features about the data center, AI, semiconductor, telco, and energy markets
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Quantum for good: Are trapped ion qubits the future of drug discovery?
Universal Quantum is on a mission to help develop a cure for endometriosis
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Data mining
Going underground at Norway's Lefdal Mine data center
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How to build a supercomputer
DCD gets up close and personal with Hunter, the most powerful supercomputer at the Stuttgart HPC center
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The IT behind "Science for Humanity"
Imperial College London’s CIO Jenny Rae on running a university’s technology backbone
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Cloud vs on-prem: Customers and quantum computers
DCD talks to on-premise and cloud customers of quantum computers
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Inside a quantum data center
DCD visits quantum data centers from IBM and IQM in Germany
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Touring Europe’s fastest AI supercomputer
Lumi brings together traditional HPC and modern AI
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Frosty with a chance of GPUs
The compute behind our weather forecast systems
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Former US DOE CIO Ann Dunkin on her nuclear-scale challenge
Ex-DOE IT chief on the technology needed to green the power of the world
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Handling a nation’s confidential data
GCHQ loves its secrets. It also loves reading yours
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Liquid cooling in the generative AI era
Requirements for liquid cooling in data centers are evolving fast, and vendors are reacting accordingly
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Nvidia wins, Intel loses, and xAI builds a Colossus: A year in compute
An incomplete list of the compute, storage, and networking stories everyone’s been talking about in 2024
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Inside the wild world of high frequency trading
DCD speaks to the firms chasing the last nanosecond
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Breaking Dawn: Inside the UK's newest AI supercomputer
The Intel-powered machine will support the work of scientists
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How do you solve a problem like Atos?
Plagued by debt and bad decisions, is there any way back for the French IT giant?
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Longer coherence: How the quantum computing industry is maturing
Academics with screwdrivers are making way for operations engineers and SLAs
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Qubits come of age in the data center
What happens when you put a quantum computer alongside conventional systems?
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Quantum computers face a laser challenge
Could laser-based computing deliver the best of both classical and quantum computing?
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DCD Magazine out now: The Issue 50 bumper edition
Our biggest issue yet
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Racing at the Edge: How portable data centers are driving Formula 1
Why IT is essential to the need for speed and success in F1
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Generative AI & the future of data centers: Part III - The Supercomputers
What's left for HPC in the world of generative AI?
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Generative AI & the future of data centers: Part I - The Models
A seven-part article on what large language models and what the next wave of workloads mean for compute, networking, and data center design
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Simulating the flamingo universe, and other challenges at trillion-particle scales
At a university campus in England, a RAM-heavy supercomputer tries to unlock cosmic secrets
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The end of the supercomputer era
As exascale system power requirements reach tens of megawatts, on-premise facilities are becoming less feasible
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Spinning up a universal quantum computer
Quantum Motion is a small startup with big ambitions. It hopes to change the world, but is it all just spin?
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Why do we need a quantum Internet?
Quantum computers are still in development. But the quantum Internet may be closer than you think
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The Earth Wind & Power CEO who's flaring for the world
We talk to the former Norwegian politician who wants to make sure that energy doesn’t get wasted