HPC / Scientific Computing

Aug 24, 2026

Giga-Scale AI and the Ethernet Evolution: How Spectrum-X Ethernet Rewrites the Rules

The massive growth of generative AI has fundamentally altered data center design. As distributed model training scales to span hundreds of thousands of GPUs,...
13 MIN READ
Aug 18, 2026

How AI Coding Agents Can Unlock Materials Simulation with NVIDIA ALCHEMI Toolkit

Atomistic simulation requires three things: knowledge of the science, compute-efficient implementation of simulations, and accessible interfaces to the...
13 MIN READ
Jul 27, 2026

NVIDIA Ising Enables Fully Automated Quantum Computer Calibration with Enhanced In-Context Learning

NVIDIA Ising Calibration is an open source vision language model (VLM) designed to interpret diagnostic outputs from quantum processors and determine how they...
4 MIN READ
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Jul 21, 2026

NVIDIA Vera CPU: Olympus Cores Built for Maximum Single-Thread Performance in Agentic AI

Agentic AI shifts more of the critical execution path onto the CPU. Agents operate in sandboxes to execute code, invoke tools, retrieve context, interact with...
13 MIN READ
Jul 13, 2026

NVIDIA Ising Decoding Cuts Color Code Logical Error Rates by Over 300x

Useful quantum computers will require fault tolerant logical operations. Researchers are actively exploring many different quantum error correction (QEC) codes...
6 MIN READ
Jul 09, 2026

A Practical Guide to GPU-Initiated Communication for Molecular Dynamics at Scale

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are among the most demanding workloads in computational science. Using them, researchers can observe atomic behavior in...
21 MIN READ
Jun 23, 2026

Maximize AI Factory Energy Efficiency Through Full-Stack Inference and Training Optimizations

Power can account for 40% of the operating expenses (OpEx) to run an AI factory. Each watt can be spent on overhead, data ingestion, training, or generating...
10 MIN READ
May 13, 2026

Accelerated X-Ray Analysis for Nanoscale Imaging (XANI) of Novel Materials

A massive-scale X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) enables tracking structural and electron dynamics in novel systems, including fusion materials,...
11 MIN READ
May 07, 2026

Achieving Peak System and Workload Efficiency on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 with Slurm Block Scheduling

NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 introduces a fundamentally new way to build GPU clusters by extending NVIDIA NVLink coherence across an entire rack. This design enables...
11 MIN READ
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Apr 22, 2026

Simplify Sparse Deep Learning with Universal Sparse Tensor in nvmath-python

In a previous post, we introduced the Universal Sparse Tensor (UST), enabling developers to decouple a tensor’s sparsity from its memory layout for greater...
11 MIN READ
Apr 14, 2026

Building Custom Atomistic Simulation Workflows for Chemistry and Materials Science with NVIDIA ALCHEMI Toolkit

For decades, computational chemistry has faced a tug-of-war between accuracy and speed. Ab initio methods like density functional theory (DFT) provide high...
14 MIN READ
Apr 14, 2026

NVIDIA NVbandwidth: Your Essential Tool for Measuring GPU Interconnect and Memory Performance

When you’re writing CUDA applications, one of the most important things you need to focus on to write great code is data transfer performance. This applies to...
8 MIN READ
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Apr 14, 2026

NVIDIA Ising Introduces AI-Powered Workflows to Build Fault-Tolerant Quantum Systems

NVIDIA Ising is the world's first family of open AI models for building quantum processors, launching with two model domains: Ising Calibration and Ising...
9 MIN READ
Apr 09, 2026

Running Large-Scale GPU Workloads on Kubernetes with Slurm

Slurm is an open source cluster management and job scheduling system for Linux. It manages job scheduling for over 65% of TOP500 systems. Most organizations...
9 MIN READ
Apr 09, 2026

Cut Checkpoint Costs with About 30 Lines of Python and NVIDIA nvCOMP

Training LLMs requires periodic checkpoints. These full snapshots of model weights, optimizer states, and gradients are saved to storage so training can resume...
13 MIN READ
Mar 12, 2026

Build Accelerated, Differentiable Computational Physics Code for AI with NVIDIA Warp

Computer-aided engineering (CAE) is shifting from human-driven workflows toward AI-driven ones, including physics foundation models that generalize across...
18 MIN READ