HPC News Bytes 20261012
OrionX, Monday, October 12th, 2026
OrionX's weekly HPC podcast covers Gartner's AI predictions, Aurora's DAOS storage, DARPA QBI and quantum funding.
The OrionX editorial team's weekly HPC News Bytes podcast rounds up the week in high-performance computing and AI.
Topics include Gartner's AI predictions on cost, autonomy and accountability, Aurora's DAOS storage system with 800 servers delivering 30TB/s, and DARPA's Quantum Benchmarking Initiative along with quantum startup funding.
The episode also covers a thorium nuclear clock, the TSMC and GlobalFoundries packaging deal and a Rapidus 2nm update.
It closes with AI in mathematics, including a "Denial of Human Validation" attack.