Google Cloud outlines new HPC compute, TPUs and agentic tools for SC26

Google Cloud announced new high-performance computing and agentic AI tooling on November 14, 2026, publishing Where supercomputing meets agentic AI: What's new in Google Cloud HPC and AI at SC26 ahead of the SC26 supercomputing conference. The post details new virtual machine families, eighth-generation TPUs, and Cloud Batch support for AlphaEvolve, Google's evolutionary coding system.

What is changing on Google Cloud

• H4D compute-optimized VMs use 5th-generation AMD EPYC processors with Cloud RDMA, including configurations with up to 3 TB of memory for EDA and engineering workloads.
• C4A Arm-based VMs run on Google Axion processors for improved performance per watt.
• New GPU options include A4/A4X instances with NVIDIA Blackwell B200/GB200 NVL72, newly available A5X bare-metal instances with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, and G4 instances with RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs.
• Eighth-generation TPUs, TPU 8t for large-scale pretraining and TPU 8i for high-throughput inference, arrive with Cloud Batch now supporting single-host TPU slices.
• Google Cloud Managed Lustre now offers up to 10 TB/s read throughput and an 80 PB Dynamic Tier with Cloud Storage Mirroring.
• Cluster Toolkit now integrates with composable agent skills downloadable from the Google Skills and DeepMind Science Skills repositories.

What it means for people building with AI

AlphaEvolve, Google's Gemini-powered evolutionary coding loop, now runs on Google Cloud Batch, scaling from a single seed algorithm to hundreds of parallel candidate evaluations. Combined with the new VM families, TPUs and storage options, teams running large AI training or inference workloads, or using AlphaEvolve-style agentic optimization, get new compute, storage and tooling choices on Google Cloud immediately.

Where to see it at SC26

Google plans to demo Antigravity for HPC, an HPC Prompt Playground, and AlphaEvolve for HPC at SC26, Booth 3418, McCormick Place West, from November 15 to 20, 2026.

Sources

• Where supercomputing meets agentic AI: What's new in Google Cloud HPC and AI at SC26 (Google Cloud, November 14, 2026, official)

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