Google Cloud debuts agentic HPC skills and AlphaEvolve on Cloud Batch ahead of SC26

Google Cloud unveiled an agentic HPC stack ahead of SC26, pairing Google Antigravity and DeepMind Science Skills with validated-template skills for Slurm, GROMACS, OpenFOAM, Devito and AlphaFold 3 runs. AlphaEvolve, the Gemini-driven evolutionary optimizer, lands generally available on Cloud Batch and can distribute hundreds of candidate evaluations across RDMA-fabric, Managed Lustre and Spot VMs. The release also pulls together 8th-gen TPUs (TPU 8t and 8i), NVIDIA Blackwell A4X/A5X bare-metal and AMD EPYC H4D shapes under a declarative Cluster Toolkit.