Advanced HPC

The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC

Feature From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower

Supercomputing Month26 Nov 2025 | 6

HPE's Discovery to succeed Frontier supercomputer with next-gen Cray tech

Oak Ridge's $500M system due in 2028, paired with a separate Lux AI cluster arriving two years earlier

Supercomputing Month27 Oct 2025 | 3

Oak Ridge casts nets in search of Frontier supercomputer's heir

US national lab expects Discovery to deliver 'three to five times more computational throughput'

HPC24 Jul 2024 | 9

Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can't fill the gap

Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers

HPC20 Feb 2024 | 4

Ultra Ethernet Consortium wants to optimize networking for AI and HPC

Not changing the standard, but tweaking how applications work over top

Networks20 Jul 2023 | 3

LUMI supercomputer puts GPU partition through its paces with hardcore science

Simulates the Sun's atmosphere, peers deep into Earth's interior, and can probably run Crysis

HPC19 Jan 2023 | 6

Europe to have 2 of the 4 most powerful supercomputers as Leonardo comes online

Pre-exascale system will be officially inaugurated at the Bologna Technopole in Italy on November 24

HPC22 Nov 2022 | 14

BAE scores $699 million contract to support US Army supercomputers

Systems will help with the DoD's most demanding computational challenges including AI, ML, and analytics

HPC18 Jul 2022 | 7

US seeks exascale systems 10 times faster than current state-of-the-art computers

China claims to have 10 in the pipeline and may pull ahead in HPC arms race

HPC29 Jun 2022 | 10

Home-grown Euro chipmaker SiPearl signs deal with HPE, Nvidia

Claims partnerships will drive development and adoption of exascale computing in Europe

HPC30 May 2022 | 2

HPE, Cerebras build AI supercomputer for scientific research

Wafer madness hits the LRZ in HPE Superdome supercomputer wrapper

HPC25 May 2022 | 2

US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025

China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software

HPC20 May 2022 | 26

Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack team emits v22.02

Open-source HPC suite now includes 100 full-release products

HPC01 Apr 2022 |

Ever-growing volumes of data mean computational storage is becoming crucial for HPC, say boffins at Dell's tech chinwag

Data at rest should remain at rest

HPC31 Jan 2022 | 3

A unified, agnostic software environment spanning HPC and AI won't be achieved

Register debate Readers have their say

HPC10 Dec 2021 | 2

Quantum computing to grow by 50 per cent per year until 2027, when revenue will still be chump change

IDC reckons industry will be worth $8.6B a year – or about a quarter of one Dell quarter

On-Prem30 Nov 2021 | 10

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