HPC

Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says

Of course the company that figured out chiplets says the answer is more chiplets

Systems23 Feb 2023 | 54

The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns

Droughts, flash floods the future for the Midwest ... probably

Science18 Feb 2023 | 90

Still waiting for Intel's Aurora? Borealis will give you a taster

Supercomputer deadline's been and Argonne, but for now, here's a testbed for boffins

Systems17 Feb 2023 | 4

Atos tossed €20m to build Max Planck Society supercomputer

Unnamed platform boasts three times the application performance of its predecessor, Cobra

HPC13 Feb 2023 | 2

Uncle Sam wants to strip the IoS out of IoT with light crypto

NIST weighs up algorithms for small devices – and an architecture for massive systems

Security09 Feb 2023 | 12

Could RISC-V become a force in high performance computing?

Analysis Meanwhile, Euro supercomputer project makes a call for developing an HPC ecosystem based on the architecture

HPC08 Feb 2023 | 28

US Department of Energy solicits AMD's help with nuke sims

Chips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too

Systems31 Jan 2023 | 6

So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer

Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans?

AI + ML29 Jan 2023 | 54

EU infrastructure risk project to address potential climate, 'resource' shortage catastrophes

Atos-led group to protect European infrastructure from impact of future pandemics – using Horizon cash

Government Tech Week24 Jan 2023 | 21

8K? That’s cute. This display has 600 million pixels

My god, it's full of TVs

Systems24 Jan 2023 | 37

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

Atos will be paid $29m over $1b UK Met Office supercomputer dispute

Settlement 'without admission of liability' followed court challenge to Microsoft mega-deal

HPC09 Jan 2023 | 29

Researchers teach AI to pinpoint mutations linked to cancer

An ounce of prediction is worth a pound of cure

AI + ML05 Jan 2023 | 1

As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave

Comment There's more than one way to beat the heat – and save serious money

Systems29 Dec 2022 | 35

XaaS is taking over the datacenter and IDC says you asked for it

Comment As customers grapple with pricey AI systems and nontraditional compute, HPE, Dell, and Lenovo circle in wait

On-Prem14 Dec 2022 | 5

If today's tech gets you down, remember supercomputers are still being used for scientific progress

Turns out it's a bit more complex than throwing more GPUs at the math

HPC11 Dec 2022 | 14

Durham Uni and Dell co-design systems to help model the universe

A particle physicist, an astronomer and a cosmologist meet in a bar. You what, COSMA8?

HPC06 Dec 2022 | 4

NOAA, Microsoft partner to put climate models in the clouds

Don't worry, Redmond hasn't gotten its hands on the agency's coffers yet

HPC01 Dec 2022 | 3

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

HPC's lost histories will power the future of tech

Opinion If you thought the '80s were cool, wait for the revival

HPC21 Nov 2022 | 16

Nvidia H100-based Henri supercomputer tests AMD’s claim on Green500

SC22 In this race it's all about flops per watts

HPC17 Nov 2022 | 1

Azure-based 'AI supercomputer' to use Nvidia GPUs and software

Is it a super or a cloud service? Users would string together components as required

HPC17 Nov 2022 |

Nvidia turns to optical trickery to boost long-haul InfiniBand performance

SC22 The platform launches alongside new frameworks for AI preprocessing at the edge

Networks15 Nov 2022 | 1

SiPearl works with AMD on GPU support for Arm HPC chip

Duo also hope to support development of exascale computing at research institutions

Systems15 Nov 2022 |

Cerebras's supercomputer has more cores than world's fastest iron – with a big catch

Better for AI, but Frontier's still top of the heap

HPC15 Nov 2022 | 6

How AMD, Intel, Nvidia are keeping their cores from starving

Analysis Chips are only as fast as the memory that feeds them

Systems14 Nov 2022 | 2

Aurora delays keep Frontier supercomputer in #1 spot on Top500

SC22 EuroHPC's LUMI upgrades secure narrow lead over all-new Leonardo system

HPC14 Nov 2022 | 1

Dell pushing hybrid quantum/classical system in HPC overhaul

SC22 Steady now. It's not the full-fledged quantum that will suddenly let you crack encryption algos

HPC14 Nov 2022 | 1

AMD's 96-core Epyc CPUs leapfrog Intel to put DDR5, PCIe 5.0 in the datacenter

Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim

Systems10 Nov 2022 |

Optimizer Rescale recommends Rescale's optimization recommender

Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it

HPC09 Nov 2022 |

Intel takes on AMD and Nvidia with mad 'Max' chips for HPC

x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory

Systems09 Nov 2022 | 13

The all liquid-cooled colo facility rush has begun

AI and HPC deployments means propping up 250kW densities per rack

Systems08 Nov 2022 | 13

HPE supercomputer to tell Singapore that it's hot, humid, probably going to rain

Cray EX beast deployed to improve weather forecasting in country that has basically one season

HPC28 Oct 2022 | 5

Fujitsu launches HPC and not-quite-quantum cloud services

Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year

HPC25 Oct 2022 | 1

Intel DAOS 2.2 and Red Hat Stratis 3.3 released

New versions of two next-gen Linux storage engines may belie fading interest

Storage24 Oct 2022 |

Scientists model turbulence to boost space propulsion

Running direct numerical simulation on 'an industrial scale'

HPC12 Oct 2022 | 10

Saudi Arabia turns to HPE for AMD-powered Cray supercomputer

The Beast of the Middle East: up to 20 times faster than predecessor, that's 884,736 CPU cores across the system

HPC27 Sep 2022 | 1

China's Baidu enters quantum computing chat with Qian Shi system

A small but functional quantum system accelerating science, not search

Science25 Aug 2022 | 2

Tesla wants to take machine learning silicon to the Dojo

Just how bad does existing AI hardware have to be to start from scratch?

AI + ML24 Aug 2022 | 10

Intel set to squeeze the flops out of Ponte Vecchio GPU

Hot Chips Now this x86 giant just needs to ship a compatible CPU

Systems23 Aug 2022 | 5

Polaris supercomputer boots up, paves way for Aurora exascale system

Researchers cue up AI sims, code and workloads for Argonne Lab's most powerful beast

HPC10 Aug 2022 | 2

Boffins put supercomputer on the scent of a perfect landfill deodorizer

Is this what they mean by garbage collection?

Science03 Aug 2022 | 23

India signs local server-maker to build nodes for home-grown supercomputers

Local manufacturer to build modest kit for modestly sized supers

HPC01 Aug 2022 | 2

Atos waves bye to 12k staff, adds 16k mostly in offshore and nearshore sites

'Executed swiftly on cost optimization measures' as part of transformation blueprint

On-Prem28 Jul 2022 | 7

Japanese space agency to put massive HPC cloud to the test

If only we'd had this kind of compute before we launched Hubble

HPC25 Jul 2022 |

It takes an exascale supercomputer to drive carbon capture

Here on Earth, we bury our problems and simulate our way out of them later

HPC22 Jul 2022 | 8

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

US weather forecasters triple supercomputing oomph with latest machines

NOAA makes it rain for General Dynamics IT, HPE, AMD

HPC28 Jun 2022 | 12

Lenovo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center sign joint research deal

Collab to 'generate significant returns' for Europe in science, tech, economy

HPC21 Jun 2022 | 2

D-Wave opens up access to small-scale Advantage2 quantum computer

Via a cloud subscription, natch – this is the 2020s

PaaS + IaaS16 Jun 2022 | 5

Germany to host Europe's first exascale supercomputer

Jupiter added to HPC solar system

HPC16 Jun 2022 | 3

Atos, UK government reach settlement on $1 billion Met Office supercomputer dispute

Exclusive It is sure a lot of money to be able to say confidently: 'It's going to rain'

Legal14 Jun 2022 | 41

Europe's most powerful supercomputer is an all-AMD beast

First of Europe's pre-exascale systems inaugurated, hits top 3 even without GPU partition fully installed

HPC13 Jun 2022 | 4

AI and ML could save the planet – or add more fuel to the climate fire

'Staggering amount of computation' deployed to solve big problems uses a lot of electricity

AI + ML08 Jun 2022 | 31

HPE Q2 revenue growth held back by supply constraints

'However, enterprise demand continues to persist across our entire portfolio,' says CEO

On-Prem07 Jun 2022 |