UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions European Supercomputing12 Jun 2025 | 18
SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 1
Lenovo bags HPC contracts for a pair of European customers Building AMD computational cancer research super and ICL workhorse with Intel inside European Supercomputing11 Jun 2025 | 2
Jupiter, Europe’s most powerful super, takes maiden flight - but misses exascale orbit ISC Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall? European Supercomputing10 Jun 2025 | 1
UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI' European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 | 50
Intel Xeon 6 CPUs make their name in AI, HPC There isn’t a datacenter workload whose performance or efficiency isn’t improved by using Xeon 6 chips Partner content
EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer Updated And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain European Supercomputing14 May 2025 | 2
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks GTC Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 8
ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in HPC13 Mar 2025 | 8
Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty €240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI HPC07 Mar 2025 | 37
Huawei revenue growing fast, suggesting China's scoffing at sanctions Asia In Brief PLUS: Japan shifts to pre-emptive cyber-defense; Thailand cuts cords connecting scam camps; China to launch 'moon hopper' in 2026; and more! Security09 Feb 2025 | 11
Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 HPC17 Jan 2025 | 2
Eviden wins €60M Finnish supercomputing award amid Atos turmoil Despite parent's financial turbulence, subsidiary continues to secure major contracts HPC21 Nov 2024 |
Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW SC24 You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too HPC18 Nov 2024 | 6
LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance SC24 Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view HPC18 Nov 2024 | 11
LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide's rackscale compute platform SC24 System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing HPC18 Nov 2024 | 1
HPE goes Cray for Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs, crams 224 into a single cabinet Meanwhile, new ProLiant servers offer choice of Gaudi, Hopper, Instinct acceleration HPC13 Nov 2024 | 14
Fujitsu, AMD lay groundwork to pair Monaka CPUs with Instinct GPUs Before you get too excited, Fujitsu's next-gen chips won't ship till 2027 Systems01 Nov 2024 | 7
AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded Systems15 Oct 2024 | 16
Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer How does 90 exaFLOPS sound? HPC08 Oct 2024 |
UK's Arm-based Isambard 2 supercomputer powers off for good Isambard 3 and AI sibling set to pick up the torch HPC02 Oct 2024 | 12
India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers Rudra machines use local designs for server, interconnect, and cooling – but seemingly not a planned 96-core Arm CPU HPC27 Sep 2024 | 1
DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security Systems09 Sep 2024 | 3
Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it? Science19 Aug 2024 | 8
Japan's Fugaku supercomputer released in virtual version that runs in AWS Graviton processors get the job of helping RIKEN achieve HPC world domination HPC07 Aug 2024 | 6
AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight HPC06 Aug 2024 | 1
UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer Shortsighted or a chance to refocus? Tech sector is not happy HPC05 Aug 2024 | 45
Europe launches 'AI Factories' initiative in hopes of competing globally Yes, you've heard the term 'AI Factories' before but Europe has its own spin AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 15
The secret to better weather forecasts may be a dash of AI Google adds machine learning to climate models for 'faster forecasts' Science27 Jul 2024 | 93
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
HPE to build supercomputer to 'enhance Japan's AI sovereignty' Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker's CEO talks up mega bitbarn 'AI factories' HPC12 Jul 2024 | 3
Intel flashes 4 Tbps optical chiplet to supercharge datacenters Likens tech to going from horse-drawn carriages to trucks Systems27 Jun 2024 | 4
Atos's UK auditor raises 'material uncertainty' about future Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 22
Microsoft sued by ParTec in Texas over AI supercomputer patents German HPC outfit asks for damages, injunction that would see Azure AI shut down HPC12 Jun 2024 | 12
It's make your mind up time as Atos sets deadline to pick rescue package June 5 the day to opt for Onepoint-led consortium or Daniel Křetínský's EPEI HPC03 Jun 2024 | 3
Nvidia's future in scientific computing hinges on a melding of AI and HPC Analysis But if they can't, AMD is well positioned to mop up HPC22 May 2024 | 2
Aleph Alpha enlists Cerebras waferscale supers to train AI for German military Also demonstrates success accelerating molecular dynamics HPC16 May 2024 | 1
SiPearl updates specs for Rhea1 processor set to power Europe's exascale dreams ISC More cores, more memory, more delays Systems14 May 2024 | 1
Nvidia PUE-PUEs datacenter efficiency ratings, calls for application-specific metrics ISC What good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit? Systems14 May 2024 | 4
SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based 'neuromorphic supercomputer' Brain-inspired chip folks set to show off hardware at ISC next week HPC08 May 2024 | 7
IBM quantum system elbows into Arm-powered Fugaku supercomputer Slotting in the module for ambitious next-generation compute goals HPC30 Apr 2024 |
Microsoft foresees a new type of AI PC: A Surface designed with help from machines For now, Redmond is dogfooding Azure for product simulations AI + ML22 Apr 2024 | 5
Intel's neuromorphic 'owl brain' swoops into Sandia labs Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 1
Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
India and EU finally advance HPC collaboration project hatched in 2022 Seek ideas for thorny problems related to both HPC and real-world problems Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 1
Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall, says HPC leader Interview 'A huge amount of responsibility to ensure that there is ethical management' AI + ML08 Apr 2024 | 34
Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUs Public Sector27 Mar 2024 | 6
Australian supercomputer 'Taingiwilta' comes online this year with [REDACTED] inside Exec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can pay a veteran expert a mere web dev's salary HPC21 Feb 2024 | 20
Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms HPC20 Feb 2024 | 19
Tencent explores a future where HPC, quantum, cloud and edge have converged And it will all come together in one big, happy, hybrid innovation engine Off-Prem29 Jan 2024 | 3
HPE's updated Spaceborne Computer-2 ready to hitch another ride to the ISS How's low Earth orbit for the edge? HPC24 Jan 2024 | 3
Europe's first exascale system will be slotted into modular containerized datacenter Fancy updating it? Just click in a fresh unit – or that's the idea anyway... HPC23 Jan 2024 | 3
Quantum computing eggheads throw some other qubits at the wall to see what sticks Just keep the cold clammy hand of Fujitsu away from it HPC11 Jan 2024 | 7
Equinix to expand liquid cooling to 100 datacenters to quench your AI thirst Bit barn touts big savings for ditching the fans Systems13 Dec 2023 | 2
DoE watchdog warns of poor maintenance at home of Frontier exascale system Report says new QA plan currently being worked up HPC05 Dec 2023 | 4
Researchers weigh new benchmarks for Green500 amid shifting workload priorities SC23 Just because it's super efficient at Linpack doesn't mean it'll be in everything HPC20 Nov 2023 |
As the Top500 celebrates its 30th year, with a $5 VM you too can get into the top 10 ... of 1993 SC23 But if you really care about performance, there are better options out there, natch HPC14 Nov 2023 | 24
Intel drops the deets on UK's Dawn AI supercomputer SC23 Phase one packs 512 Xeons, 1,024 Ponte Vecchio GPUs. Phase two: 10x that HPC13 Nov 2023 | 6
Aurora dawns late: Half-baked entry secures second in supercomputer stakes SC23 Half the machine, quadruple the anticipation for all-Intel super HPC13 Nov 2023 | 3
HPE and Nvidia offer 'turnkey' supercomputer for AI training SC23 If you can afford it – pricing's not out yet HPC13 Nov 2023 |
Fujitsu says it can optimize CPU and GPU use to minimize execution time SC23 Demos its Adaptive GPU Allocator as global shortage of geepies grinds on Systems13 Nov 2023 | 4