Oracle boasts zettascale 'AI supercomputer,' just don’t ask about precision Comment Cluster of 131,072 Blackwell GPUs up for grabs starting H1 2025 Systems11 Sep 2024 | 8
DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security Systems09 Sep 2024 | 3
DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense Officials claim it'll be able to develop defensive solutions in 'days, if not hours' HPC16 Aug 2024 | 17
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
China stops worrying about lack of GPUs and learns to love the supercomputer The workaround is going to be inevitable in the future anyway, say Chinese boffins HPC31 Jul 2024 | 22
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
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
ASUS quietly built supercomputers, datacenters and an LLM. Now it's quietly selling them all together The plan is a slow build – not a breakout into enterprise tech Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 |
Memphis to host 'Gigafactory of Compute' thanks to xAI and Elon Musk's billions City known for blues, BBQ, and now possibly the 'world's largest supercomputer' AI + ML06 Jun 2024 | 6
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
Green500 shows Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchip is a power-efficiency beast Analysis Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv's CPU-GPU chip. AMD's APU could soon change that HPC13 May 2024 | 4
Aurora breaks the exaFLOPS barrier but falls short of the final Frontier once again ISC With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot HPC13 May 2024 | 6
Italy's climate super computer, Cassandra, to combine HPC with AI CPU-heavy big iron boasts Intel's HBM-packed Xeons and a tiny complement of Nvidia H100s HPC10 May 2024 | 11
MITRE promises a cute little 17-PFLOPS AI super for the rest of Uncle Sam's agencies No child process left behind HPC08 May 2024 | 1
Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation HPC06 May 2024 | 27
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
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
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers Flagship facility has just 48 GPUs Public Sector15 Mar 2024 | 41
Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms HPC20 Feb 2024 | 18
What's going on with Eos, Nvidia's incredible shrinking supercomputer? Updated It'll have 10K GPUs! No, 4,608! Err... 2,816? HPC19 Feb 2024 | 11
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
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
UK bets on Intel CPUs and GPUs, Dell boxen, OpenStack for Dawn supercomputer We'd make some kind of Sun sets joke here but it's too early in the morning HPC02 Nov 2023 | 9
UK govt finds £225M for Isambard-AI supercomputer powered by Nvidia 5,448 GraceHopper superchips and 200PFLOPS gets you somewhere in the global public top ten HPC01 Nov 2023 | 25
Tachyum says someone will build 50 exaFLOPS super with its as-yet unfinished chips Interview 'It's a huge, effing big machine' HPC16 Oct 2023 | 4
US govt talks up $2B X-ray photobooth to check its nuke weapon sims are right Sub-critical plutonium implosion to be snapped on nanosecond scale HPC09 Oct 2023 | 18
Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B Musk snaps up Nvidia GPUs even as he builds Dojo. Finance bods foresee SaaSy AI, rivers of cash AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 21
Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs HPC02 Sep 2023 | 19
Tesla hedges Dojo supercomputer bet with 10K Nvidia H100 GPU cluster Keeping full self-driving dream on the road just needs more graphics chips? HPC30 Aug 2023 | 7
IBM sells off cloud business – yes, we mean Weather.com What better time for private equity to capitalize on changing climate Science22 Aug 2023 | 14
Cerebras's Condor Galaxy AI supercomputer takes flight carrying 36 exaFLOPS Nine-site system built for UAE's G42, but there'll be plenty to spare HPC20 Jul 2023 | 3
Uncle Sam to put Aurora supercomputer to work on catalyst conundrums Meanwhile, ORNL's Summit simulates bacteria battling cicada wings HPC17 Jul 2023 | 5
Fancy tinkering with the atmosphere? The Derecho supercomputer can advise NCAR's biggish iron will also explore wildfires, drought and solar storms HPC12 Jul 2023 | 6
Europe sets out to squeeze every last drop of power from supercomputers Because Ferraris are meant to fly, not amble along at 2mph HPC06 Jul 2023 | 3
Look mom, no InifiniBand: Nvidia’s DGX GH200 glues 256 superchips with NVLink Computex Unless you need more nodes HPC29 May 2023 | 3
SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims LLNL harnesses DataScale platform with aim to improve predictive models HPC23 May 2023 | 2
US supers maintain grip on Top500 list as China seemingly hides its powers ISC Meanwhile, Europe awaits a seat at the exascale table HPC22 May 2023 | 4
Aurora exascale system gets 'mini-me' testbed for researchers We node you want to test it out. (We're here all week.) HPC21 Apr 2023 | 3
UK Prime Minister wants £800M to spend on big British iron Analysis The people can eat turnips, Sunak wants a super... computer. On-Prem09 Mar 2023 | 98
SambaNova’s AI paired with Fugaku supercomputer to develop 'digital twins' All part of the Japan's Society 5.0 project HPC01 Mar 2023 |
The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns Droughts, flash floods the future for the Midwest ... probably Science18 Feb 2023 | 90
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
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
China shops around US bans to power its nuclear weapons research program Entity List proves to be a non-entity once Beijing's buyers get busy Systems31 Jan 2023 | 27
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
Researchers teach AI to pinpoint mutations linked to cancer An ounce of prediction is worth a pound of cure AI + ML05 Jan 2023 | 1
Samsung slaps processing-in-memory chips onto GPUs for first-of-its-kind supercomputer Korean tech giant claims big performance, energy efficiency gains with memory tech HPC13 Dec 2022 | 10
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
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
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
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
Nvidia, Lockheed team up to build digital twin of the Earth for climate researchers Come September '23, scientists might be able to learn more rapidly how we're failing to control global warming HPC14 Nov 2022 | 7
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