Supercomputer

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

HPE goes Cray for Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons in latest supers

Of course the IT giant's Epyc 4 systems will still ship first

HPC09 Nov 2022 |

DoE supercomputing centers get $1.5B boost from Biden administration

US government opens purse strings as China eats into America's former lead

HPC07 Nov 2022 | 1

Tiny quantum computer plugs into top Euro supercomputer – because why not?

It's not how many qubits you've got, it's how you use them

HPC02 Nov 2022 | 12

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

Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims

Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now

AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6

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

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

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

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 |

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

Supercomputer pinpoints exact origin of 'Black Beauty' meteorite from Mars

X marks the spot where we could learn more about Earth's early years, too

HPC14 Jul 2022 | 24

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

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

AMD nearly doubles Top500 supercomputer hardware share

Analysis Intel loses out as Instinct GPUs power the world’s fastest big-iron system

HPC01 Jun 2022 | 7

Los Alamos to power up supercomputer using all-Nvidia CPU, GPU Superchips

HPE-built system to be used by Uncle Sam for material science, renewables, and more

HPC30 May 2022 | 3

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

All-AMD US Frontier supercomputer ousts Japan's Fugaku as No. 1 in Top500

Exascale beast's test system also claims top spot in the Green500

HPC30 May 2022 | 23

Atos pushes out HPC cloud services based on Nimbix tech

Moore's Law got you down? Throw everything at the problem! Quantum, AI, cloud...

HPC25 May 2022 |

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 | 27

Tesla sues former engineer, claims he stole Dojo supercomputer trade secrets

AI is meant to solve tech challenges innate in designing, running complex system

Legal09 May 2022 | 13

TACC Frontera's 2022: Academic supercomputer to run intriguing experiments

Plus: Director reveals 10 million node hours, 50-70 million core hours went into COVID-19 research

HPC16 Apr 2022 |

Aurora exascale supercomputer lead leaves Intel for Samsung

Years of extended delays and changes for late 2022-planned system

HPC13 Apr 2022 |

Dell, Nvidia, AMD to power new Ohio AI compute cluster

Aims to develop next generation cyberinfrastructure, amongst other things

HPC13 Apr 2022 |

Scientists make spin ice breakthrough

Artificial spin ice with smallest features ever created could be part of novel low-power HPC

Science09 Apr 2022 | 10

US to rev fastest supercomputer with powerful test system

'Tiny' testbed already crushes Oak Ridge's past supercomputers

HPC28 Mar 2022 | 2

CEA sees future in waferscale quantum computing chips

French research giant, C12 see challenges, but prototype slated for 2024

Systems24 Mar 2022 | 3

Photonics startup Luminous Computing bags $105m

Bill Gates among those plowing funds into AI supercomputing tech

HPC05 Mar 2022 | 7

India turns on a new supercomputer

Pram Pravega's 3.3 petaFLOPS should make it India's fourth entrant in the Top500 list

HPC07 Feb 2022 | 1

Meta says it's building world's largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips

Facebook owner needs 16,000 GPUs, 4,000 Epyc processors – good luck, everyone else

AI + ML25 Jan 2022 | 21

Europe completes first phase of silicon independence project

Three years of R&D and design work to be tested with plans to build native ‘super in 2023

On-Prem24 Dec 2021 | 112

Bull in a cosmos shop: Edinburgh uni boffins strike deal with Atos for BullSequana supercomputer

Time running out for secrets of cosmos to remain hidden

HPC02 Jun 2021 | 6

South Korea to build an exascale supercomputer running local CPUs by 2030

Hopes to start selling ‘em too, because China and Japan are heading the same direction and aren’t good at sharing

HPC28 May 2021 | 2

America to get world's 'most powerful' AI supercomputer to create the most detailed 3D map of the universe yet

Perlmutter will help scientists study dark energy and more

HPC27 May 2021 | 29

Biden administration effectively slaps bans on seven Chinese supercomputer companies for military links

Organizations added to Entity list

HPC09 Apr 2021 | 9

US Air Force boots up not one but two AMD-powered supercomputers after five years of Intel Haswell CPUs

Fawbush and Miller supers will crank away at weather-forecasting models

HPC10 Feb 2021 | 8

AMD, Nvidia, HPE tapped to triple the speed of US weather super with $35m upgrade

Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s

HPC27 Jan 2021 | 15

Six months after A100 super-GPU's debut, Nvidia doubles memory, ups bandwidth

Hardware aimed at supercomputers, servers, mega-workstations

HPC17 Nov 2020 | 5

HPE bags $160m to build 550-PFLOPS super for Europe out of tomorrow's AMD Epyc processors, graphics chips

Finns are going Cray cray

HPC22 Oct 2020 | 4