Supercomputer

Nvidia's dominance on the Green500 faces challenges from AMD – and itself

SC24 Blackwell's weaker FP64 performance could give the House of Zen's Instinct accelerators a leg up in future efficiency benchmarks

Systems22 Nov 2024 | 1

Eviden wins €60M Finnish supercomputing award amid Atos turmoil

Despite parent's financial turbulence, subsidiary continues to secure major contracts

HPC21 Nov 2024 |

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

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 | 19

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 | 13

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 | 88

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