Supercomputer

SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions

SC25 Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference

SC2520 Nov 2025 | 3

Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel

€544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower

Supercomputing Month18 Nov 2025 | 1

Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI

Interview Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing

SC2518 Nov 2025 | 14

Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run

SC25 EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year

SC2517 Nov 2025 | 3

GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast

VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash

Supercomputing Month14 Nov 2025 | 9

Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters

Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit

Off-Prem04 Nov 2025 | 28

Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever

100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system

Supercomputing Month28 Oct 2025 | 9

HPE's Discovery to succeed Frontier supercomputer with next-gen Cray tech

Oak Ridge's $500M system due in 2028, paired with a separate Lux AI cluster arriving two years earlier

Supercomputing Month27 Oct 2025 | 3

UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders

Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher

Supercomputing Month13 Oct 2025 | 7

Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration

video It won't be fully functional for a while, though

SC2505 Sep 2025 | 11

Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super

The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science

Supercomputing Month13 Aug 2025 | 18

Swiss boffins just trained a 'fully open' LLM on the Alps supercomputer

Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on top

SC2510 Jul 2025 | 13

Japan's sequel to Fugaku supercomputer will be Arm'd to the teeth

Fujitsu picked to build system using 'MONAKA-X' CPUs

SC2519 Jun 2025 | 5

UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops

Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions

SC2512 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

SC2511 Jun 2025 | 1

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

Nvidia scores its first DOE win since 2022 with Doudna supercomputer

System promises a 10x increase in 'scientific output' - not necessarily performance

Systems30 May 2025 | 4

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

Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon

20 years? More like five for real-world workloads, says q-AI lead

HPC06 Feb 2025 | 7

Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures

Updated Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe

Nvidia GTC27 Jan 2025 | 8

What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore?

Feature We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course

Systems24 Jan 2025 | 35

Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer

€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027

HPC17 Jan 2025 | 2

OpenAI plans to ring in the New Year with a for-profit push

We have altered the deal, pray we don’t alter it any further

AI + ML27 Dec 2024 | 46

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