Supercomputer

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

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