A unified, agnostic software environment spanning HPC and AI won't be achieved Register debate Readers have their say HPC10 Dec 2021 | 2
Now here's HPE with the weather in Northern Europe Firm to build Cray supercomputer to better grapple with 'new, dynamic weather patterns caused by climate change' HPC11 Nov 2021 | 4
Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past Feature Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot HPC27 Sep 2021 | 41
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
Six months after A100 super-GPU's debut, Nvidia doubles memory, ups bandwidth Hardware aimed at supercomputers, servers, mega-workstations HPC17 Nov 2020 | 5
Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022 You were only supposed to blow the bloody bytes off! HPC15 Oct 2020 | 10
Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup All aboard the exascale express HPC03 Aug 2020 | 14
Microsoft quietly extends Azure reserved instances to five-year term But only for one HPC-oriented instance type, with steeper exit charges and deeper discounts SaaS22 Jul 2020 | 3
That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme Stuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber HPC19 May 2020 | 13
Nvidia's multi-billion-dollar buying spree continues as it slurps up Cumulus soon after swallowing Mellanox Side effects may include rapid HPC and large AI workloads Networks04 May 2020 | 3
AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm? Systems14 Apr 2020 | 13
It's only a game: Lara Croft won't save enterprise tech – but Jet Set Willy could Column 'Member the Apple II? Hobbyists' kit is where business IT begins On-Prem02 Mar 2020 | 69
HPE's Eng Lim Goh on spaceborne computers, NASA medals – and AI at the final frontier Interview Never mind the edge, try running a super 'puter up there HPC07 Oct 2019 | 12
Who needs a supercomputer when you can get a couple of petaflops on AWS? Or you could run it on-premises three times cheaper says University of Cambridge bod HPC20 Jun 2019 | 31
DDN wheels out big chungus of a storage box, the disgustingly scalable EXA5 Up to hundreds of petabytes per filesystem, thanks to Lustre Storage18 Jun 2019 | 1
HPE's Spaceborne supercomputer returns to terra firma after 615 days on the ISS HP customers: If your spinoff can put a computer into space, why can't I have my Reverb? HPC06 Jun 2019 | 32
Cray's found a super scooper, $1.3bn's gonna buy you. HPE's the one Substantial losses weren't much fun, now we'll wait till deal is done HPC17 May 2019 | 49
Holy sh*tsnacks! Danger zone! Edinburgh Uni's Archer 2 super 'puter will cost a cool £79m Hammond splashes the cash – guess Brexit's sorted then? HPC13 Mar 2019 | 33
Back to ASICs: Nvidia coughs GPU-uge $6.9bn to scoff Mellanox Consolidation in the chip industry as the geepie giant eyes new markets On-Prem11 Mar 2019 | 5
Cray will realise 'substantial' loss. But Shasta minute, folks, big iron market will pick up And... stock-botherers seem happy with that HPC16 Jan 2019 | 5
Spectre/Meltdown fixes in HPC: Want the bad news or the bad news? It's slower, say boffins MIT Lincoln metalheads broke big iron so you don't have to… oh, you still have to, don't you? HPC26 Jul 2018 | 29
Waiting to exascale: Now that IBM has Summit-ed, who's to node what comes next? Comment Big Blue's rig with Nvidia grunt looks to be first truly exascale system HPC14 Jun 2018 | 1
Cavium has two more tilts at Arm servers as Nvidia offers Arm-bots HPC types offered density, carriers get roll-your-own customer-premises kit On-Prem05 Jun 2018 | 1
Oz's biggest iron slated for 2018 replacement NCI gets AU$70 million to replace Raijin HPC18 Dec 2017 | 4
Stephen Hawking's boffin buds buy HPE HPC to ogle universe But can COSMOS find a way to improve HPE profits? Hmmm HPC28 Nov 2017 | 4
Intel drags Xeon Phi Knights Hill chips out back... two shots heard Updated Chipzilla goes back to the drawing board on many-core math accelerator line HPC16 Nov 2017 | 31
HPE gets carried array with HPC: Partners up with DDN +Comment High-performance servers get data-pumping storage arrays HPC10 Nov 2017 | 3
AWS: Don't be a SAP, get one of our massive HANA boxes Cloud-slinger trots out 4TB instances for in-memory databases SaaS14 Sep 2017 | 5
Seagate offloads ClusterStor data-nomming plaything on Cray An HPC product line is for life, not just for Christmas HPC27 Jul 2017 |
Purdue and NEU coalition breaks HPCG benchmark record HPC Blog Another highlight from ISC17 in Frankfurt HPC04 Jul 2017 |
Mighty Tsinghua crew crushes their cluster rivals in Frankfurt HPC Blog After winning Asian contest, can they make it a hat-trick in Denver? HPC04 Jul 2017 |
Students smash competitive clustering LINPACK world record HPC Blog The kids are all right HPC03 Jul 2017 | 14
Cluster kids: Meet the students giving all for science and HPC glory HPC Blog If LINPACK would pack wood... and other computer sports posers HPC22 Jun 2017 |
Gear, racks, software hacks – what the cluster kids are rockin' at ISC17 HPC Blog Students show all at Frankfurt HPC showdown HPC21 Jun 2017 |
Cluster-wrestling kids pimp their HPC rides in Frankfurt HPC Blog This one goes to 11: More rig pr0nz from students at ISC17 HPC19 Jun 2017 | 2
Crank up the caffeine for ISC Student Cluster Competition 2017 HPC Blog What you need to know, HPC competitors HPC07 Jun 2017 |
Want to know more about HPC apps? This explicit vid has some answers HPC Blog Page through this profiler... HPC06 Jun 2017 | 3
GPU-flingers' bash: Forget the Matrix, Neo needs his tensors HPC blog What's a tensor? Glad you asked... HPC24 May 2017 | 15
Parallel programming masterclass with compsci maven online HPC Blog Dr Panda's recent Swiss presentation free to view HPC22 May 2017 | 5
HPC kid cluster-wrestle: Gene-sequencing app Falcon was wind beneath winner's wings HPC Blog Tsinghua's score analysed HPC15 May 2017 |
Ah, breathe that fresh alpine air. And look over there, a majestic HPC Advisory Council HPC Blog Beastmode crew hosts three-day conference in Lugano, Switzerland HPC06 Apr 2017 | 3
Your chance to become a supercomputer superuser – for free HPC Blog Tutorials, best practices at Lugano HPC-fest HPC05 Apr 2017 |
Clouds can compete with HPC, say boffins Azure hits the high notes in High Performance Linpack tests, SoftLayer strangles itself SaaS14 Feb 2017 | 5
Chinese investors gobble up owner of PCWorld, Macworld etc IDG into the hands of the Middle Kingdom – except its HPC bit HPC20 Jan 2017 | 21
UK, you Cray. Boffins flex ARM in 'first-of-its-kind' bonkers HPC rig £3m granted for 'emerging architectures' supercomputing mashup HPC18 Jan 2017 | 18
HPE bucks trend to retain high-end server crown Technical and HPC gains offset commodity server losses HPC30 Dec 2016 | 2
So, who is the cluster bomb? Student results sliced, diced, analysed HPC Blog And maybe over-analysed too HPC07 Dec 2016 |
Student clusterers blow off steam with VR space shooter at SUSE booth HPC Blog Stay tuned for the final results HPC29 Nov 2016 |
Build-a-cluster students conjugate gradients for science and glory HPC Blog Intrepid clusterers tackle a new(ish) benchmark HPC25 Nov 2016 |
Half of all kids suddenly break LINPACK record in supercomputing compo HPC Blog Brainier students? Maybe. New hardware, almost certainly HPC24 Nov 2016 |
Meet the beautiful minds vying to be crowned the Student Cluster champs HPC Blog 40 per cent less tedium and weepy backstories than the Olympics HPC24 Nov 2016 | 3
Bulldozers, sportsters, bangers: Rack your brains, HPC kids HPC Blog FPGAs join tussle and GPUs back with vengeance at SC16 HPC21 Nov 2016 |
Boffins of the future gear up to build their own beastmode rigs HPC Blog Student rack war begins at SC16 HPC15 Nov 2016 | 5
Gotta speed up HPC arrays. Flash or disk, flash or disk. Let's do both – Seagate Hybrid set-up plus Nytro caching software sends small I/Os to SSD Storage14 Nov 2016 | 1
10x faster servers? Pop a CAPI in your dome HPC Blog Not quite sure how the new mechanism works? Mull it over here HPC19 Oct 2016 | 11
OMG: HPE gobbles SGI for HPC. WTF? Biz once valued at billions bought for $275m in three-letter mergasm Channel11 Aug 2016 | 37
Hot iron: Knights Landing hits 100 gigaflops in plasma physics benchmark Russian physicists give Chipzilla's HPC star the elephant stamp HPC09 Aug 2016 | 9
No supercomputer cash? Time for a systems squeeze Some advice when you're trading off information for performance On-Prem08 Aug 2016 | 1
Cray profits literally go up in smoke after electrical incident Ready-to-ship systems canned after equipment failure at factory HPC04 Aug 2016 | 21
Linux cloudy tie ups: SUSE and Microsoft, Canonical and Pivotal All my friends are getting married On-Prem07 Jul 2016 | 3