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
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India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers
Rudra machines use local designs for server, interconnect, and cooling – but seemingly not a planned 96-core Arm CPU
HPC27 Sep 2024 | 1
DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing
Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security
Systems09 Sep 2024 | 3
Oak Ridge boffins enlist Quantum Brilliance to make supercomputers sparkle at room temp
Diamond-based accelerators could help smash science problems
HPC06 Sep 2024 |
Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather
That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it?
Science19 Aug 2024 | 8
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
AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code
Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight
HPC06 Aug 2024 | 1
UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer
Shortsighted or a chance to refocus? Tech sector is not happy
HPC05 Aug 2024 | 45
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
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
HPE to build supercomputer to 'enhance Japan's AI sovereignty'
Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker's CEO talks up mega bitbarn 'AI factories'
HPC12 Jul 2024 | 3
Atos's UK auditor raises 'material uncertainty' about future
Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 22
Atos in chaos as bailout talks unravel faster than you can say 'restructuring'
Time for plan B (or will it be C?)
HPC26 Jun 2024 | 12
Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project
Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now
HPC20 Jun 2024 | 11
Microsoft sued by ParTec in Texas over AI supercomputer patents
German HPC outfit asks for damages, injunction that would see Azure AI shut down
HPC12 Jun 2024 | 12
Atos gets a reprieve with restructure plan from Onepoint consortium
Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them...
HPC11 Jun 2024 | 6
Atos defers its own D-Day to ponder financial rescue decision
Restructure saga kicked into next week, investors unamused
HPC06 Jun 2024 | 3
It's make your mind up time as Atos sets deadline to pick rescue package
June 5 the day to opt for Onepoint-led consortium or Daniel Křetínský's EPEI
HPC03 Jun 2024 | 3
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
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Two years after entering the graphics card game, Intel has nothing to show for it
Comment Chipzilla's AIB market share a rounding error compared to Nvidia, AMD
Cisco is abandoning the LoRaWAN space, and there's no lifeboat for IoT customers
Support stretches to end of 2029, no more maintenance beyond 2026
Bank of America app glitch zeroes out people's balances
Updated Unidentified tech issues now resolved
700K+ DrayTek routers are sitting ducks on the internet, open to remote hijacking
With 14 serious security flaws found, what a gift for spies and crooks
Microsoft hits go on Windows 11 24H2: Fresh features, bugs, and a whole lotta AI
Complete with Copilot Vision – but sessions won't be stored, insists Redmond
Microsoft throws in the towel on HoloLens 2
Five years of mixed reality – now just mixed feelings
'Patch yesterday': Zimbra mail servers under siege through RCE vuln
Attacks began the day after public disclosure
NIST's security flaw database still backlogged with 17K+ unprocessed bugs. Not great
Logjam 'hurting infosec processes world over' one expert tells us as US body blows its own Sept deadline
After 27 years, Tcl/Tk 9 finally arrives with 64-bit power and Zip file magic
Now that's the kind of stability we like
Average North American CISO pay now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick
Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to
STORIES
Aleph Alpha enlists Cerebras waferscale supers to train AI for German military
Also demonstrates success accelerating molecular dynamics
HPC16 May 2024 | 1
Nvidia PUE-PUEs datacenter efficiency ratings, calls for application-specific metrics
ISC What good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit?
Systems14 May 2024 | 4
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
SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based 'neuromorphic supercomputer'
Brain-inspired chip folks set to show off hardware at ISC next week
HPC08 May 2024 | 7
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
IBM quantum system elbows into Arm-powered Fugaku supercomputer
Slotting in the module for ambitious next-generation compute goals
HPC30 Apr 2024 |
Dell shaves months off lead times for GPU-powered AI servers
TSMC turns advanced packaging production knob to 11
HPC11 Apr 2024 | 2
India and EU finally advance HPC collaboration project hatched in 2022
Seek ideas for thorny problems related to both HPC and real-world problems
Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 1
PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again
Analysis The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027
Systems03 Apr 2024 | 13
Australian supercomputer 'Taingiwilta' comes online this year with [REDACTED] inside
Exec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can pay a veteran expert a mere web dev's salary
HPC21 Feb 2024 | 20
Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud
HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms
HPC20 Feb 2024 | 18
Square Kilometre Array precursor looks to filter out satellite interference
Starlink isn't the biggest problem, but increasing numbers of orbiting transmitters isn't helpful
HPC20 Feb 2024 | 13
Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can't fill the gap
Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers
HPC20 Feb 2024 | 4
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
Investors threw 50% less money at quantum last year
Yep, you guessed it – at least some of them swapped investments out for gen AI
HPC31 Jan 2024 | 10
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
Europe's first exascale system will be slotted into modular containerized datacenter
Fancy updating it? Just click in a fresh unit – or that's the idea anyway...
HPC23 Jan 2024 | 3
Quantum computing eggheads throw some other qubits at the wall to see what sticks
Just keep the cold clammy hand of Fujitsu away from it
HPC11 Jan 2024 | 7
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
After bashing Nvidia for ‘arming’ China, Cerebras's backer G42 alarms US govt with suspected Beijing ties
What was it they say about folks in silicon houses?
HPC28 Nov 2023 | 7
Alibaba shuts down quantum lab, donates it to university
Three guesses where DAMO plans to focus research from now on. Yep, you guessed it...AI
HPC27 Nov 2023 | 2
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 |
NASA geeks code new tricks to model rocket plumes and avoid a lunar dust-up
Supersonic hot gas not that awesome for rocky, dusty surface
HPC16 Nov 2023 | 6
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
HPE and Nvidia offer 'turnkey' supercomputer for AI training
SC23 If you can afford it – pricing's not out yet
HPC13 Nov 2023 |
Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word
Analysis But the astronomical performance thresholds mean few ML operators will be required to report at this rate
HPC05 Nov 2023 | 18
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
Atos subsidiary Eviden scores contract win in Europe's first exascale system
$526M Jupiter set to rule EU's tech orbit by 2024
HPC04 Oct 2023 |
From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history?
Analysis Having seen how conventional computers changed the world, can you really afford to bet against it?
HPC03 Oct 2023 | 31
SCREAM resonates in the race for the Gordon Bell Climate Prize
A look at America's next top model ... in fine resolution
HPC19 Sep 2023 | 8
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
Rocky Linux backer CIQ rejects lawsuit's claims it was founded on stolen IP
Brands allegations as 'meritless' after being sued by HPC software provider Sylabs
HPC24 Aug 2023 | 11
SK hynix ships blazing fast HBM3E DRAM samples – but most customers have to wait
Everything in 2023 is about AI, which this silicon is said to speed
HPC23 Aug 2023 |
AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors
Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons
Cloud Infrastructure Month21 Aug 2023 |
A closer look at Harvard and Google's HPC heart research project
That's a massive workload you've got there – how much does it cost?
Cloud Infrastructure Month18 Aug 2023 | 3
US shovels cash into supercomputers hoping to stoke fusion future
$112M for 12 projects announced on heels of LLNL's second successful fusion ignition
HPC15 Aug 2023 | 2
Tesla's Dojo supercomputer is a billion-dollar bet to make AI better at driving than humans
More data means better neural net training, but it also means more cores
HPC21 Jul 2023 | 43
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
Supercomputing AI service among HPE's freshest GreenLake fare
HPE Discover It's bingo for those who had LLMs on your card – but no word on how much it's going to cost
HPC21 Jun 2023 |
Intel sprinkles 12-qubit quantum test chips into the hands of researchers
When they're done, there might be a commercially viable system sometime after 2030... maybe
HPC15 Jun 2023 | 4
Nvidia to power more supercomputers as AI frenzy kicks in
Computex New beasts to take up residence in Israeli and Taiwanese DCs
HPC30 May 2023 |
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
IBM asks UChicago, UTokyo for help building a 100K qubit quantum supercomputer
For $100 million it better beat an Nvidia A100
HPC23 May 2023 | 10
HPE bags contracts to build HPC beasts for UK and Japan boffins
TSUBAME4.0 ordered for Tokyo Institute of Tech, and Isambard 3 to live in Bristol & Bath Science Park
HPC22 May 2023 |
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
Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus
Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons
HPC10 May 2023 | 10
A lone Nvidia GPU speeds past the physics-straining might of a quantum computer – in these apps at least
Don't hold your breath waiting for all those breakthroughs we've been promised
HPC03 May 2023 | 22
Quantum computing: Hype or reality? OVH says businesses would be better off prepared
Understand the technology before you are taken by surprise, argues CTO
HPC25 Apr 2023 | 14
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
D-Wave hello to another quantum pioneer warned over possible delisting
Share price slides below $1 for 30 days straight, but company vows it will comply with NYSE regs again
HPC23 Mar 2023 | 3
Budget: UK chip strategy still nowhere to be seen. Money for quantum, AI? Sure
Um, folks? All this tech kinda needs semiconductors
HPC16 Mar 2023 | 36
SambaNova’s AI paired with Fugaku supercomputer to develop 'digital twins'
All part of the Japan's Society 5.0 project
HPC01 Mar 2023 |
Petaflops help scientists understand why some COVID-19 variants are more contagious
'If we did one of these calculations in our lab, we are talking weeks or months'
HPC23 Feb 2023 | 14
Quantum of solace: Rigetti to cut workforce as it faces Nasdaq delisting
Appoints new CFO, CTO, chops 1 in 4 staffers
HPC13 Feb 2023 | 2
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
Could RISC-V become a force in high performance computing?
Analysis Meanwhile, Euro supercomputer project makes a call for developing an HPC ecosystem based on the architecture
HPC08 Feb 2023 | 28
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
Intel, AMD just created a headache for datacenters
Server silos didn't see today's watt-gobbling, space-heater chips coming
HPC19 Jan 2023 | 29
Atos will be paid $29m over $1b UK Met Office supercomputer dispute
Settlement 'without admission of liability' followed court challenge to Microsoft mega-deal
HPC09 Jan 2023 | 30
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
Durham Uni and Dell co-design systems to help model the universe
A particle physicist, an astronomer and a cosmologist meet in a bar. You what, COSMA8?
HPC06 Dec 2022 | 4
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
AWS follows AMD and Intel down the specialized chips path
Analysis CPU roadmaps are fragmenting to serve a variety of needs. Time to do some homework
HPC30 Nov 2022 |
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
HPC's lost histories will power the future of tech
Opinion If you thought the '80s were cool, wait for the revival
HPC21 Nov 2022 | 16
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
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