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Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons HPC10 May 2023 | 10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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover Ingenuity's still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder
Seriously, boss? You want that stupid password? OK, you get that stupid password Who, Me? Fed-up techie wields the magic of malicious compliance on his way out the door
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it Opinion Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you
Intel says AI is overwhelming CPUs, GPUs, even clouds – so all Meteor Lakes get a VPU Computex Movidius tech already sprinkled on some 13th-gen Core silicon goes mainstream in next generation
Google Photos AI still can't label gorillas after racist errors AI in brief Plus: Anthropic raises $450m in Series C round, and Waymo cozies up to Uber to expand self-driving robotaxi fleet
Microsoft up in Arms over data-loss protection in Windows 11 We almost forgot Redmond had an interest in anything but x86
New York county still dealing with ransomware eight months after attack security in brief Also: iSpoof no more, Edmodo fined more than it can pay, UK is #1 (in CC theft), and the week's critical vulns
China's homegrown airliner makes first paid-for flight Asia in Brief PLUS: Grab founder quits operational role; Meta's fiber-bot crawls to Japan; ChatGPT enhances Taiwan's status
Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86 Computex Taiwan's big OEMs are all-in on plan to build servers that won't cook when running AI
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 | 29
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
Azure-based 'AI supercomputer' to use Nvidia GPUs and software Is it a super or a cloud service? Users would string together components as required HPC17 Nov 2022 |
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
Dell pushing hybrid quantum/classical system in HPC overhaul SC22 Steady now. It's not the full-fledged quantum that will suddenly let you crack encryption algos HPC14 Nov 2022 | 1
Optimizer Rescale recommends Rescale's optimization recommender Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it HPC09 Nov 2022 |
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
Fujitsu launches HPC and not-quite-quantum cloud services Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year HPC25 Oct 2022 | 1
Classiq works with Rolls-Royce on quantum boost for simulations It's plane to see it wants more info on fluid dynamics of flying engines HPC18 Oct 2022 | 2
Scientists model turbulence to boost space propulsion Running direct numerical simulation on 'an industrial scale' HPC12 Oct 2022 | 10
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
Nvidia claims 'record performance' for Hopper MLPerf debut H100 Tensor Core GPU leaves A100 in the dust, but company says previous gen has improved too HPC09 Sep 2022 |
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
Quantum systems maker D-Wave takes the SPAC route Company had hoped deal would grant access to $300m trust account, but shareholders cleared it out HPC09 Aug 2022 | 6
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 |
It takes an exascale supercomputer to drive carbon capture Here on Earth, we bury our problems and simulate our way out of them later HPC22 Jul 2022 | 8
BASF looks to quantum computing to improve weather modeling Chemical giant's work with Pasqal could help improve climate change models too HPC20 Jul 2022 | 2
NASA pulls together pieces for its most powerful supercomputer yet Space agency plays the long game by adding performance over time... now with mix of Intel, AMD HPC20 Jul 2022 |
Israel aims to build its own upgradable quantum computer Crop of cutting-edge companies from home and abroad contributing tech to Israel National Quantum Initiative HPC20 Jul 2022 | 28
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
What do you mean your exaflop is better than mine? Comment Gaming the system was fine for a while, now it's time to get precise about precision HPC06 Jul 2022 | 15
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
Businesses brace for quantum computing disruption by end of decade As one expert warns overhype will lead to QC winter. Plus: Mystery Huawei quantum patent surfaces HPC16 Jun 2022 | 25
Germany to host Europe's first exascale supercomputer Jupiter added to HPC solar system HPC16 Jun 2022 | 3
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
Quantum computing startup probed in report, securities suit From alleging wild falsehoods to questioning man behind the curtain, Scorpion stings hell out of IonQ HPC01 Jun 2022 | 23
Red Hat helps US Department of Energy containerize supercomputing You might say the US agency needed an OpenShift in mindset HPC01 Jun 2022 | 1
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
Another AI supercomputer from HPE: Champollion lands in France That's the second in a week following similar system in Munich also aimed at researchers HPC27 May 2022 | 6
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
Ready for testing: First-ever supercomputer powered by Intel's wildcard AI chips At the Haba, go, go Habana. The hottest research north of Havana HPC19 May 2022 | 1
HPE building its 4th global 'supercomputer factory' Facility supports a flurry of HPC development, centered in the Czech Republic HPC18 May 2022 | 1
AMD hasn't forgotten about that ambitious 2025 energy efficiency goal it promised Beware, a lot can happen in three years – speaking from experience HPC04 May 2022 | 1
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 |
Fujitsu to provide HPC, AI for startup to produce clean ammonia Ammonia as a viable, sustainable alternative to fossil fuels – and current fertilizer HPC14 Apr 2022 | 8
Aurora exascale supercomputer lead leaves Intel for Samsung Years of extended delays and changes for late 2022-planned system HPC13 Apr 2022 |
Climate model code is so outdated, MIT starts from scratch Julia replaces Fortran as the basis for Earth's new digital twin HPC13 Apr 2022 | 106
Dell, Nvidia, AMD to power new Ohio AI compute cluster Aims to develop next generation cyberinfrastructure, amongst other things HPC13 Apr 2022 |
Russia cobbles together supercomputing platform to wean off foreign suppliers New RSK Tornado system will help Russia port HPC apps to homegrown CPUs HPC11 Apr 2022 | 24
Fujitsu to open Arm-based A64X HPC systems to public cloud The same architecture as the top-ranked "Fugaku" supercomputer with services bundled HPC06 Apr 2022 | 2
Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack team emits v22.02 Open-source HPC suite now includes 100 full-release products HPC01 Apr 2022 |
Fujitsu claims 'major technical milestone' in quantum simulation Uses 64-node cluster of classical HPC boxen to prove it HPC31 Mar 2022 | 5
US to rev fastest supercomputer with powerful test system 'Tiny' testbed already crushes Oak Ridge's past supercomputers HPC28 Mar 2022 | 2
Instant NeRF turns 2D photos into 3D scenes in seconds Nvidia says it has sped up NeRF rendering to mere tenths of a millisecond HPC25 Mar 2022 | 18
New Chinese exascale supercomputer runs 'brain-scale AI' Massive model gobbles 37 million homegrown 'Sunway' cores HPC11 Mar 2022 | 20
Brain-like neurochips good for supercomputers, not just AI, says Sandia Gee, could this be something Intel or IBM actually lead? HPC10 Mar 2022 | 1
Photonics startup Luminous Computing bags $105m Bill Gates among those plowing funds into AI supercomputing tech HPC05 Mar 2022 | 7
Russia scrambles to bootstrap HPC clusters with native tech Don't send a mobile chip to do a high-end CPU, GPU job. Unless you have no choice. HPC04 Mar 2022 | 25
D-Wave to go public after $1.2 billion merger deal with SPAC Quantum computing biz takes the easy route to IPO and future capital HPC08 Feb 2022 | 14
Joined up thinking: Europe to oversee trio of projects for homegrown chips, HPC gear Move comes ahead of draft law to turn continent into a center of semiconductor expertise HPC08 Feb 2022 | 4
India turns on a new supercomputer Pram Pravega's 3.3 petaFLOPS should make it India's fourth entrant in the Top500 list HPC07 Feb 2022 | 1
Ever-growing volumes of data mean computational storage is becoming crucial for HPC, say boffins at Dell's tech chinwag Data at rest should remain at rest HPC31 Jan 2022 | 3
Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe With microcode intact so it can talk to an original operator's console HPC27 Jan 2022 | 47
IBM confirms new mainframe to arrive 'late in first half of 2022' Hybrid cloud is Big Blue's big bet, but big iron is predicted to bring a welcome revenue boost HPC25 Jan 2022 | 35