GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation Specialty in cognitive non-routine tasks means high-skilled city workers affected HPC03 Dec 2024 | 56
French state waves up to €625M for Atos's Advanced Computing assets Another offer IT services giant possibly can't refuse HPC25 Nov 2024 | 5
Eviden wins €60M Finnish supercomputing award amid Atos turmoil Despite parent's financial turbulence, subsidiary continues to secure major contracts HPC21 Nov 2024 |
Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW SC24 You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too HPC18 Nov 2024 | 6
Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC SC24 GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery AI + ML18 Nov 2024 |
LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance SC24 Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view HPC18 Nov 2024 | 11
LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide's rackscale compute platform SC24 System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing HPC18 Nov 2024 | 1
HPE goes Cray for Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs, crams 224 into a single cabinet Meanwhile, new ProLiant servers offer choice of Gaudi, Hopper, Instinct acceleration HPC13 Nov 2024 | 14
xAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chips Systems29 Oct 2024 | 4
ParTec expands supercomputer patent fight from Microsoft to Nvidia Wants injunction on GPUs that use what it alleges is its own IP HPC28 Oct 2024 |
Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer How does 90 exaFLOPS sound? HPC08 Oct 2024 |
Atos stumbles again as French government says 'non' to purchase of key assets Ailing IT services giant still in hot pursuit of agreement on Big Data & Security unit HPC07 Oct 2024 | 16
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
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
How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system Feature 'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The Reg
We can't make this stuff up: tech companies Palantir and Anduril form fellowship for AI adventures Meanwhile, Sauron secures funding. Really
British boffins build diamond battery capable of working for a millennium or five Video Carbon-14 decay could be coming to an implant in you
Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor arrive in time for Christmas Hands On Faster, whiter, a tad more expensive – and a little baffling
Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems Special report Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling
Panic at the Cisco tech, thanks to ancient IOS syntax helper that outsmarted itself Who, Me? Misplaced shortcut led to communication breakdown
Mr Intel leaving Intel is not a great sign... for Intel Opinion Pat Gelsinger has unexpectedly quit. Gore dump follows
Blue Yonder ransomware termites claim credit Infosec in brief Also: Mystery US firm compromised by Chinese hackers for months; Safe links that aren't; Polish spy boss arrested, and more
China launches AI that writes politically correct docs for bureaucrats Asia In Brief PLUS: Politician thought Korea's martial law declaration was a deepfake; Apple finds a billion for Indonesia; China worries about open source intel; and more
Microsoft dangles $10K for hackers to hijack LLM email service Outsmart an AI, win a little Christmas cash
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
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