Cray's pre-exascale Shasta supercomputer gets energy research boffins hot under collar
US DoE sees multiple CPU, GPU, interconnect support and snaps one up for $146m
HPC31 Oct 2018 | 16
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HPC botherer DDN breaks file system benchmark record
Runs SPEC SFS 2014 software builds 25% faster than E8 Optane system
HPC11 Oct 2018 | 8
Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX
Hot Chips AKA how it learned to stop loving SPARC64
HPC22 Aug 2018 | 44
Fix for July's Spectre-like bug is breaking some supers
RDMA-Lustre combo swatted, HPC admins scramble
HPC21 Aug 2018 | 5
HPE flies low-energy Eagle into National Renewable Energy Lab's data centre
Uncle Sam's renewable boffins will triple their power in 2019
OSes15 Aug 2018 | 8
'Prodigy' chip moonshot gets hand from Arm CPU guru Prof Steve Furber
Perfect for the EU's domestic supercomputer... ready by 2020. No really
HPC27 Jul 2018 | 22
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
HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days
No rad hardening so even HPE is 'pleasantly surprised'
HPC26 Jul 2018 | 56
EU plans for domestic exascale supercomputer chips: A RISC-y business
Analysis Consortium possibly looking to flex Arm muscle, too
HPC17 Jul 2018 | 30
An $18m supercomputer to simulate brains of mice in the land of Swiss cheese. How apt, HPE
Wow, the SGI brand. What a blast from the past, sorry, future
HPC09 Jul 2018 | 37
Europe's scheme to build exascale capability on homegrown hardware is ludicrous fantasy
Analysis Um, which hardware would that be, then?
HPC29 Jun 2018 | 39
Big Blue's Summit super sits, aptly, at the peak of official Top500 beast list
IBM's Power9, Nvidia 122.3 HPL petaflops monster overwhelms competitors
HPC25 Jun 2018 | 11
Lazy parent Intel dumps Lustre assets on HPC storage bods DDN
Chipzilla offloads devs, support teams and contracts
HPC25 Jun 2018 | 12
Fujitsu kicks off field trials for post-K exascale computing processor
Prototyping wrapped up with delivery around 2021
HPC21 Jun 2018 | 4
Cray slaps an all-flash makeover on its L300 array to do HPC stuff
ClusterStor node uses slower SAS SSDs
HPC19 Jun 2018 | 3
HPE pulls sheets off largest Arm-based supercomputer Astra
Will run national security, energy workloads
HPC18 Jun 2018 | 6
Linux literally loses its Lustre – HPC filesystem ditched in new kernel
Version 4.18 rc1 also swats Spectre, cuddles Chromebooks
OSes18 Jun 2018 | 17
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
US regains supercomputer crown from Chinese, for now
America! FLOP yeah!
HPC08 Jun 2018 | 52
HPE: Exafloppers need to be 'memory-centric' as world cannot afford internode data slinging
Analysis Got to keep purse-strings tight on that power budget, innit?
HPC07 Jun 2018 | 3
Alibaba and pals: We all SQream for GPU-powered databases – here, take $26.4m
Startup has powerful backer to help it crack China
HPC30 May 2018 |
HPE donates 3 mini-supercomputers to UK universities boning up on Arm
Muscling in Arm supers message on road to exascale
HPC16 Apr 2018 | 12
Microsoft reinvents Massive Arrays of Idle Disks for Azure, 'cos IBM tape ain't enough
Redmond claims to be world’s biggest tape user, but wants a faster alternative for AI data
HPC03 Apr 2018 | 17
Wow, machine learning, what a snoozefest... less so if you strap a bunch of GPUs to your storage
Analysis GPU-boosted system market is, like, literally so hot right now
HPC28 Mar 2018 | 6
If you've got $1m+ to blow on AI, meet Pure, Nvidia's AIRI fairy: A hyperconverged beast
0.5 PFLOPS FP32, 0.5 PB of effective flash storage
HPC27 Mar 2018 | 11
Mellanox says it ships enough ports not to need Starboard
Spat with activist investor continues as companies feud over voting procedures
HPC13 Mar 2018 | 4
China looks set to pip Uncle Sam at the post in exascale computer race
Analysis Tianhe-3 rig a year in front of stateside supers
HPC08 Mar 2018 | 12
Future supers pop up on $636m cash wishlist to get exascale beasts prowling on US soil
Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore labs slated for beastmode kit in 2021-2023
HPC05 Mar 2018 | 2
Alibaba fires up a cloudy quantum computer
Five-qubit creation is behind the great firewall and outside it at the same time!
HPC05 Mar 2018 | 19
Executing the DIMM sidestep: Movements in High Bandwidth Memory
Analysis Get the data out of memory faster
HPC01 Mar 2018 | 6
Wanna gobble Google's custom chips? Now you can – its Cloud TPUs at $6.50 an hour
TensorFlow math accelerators available to rent
HPC12 Feb 2018 | 9
Ruskie boffins blasted for using nuke bomb lab's supercomputer to mine crypto-rubles
Kremlin goes nuclear on sly digi-cash-crafting eggheads
HPC09 Feb 2018 | 26
Europe to spend €1bn on supercomputers and big data infrastructure
Four machines on the slate, at almost-exascale and beyond, to nourish local industry
HPC12 Jan 2018 | 16
Oz's biggest iron slated for 2018 replacement
NCI gets AU$70 million to replace Raijin
HPC18 Dec 2017 | 4
Top supercomputing biz boss cuffed amid allegations of fraud
Pezy CEO accused of $3.8m subsidy theft
HPC06 Dec 2017 | 4
Call of Duty: Hierachical storage management biz runs its last campaign
Campaign Storage shuts doors
HPC05 Dec 2017 | 1
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
Activist investor rages at Mellanox for dismissing Marvell's advances
Analysis Why won't you let us create value for shareholders?
HPC24 Nov 2017 | 15
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
Huawei's 4-socket HPC blade server gruntbox gets Skylake mills
Beefier grunts from Chipzilla's latest and greatest
HPC15 Nov 2017 |
Los Alamos National Lab fires up 750-node RPi cluster
It's an exercise in learning to cluster, and could soon scale to 10,000 nodes
HPC13 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
Google hooks up with Scale for cloud collab?! What does it all mean?
And what will it become?
HPC05 Oct 2017 | 2
Love cloudy HPC? Microsoft does, slurps Cycle Computing
CPU-wrangler found fame on EC2, becomes Azure business
HPC16 Aug 2017 | 4
Swinburne Uni slings SGI, picks DellTel for new 4,140 core super
'OzSTAR' to speed search for gravitational waves using LIGO data
HPC15 Aug 2017 | 2
Place your bets: How long will 1TFLOPS HPE box last in space without proper rad hardening
NASA about to find out, thanks to SpaceX launch to ISS
HPC12 Aug 2017 | 61
Brit uni builds its own supercomputer from secondhand parts
She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid
HPC04 Aug 2017 | 56
Seagate offloads ClusterStor data-nomming plaything on Cray
An HPC product line is for life, not just for Christmas
HPC27 Jul 2017 |
190 Cray employees hosed down with shower of pink slippery
15% laid off in cost-cutting exercise at HPC supplier
HPC19 Jul 2017 | 7
Dell and Intel see off IBM and POWER to win new Australian super
114 servers, 3,192 Xeon cores and another million-plus from GPUs, for petaflop performance
HPC18 Jul 2017 | 10
Amazon supercharges GPU power, spits out Nvidia-backed G3
Get your office benchmarking Crysi- *cough* I mean, working
HPC14 Jul 2017 | 2
Alan Turing Institute bags a Cray Urika-GX to crunch numbers for next-gen tech boffinry
But can it run Crysis?
HPC14 Jul 2017 | 6
Britain's warhead-watcher to simulate Trident nukes with Atos supercomputer
No Bull... no flops... or should that be the other way round?
HPC05 Jul 2017 | 74
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 |
HPE teases HPC punters with scalable gear
No you can't have full specs or pricing until next month
HPC21 Jun 2017 | 4
Gear, racks, software hacks – what the cluster kids are rockin' at ISC17
HPC Blog Students show all at Frankfurt HPC showdown
HPC21 Jun 2017 |
Swiss super pushes USA off podium in new Top500 Supers list
China packs a one-two punch at the top, UK Met office scores 11th place, Australia 70th
HPC20 Jun 2017 | 8
