HPC processor project tosses architectural designs on desk of the European Commission
Promises to give EU the goods by 2021
05 Jun 2019 | 12
HPC
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
17 May 2019 | 49
5G willikers, did AI do that? HPC botherer DDN buys Nexenta
Splashing out on software-defined file and object storage plus ... some extras
07 May 2019 | 6
Commercial spinoffs of Fujitsu's Post-K super 'puter will hit shelves long before exascale daddy switched on
HPC goodness sure to cost an Arm and a leg
16 Apr 2019 | 8
Hey, US taxpayers. Filed your taxes? Good, good. $500m of it is going on an Intel-Cray exascale boffinry supercomputer
Well, that Knights Hill 2018 dream didn't work out, so let's shoot for 2021 instead
18 Mar 2019 | 23
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?
13 Mar 2019 | 33
Prodigy chip brainiacs Tachyum hook up with Euro HPC consortium
Happy-clappy club wants to 'democratize' supercomputing
27 Feb 2019 | 2
Cray will realise 'substantial' loss. But Shasta minute, folks, big iron market will pick up
And... stock-botherers seem happy with that
16 Jan 2019 | 5
It's raining, then? Hallelujah. Big Blue super 'puter sharpens forecasts
As legal storm over weather app location data brews, its new year's resolution is: 3km
14 Jan 2019 | 19
Panasas tells world+dog: We've broken free from chains of proprietary kit
HPC pusher bats eyelids at OEM flingers after biggest product refresh in a while
14 Nov 2018 |
FPGAs? Sure, them too. Liqid pours chips over composable computing systems
Xilinx Alveo cards added to platform list
13 Nov 2018 | 12
What's big, blue, and short on Intel? The supercomputer world's podium: USA tops Top500 with IBM Power9
Arm gets a look-in with first petascale machine, China slips into third
13 Nov 2018 | 21
It's wall-to-wall Huawei: Chinese behemoth hogs five of six top spots in SPC-1 array benchmark
The firm everyone loves to fear sets new all-flash record
01 Nov 2018 | 8
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
31 Oct 2018 | 16
HPC botherer DDN breaks file system benchmark record
Runs SPEC SFS 2014 software builds 25% faster than E8 Optane system
11 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
22 Aug 2018 | 44
Fix for July's Spectre-like bug is breaking some supers
RDMA-Lustre combo swatted, HPC admins scramble
21 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
15 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
27 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?
26 Jul 2018 | 29
HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days
No rad hardening so even HPE is 'pleasantly surprised'
26 Jul 2018 | 56
EU plans for domestic exascale supercomputer chips: A RISC-y business
Analysis Consortium possibly looking to flex Arm muscle, too
17 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
09 Jul 2018 | 37
Europe's scheme to build exascale capability on homegrown hardware is ludicrous fantasy
Analysis Um, which hardware would that be, then?
29 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
25 Jun 2018 | 11
Lazy parent Intel dumps Lustre assets on HPC storage bods DDN
Chipzilla offloads devs, support teams and contracts
25 Jun 2018 | 12
Fujitsu kicks off field trials for post-K exascale computing processor
Prototyping wrapped up with delivery around 2021
21 Jun 2018 | 4
Cray slaps an all-flash makeover on its L300 array to do HPC stuff
ClusterStor node uses slower SAS SSDs
19 Jun 2018 | 3
HPE pulls sheets off largest Arm-based supercomputer Astra
Will run national security, energy workloads
18 Jun 2018 | 6
Linux literally loses its Lustre – HPC filesystem ditched in new kernel
Version 4.18 rc1 also swats Spectre, cuddles Chromebooks
18 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
14 Jun 2018 | 1
US regains supercomputer crown from Chinese, for now
America! FLOP yeah!
08 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?
07 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
30 May 2018 |
HPE donates 3 mini-supercomputers to UK universities boning up on Arm
Muscling in Arm supers message on road to exascale
16 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
03 Apr 2018 | 17
