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Climate model code is so outdated, MIT starts from scratch Julia replaces Fortran as the basis for Earth's new digital twin HPC13 Apr 2022 | 106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
A unified, agnostic software environment spanning HPC and AI won't be achieved Register debate Readers have their say HPC10 Dec 2021 | 2
A single HPC-AI software environment is less desirable than you might think Register Debate Every possible thing that can be tuned must be tuned – and tuned well HPC09 Dec 2021 | 1
We can unify HPC and AI software environments, just not at the source code level Register Debate Compute graphs are the way forward HPC08 Dec 2021 | 2
Why we will not have a unified HPC and AI software environment, ever Register Debate No good reason for vendors to play ball with each other HPC07 Dec 2021 | 15
This House believes: A unified, agnostic software environment can be achieved Register Debate How long will we keep reinventing software wheels? HPC06 Dec 2021 | 33
Now here's HPE with the weather in Northern Europe Firm to build Cray supercomputer to better grapple with 'new, dynamic weather patterns caused by climate change' HPC11 Nov 2021 | 4
AMD tries to spoil Nvidia's week by teasing high-end accelerators, Epyc chips with 3D L3 cache, and more Microsoft cloud first to privately preview Milan-X parts HPC09 Nov 2021 | 4
Quantum computing startups pull in millions as VCs rush to get ahead of the game Now they just have to make it work... HPC08 Oct 2021 | 17
'Quantum computer algorithms are linear algebra, probabilities. This is not something that we do a good job of teaching our kids' Assuming tech works as promised, overhaul needed in policy and supplies, panel says HPC01 Oct 2021 | 64
Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past Feature Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot HPC27 Sep 2021 | 41
First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico HPC22 Sep 2021 | 24
'Large-scale computing' needs a government team driving it, says UK.gov Report from the Government Office for Science lays out the hurdles to supercomputing relevance HPC22 Sep 2021 | 13
HPE bags $2bn HPC-as-a-service gig with the NSA Ten-year agreement kicks off in 2022 to help spies do spying HPC01 Sep 2021 | 1
Google demonstrates impractical improvement in quantum error correction – but it does work Scale would need to be cranked way up to have an impact, however HPC16 Jul 2021 | 12
Nvidia opens Hardware Grant Programme – which doesn't mean RTX 30 series cards Teachers and researchers offered workstation, embedded, and data-processing gear instead HPC13 Jul 2021 | 1
Nvidia launches Cambridge-1, UK's most powerful supercomputer, in Arm's neighbourhood Plus: free supercomputing for 5 healthcare partners. Charm offensive to support Arm takeover plans? HPC07 Jul 2021 | 28
AMD opens wallet to lure scientific computing boffins away from Nvidia's CUDA onto its Instinct accelerators Only academics, researchers, nonprofits need apply to AIER initiative HPC29 Jun 2021 | 6
RISC-V boffins lay out a plan for bringing the architecture to high-performance computing 'The group is united in making RISC-V an option in HPC,' says SIG-HPC chair HPC10 Jun 2021 | 7
Bull in a cosmos shop: Edinburgh uni boffins strike deal with Atos for BullSequana supercomputer Time running out for secrets of cosmos to remain hidden HPC02 Jun 2021 | 6
South Korea to build an exascale supercomputer running local CPUs by 2030 Hopes to start selling ‘em too, because China and Japan are heading the same direction and aren’t good at sharing HPC28 May 2021 | 2
America to get world's 'most powerful' AI supercomputer to create the most detailed 3D map of the universe yet Perlmutter will help scientists study dark energy and more HPC27 May 2021 | 29
Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders Ampere’s Altra gets the gig at a cent-per CPU hour, with managed K8s for starters, managed MySQL coming soon HPC25 May 2021 | 4
Quantum computing: Confusion can mask a good story, but don't take anyone's word for it Column It'll do great things in the future, just don't impose timeframes on when HPC10 May 2021 | 28
You're V1 for me, says Arm: Chip biz's 'highest-performance core' takes aim at supercomputers, AI, anything relying on vector math Plus the N2, its first Armv9 blueprint HPC27 Apr 2021 | 2
Jensen Huang's kitchen gets another viewing as Nvidia teases Arm-powered supercomputing chip Grace GTC Also another data processing unit, system-on-a-chip for self-driving cars HPC12 Apr 2021 | 8
Biden administration effectively slaps bans on seven Chinese supercomputer companies for military links Organizations added to Entity list HPC09 Apr 2021 | 9
We need a 20MW 20,000-GPU-strong machine-learning supercomputer to build EU's planned digital twin of Earth And this machine will be used to *check notes* study climate change. Study it or cause it? HPC26 Feb 2021 | 94
US Air Force boots up not one but two AMD-powered supercomputers after five years of Intel Haswell CPUs Fawbush and Miller supers will crank away at weather-forecasting models HPC10 Feb 2021 | 8
Video games were 'Eureka!' moment that helped boffins simulate neural activity on a single commodity GPU 'Procedural generation' might offer a way forward for projects queueing up to use a supercomputer HPC03 Feb 2021 | 7
Nvidia accused of cheating in big-data performance test by benchmark's umpires: Workloads 'tweaked' to beat rivals in TPCx-BB GPU giant says it'll play ball soon HPC28 Jan 2021 | 11
AMD, Nvidia, HPE tapped to triple the speed of US weather super with $35m upgrade Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s HPC27 Jan 2021 | 15
HPE sees itself 'delivering supercomputing-as-a-service to the masses' as it chucks HPC chops into GreenLake Hardware infrastructure vendors' obsession with consumption-based tech continues HPC09 Dec 2020 | 3
When humans return to the Moon in '2024', HPE would like us to remember: We built the computer that simmed this What could go wrong with NASA's SLS rocket? The Aitken system is finding out HPC18 Nov 2020 | 20
Six months after A100 super-GPU's debut, Nvidia doubles memory, ups bandwidth Hardware aimed at supercomputers, servers, mega-workstations HPC17 Nov 2020 | 5
AMD unveils its MI100 GPU, said to be its most powerful silicon for supercomputers, high-end AI processing Chip takes aim at Nvidia's A100 HPC16 Nov 2020 | 3