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
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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
HPE bags $160m to build 550-PFLOPS super for Europe out of tomorrow's AMD Epyc processors, graphics chips
Finns are going Cray cray
HPC22 Oct 2020 | 4
AMD scores 200,000 cores worth of secret silicon at new Australian supercomputer
Chips will power $34m machine doing Square Kilometre Array work and more
HPC19 Oct 2020 | 16
Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022
You were only supposed to blow the bloody bytes off!
HPC15 Oct 2020 | 10
India to build home-grown supercomputers, from the motherboards up
Minister says more supers will advance society. So why wait to develop silicon, networks, storage and more?
HPC13 Oct 2020 | 11
Oracle adds Arm-powered servers with up to 160 cores to its cloud – must be why it sunk millions into Ampere
Plans HPC play with AMD, Intel silicon, too
HPC22 Sep 2020 | 12
Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup
All aboard the exascale express
HPC03 Aug 2020 | 14
Fujitsu, Japan strong-Arm their way to the top with world's fastest-known super: 415-PFLOPS Fugaku
That big Arm news you were all expecting today, right?
HPC22 Jun 2020 | 16
Microsoft claims it has spun up a top-five AI supercomputer for its pals at OpenAI – but won't reveal the full specs
Build This big beast has more than '285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs'
HPC20 May 2020 | 9
That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme
Stuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber
HPC19 May 2020 | 13
Reg readers have not one, but TWO teams in Folding@home top 1,000 as virus-bothering network hits 2.4 exa-FLOPS
Distributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront
HPC14 Apr 2020 | 22
PC owners borg into the most powerful computer the world has ever known – all in the search for coronavirus cure
Move over, Summit. Distributed computing project hits 470 PFLOPS
HPC24 Mar 2020 | 173
IBM fires up the big iron, Facebook hands out masks, Cisco splashes cash, and CDC gets an Azure-powered bot
Roundup Everybody chill, Big Tech's got this
HPC23 Mar 2020 | 13
Uncle Sam's nuke-stockpile-simulating souped-super El Capitan set to hit TWO exa-FLOPS, take crown as world's fastest machine in 2023
Department of Energy turns to HPE, AMD to flesh out monster
HPC04 Mar 2020 | 46
Lustre HPC file systems no longer disappear in a puff on Amazon Web Services – but you'll pay more
Throughput boosted and encryption in transit added to temporary counterparts
HPC25 Feb 2020 |
A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer
SC19 If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again
HPC18 Nov 2019 | 26
Player three has entered Cray's supercomputing game: First AMD Epyc, now Fujitsu's Arm chips
A64FX: Big in Japan, big in the US, UK at this rate
HPC13 Nov 2019 | 24
UK govt snubs Intel, seeks second-gen AMD Epyc processors for 28PFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer
HPE's Cray hits 80-million-quid target to build boffinry beast
HPC15 Oct 2019 | 36
HPE's Eng Lim Goh on spaceborne computers, NASA medals – and AI at the final frontier
Interview Never mind the edge, try running a super 'puter up there
HPC07 Oct 2019 | 12
The Reg chats to HPE's HPC man about NASA's supercomputers, lunar ambitions and Columbia
Interview From Spaceborne to Aitken and on to the Moon
HPC11 Sep 2019 | 2
Look at me. Look at me. I'm the El Capitan now: Cray to build US govt's $600m cray-cray exascale nuke app super
1.5 EFLOPS monster will chew through simulations, modeling, and more, when it, fingers crossed, spins up in 2023
HPC13 Aug 2019 | 7
Bored of laptops? Love 200Gb/s interconnects? Then you're going to hate today's Intel news
Chipzilla teases actual proper working 10nm notebook CPUs as Omni-Path 2 quietly dies
HPC01 Aug 2019 | 37
Toodle-oo Raijin and g'day Gadi, you beauty! Australia's fastest super 'puter will bench 38 PFLOPS later this year
HPC beaut built by Fujitsu to debut in November
HPC29 Jul 2019 | 15
Who needs a supercomputer when you can get a couple of petaflops on AWS?
Or you could run it on-premises three times cheaper says University of Cambridge bod
HPC20 Jun 2019 | 31
Who bought the most powerful commercial supercomputer? Come on, it's Total-ly obvious
Well, oil be damned. Faster computers, faster apocalypse?
HPC18 Jun 2019 | 37
Nvidia 'brings CUDA to Arm' – Translation: We're still doing a thing we've already done but now doing more of it
Woulda, CUDA, shoulda
HPC17 Jun 2019 | 1
This isn't Boeing to end well: Plane maker to scrap some physical cert tests, use computer simulations instead
Actually probe expensive gear in real life? Pah. It's 2019. We're Boeing digital
HPC17 Jun 2019 | 141
Frontiersman Cray snags $50m storage contract for 'largest single filesystem'
Shasta minute: HPE purchase to provide 1 exabyte of ClusterStor for Oak Ridge National Laboratory
HPC17 Jun 2019 | 24
HPE's Spaceborne supercomputer returns to terra firma after 615 days on the ISS
HP customers: If your spinoff can put a computer into space, why can't I have my Reverb?
HPC06 Jun 2019 | 32
HPC processor project tosses architectural designs on desk of the European Commission
Promises to give EU the goods by 2021
HPC05 Jun 2019 | 12
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
HPC17 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
HPC07 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
HPC16 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
HPC18 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?
HPC13 Mar 2019 | 33
Prodigy chip brainiacs Tachyum hook up with Euro HPC consortium
Happy-clappy club wants to 'democratize' supercomputing
HPC27 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
HPC16 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
HPC14 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
HPC14 Nov 2018 |
FPGAs? Sure, them too. Liqid pours chips over composable computing systems
Xilinx Alveo cards added to platform list
HPC13 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
HPC13 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
HPC01 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
HPC31 Oct 2018 | 16
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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
