HPC processor project tosses architectural designs on desk of the European Commission Promises to give EU the goods by 2021 05 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 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
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