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
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