Europe's most powerful supercomputer is an all-AMD beast First of Europe's pre-exascale systems inaugurated, hits top 3 even without GPU partition fully installed HPC13 Jun 2022 | 4
AMD nearly doubles Top500 supercomputer hardware share Analysis Intel loses out as Instinct GPUs power the world’s fastest big-iron system HPC01 Jun 2022 | 7
Los Alamos to power up supercomputer using all-Nvidia CPU, GPU Superchips HPE-built system to be used by Uncle Sam for material science, renewables, and more HPC30 May 2022 | 3
Home-grown Euro chipmaker SiPearl signs deal with HPE, Nvidia Claims partnerships will drive development and adoption of exascale computing in Europe HPC30 May 2022 | 2
All-AMD US Frontier supercomputer ousts Japan's Fugaku as No. 1 in Top500 Exascale beast's test system also claims top spot in the Green500 HPC30 May 2022 | 23
Atos pushes out HPC cloud services based on Nimbix tech Moore's Law got you down? Throw everything at the problem! Quantum, AI, cloud... HPC25 May 2022 |
HPE, Cerebras build AI supercomputer for scientific research Wafer madness hits the LRZ in HPE Superdome supercomputer wrapper HPC25 May 2022 | 2
US fears China may have ten exascale systems by 2025 China refuses to share benchmarks, US sharpens focus on developing optimized software HPC20 May 2022 | 27
Tesla sues former engineer, claims he stole Dojo supercomputer trade secrets AI is meant to solve tech challenges innate in designing, running complex system Legal09 May 2022 | 13
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 |
Aurora exascale supercomputer lead leaves Intel for Samsung Years of extended delays and changes for late 2022-planned system HPC13 Apr 2022 |
Dell, Nvidia, AMD to power new Ohio AI compute cluster Aims to develop next generation cyberinfrastructure, amongst other things HPC13 Apr 2022 |
Scientists make spin ice breakthrough Artificial spin ice with smallest features ever created could be part of novel low-power HPC Science09 Apr 2022 | 10
US to rev fastest supercomputer with powerful test system 'Tiny' testbed already crushes Oak Ridge's past supercomputers HPC28 Mar 2022 | 2
CEA sees future in waferscale quantum computing chips French research giant, C12 see challenges, but prototype slated for 2024 Systems24 Mar 2022 | 3
Photonics startup Luminous Computing bags $105m Bill Gates among those plowing funds into AI supercomputing tech HPC05 Mar 2022 | 7
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
Meta says it's building world's largest AI supercomputer out of Nvidia, AMD chips Facebook owner needs 16,000 GPUs, 4,000 Epyc processors – good luck, everyone else AI + ML25 Jan 2022 | 21
Europe completes first phase of silicon independence project Three years of R&D and design work to be tested with plans to build native ‘super in 2023 On-Prem24 Dec 2021 | 112
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
Biden administration effectively slaps bans on seven Chinese supercomputer companies for military links Organizations added to Entity list HPC09 Apr 2021 | 9
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
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
Six months after A100 super-GPU's debut, Nvidia doubles memory, ups bandwidth Hardware aimed at supercomputers, servers, mega-workstations HPC17 Nov 2020 | 5
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
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
Q: How does hydrogen turn into a metal? A: Hang on a second, I need to train my AI supercomputer first Since we can't build a planet AI + ML10 Sep 2020 | 41
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
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
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
Why build your own cancer-sniffing neural network when this 1.3 exaflop supercomputer can do if for you? Small problem – you need 9,216 CPUs and 27,648 GPUs AI + ML01 Oct 2019 | 8
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
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
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
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
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
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
WekaIO almost, but not quite, summits Summit supercomputer on storage performance Takes second place in IO-500 10 Node Challenge Storage30 Nov 2018 | 11
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
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
Nvidia adds nine nifty AI supercomputing containers to the cloud Now you can splash out on tons of GPUs if you really need to AI + ML25 Jun 2018 |
China looks set to pip Uncle Sam at the post in exascale computer race Analysis Tianhe-3 rig a year in front of stateside supers HPC08 Mar 2018 | 12
Ruskie boffins blasted for using nuke bomb lab's supercomputer to mine crypto-rubles Kremlin goes nuclear on sly digi-cash-crafting eggheads HPC09 Feb 2018 | 26
Europe to spend €1bn on supercomputers and big data infrastructure Four machines on the slate, at almost-exascale and beyond, to nourish local industry HPC12 Jan 2018 | 16
Oz's biggest iron slated for 2018 replacement NCI gets AU$70 million to replace Raijin HPC18 Dec 2017 | 4
Top supercomputing biz boss cuffed amid allegations of fraud Pezy CEO accused of $3.8m subsidy theft HPC06 Dec 2017 | 3
Summit for the readers who are hot for petaFLOPs: Server nodes flashed at SC17 Analysis Oak Ridge Top 500-leading system's innards Systems23 Nov 2017 | 3
Intel drags Xeon Phi Knights Hill chips out back... two shots heard Updated Chipzilla goes back to the drawing board on many-core math accelerator line HPC16 Nov 2017 | 31
Dell and Intel see off IBM and POWER to win new Australian super 114 servers, 3,192 Xeon cores and another million-plus from GPUs, for petaflop performance HPC18 Jul 2017 | 10
Britain's warhead-watcher to simulate Trident nukes with Atos supercomputer No Bull... no flops... or should that be the other way round? HPC05 Jul 2017 | 74
Cluster kids: Meet the students giving all for science and HPC glory HPC Blog If LINPACK would pack wood... and other computer sports posers HPC22 Jun 2017 |
Swiss super pushes USA off podium in new Top500 Supers list China packs a one-two punch at the top, UK Met office scores 11th place, Australia 70th HPC20 Jun 2017 | 8
Uncle Sam bungs rich tech giants quarter of a billion bucks for exascale super R&D Carrot dangled for 2021 mega-machines HPC15 Jun 2017 | 18
Cray dips toe in supercomputing-as-a-service Gene research a test market for cloudy graph engine HPC17 May 2017 | 1
Chinese supercomputer newbs smash student cluster-building record HPC Blog New top speed set by Weifang proto-boffins HPC09 May 2017 | 2
Straight outta Shandong cluster noobs set new LINPACK world record HPC Blog 31.7 trillion flops – pretty sporty HPC27 Apr 2017 | 8
The more ya node: Asia cluster romp's a picture of supercomputer trends HPC Blog Small racks, large GPUs HPC26 Apr 2017 |