Tachyum says someone will build 50 exaFLOPS super with its as-yet unfinished chips
Interview 'It's a huge, effing big machine'
HPC16 Oct 2023 | 4
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US govt talks up $2B X-ray photobooth to check its nuke weapon sims are right
Sub-critical plutonium implosion to be snapped on nanosecond scale
HPC09 Oct 2023 | 17
Atos subsidiary Eviden scores contract win in Europe's first exascale system
$526M Jupiter set to rule EU's tech orbit by 2024
HPC04 Oct 2023 |
From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history?
Analysis Having seen how conventional computers changed the world, can you really afford to bet against it?
HPC03 Oct 2023 | 31
SCREAM resonates in the race for the Gordon Bell Climate Prize
A look at America's next top model ... in fine resolution
HPC19 Sep 2023 | 8
Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang
Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs
HPC02 Sep 2023 | 19
Tesla hedges Dojo supercomputer bet with 10K Nvidia H100 GPU cluster
Keeping full self-driving dream on the road just needs more graphics chips?
HPC30 Aug 2023 | 7
Rocky Linux backer CIQ rejects lawsuit's claims it was founded on stolen IP
Brands allegations as 'meritless' after being sued by HPC software provider Sylabs
HPC24 Aug 2023 | 11
SK hynix ships blazing fast HBM3E DRAM samples – but most customers have to wait
Everything in 2023 is about AI, which this silicon is said to speed
HPC23 Aug 2023 |
AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors
Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons
Cloud Infrastructure Week21 Aug 2023 |
A closer look at Harvard and Google's HPC heart research project
That's a massive workload you've got there – how much does it cost?
Cloud Infrastructure Week18 Aug 2023 | 3
US shovels cash into supercomputers hoping to stoke fusion future
$112M for 12 projects announced on heels of LLNL's second successful fusion ignition
HPC15 Aug 2023 | 2
Tesla's Dojo supercomputer is a billion-dollar bet to make AI better at driving than humans
More data means better neural net training, but it also means more cores
HPC21 Jul 2023 | 43
Cerebras's Condor Galaxy AI supercomputer takes flight carrying 36 exaFLOPS
Nine-site system built for UAE's G42, but there'll be plenty to spare
HPC20 Jul 2023 | 3
Uncle Sam to put Aurora supercomputer to work on catalyst conundrums
Meanwhile, ORNL's Summit simulates bacteria battling cicada wings
HPC17 Jul 2023 | 5
Fancy tinkering with the atmosphere? The Derecho supercomputer can advise
NCAR's biggish iron will also explore wildfires, drought and solar storms
HPC12 Jul 2023 | 6
Europe sets out to squeeze every last drop of power from supercomputers
Because Ferraris are meant to fly, not amble along at 2mph
HPC06 Jul 2023 | 3
Supercomputing AI service among HPE's freshest GreenLake fare
HPE Discover It's bingo for those who had LLMs on your card – but no word on how much it's going to cost
HPC21 Jun 2023 |
Intel sprinkles 12-qubit quantum test chips into the hands of researchers
When they're done, there might be a commercially viable system sometime after 2030... maybe
HPC15 Jun 2023 | 4
Nvidia to power more supercomputers as AI frenzy kicks in
Computex New beasts to take up residence in Israeli and Taiwanese DCs
HPC30 May 2023 |
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Raspberry Pi 5: Hot takes and cooler mistakes
How does the device fare as a daily driver, and is cooling really optional?
Windows 10's latest update issue isn't a bug but a feature – to test your patience
Some attempted installations of KB5031356 were reportedly stuck on 30% after 24 hours
So this one time, at Bandcamp, half the staff were laid off
Epic redundancies all round
Cisco zero-day bug allows router hijacking and is being actively exploited
We'd say 'Hurry up and patch' but it hasn't written one yet. While you wait, disable HTTP
British boffins say aircraft could fly on trash, cutting pollution debt by 80%
Domestic jets can use 'municipal solid waste' to fly the friendly skies
China requires any new domestic Wi-Fi kit to support IPv6 and run it by default
Beijing set big targets for next-gen networks, but adoption stats suggest it's falling short
Cloudflare exiles baseboard management controller from its server motherboards
Puts Datacenter-ready Secure Control Modules to work in boxen built by Lenovo
LinkedIn lays off nearly 700 staff, engineers to suffer the most
Time to update that resume on, er ... oh.
Falcon Heavy sends NASA probe to metal-rich asteroid Psyche
Is SpaceX psyching out the competition?
Tell me Huawei: Chinese giant wants to know what made EU label it high security risk
Files official complaint as it battles to keep market share
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Look mom, no InifiniBand: Nvidia’s DGX GH200 glues 256 superchips with NVLink
Computex Unless you need more nodes
HPC29 May 2023 | 3
SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims
LLNL harnesses DataScale platform with aim to improve predictive models
HPC23 May 2023 | 2
IBM asks UChicago, UTokyo for help building a 100K qubit quantum supercomputer
For $100 million it better beat an Nvidia A100
HPC23 May 2023 | 10
HPE bags contracts to build HPC beasts for UK and Japan boffins
TSUBAME4.0 ordered for Tokyo Institute of Tech, and Isambard 3 to live in Bristol & Bath Science Park
HPC22 May 2023 |
US supers maintain grip on Top500 list as China seemingly hides its powers
ISC Meanwhile, Europe awaits a seat at the exascale table
HPC22 May 2023 | 4
Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus
Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons
HPC10 May 2023 | 10
A lone Nvidia GPU speeds past the physics-straining might of a quantum computer – in these apps at least
Don't hold your breath waiting for all those breakthroughs we've been promised
HPC03 May 2023 | 22
Quantum computing: Hype or reality? OVH says businesses would be better off prepared
Understand the technology before you are taken by surprise, argues CTO
HPC25 Apr 2023 | 14
Aurora exascale system gets 'mini-me' testbed for researchers
We node you want to test it out. (We're here all week.)
HPC21 Apr 2023 | 3
D-Wave hello to another quantum pioneer warned over possible delisting
Share price slides below $1 for 30 days straight, but company vows it will comply with NYSE regs again
HPC23 Mar 2023 | 3
Budget: UK chip strategy still nowhere to be seen. Money for quantum, AI? Sure
Um, folks? All this tech kinda needs semiconductors
HPC16 Mar 2023 | 36
SambaNova’s AI paired with Fugaku supercomputer to develop 'digital twins'
All part of the Japan's Society 5.0 project
HPC01 Mar 2023 |
Petaflops help scientists understand why some COVID-19 variants are more contagious
'If we did one of these calculations in our lab, we are talking weeks or months'
HPC23 Feb 2023 | 14
Quantum of solace: Rigetti to cut workforce as it faces Nasdaq delisting
Appoints new CFO, CTO, chops 1 in 4 staffers
HPC13 Feb 2023 | 2
Atos tossed €20m to build Max Planck Society supercomputer
Unnamed platform boasts three times the application performance of its predecessor, Cobra
HPC13 Feb 2023 | 2
Could RISC-V become a force in high performance computing?
Analysis Meanwhile, Euro supercomputer project makes a call for developing an HPC ecosystem based on the architecture
HPC08 Feb 2023 | 28
LUMI supercomputer puts GPU partition through its paces with hardcore science
Simulates the Sun's atmosphere, peers deep into Earth's interior, and can probably run Crysis
HPC19 Jan 2023 | 6
Intel, AMD just created a headache for datacenters
Server silos didn't see today's watt-gobbling, space-heater chips coming
HPC19 Jan 2023 | 29
Atos will be paid $29m over $1b UK Met Office supercomputer dispute
Settlement 'without admission of liability' followed court challenge to Microsoft mega-deal
HPC09 Jan 2023 | 29
Samsung slaps processing-in-memory chips onto GPUs for first-of-its-kind supercomputer
Korean tech giant claims big performance, energy efficiency gains with memory tech
HPC13 Dec 2022 | 10
If today's tech gets you down, remember supercomputers are still being used for scientific progress
Turns out it's a bit more complex than throwing more GPUs at the math
HPC11 Dec 2022 | 14
Durham Uni and Dell co-design systems to help model the universe
A particle physicist, an astronomer and a cosmologist meet in a bar. You what, COSMA8?
HPC06 Dec 2022 | 4
NOAA, Microsoft partner to put climate models in the clouds
Don't worry, Redmond hasn't gotten its hands on the agency's coffers yet
HPC01 Dec 2022 | 3
AWS follows AMD and Intel down the specialized chips path
Analysis CPU roadmaps are fragmenting to serve a variety of needs. Time to do some homework
HPC30 Nov 2022 |
Europe to have 2 of the 4 most powerful supercomputers as Leonardo comes online
Pre-exascale system will be officially inaugurated at the Bologna Technopole in Italy on November 24
HPC22 Nov 2022 | 14
HPC's lost histories will power the future of tech
Opinion If you thought the '80s were cool, wait for the revival
HPC21 Nov 2022 | 16
Nvidia H100-based Henri supercomputer tests AMD’s claim on Green500
SC22 In this race it's all about flops per watts
HPC17 Nov 2022 | 1
Azure-based 'AI supercomputer' to use Nvidia GPUs and software
Is it a super or a cloud service? Users would string together components as required
HPC17 Nov 2022 |
Cerebras's supercomputer has more cores than world's fastest iron – with a big catch
Better for AI, but Frontier's still top of the heap
HPC15 Nov 2022 | 6
Nvidia, Lockheed team up to build digital twin of the Earth for climate researchers
Come September '23, scientists might be able to learn more rapidly how we're failing to control global warming
HPC14 Nov 2022 | 7
Aurora delays keep Frontier supercomputer in #1 spot on Top500
SC22 EuroHPC's LUMI upgrades secure narrow lead over all-new Leonardo system
HPC14 Nov 2022 | 1
Dell pushing hybrid quantum/classical system in HPC overhaul
SC22 Steady now. It's not the full-fledged quantum that will suddenly let you crack encryption algos
HPC14 Nov 2022 | 1
Optimizer Rescale recommends Rescale's optimization recommender
Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it
HPC09 Nov 2022 |
HPE goes Cray for Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons in latest supers
Of course the IT giant's Epyc 4 systems will still ship first
HPC09 Nov 2022 |
DoE supercomputing centers get $1.5B boost from Biden administration
US government opens purse strings as China eats into America's former lead
HPC07 Nov 2022 | 1
Tiny quantum computer plugs into top Euro supercomputer – because why not?
It's not how many qubits you've got, it's how you use them
HPC02 Nov 2022 | 12
HPE supercomputer to tell Singapore that it's hot, humid, probably going to rain
Cray EX beast deployed to improve weather forecasting in country that has basically one season
HPC28 Oct 2022 | 5
Fujitsu launches HPC and not-quite-quantum cloud services
Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year
HPC25 Oct 2022 | 1
Classiq works with Rolls-Royce on quantum boost for simulations
It's plane to see it wants more info on fluid dynamics of flying engines
HPC18 Oct 2022 | 2
Scientists model turbulence to boost space propulsion
Running direct numerical simulation on 'an industrial scale'
HPC12 Oct 2022 | 10
Saudi Arabia turns to HPE for AMD-powered Cray supercomputer
The Beast of the Middle East: up to 20 times faster than predecessor, that's 884,736 CPU cores across the system
HPC27 Sep 2022 | 1
Nvidia claims 'record performance' for Hopper MLPerf debut
H100 Tensor Core GPU leaves A100 in the dust, but company says previous gen has improved too
HPC09 Sep 2022 |
Polaris supercomputer boots up, paves way for Aurora exascale system
Researchers cue up AI sims, code and workloads for Argonne Lab's most powerful beast
HPC10 Aug 2022 | 2
Quantum systems maker D-Wave takes the SPAC route
Company had hoped deal would grant access to $300m trust account, but shareholders cleared it out
HPC09 Aug 2022 | 6
India signs local server-maker to build nodes for home-grown supercomputers
Local manufacturer to build modest kit for modestly sized supers
HPC01 Aug 2022 | 2
Japanese space agency to put massive HPC cloud to the test
If only we'd had this kind of compute before we launched Hubble
HPC25 Jul 2022 |
It takes an exascale supercomputer to drive carbon capture
Here on Earth, we bury our problems and simulate our way out of them later
HPC22 Jul 2022 | 8
BASF looks to quantum computing to improve weather modeling
Chemical giant's work with Pasqal could help improve climate change models too
HPC20 Jul 2022 | 2
NASA pulls together pieces for its most powerful supercomputer yet
Space agency plays the long game by adding performance over time... now with mix of Intel, AMD
HPC20 Jul 2022 |
Israel aims to build its own upgradable quantum computer
Crop of cutting-edge companies from home and abroad contributing tech to Israel National Quantum Initiative
HPC20 Jul 2022 | 28
BAE scores $699 million contract to support US Army supercomputers
Systems will help with the DoD's most demanding computational challenges including AI, ML, and analytics
HPC18 Jul 2022 | 7
Supercomputer pinpoints exact origin of 'Black Beauty' meteorite from Mars
X marks the spot where we could learn more about Earth's early years, too
HPC14 Jul 2022 | 24
What do you mean your exaflop is better than mine?
Comment Gaming the system was fine for a while, now it's time to get precise about precision
HPC06 Jul 2022 | 15
US seeks exascale systems 10 times faster than current state-of-the-art computers
China claims to have 10 in the pipeline and may pull ahead in HPC arms race
HPC29 Jun 2022 | 10
US weather forecasters triple supercomputing oomph with latest machines
NOAA makes it rain for General Dynamics IT, HPE, AMD
HPC28 Jun 2022 | 12
Lenovo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center sign joint research deal
Collab to 'generate significant returns' for Europe in science, tech, economy
HPC21 Jun 2022 | 2
Businesses brace for quantum computing disruption by end of decade
As one expert warns overhype will lead to QC winter. Plus: Mystery Huawei quantum patent surfaces
HPC16 Jun 2022 | 25
Germany to host Europe's first exascale supercomputer
Jupiter added to HPC solar system
HPC16 Jun 2022 | 3
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
Quantum computing startup probed in report, securities suit
From alleging wild falsehoods to questioning man behind the curtain, Scorpion stings hell out of IonQ
HPC01 Jun 2022 | 23
Red Hat helps US Department of Energy containerize supercomputing
You might say the US agency needed an OpenShift in mindset
HPC01 Jun 2022 | 1
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
Another AI supercomputer from HPE: Champollion lands in France
That's the second in a week following similar system in Munich also aimed at researchers
HPC27 May 2022 | 6
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
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 |
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