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China reclaims world's fastest supercomputer title
- The United States no longer plays home to the world’s fastest supercomputer. That title is now owned by China’s Tianhe-2 (also known as the Milky Way-2) supercomputer which recently produced 33.86 petaflops per second in Linpack according to the Top…
IBM's Watson conquers Jeopardy, cancer and now customer service
- IBM thinks that they can revolutionize customer service using their Watson supercomputer. Famous for beating two of the world’s top Jeopardy! players in 2011, and then going to medical school for oncology and utilization management, Watson is now being tasked with reducing…
Roadrunner supercomputer used to monitor nuclear stockpile retired
- A supercomputer that was once the fastest in the world was shut down over the weekend. Known as Roadrunner, the system went online five years ago at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to monitor the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile. …
Nvidia GeForce Titan: supercomputer GPU power for the 1%
- Cray's XK7 Titan supercomputer is powered by no less than 18,000 Nvidia Tesla K20x GPUs, which Nvidia is proud to say highly contributes to make the Titan the world's fastest supercomputer. Today, the company is presenting a revised version of the graphics…
IBM gifts Watson supercomputer to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- A private research university in Troy, New York, has been given a Watson supercomputer similar to the one that competed against (and defeated) two Jeopardy champions back in 2011. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has been given the task to further…
Titan supercomputer displaces IBM's Sequoia as world's fastest
- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is now home to the world’s fastest supercomputer, according to the latest Top500 list. Aptly dubbed Titan, the Cray-built system knocked off IBM’s Sequoia after only six months in the…
Adapteva looks to Kickstarter to fund $99 supercomputing kit
- A new Kickstarter project aims to make parallel computing accessible to everyone by providing an affordable, open and easy to use platform. It’s called Parallella and for just $99, backers will receive a full developer kit that includes an Epiphany-III…
University builds supercomputer using Raspberry Pi micro PCs
- A team of scientists at the University of Southampton led by Professor Simon Cox have built a low-cost supercomputer comprised solely of ARM-based Raspberry Pi micro computers. More specifically, the team has combined 64 units to create a parallel computer…
AMD awarded $12.6 million supercomputing grant by US government
- AMD has been given a grant under the FastForward program to the tune of $12.6 million to research next generation supercomputing technology. The program is a joint effort between the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Department of Energy designed…
Intel announces Xeon Phi as the future of Intel MIC Architecture
- Intel announced during the International Supercomputing Conference that Intel Xeon Phi is the new brand name for all future Intel Many Integrated Core Architecture (Intel MIC Architecture) products. Codenamed Knights Corner, the first generation Xeon Phi coprocessor solutions will work…
IBM supercomputer overtakes Japan's Fujitsu as world's fastest
- IBM's latest supercomputer, Sequoia, has taken the crown as the world’s fastest supercomputer in the TOP500 List after achieving 16.32 petaflops. That was enough to beat Japan's Fujitsu built supercomputer and marks the first time in over two years the US has…
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