Industry US adds seven more Chinese supercomputing entities to blacklist Due to concerns over supercomputers' military applications By Rob Thubron, April 9, 2021, 7:03 AM 13 comments
Tech Culture Industry Nvidia assembled the world's 7th fastest supercomputer in one month With six humans and one robot By Isaiah Mayersen, August 15, 2020, 8:58 AM 10 comments
Hardware Industry Japan's ARM-based Fugaku is the world's fastest supercomputer Fugaku is 2.8 times faster than IBM's second-place Summit By Rob Thubron, June 23, 2020, 7:08 AM 21 comments
Hardware Microsoft Microsoft and OpenAI team up on a monster of a supercomputer Another win for Microsoft as it strives to become an AI and cloud behemoth By Adrian Potoroaca, May 20, 2020, 12:42 PM
Industry Nvidia joins supercomputing consortium to help fight Covid-19 Fighting Covid-19 with sheer processing power By Shawn Knight, April 6, 2020, 2:06 PM
Science Industry White House puts American supercomputers to work on Covid-19 This is what supercomputers were built for By Eric Hamilton, March 23, 2020, 9:12 PM 15 comments
Science The Web Folding@home now has access to over 470 petaFLOPS of distributed compute power to research Covid-19 Or roughly twice the performance of the Summit supercomputer By Eric Hamilton, March 21, 2020, 9:24 AM 24 comments
Hardware Science AMD CPUs and GPUs will power the future world's fastest supercomputer, 10x faster than current leader The new system will be more powerful than the current top 200 systems combined By William Gayde, March 4, 2020, 3:29 PM 38 comments
Hardware NOAA orders AMD-powered supercomputers with 327,680 Zen 2 cores, 1.3 petabytes of memory Weather prediction requires plenty of power By Rob Thubron, February 27, 2020, 6:55 AM 10 comments
Hardware US Navy orders AMD, Nvidia-powered supercomputer with 590TB of RAM Yes, it can run Crysis By Rob Thubron, February 19, 2020, 6:16 AM 27 comments
Industry Hardware The UK is spending $1.6 billion to build the world's fastest weather supercomputer Faster and more accurate weather prediction By Shawn Knight, February 17, 2020, 1:51 PM 16 comments
Hardware Next-gen Nvidia GPUs will power the Big Red 200 supercomputer by fall They could have over 70% more performance than current hardware By Isaiah Mayersen, February 2, 2020, 9:40 AM 8 comments
Hardware AMD's Epyc 7742 will power new Atos meteorological supercomputer aimed at enhanced weather prediction Another supercomputing win for AMD By Eric Hamilton, January 14, 2020, 7:11 AM
Hardware AMD Epyc processors will power the UK's next national supercomputer It'll be among the fastest general purpose (CPU only) supercomputers in the world By Shawn Knight, October 16, 2019, 11:46 AM
Hardware Science HPE builds supercomputer for NASA, aimed at future moon missions Meet Aitken By Eric Hamilton, August 25, 2019, 1:02 PM 12 comments
Science Space Scientists simulated millions of universes on a supercomputer to study galaxy formation We now have a better understanding of how stars form in galaxies By Shawn Knight, August 12, 2019, 11:42 AM
Industry Hardware US adds five Chinese companies involved in supercomputer industry to trade blacklist Due to concerns over the machines' potential military applications By Rob Thubron, June 25, 2019, 5:20 AM
Industry Hardware The US tops world's fastest supercomputers list, but China has more systems Summit and Sierra remain on top By Rob Thubron, June 18, 2019, 8:52 AM 9 comments
Industry Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying supercomputer maker Cray for $1.3 billion Accelerating growth in high performance computing and artificial intelligence sectors By Shawn Knight, May 17, 2019, 10:07 AM
Hardware Industry AMD and Cray are building the first exascale supercomputer with speeds in excess of 1.5 exaFLOPS Frontier will have more performance than the top 160 current fastest supercomputers combined By William Gayde, May 7, 2019, 7:30 AM 14 comments
Hardware Intel will build America's first exascale supercomputer: the $500 million Aurora Scheduled to be ready in 2021 By Rob Thubron, March 19, 2019, 7:03 AM 13 comments
Science Hardware These HPE servers are stranded in space, but software is helping hardware cope with the harsh conditions Hardening with software By Shawn Knight, February 27, 2019, 4:06 PM 8 comments
Science Space The Square Kilometer Array telescope is ten times bigger than any other in existence Pushing petabits every second to supercomputers By Greg Synek, February 26, 2019, 9:50 AM
Hardware Industry Researchers are developing better interconnects for multi-GPU systems Eliminating the data link bottleneck By Shawn Knight, February 1, 2019, 2:55 PM
Science Industry A new type of quantum computer has smashed every record Quantum computing is progressing in leaps and bounds By Isaiah Mayersen, December 16, 2018, 7:28 AM 30 comments