Supercomputer articles
Elon Musk's xAI emerges as serious OpenAI rival with $6 billion funding round, supercomputer plans
The supercomputer will be powered by 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs
European supercomputer Jupiter's CPU Rhea1 gets a spec bump – and a delay
Tick tick tick: SiPearl is the French company selected by the European supercomputer consortium (EuroHPC JU) to develop a chip for the first exascale-class supercomputer in the region. The organization recently released updated specifications for the Rhea1 microchip, indicating that the first samples will be available later than initially expected.
Intel-powered Aurora is now the fastest AI supercomputer in the world
But it still ranks second overall behind the AMD-powered Frontier
Homemade mini supercluster combines 256 RISC-V microcontrollers
Ballin' on a budget
Cheyenne supercomputer sold to the highest bidder for $480,000
The super-system has been sold "as is," with water leaks, packaged cable bits, and everything else
The US government is auctioning the Cheyenne supercomputer: 145,152 CPU cores and 313 TB of RAM
This 5.34-petaflops supercomputer could be yours
Los Alamos' Nvidia-powered Venado supercomputer trades accuracy for efficiency with 10 exaFLOPS for AI workloads
The first US super-system designed around Nvidia's Grace Hopper chip architecture
Microsoft and OpenAI are planning a massive $100 billion AI supercomputer dubbed "Stargate"
The two tech giants continue to cozy up
NASA's old, oversubscribed, and overburdened supercomputers are causing mission delays
The supercomputers are also said to be susceptible to potential cyberattacks
India to build a 10,000 GPU supercomputer for self-sufficient AI development
A wide-reaching initiative to foster New Delhi's tech sovereignty in the new AI era
Goodbye to Graphics: How GPUs Came to Dominate Compute and AI
Gone are the days when the sole function for a graphics chip were, graphics. Let's explore how the GPU evolved from a modest pixel pusher into a blazing powerhouse of floating-point computation.
Nvidia reveals its Eos supercomputer for AI processing sporting 4,608 H100 GPUs
Its the ninth fastest supercomputer in the world
Europe first exaFLOPS supercomputer should fire up in less than a year
Modular construction will speed up contract completion and allow easy future upgrades
China's new Tianhe supercomputer doubles performance with homegrown tech
Beijing is reportedly joining the exascale club without Western chip technology
Sunway SW26010-Pro is China's most powerful supercomputer chip to date
A lot of computing power hindered by poor memory interface choices?
Google GraphCast AI can predict weather conditions faster than conventional methods
Machine learning won't replace supercomputer-based forecasting anytime soon, though
US government is renting out GPU power at half price for a limited time
TL;DR: Private companies are in desperate need for additional GPU computing capabilities to train their new generative AI services, yet they are encountering significant challenges in obtaining them. In contrast, researchers involved in US supercomputing projects currently have access to potent Nvidia GPU nodes at a substantial discount, albeit for a limited time.
Shaping the future of exascale computing in Europe: Inno4scale's innovative algorithms
The exascale era super-hardware is coming, now we just need the right software
Exascale-class Aurora supercomputer is finally ready for duty
An all-Intel machine designed to do science, simulations, and AI
The US continues to dominate the TOP500 supercomputers list
Is China holding back?
UK government pledges £900 million to build "BritGPT" exascale supercomputer to advance AI technology
The bleeding edge: In case you haven't noticed, AI technology is all the rage with the kids lately. If it's not Dall-E or Stable Fusion; it's ChatGP, Bart, Bing Chat, or some other company's large language model. Not wanting to get left in the dust, the UK sank a sizable investment into building the next exascale supercomputer.
Fujitsu announces successor to its Arm-based A64FX data center CPU
Arriving in 2027 to power a future supercomputer
Nvidia and Microsoft working to bring a GPU-based, AI supercomputer to the cloud
It's a virtual supercomputer using Azure VMs to accelerate generative AI models
The first exascale supercomputer has a hardware failure every day
It's still on schedule to start work in January