Supercomputing

AWS re:Invent: Amazon Nvidia Expand Collaboration

Amazon Web Services and Nvidia expand partnership with new supercomputing infrastructure, software and services for generative AI

4 months ago

AI Safety Summit 2023: UK To Invest £225m For AI Supercomputer

UK government says it will invest £225m ($273m) for AI supercomputer as it seeks to bolster its AI credentials with…

5 months ago

IBM Breakthrough With 433 Qubit Quantum Processor

Breakthrough development in quantum-centric supercomputing, after IBM unveils its most powerful quantum chip capable of 433-qubit

1 year ago

Meta Building Fastest AI Supercomputer In The World

Facebook building the world’s fastest AI supercomputer to help detect and moderate offensive posts and content, from among its billions…

2 years ago

UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer, Cambridge-1, Targets Healthcare

Nvidia's Cambridge-1 is now the UK's most powerful supercomputer, and will offer research capabilities for healthcare and AI

3 years ago

US Blacklists Seven Chinese Supercomputing Entities

Entity list additions. US Commerce Department adds seven Chinese supercomputing entities to US blacklist, for working with Chinese military

3 years ago

Nvidia Builds In-House GPU Supercomputer

Selene supercomputer uses new A100 GPUs and Mellanox InfiniBand interconnects to deliver 1 exaflop, putting it in top 10 performance…

4 years ago

Coronavirus: Folding@Home Volunteers Merge Home PCs For Fastest Supercomputer

Folding@Home volunteers utilise home PCs to create world's fastest supercomputer to help tackle deadly Coronavirus pandemic

4 years ago

Intel Tunes ‘Ponte Vecchio’ GPU For AI, High-Performance Computing

Intel introduces 'Ponte Vecchio', based on its Xe GPU architecture, along with oneAPI open programming model and other supercomputing tech

4 years ago

America Tops Supercomputing Rankings

The United States now has the top two most powerful supercomputers in the world, rankings show

5 years ago

Fujitsu Gives First Details On ARM-Powered Supercomputer Chip

Fujitsu's custom chip, the first to use supercomputing extensions to the ARMv8-A instruction set, is set to come into operation…

6 years ago

IBM To Place 20 Qubit Quantum Computer In The Cloud

Quantum leap forward as IBM offers 20 qubit computer for clients, and develops first working 50 qubit processor

6 years ago

Microsoft To Offer Cray Supercomputers On Azure Cloud Platform

Microsoft and Cray are to link supercomputers directly into Azure data centres, providing high-end scalability for AI workloads

6 years ago

Lenovo Implements ‘World’s Largest’ Intel-based Supercomputer

Does size matter? University in Barcelona gains 11.1 petaFLOP supercomputer, as Intel touts its HPC credentials

7 years ago

Tech Firms Handed $258m To Develop Exascale Supercomputer

Large chunk of money handed to tech firms from US government to develop 1,000 petaflop supercomputer

7 years ago

Welsh Universities Receive Supercomputing Investment

Supercomputing investment of £15m to drive 'world-class scientific research', as well as create jobs and industry partnerships

7 years ago

University Of Edinburgh To Sell Supercomputing Power

The university is to sell access to its new 2,016-core Cirrus system along with support from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing…

7 years ago

Report: ARM Targets Supercomputers With New Chip Design

New chip design to extend ARM's ambitions from the data centre and into supercomputer territory

8 years ago

China ‘Leapfrogs’ US With Home-Built Supercomputer

A new research system using China-built chips is more than four times as powerful as the US' top machine

8 years ago

Nvidia ‘Deep Learning’ Supercomputer To Tackle AI Challenges

New supercomputer meets the need of next-generation AI applications, coupled with release of new data centre accelerator

8 years ago

‘First $15 Supercomputer’ Attracts $1.7m Kickstarter Investment

The Pine64 A64 offers 64-bit supercomputing power in a tiny package starting at just $15

8 years ago

CES 2016 – Nvidia Drive PX 2 Is ‘Most Powerful’ Smart Car Supercomputer

DRIVE PX 2 platform uses the equivalent power of 150 MacBook Pros to make intelligent cars a reality, with Volvo…

8 years ago

Cray Rolls Out Urika-XA Hadoop Analytics Appliance

The system, which includes Intel chips and a storage combination that includes SSDs and HDDs, comes two years after Cray's…

9 years ago

Supercomputing Technology Pilot Launched In Scottish Highlands

The superfast computing hub will connect to England, Wales and Northern Ireland

10 years ago

China Tops Supercomputer List For Third Time

China's Tianhe-2 has yet again led the Top500 supercomputer rankings, but the overall growth in performance has levelled off

10 years ago

Two-Phase Liquid Cooling Bubbles Up

The boiling coolant in SGI's ICE X supercomputer is a sign to Peter Judge that liquid cooling is still evolving

10 years ago

Green500 Supercomputer List Reveals Intel, Nvidia Surprise

Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs are used in the world's top 10 most energy-efficient supercomputers

10 years ago

Huawei Makes First Appearance At US Supercomputing Conference

Huawei show off server, storage and networking offerings at SC '13 supercomputing show in Denver

10 years ago

Nvidia’s CUDA Platform Gets Unified Memory

Nvidia has added unified memory support to CUDA 6, making it easier for programmers to write code for systems that…

10 years ago

SGI To Bolster Big Data Credentials

SGI is making use of its supercomputer expertise to help companies tackle their big data needs

10 years ago