systems Uncle Sam's next big supercomputer might use something more exotic than GPUs Chip startup NextSilicon's high-performance-computing-focused accelerators get Sandia National Lab's stamp of approval
HPC Artificial brains could point the way to ultra-efficient supercomputers Sandia National Labs cajole Intel's neurochips into solving partial differential equations
Supercomputing Month Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential
Supercomputing Month The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower
Supercomputing Month UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers
Supercomputing Month How high-end supercomputer filesystem DAOS can break out of its niche DAOS needs user education, Nvidia GPU access, and better manageability to grow
SC25 Nvidia's green500 dominance continues as France's Kairos super takes efficiency title Nvidia CPUs and GPUs dominate the bi-annual leaderboard, but FP64 performance regressions leave its long term prospectives in doubt
SC25 SC25 gets heavy with mega power and cooling solutions Hydrogen-powered turbines, megawatt-scale coolant loops, and 800V power take center stage at annual supercomputing conference
Supercomputing Month Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel €544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower
SC25 Scientific computing is about to get a massive injection of AI Nvidia's Ian Buck on the importance of FP64 to power research, in a world that's hot for inferencing
SC25 Europe joins US as exascale superpower after Jupiter clinches Top500 run EuroHPC's biggest iron still has more to give with Universal Cluster expansion expected to come online next year
Supercomputing Month GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash
Off-Prem Google imagines out of this world AI - running on orbital datacenters Chocolate Factory's latest moonshot aims to put AI supercomputing cluster in sun-sychronous orbit
Supercomputing Month Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
SC25 Europe’s Jupiter supercomputer hits exascale threshold at inauguration It won't be fully functional for a while, though
SC25 UK reheats Edinburgh supercomputer plan sans exascale chops Government revives shelved project with fresh funding but scaled-back ambitions
SC25 SiPearl ships reference node design for Rhea1 high-spec Arm chip Server rig aimed at validating Europe's exascale-class silicon and software stacks
European Supercomputing Jupiter, Europe’s most powerful super, takes maiden flight - but misses exascale orbit Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall?
Systems Nvidia scores its first DOE win since 2022 with Doudna supercomputer System promises a 10x increase in 'scientific output' - not necessarily performance
HPC Do you DARE? Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing sovereignty €240M found for three-year sprint to develop three chiplets for HPC, AI
HPC Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon 20 years? More like five for real-world workloads, says q-AI lead
Nvidia GTC Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe
Systems What happens when we can’t just build bigger AI datacenters anymore? We stitch together enormous supercomputers from other smaller supercomputers of course
HPC Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027
AI + ML OpenAI plans to ring in the New Year with a for-profit push We have altered the deal, pray we don’t alter it any further
Systems Nvidia's dominance on the Green500 faces challenges from AMD – and itself Blackwell's weaker FP64 performance could give the House of Zen's Instinct accelerators a leg up in future efficiency benchmarks
HPC Eviden wins €60M Finnish supercomputing award amid Atos turmoil Despite parent's financial turbulence, subsidiary continues to secure major contracts
HPC Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer How does 90 exaFLOPS sound?
HPC DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense Officials claim it'll be able to develop defensive solutions in 'days, if not hours'
HPC Oak Ridge casts nets in search of Frontier supercomputer's heir US national lab expects Discovery to deliver 'three to five times more computational throughput'
Off-Prem ASUS quietly built supercomputers, datacenters and an LLM. Now it's quietly selling them all together The plan is a slow build – not a breakout into enterprise tech
AI + ML Memphis to host 'Gigafactory of Compute' thanks to xAI and Elon Musk's billions City known for blues, BBQ, and now possibly the 'world's largest supercomputer'
HPC Nvidia's future in scientific computing hinges on a melding of AI and HPC But if they can't, AMD is well positioned to mop up
HPC Aleph Alpha enlists Cerebras waferscale supers to train AI for German military Also demonstrates success accelerating molecular dynamics
Systems SiPearl updates specs for Rhea1 processor set to power Europe's exascale dreams More cores, more memory, more delays
HPC Green500 shows Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchip is a power-efficiency beast Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv's CPU-GPU chip. AMD's APU could soon change that
HPC Aurora breaks the exaFLOPS barrier but falls short of the final Frontier once again With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot
HPC Italy's climate super computer, Cassandra, to combine HPC with AI CPU-heavy big iron boasts Intel's HBM-packed Xeons and a tiny complement of Nvidia H100s
HPC MITRE promises a cute little 17-PFLOPS AI super for the rest of Uncle Sam's agencies No child process left behind
HPC Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation
Systems Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit
Public Sector Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK's Hartree Center Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUs
Public Sector NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribed, overburdened, and out-of-date supercomputers
HPC HPE's updated Spaceborne Computer-2 ready to hitch another ride to the ISS How's low Earth orbit for the edge?
HPC Intel drops the deets on UK's Dawn AI supercomputer Phase one packs 512 Xeons, 1,024 Ponte Vecchio GPUs. Phase two: 10x that
HPC Aurora dawns late: Half-baked entry secures second in supercomputer stakes Half the machine, quadruple the anticipation for all-Intel super
HPC UK bets on Intel CPUs and GPUs, Dell boxen, OpenStack for Dawn supercomputer We'd make some kind of Sun sets joke here but it's too early in the morning
HPC UK govt finds £225M for Isambard-AI supercomputer powered by Nvidia 5,448 GraceHopper superchips and 200PFLOPS gets you somewhere in the global public top ten
HPC Tachyum says someone will build 50 exaFLOPS super with its as-yet unfinished chips 'It's a huge, effing big machine'
HPC 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
AI + ML Morgan Stanley values Tesla's super-hyped supercomputer at up to $500B Musk snaps up Nvidia GPUs even as he builds Dojo. Finance bods foresee SaaSy AI, rivers of cash
HPC Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs
HPC Tesla hedges Dojo supercomputer bet with 10K Nvidia H100 GPU cluster Keeping full self-driving dream on the road just needs more graphics chips?
Science IBM sells off cloud business – yes, we mean Weather.com What better time for private equity to capitalize on changing climate
HPC 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
HPC Uncle Sam to put Aurora supercomputer to work on catalyst conundrums Meanwhile, ORNL's Summit simulates bacteria battling cicada wings
HPC Fancy tinkering with the atmosphere? The Derecho supercomputer can advise NCAR's biggish iron will also explore wildfires, drought and solar storms
HPC Europe sets out to squeeze every last drop of power from supercomputers Because Ferraris are meant to fly, not amble along at 2mph
HPC Look mom, no InifiniBand: Nvidia’s DGX GH200 glues 256 superchips with NVLink Unless you need more nodes
HPC SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims LLNL harnesses DataScale platform with aim to improve predictive models
HPC US supers maintain grip on Top500 list as China seemingly hides its powers Meanwhile, Europe awaits a seat at the exascale table
HPC Aurora exascale system gets 'mini-me' testbed for researchers We node you want to test it out. (We're here all week.)
On-Prem UK Prime Minister wants £800M to spend on big British iron The people can eat turnips, Sunak wants a super... computer.
HPC SambaNova’s AI paired with Fugaku supercomputer to develop 'digital twins' All part of the Japan's Society 5.0 project
Science The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns Droughts, flash floods the future for the Midwest ... probably
HPC Atos tossed €20m to build Max Planck Society supercomputer Unnamed platform boasts three times the application performance of its predecessor, Cobra
Systems US Department of Energy solicits AMD's help with nuke sims Chips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too
Systems China shops around US bans to power its nuclear weapons research program Entity List proves to be a non-entity once Beijing's buyers get busy
Government Tech Week EU infrastructure risk project to address potential climate, 'resource' shortage catastrophes Atos-led group to protect European infrastructure from impact of future pandemics – using Horizon cash
HPC 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
AI + ML Researchers teach AI to pinpoint mutations linked to cancer An ounce of prediction is worth a pound of cure
HPC 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
HPC 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
HPC 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
HPC 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
HPC America to get world's 'most powerful' AI supercomputer to create the most detailed 3D map of the universe yet
HPC Biden administration effectively slaps bans on seven Chinese supercomputer companies for military links
HPC US Air Force boots up not one but two AMD-powered supercomputers after five years of Intel Haswell CPUs
HPC HPE bags $160m to build 550-PFLOPS super for Europe out of tomorrow's AMD Epyc processors, graphics chips
HPC Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022
AI + ML Q: How does hydrogen turn into a metal? A: Hang on a second, I need to train my AI supercomputer first
HPC Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup
HPC Fujitsu, Japan strong-Arm their way to the top with world's fastest-known super: 415-PFLOPS Fugaku
HPC That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme
HPC Uncle Sam's nuke-stockpile-simulating souped-super El Capitan set to hit TWO exa-FLOPS, take crown as world's fastest machine in 2023
AI + ML Why build your own cancer-sniffing neural network when this 1.3 exaflop supercomputer can do if for you?
HPC Toodle-oo Raijin and g'day Gadi, you beauty! Australia's fastest super 'puter will bench 38 PFLOPS later this year
HPC Commercial spinoffs of Fujitsu's Post-K super 'puter will hit shelves long before exascale daddy switched on
HPC What's big, blue, and short on Intel? The supercomputer world's podium: USA tops Top500 with IBM Power9
