DoE watchdog warns of poor maintenance at home of Frontier exascale system Report says new QA plan currently being worked up HPC05 Dec 2023 | 4
Researchers weigh new benchmarks for Green500 amid shifting workload priorities SC23 Just because it's super efficient at Linpack doesn't mean it'll be in everything HPC20 Nov 2023 |
As the Top500 celebrates its 30th year, with a $5 VM you too can get into the top 10 ... of 1993 SC23 But if you really care about performance, there are better options out there, natch HPC14 Nov 2023 | 24
Intel drops the deets on UK's Dawn AI supercomputer SC23 Phase one packs 512 Xeons, 1,024 Ponte Vecchio GPUs. Phase two: 10x that HPC13 Nov 2023 | 6
Aurora dawns late: Half-baked entry secures second in supercomputer stakes SC23 Half the machine, quadruple the anticipation for all-Intel super HPC13 Nov 2023 | 3
HPE and Nvidia offer 'turnkey' supercomputer for AI training SC23 If you can afford it – pricing's not out yet HPC13 Nov 2023 |
Fujitsu says it can optimize CPU and GPU use to minimize execution time SC23 Demos its Adaptive GPU Allocator as global shortage of geepies grinds on Systems13 Nov 2023 | 4
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 HPC02 Nov 2023 | 9
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 HPC01 Nov 2023 | 25
Fujitsu, RIKEN open Japan's first superconducting quantum 'puter to eggheads 64-qubit system paired with 40-qubit simulator to get some sort of accuracy Science05 Oct 2023 | 3
Atos subsidiary Eviden scores contract win in Europe's first exascale system $526M Jupiter set to rule EU's tech orbit by 2024 HPC04 Oct 2023 |
SCREAM resonates in the race for the Gordon Bell Climate Prize A look at America's next top model ... in fine resolution HPC19 Sep 2023 | 8
Los Alamos finishes installing Crossroads super to test nukes without a big bang Memory-optimized beast prioritizes weapon-sim perf over flashy FLOPS figs HPC02 Sep 2023 | 19
Rocky Linux backer CIQ rejects lawsuit's claims it was founded on stolen IP Brands allegations as 'meritless' after being sued by HPC software provider Sylabs HPC24 Aug 2023 | 11
A closer look at Harvard and Google's HPC heart research project That's a massive workload you've got there – how much does it cost? Cloud Infrastructure Week18 Aug 2023 | 3
Digital Realty: We hear you like your racks dense, how does 70kW sound? What else do you do when a single GPU node needs 10kW? On-Prem08 Aug 2023 | 6
Ultra Ethernet Consortium wants to optimize networking for AI and HPC Not changing the standard, but tweaking how applications work over top Networks20 Jul 2023 | 3
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 HPC20 Jul 2023 | 3
Fancy tinkering with the atmosphere? The Derecho supercomputer can advise NCAR's biggish iron will also explore wildfires, drought and solar storms HPC12 Jul 2023 | 6
SambaNova injects a little AI mojo into US supercomputer lab's nuke sims LLNL harnesses DataScale platform with aim to improve predictive models HPC23 May 2023 | 2
HPE bags contracts to build HPC beasts for UK and Japan boffins TSUBAME4.0 ordered for Tokyo Institute of Tech, and Isambard 3 to live in Bristol & Bath Science Park HPC22 May 2023 |
US supers maintain grip on Top500 list as China seemingly hides its powers ISC Meanwhile, Europe awaits a seat at the exascale table HPC22 May 2023 | 4
Aurora exascale system gets 'mini-me' testbed for researchers We node you want to test it out. (We're here all week.) HPC21 Apr 2023 | 3
UK Prime Minister wants £800M to spend on big British iron Analysis The people can eat turnips, Sunak wants a super... computer. On-Prem09 Mar 2023 | 98
Petaflops help scientists understand why some COVID-19 variants are more contagious 'If we did one of these calculations in our lab, we are talking weeks or months' HPC23 Feb 2023 | 14
Unless things change, first zettaflop systems will need nuclear power, AMD's Su says Of course the company that figured out chiplets says the answer is more chiplets Systems23 Feb 2023 | 54
The second dust bowl cometh for America, supercomputer warns Droughts, flash floods the future for the Midwest ... probably Science18 Feb 2023 | 90
Still waiting for Intel's Aurora? Borealis will give you a taster Supercomputer deadline's been and Argonne, but for now, here's a testbed for boffins Systems17 Feb 2023 | 4
Atos tossed €20m to build Max Planck Society supercomputer Unnamed platform boasts three times the application performance of its predecessor, Cobra HPC13 Feb 2023 | 2
Uncle Sam wants to strip the IoS out of IoT with light crypto NIST weighs up algorithms for small devices – and an architecture for massive systems Security09 Feb 2023 | 12
Could RISC-V become a force in high performance computing? Analysis Meanwhile, Euro supercomputer project makes a call for developing an HPC ecosystem based on the architecture HPC08 Feb 2023 | 28
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 Systems31 Jan 2023 | 6
So you want to replace workers with AI? Watch out for retraining fees, they're a killer Comment Who said workforce development was just for humans? AI + ML29 Jan 2023 | 54
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 Government Tech Week24 Jan 2023 | 21
8K? That’s cute. This display has 600 million pixels My god, it's full of TVs Systems24 Jan 2023 | 37
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 HPC19 Jan 2023 | 6
Atos will be paid $29m over $1b UK Met Office supercomputer dispute Settlement 'without admission of liability' followed court challenge to Microsoft mega-deal HPC09 Jan 2023 | 29
Researchers teach AI to pinpoint mutations linked to cancer An ounce of prediction is worth a pound of cure AI + ML05 Jan 2023 | 1
As liquid cooling takes off in the datacenter, fortune favors the brave Comment There's more than one way to beat the heat – and save serious money Systems29 Dec 2022 | 35
XaaS is taking over the datacenter and IDC says you asked for it Comment As customers grapple with pricey AI systems and nontraditional compute, HPE, Dell, and Lenovo circle in wait On-Prem14 Dec 2022 | 5
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 HPC11 Dec 2022 | 14
Durham Uni and Dell co-design systems to help model the universe A particle physicist, an astronomer and a cosmologist meet in a bar. You what, COSMA8? HPC06 Dec 2022 | 4
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 HPC01 Dec 2022 | 3
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 HPC22 Nov 2022 | 14
HPC's lost histories will power the future of tech Opinion If you thought the '80s were cool, wait for the revival HPC21 Nov 2022 | 16
Nvidia H100-based Henri supercomputer tests AMD’s claim on Green500 SC22 In this race it's all about flops per watts HPC17 Nov 2022 | 1
Azure-based 'AI supercomputer' to use Nvidia GPUs and software Is it a super or a cloud service? Users would string together components as required HPC17 Nov 2022 |
Nvidia turns to optical trickery to boost long-haul InfiniBand performance SC22 The platform launches alongside new frameworks for AI preprocessing at the edge Networks15 Nov 2022 | 1
SiPearl works with AMD on GPU support for Arm HPC chip Duo also hope to support development of exascale computing at research institutions Systems15 Nov 2022 |
Cerebras's supercomputer has more cores than world's fastest iron – with a big catch Better for AI, but Frontier's still top of the heap HPC15 Nov 2022 | 6
How AMD, Intel, Nvidia are keeping their cores from starving Analysis Chips are only as fast as the memory that feeds them Systems14 Nov 2022 | 2
Aurora delays keep Frontier supercomputer in #1 spot on Top500 SC22 EuroHPC's LUMI upgrades secure narrow lead over all-new Leonardo system HPC14 Nov 2022 | 1
Dell pushing hybrid quantum/classical system in HPC overhaul SC22 Steady now. It's not the full-fledged quantum that will suddenly let you crack encryption algos HPC14 Nov 2022 | 1
AMD's 96-core Epyc CPUs leapfrog Intel to put DDR5, PCIe 5.0 in the datacenter Its also twice as fast as Milan, AMD execs claim Systems10 Nov 2022 |
Optimizer Rescale recommends Rescale's optimization recommender Say that three times in a row. Better yet, train a model with Nvidia GPUs to say it HPC09 Nov 2022 |
Intel takes on AMD and Nvidia with mad 'Max' chips for HPC x86 giant goes all-in with high-bandwidth memory Systems09 Nov 2022 | 13
The all liquid-cooled colo facility rush has begun AI and HPC deployments means propping up 250kW densities per rack Systems08 Nov 2022 | 13
HPE supercomputer to tell Singapore that it's hot, humid, probably going to rain Cray EX beast deployed to improve weather forecasting in country that has basically one season HPC28 Oct 2022 | 5
Fujitsu launches HPC and not-quite-quantum cloud services Available in Japan now, with international rollout to follow next year HPC25 Oct 2022 | 1
Intel DAOS 2.2 and Red Hat Stratis 3.3 released New versions of two next-gen Linux storage engines may belie fading interest Storage24 Oct 2022 |
Scientists model turbulence to boost space propulsion Running direct numerical simulation on 'an industrial scale' HPC12 Oct 2022 | 10
Saudi Arabia turns to HPE for AMD-powered Cray supercomputer The Beast of the Middle East: up to 20 times faster than predecessor, that's 884,736 CPU cores across the system HPC27 Sep 2022 | 1