AMD unveils its MI100 GPU, said to be its most powerful silicon for supercomputers, high-end AI processing Chip takes aim at Nvidia's A100 HPC16 Nov 2020 | 3
HPE bags $160m to build 550-PFLOPS super for Europe out of tomorrow's AMD Epyc processors, graphics chips Finns are going Cray cray HPC22 Oct 2020 | 4
AMD scores 200,000 cores worth of secret silicon at new Australian supercomputer Chips will power $34m machine doing Square Kilometre Array work and more HPC19 Oct 2020 | 16
Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022 You were only supposed to blow the bloody bytes off! HPC15 Oct 2020 | 10
India to build home-grown supercomputers, from the motherboards up Minister says more supers will advance society. So why wait to develop silicon, networks, storage and more? HPC13 Oct 2020 | 11
Oracle adds Arm-powered servers with up to 160 cores to its cloud – must be why it sunk millions into Ampere Plans HPC play with AMD, Intel silicon, too HPC22 Sep 2020 | 12
Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup All aboard the exascale express HPC03 Aug 2020 | 14
Fujitsu, Japan strong-Arm their way to the top with world's fastest-known super: 415-PFLOPS Fugaku That big Arm news you were all expecting today, right? HPC22 Jun 2020 | 16
Microsoft claims it has spun up a top-five AI supercomputer for its pals at OpenAI – but won't reveal the full specs Build This big beast has more than '285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs' HPC20 May 2020 | 9
That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme Stuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber HPC19 May 2020 | 13
Reg readers have not one, but TWO teams in Folding@home top 1,000 as virus-bothering network hits 2.4 exa-FLOPS Distributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront HPC14 Apr 2020 | 22
PC owners borg into the most powerful computer the world has ever known – all in the search for coronavirus cure Move over, Summit. Distributed computing project hits 470 PFLOPS HPC24 Mar 2020 | 173
IBM fires up the big iron, Facebook hands out masks, Cisco splashes cash, and CDC gets an Azure-powered bot Roundup Everybody chill, Big Tech's got this HPC23 Mar 2020 | 13
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 Department of Energy turns to HPE, AMD to flesh out monster HPC04 Mar 2020 | 46
Lustre HPC file systems no longer disappear in a puff on Amazon Web Services – but you'll pay more Throughput boosted and encryption in transit added to temporary counterparts HPC25 Feb 2020 |
A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer SC19 If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again HPC18 Nov 2019 | 26
Player three has entered Cray's supercomputing game: First AMD Epyc, now Fujitsu's Arm chips A64FX: Big in Japan, big in the US, UK at this rate HPC13 Nov 2019 | 24
UK govt snubs Intel, seeks second-gen AMD Epyc processors for 28PFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer HPE's Cray hits 80-million-quid target to build boffinry beast HPC15 Oct 2019 | 36
HPE's Eng Lim Goh on spaceborne computers, NASA medals – and AI at the final frontier Interview Never mind the edge, try running a super 'puter up there HPC07 Oct 2019 | 12
The Reg chats to HPE's HPC man about NASA's supercomputers, lunar ambitions and Columbia Interview From Spaceborne to Aitken and on to the Moon HPC11 Sep 2019 | 2
Look at me. Look at me. I'm the El Capitan now: Cray to build US govt's $600m cray-cray exascale nuke app super 1.5 EFLOPS monster will chew through simulations, modeling, and more, when it, fingers crossed, spins up in 2023 HPC13 Aug 2019 | 7
Bored of laptops? Love 200Gb/s interconnects? Then you're going to hate today's Intel news Chipzilla teases actual proper working 10nm notebook CPUs as Omni-Path 2 quietly dies HPC01 Aug 2019 | 37
Toodle-oo Raijin and g'day Gadi, you beauty! Australia's fastest super 'puter will bench 38 PFLOPS later this year HPC beaut built by Fujitsu to debut in November HPC29 Jul 2019 | 15
Who needs a supercomputer when you can get a couple of petaflops on AWS? Or you could run it on-premises three times cheaper says University of Cambridge bod HPC20 Jun 2019 | 31
Who bought the most powerful commercial supercomputer? Come on, it's Total-ly obvious Well, oil be damned. Faster computers, faster apocalypse? HPC18 Jun 2019 | 37
Nvidia 'brings CUDA to Arm' – Translation: We're still doing a thing we've already done but now doing more of it Woulda, CUDA, shoulda HPC17 Jun 2019 | 1
This isn't Boeing to end well: Plane maker to scrap some physical cert tests, use computer simulations instead Actually probe expensive gear in real life? Pah. It's 2019. We're Boeing digital HPC17 Jun 2019 | 141
Frontiersman Cray snags $50m storage contract for 'largest single filesystem' Shasta minute: HPE purchase to provide 1 exabyte of ClusterStor for Oak Ridge National Laboratory HPC17 Jun 2019 | 24
HPE's Spaceborne supercomputer returns to terra firma after 615 days on the ISS HP customers: If your spinoff can put a computer into space, why can't I have my Reverb? HPC06 Jun 2019 | 32
HPC processor project tosses architectural designs on desk of the European Commission Promises to give EU the goods by 2021 HPC05 Jun 2019 | 12
Cray's found a super scooper, $1.3bn's gonna buy you. HPE's the one Substantial losses weren't much fun, now we'll wait till deal is done HPC17 May 2019 | 49
5G willikers, did AI do that? HPC botherer DDN buys Nexenta Splashing out on software-defined file and object storage plus ... some extras HPC07 May 2019 | 6
Commercial spinoffs of Fujitsu's Post-K super 'puter will hit shelves long before exascale daddy switched on HPC goodness sure to cost an Arm and a leg HPC16 Apr 2019 | 8
Hey, US taxpayers. Filed your taxes? Good, good. $500m of it is going on an Intel-Cray exascale boffinry supercomputer Well, that Knights Hill 2018 dream didn't work out, so let's shoot for 2021 instead HPC18 Mar 2019 | 23
Holy sh*tsnacks! Danger zone! Edinburgh Uni's Archer 2 super 'puter will cost a cool £79m Hammond splashes the cash – guess Brexit's sorted then? HPC13 Mar 2019 | 33
Prodigy chip brainiacs Tachyum hook up with Euro HPC consortium Happy-clappy club wants to 'democratize' supercomputing HPC27 Feb 2019 | 2
Cray will realise 'substantial' loss. But Shasta minute, folks, big iron market will pick up And... stock-botherers seem happy with that HPC16 Jan 2019 | 5
It's raining, then? Hallelujah. Big Blue super 'puter sharpens forecasts As legal storm over weather app location data brews, its new year's resolution is: 3km HPC14 Jan 2019 | 19
Panasas tells world+dog: We've broken free from chains of proprietary kit HPC pusher bats eyelids at OEM flingers after biggest product refresh in a while HPC14 Nov 2018 |
FPGAs? Sure, them too. Liqid pours chips over composable computing systems Xilinx Alveo cards added to platform list HPC13 Nov 2018 | 12
What's big, blue, and short on Intel? The supercomputer world's podium: USA tops Top500 with IBM Power9 Arm gets a look-in with first petascale machine, China slips into third HPC13 Nov 2018 | 21
It's wall-to-wall Huawei: Chinese behemoth hogs five of six top spots in SPC-1 array benchmark The firm everyone loves to fear sets new all-flash record HPC01 Nov 2018 | 8
Cray's pre-exascale Shasta supercomputer gets energy research boffins hot under collar US DoE sees multiple CPU, GPU, interconnect support and snaps one up for $146m HPC31 Oct 2018 | 16
HPC botherer DDN breaks file system benchmark record Runs SPEC SFS 2014 software builds 25% faster than E8 Optane system HPC11 Oct 2018 | 8
Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX Hot Chips AKA how it learned to stop loving SPARC64 HPC22 Aug 2018 | 44
Fix for July's Spectre-like bug is breaking some supers RDMA-Lustre combo swatted, HPC admins scramble HPC21 Aug 2018 | 5
HPE flies low-energy Eagle into National Renewable Energy Lab's data centre Uncle Sam's renewable boffins will triple their power in 2019 OSes15 Aug 2018 | 8
'Prodigy' chip moonshot gets hand from Arm CPU guru Prof Steve Furber Perfect for the EU's domestic supercomputer... ready by 2020. No really HPC27 Jul 2018 | 22
Spectre/Meltdown fixes in HPC: Want the bad news or the bad news? It's slower, say boffins MIT Lincoln metalheads broke big iron so you don't have to… oh, you still have to, don't you? HPC26 Jul 2018 | 29
HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days No rad hardening so even HPE is 'pleasantly surprised' HPC26 Jul 2018 | 56
EU plans for domestic exascale supercomputer chips: A RISC-y business Analysis Consortium possibly looking to flex Arm muscle, too HPC17 Jul 2018 | 30
An $18m supercomputer to simulate brains of mice in the land of Swiss cheese. How apt, HPE Wow, the SGI brand. What a blast from the past, sorry, future HPC09 Jul 2018 | 37
Europe's scheme to build exascale capability on homegrown hardware is ludicrous fantasy Analysis Um, which hardware would that be, then? HPC29 Jun 2018 | 39
Big Blue's Summit super sits, aptly, at the peak of official Top500 beast list IBM's Power9, Nvidia 122.3 HPL petaflops monster overwhelms competitors HPC25 Jun 2018 | 11
Lazy parent Intel dumps Lustre assets on HPC storage bods DDN Chipzilla offloads devs, support teams and contracts HPC25 Jun 2018 | 12
Fujitsu kicks off field trials for post-K exascale computing processor Prototyping wrapped up with delivery around 2021 HPC21 Jun 2018 | 4
Cray slaps an all-flash makeover on its L300 array to do HPC stuff ClusterStor node uses slower SAS SSDs HPC19 Jun 2018 | 3
HPE pulls sheets off largest Arm-based supercomputer Astra Will run national security, energy workloads HPC18 Jun 2018 | 6
Linux literally loses its Lustre – HPC filesystem ditched in new kernel Version 4.18 rc1 also swats Spectre, cuddles Chromebooks OSes18 Jun 2018 | 17
Waiting to exascale: Now that IBM has Summit-ed, who's to node what comes next? Comment Big Blue's rig with Nvidia grunt looks to be first truly exascale system HPC14 Jun 2018 | 1