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EuroHPC lines up AI upgrade for Leonardo supercomputer
Updated And it's Eviden who has no reason to moan over LISA upgrade - though questions over funding remain
AI Infrastructure Month14 May 2025 | 2
Brain-inspired neuromorphic computer SpiNNaker overheated when coolers lost their chill
Exclusive Too much hot air brings down Manchester Uni based neural network project
AI Infrastructure Month06 May 2025 | 29
First Nvidia, now AMD: Trump trade turmoil threatens $800M in China chip sales
World War Fee Is that MI in MI308 going to be Mission Impossible?
HPC16 Apr 2025 | 7
Dead or alive, Britain hands Schrödinger's industry £121M
UK's play to win a quantum computing race that is still highly theoretical
HPC15 Apr 2025 | 20
ISC 2025: Hitting the Big 4-0
Join the HPC, AI and QC communities in June to explore the future of performance-centric computing
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Google offers 7th-gen Ironwood TPUs for AI, with AI-inspired comparisons
Cloud Next Sure, we're doing FP8 versus a supercomputer's FP64. What of it?
AI + ML10 Apr 2025 | 2
Not even Intel's top bosses know what's on CEO Lip-Bu Tan's chopping block
Vision Chipzilla chief asked customers to be 'brutally honest' ... which will lead to what changes, we wonder
CxO01 Apr 2025 | 8
US closes subsidiary loophole on dozens of Chinese entity list members
Bad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies
HPC26 Mar 2025 | 5
Nvidia invests in quantum computing weeks after CEO said it's decades from being useful
GTC Qubit awkward, you might say
Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 6
Nvidia's Vera Rubin CPU, GPU roadmap charts course for hot-hot-hot 600 kW racks
GTC Now that's what we call dense floating-point compute
Nvidia GTC19 Mar 2025 | 8
Nvidia punts silicon photonic switches to keep GPUs fed with data
GTC Power sipping bandwidth bottleneck busters – or that's the hope, anyway
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 2
We heard you like HBM – Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra GPUs will have 288 GB of it
GTC There goes AMD's capacity advantage
Nvidia GTC18 Mar 2025 | 8
ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC center tailored for space workloads
PUE of 1.09 and heats the building it lives in
HPC13 Mar 2025 | 8
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
HPC07 Mar 2025 | 37
Google exec sees enterprise quantum app on closer horizon
20 years? More like five for real-world workloads, says q-AI lead
HPC06 Feb 2025 | 7
Los Alamos lab to research next-gen chip technologies
Radiation-hardening for space environments and energy efficiency tweaks for above and below
Systems05 Feb 2025 | 3
What better place to inject OpenAI's o1 than Los Alamos national lab, right?
Tackling disease, tick. High-energy physics, tick. Nuke security, also tick
HPC30 Jan 2025 | 8
Nvidia deprecates CUDA support for aging architectures
Updated Maxwell, Pascal and Volta, oh my! But fear not, driver support is still safe
Nvidia GTC27 Jan 2025 | 8
Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer
€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027
HPC17 Jan 2025 | 2
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Qatar’s $400M jet for Trump is a gold-plated security nightmare
Air Force Dumb
Ransomware scum have put a target on the no man's land between IT and operations
Defenses are weaker, and victims are more likely to pay, SANS warns
VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals
Admits due diligence fell short - furious users cry ‘gaslighting’
Intel's data-leaking Spectre defenses scared off yet again
ETH Zurich boffins exploit branch prediction race condition to steal info from memory, fixes have mild perf hit
Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb
'Legitimate interest' won't wash, says privacy outfit, as Zuck's org claims activists want to 'delay AI innovation'
Europe plots escape hatch from the enshittification of search
Plus: How to make Google less unhelpful
Apple patched one first, but Microsoft’s blasted five exploited flaws this Pa-Tu
Patch Tuesday Plus: All the fun and frolic of fixes from Adobe, SAP, Ivanti
Microsoft boots 3% of staff in latest cull, middle managers first in line
Redmond talks up new technologies, capabilities for productivity ... just don’t call it AI
Everyone's deploying AI, but no one's securing it – what could go wrong?
CYBERUK Crickets as senior security folk asked about risks at NCSC conference
Go ahead and ignore Patch Tuesday – it might improve your security
No rush, according to Gartner chap who says: 'Nobody has ever out-patched threat actors at scale'
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Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer
System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems
HPC16 Jan 2025 | 23
Nvidia plots Quantum Day at GTC 2025 – for tech it called a distant dream
Don't believe the hype? GPU maker jumps on the bandwagon anyway
Nvidia GTC15 Jan 2025 | 4
HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers
That's Cray cray
HPC14 Jan 2025 | 28
GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation
Specialty in cognitive non-routine tasks means high-skilled city workers affected
HPC03 Dec 2024 | 56
French state waves up to €625M for Atos's Advanced Computing assets
Another offer IT services giant possibly can't refuse
HPC25 Nov 2024 | 5
Eviden wins €60M Finnish supercomputing award amid Atos turmoil
Despite parent's financial turbulence, subsidiary continues to secure major contracts
HPC21 Nov 2024 |
Nvidia's latest Blackwell boards pack 4 GPUs, 2 Grace CPUs, and suck down 5.4 kW
SC24 You can now glue four H200 PCIe cards together too
HPC18 Nov 2024 | 6
Nvidia continues its quest to shoehorn AI into everything, including HPC
SC24 GPU giant contends that a little fuzzy math can speed up fluid dynamics, drug discovery
AI + ML18 Nov 2024 |
LLNL's El Capitan surpasses Frontier with 1.74 exaFLOPS performance
SC24 Uncle Sam tops supercomputer charts, while China recedes from public view
HPC18 Nov 2024 | 11
LLNL looks to make HPC a little cloudier with Oxide's rackscale compute platform
SC24 System to serve as a proof of concept for applying API-driven automation to scientific computing
HPC18 Nov 2024 | 1
HPE goes Cray for Nvidia's Blackwell GPUs, crams 224 into a single cabinet
Meanwhile, new ProLiant servers offer choice of Gaudi, Hopper, Instinct acceleration
HPC13 Nov 2024 | 14
xAI picked Ethernet over InfiniBand for its H100 Colossus training cluster
Work already underway to expand system to 200,000 Nvidia Hopper chips
Systems29 Oct 2024 | 4
ParTec expands supercomputer patent fight from Microsoft to Nvidia
Wants injunction on GPUs that use what it alleges is its own IP
HPC28 Oct 2024 |
Apple supplier Foxconn and Nvidia team up to deploy Taiwan's fastest AI supercomputer
How does 90 exaFLOPS sound?
HPC08 Oct 2024 |
Atos stumbles again as French government says 'non' to purchase of key assets
Ailing IT services giant still in hot pursuit of agreement on Big Data & Security unit
HPC07 Oct 2024 | 16
UK's Arm-based Isambard 2 supercomputer powers off for good
Isambard 3 and AI sibling set to pick up the torch
HPC02 Oct 2024 | 12
India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers
Rudra machines use local designs for server, interconnect, and cooling – but seemingly not a planned 96-core Arm CPU
HPC27 Sep 2024 | 1
DoE drops $23M in effort to reinvigorate supercomputing
Challenges span energy efficiency, memory, programmability, and national security
Systems09 Sep 2024 | 3
Oak Ridge boffins enlist Quantum Brilliance to make supercomputers sparkle at room temp
Diamond-based accelerators could help smash science problems
HPC06 Sep 2024 |
Nvidia's latest AI climate model takes aim at severe weather
That tornado warning couldn't possibly be a hallucination... could it?
Science19 Aug 2024 | 8
DoD spins up supercomputer to accelerate biothreat defense
Officials claim it'll be able to develop defensive solutions in 'days, if not hours'
HPC16 Aug 2024 | 17
Japan's Fugaku supercomputer released in virtual version that runs in AWS
Graviton processors get the job of helping RIKEN achieve HPC world domination
HPC07 Aug 2024 | 6
AMD hopes to unlock MI300’s full potential with fresh code
Devs invited to ROCm out with FP8 precision, quantize to their heart's delight
HPC06 Aug 2024 | 1
UK axes plans for Edinburgh-based exascale computer
Shortsighted or a chance to refocus? Tech sector is not happy
HPC05 Aug 2024 | 45
China stops worrying about lack of GPUs and learns to love the supercomputer
The workaround is going to be inevitable in the future anyway, say Chinese boffins
HPC31 Jul 2024 | 22
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'
HPC24 Jul 2024 | 9
HPE to build supercomputer to 'enhance Japan's AI sovereignty'
Powered by Nvidia GPUs, natch, as GPU maker's CEO talks up mega bitbarn 'AI factories'
HPC12 Jul 2024 | 3
Atos's UK auditor raises 'material uncertainty' about future
Looming debt repayments and stalling restructure talks cause for concern
Public Sector27 Jun 2024 | 22
Atos in chaos as bailout talks unravel faster than you can say 'restructuring'
Time for plan B (or will it be C?)
HPC26 Jun 2024 | 12
Musk ropes Dell, Supermicro into xAI supercomputer project
Oh, Mike, what have you got yourself into now
HPC20 Jun 2024 | 11
Microsoft sued by ParTec in Texas over AI supercomputer patents
German HPC outfit asks for damages, injunction that would see Azure AI shut down
HPC12 Jun 2024 | 12
Atos gets a reprieve with restructure plan from Onepoint consortium
Too bad shareholders, as this will mean pain for them...
HPC11 Jun 2024 | 6
Atos defers its own D-Day to ponder financial rescue decision
Restructure saga kicked into next week, investors unamused
HPC06 Jun 2024 | 3
It's make your mind up time as Atos sets deadline to pick rescue package
June 5 the day to opt for Onepoint-led consortium or Daniel Křetínský's EPEI
HPC03 Jun 2024 | 3
Nvidia's future in scientific computing hinges on a melding of AI and HPC
Analysis But if they can't, AMD is well positioned to mop up
HPC22 May 2024 | 2
Aleph Alpha enlists Cerebras waferscale supers to train AI for German military
Also demonstrates success accelerating molecular dynamics
HPC16 May 2024 | 1
Nvidia PUE-PUEs datacenter efficiency ratings, calls for application-specific metrics
ISC What good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit?
Systems14 May 2024 | 4
Green500 shows Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchip is a power-efficiency beast
Analysis Three most energy-friendly systems all driven by Nv's CPU-GPU chip. AMD's APU could soon change that
HPC13 May 2024 | 4
Aurora breaks the exaFLOPS barrier but falls short of the final Frontier once again
ISC With LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot
HPC13 May 2024 | 6
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
HPC10 May 2024 | 11
SpiNNcloud Systems unveils Arm-based 'neuromorphic supercomputer'
Brain-inspired chip folks set to show off hardware at ISC next week
HPC08 May 2024 | 7
MITRE promises a cute little 17-PFLOPS AI super for the rest of Uncle Sam's agencies
No child process left behind
HPC08 May 2024 | 1
Cheyenne supercomputer sells at auction for just $480K
And you thought consumer electronics suffered from depreciation
HPC06 May 2024 | 27
IBM quantum system elbows into Arm-powered Fugaku supercomputer
Slotting in the module for ambitious next-generation compute goals
HPC30 Apr 2024 |
Dell shaves months off lead times for GPU-powered AI servers
TSMC turns advanced packaging production knob to 11
HPC11 Apr 2024 | 2
India and EU finally advance HPC collaboration project hatched in 2022
Seek ideas for thorny problems related to both HPC and real-world problems
Public Sector09 Apr 2024 | 1
PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again
Analysis The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027
Systems03 Apr 2024 | 13
Australian supercomputer 'Taingiwilta' comes online this year with [REDACTED] inside
Exec in charge laments that in defence HPC down under, you can pay a veteran expert a mere web dev's salary
HPC21 Feb 2024 | 20
Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud
HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms
HPC20 Feb 2024 | 19
Square Kilometre Array precursor looks to filter out satellite interference
Starlink isn't the biggest problem, but increasing numbers of orbiting transmitters isn't helpful
HPC20 Feb 2024 | 13
Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can't fill the gap
Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers
HPC20 Feb 2024 | 4
What's going on with Eos, Nvidia's incredible shrinking supercomputer?
Updated It'll have 10K GPUs! No, 4,608! Err... 2,816?
HPC19 Feb 2024 | 11
Investors threw 50% less money at quantum last year
Yep, you guessed it – at least some of them swapped investments out for gen AI
HPC31 Jan 2024 | 10
HPE's updated Spaceborne Computer-2 ready to hitch another ride to the ISS
How's low Earth orbit for the edge?
HPC24 Jan 2024 | 3
Europe's first exascale system will be slotted into modular containerized datacenter
Fancy updating it? Just click in a fresh unit – or that's the idea anyway...
HPC23 Jan 2024 | 3
Quantum computing eggheads throw some other qubits at the wall to see what sticks
Just keep the cold clammy hand of Fujitsu away from it
HPC11 Jan 2024 | 7
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
After bashing Nvidia for ‘arming’ China, Cerebras's backer G42 alarms US govt with suspected Beijing ties
What was it they say about folks in silicon houses?
HPC28 Nov 2023 | 7
Alibaba shuts down quantum lab, donates it to university
Three guesses where DAMO plans to focus research from now on. Yep, you guessed it...AI
HPC27 Nov 2023 | 2
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 |
NASA geeks code new tricks to model rocket plumes and avoid a lunar dust-up
Supersonic hot gas not that awesome for rocky, dusty surface
HPC16 Nov 2023 | 6
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 |
Developing AI models or giant GPU clusters? Uncle Sam would like a word
Analysis But the astronomical performance thresholds mean few ML operators will be required to report at this rate
HPC05 Nov 2023 | 18
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
Tachyum says someone will build 50 exaFLOPS super with its as-yet unfinished chips
Interview 'It's a huge, effing big machine'
HPC16 Oct 2023 | 4
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
HPC09 Oct 2023 | 18
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 |
From vacuum tubes to qubits – is quantum computing destined to repeat history?
Analysis Having seen how conventional computers changed the world, can you really afford to bet against it?
HPC03 Oct 2023 | 31
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
Tesla hedges Dojo supercomputer bet with 10K Nvidia H100 GPU cluster
Keeping full self-driving dream on the road just needs more graphics chips?
HPC30 Aug 2023 | 7
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
SK hynix ships blazing fast HBM3E DRAM samples – but most customers have to wait
Everything in 2023 is about AI, which this silicon is said to speed
HPC23 Aug 2023 |
AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors
Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons
Cloud Infrastructure Month21 Aug 2023 |
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 Month18 Aug 2023 | 3
US shovels cash into supercomputers hoping to stoke fusion future
$112M for 12 projects announced on heels of LLNL's second successful fusion ignition
HPC15 Aug 2023 | 2
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