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HPC botherer DDN breaks file system benchmark record

Runs SPEC SFS 2014 software builds 25% faster than E8 Optane system
11 Oct 07:52

Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX

Hot ChipsAKA how it learned to stop loving SPARC64
42 Comments
22 Aug 01:34

Fix for July's Spectre-like bug is breaking some supers

RDMA-Lustre combo swatted, HPC admins scramble
21 Aug 00:35

HPE flies low-energy Eagle into National Renewable Energy Lab's data centre

Uncle Sam's renewable boffins will triple their power in 2019
15 Aug 10:13

'Prodigy' chip moonshot gets hand from Arm CPU guru Prof Steve Furber

Perfect for the EU's domestic supercomputer... ready by 2020. No really
21 Comments
27 Jul 17:27

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?
29 Comments
26 Jul 10:32

HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days

No rad hardening so even HPE is 'pleasantly surprised'
56 Comments
26 Jul 06:01

EU plans for domestic exascale supercomputer chips: A RISC-y business

AnalysisConsortium possibly looking to flex Arm muscle, too
30 Comments
17 Jul 08:09

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
37 Comments
09 Jul 19:53

Europe's scheme to build exascale capability on homegrown hardware is ludicrous fantasy

AnalysisUm, which hardware would that be, then?
39 Comments
29 Jun 08:21

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
11 Comments
25 Jun 18:28

Lazy parent Intel dumps Lustre assets on HPC storage bods DDN

Chipzilla offloads devs, support teams and contracts
12 Comments
25 Jun 09:03

Fujitsu kicks off field trials for post-K exascale computing processor

Prototyping wrapped up with delivery around 2021
21 Jun 17:29
Many hands doing woman's makeup

Cray slaps an all-flash makeover on its L300 array to do HPC stuff

ClusterStor node uses slower SAS SSDs
19 Jun 14:03
MIlky Way

HPE pulls sheets off largest Arm-based supercomputer Astra

Will run national security, energy workloads
18 Jun 14:15

Opinion

Climber waves an American Flag from the summit after a challenging ascent

Waiting to exascale: Now that IBM has Summit-ed, who's to node what comes next?

CommentBig Blue's rig with Nvidia grunt looks to be first truly exascale system
lion roars

Activist investor rages at Mellanox for dismissing Marvell's advances

AnalysisWhy won't you let us create value for shareholders?
15 Comments
24 Nov 16:02
HP Apollo supercomputer

HPE gets carried array with HPC: Partners up with DDN

+CommentHigh-performance servers get data-pumping storage arrays
10 Nov 16:25

Students smash competitive clustering LINPACK world record

HPC BlogThe kids are all right
14 Comments
03 Jul 08:01

News

Linux literally loses its Lustre – HPC filesystem ditched in new kernel

Version 4.18 rc1 also swats Spectre, cuddles Chromebooks
17 Comments
18 Jun 01:29

Waiting to exascale: Now that IBM has Summit-ed, who's to node what comes next?

CommentBig Blue's rig with Nvidia grunt looks to be first truly exascale system
14 Jun 09:40

US regains supercomputer crown from Chinese, for now

America! FLOP yeah!
52 Comments
08 Jun 18:06

HPE: Exafloppers need to be 'memory-centric' as world cannot afford internode data slinging

AnalysisGot to keep purse-strings tight on that power budget, innit?
07 Jun 19:46

Alibaba and pals: We all SQream for GPU-powered databases – here, take $26.4m

Startup has powerful backer to help it crack China
30 May 15:02

HPE donates 3 mini-supercomputers to UK universities boning up on Arm

Muscling in Arm supers message on road to exascale
12 Comments
16 Apr 15:35

Microsoft reinvents Massive Arrays of Idle Disks for Azure, 'cos IBM tape ain't enough

Redmond claims to be world’s biggest tape user, but wants a faster alternative for AI data
17 Comments
03 Apr 07:30

Wow, machine learning, what a snoozefest... less so if you strap a bunch of GPUs to your storage

AnalysisGPU-boosted system market is, like, literally so hot right now
28 Mar 16:56

If you've got $1m+ to blow on AI, meet Pure, Nvidia's AIRI fairy: A hyperconverged beast

0.5 PFLOPS FP32, 0.5 PB of effective flash storage
11 Comments
27 Mar 19:48

Mellanox says it ships enough ports not to need Starboard

Spat with activist investor continues as companies feud over voting procedures
13 Mar 04:02

China looks set to pip Uncle Sam at the post in exascale computer race

AnalysisTianhe-3 rig a year in front of stateside supers
12 Comments
08 Mar 11:02

Future supers pop up on $636m cash wishlist to get exascale beasts prowling on US soil

Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore labs slated for beastmode kit in 2021-2023
05 Mar 19:59

Alibaba fires up a cloudy quantum computer

Five-qubit creation is behind the great firewall and outside it at the same time!
19 Comments
05 Mar 02:57
3 young people playing Playstation's Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)

Executing the DIMM sidestep: Movements in High Bandwidth Memory

AnalysisGet the data out of memory faster
01 Mar 10:28

Wanna gobble Google's custom chips? Now you can – its Cloud TPUs at $6.50 an hour

TensorFlow math accelerators available to rent
12 Feb 21:10
Dr Strangelove bomb

Ruskie boffins blasted for using nuke bomb lab's supercomputer to mine crypto-rubles

Kremlin goes nuclear on sly digi-cash-crafting eggheads
26 Comments
09 Feb 19:59
European Union cloud

Europe to spend €1bn on supercomputers and big data infrastructure

Four machines on the slate, at almost-exascale and beyond, to nourish local industry
16 Comments
12 Jan 07:30
Raijin supercomputer

Oz's biggest iron slated for 2018 replacement

NCI gets AU$70 million to replace Raijin
18 Dec 23:56

Top supercomputing biz boss cuffed amid allegations of fraud

Pezy CEO accused of $3.8m subsidy theft
No, just stop. Nope. photo by shutterstock

Call of Duty: Hierachical storage management biz runs its last campaign

Campaign Storage shuts doors
05 Dec 14:47
Galaxies stretching back into time across billions of light-years of space. The image covers a portion of a large galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).

Stephen Hawking's boffin buds buy HPE HPC to ogle universe

But can COSMOS find a way to improve HPE profits? Hmmm
28 Nov 16:31
lion roars

Activist investor rages at Mellanox for dismissing Marvell's advances

AnalysisWhy won't you let us create value for shareholders?
15 Comments
24 Nov 16:02
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