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Data Centre > HPC

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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

20 Jun 12:27 | 29

Oil rig

Who bought the most powerful commercial supercomputer? Come on, it's Total-ly obvious

Well, oil be damned. Faster computers, faster apocalypse?

18 Jun 13:10 | 37

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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

17 Jun 22:28 | 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

17 Jun 18:02 | 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

17 Jun 14:52 | 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?

06 Jun 08:48 | 32

HPC processor project tosses architectural designs on desk of the European Commission

Promises to give EU the goods by 2021

05 Jun 11:29 | 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

17 May 13:42 | 48

5G willikers, did AI do that? HPC botherer DDN buys Nexenta

Splashing out on software-defined file and object storage plus ... some extras

07 May 11:33 | 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

16 Apr 13:05 | 8

Aurora supercomputer

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

18 Mar 19:26 | 23

Archer cracks the ISIS mainframe's password

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?

13 Mar 18:54 | 33

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Prodigy chip brainiacs Tachyum hook up with Euro HPC consortium

Happy-clappy club wants to 'democratize' supercomputing

27 Feb 17:31 | 2

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Cray will realise 'substantial' loss. But Shasta minute, folks, big iron market will pick up

And... stock-botherers seem happy with that

16 Jan 10:47 | 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

14 Jan 15:14 | 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

FPGAs? Sure, them too. Liqid pours chips over composable computing systems

Xilinx Alveo cards added to platform list

13 Nov 22:57 | 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

13 Nov 00:20 | 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

01 Nov 19:09 | 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

31 Oct 18:15 | 16

HPC botherer DDN breaks file system benchmark record

Runs SPEC SFS 2014 software builds 25% faster than E8 Optane system

11 Oct 07:52 | 8

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

Hot ChipsAKA how it learned to stop loving SPARC64

22 Aug 01:34 | 44

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

RDMA-Lustre combo swatted, HPC admins scramble

21 Aug 00:35 | 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

15 Aug 10:13 | 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

27 Jul 17:27 | 22

Couple of slow-coach snails

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?

26 Jul 10:32 | 29

computer_space

HPE supercomputer is still crunching numbers in space after 340 days

No rad hardening so even HPE is 'pleasantly surprised'

26 Jul 06:01 | 56

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

AnalysisConsortium possibly looking to flex Arm muscle, too

17 Jul 08:09 | 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

09 Jul 19:53 | 37

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

AnalysisUm, which hardware would that be, then?

29 Jun 08:21 | 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

25 Jun 18:28 | 11

Lazy parent Intel dumps Lustre assets on HPC storage bods DDN

Chipzilla offloads devs, support teams and contracts

25 Jun 09:03 | 12

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

Prototyping wrapped up with delivery around 2021

21 Jun 17:29 | 4

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 | 3

MIlky Way

HPE pulls sheets off largest Arm-based supercomputer Astra

Will run national security, energy workloads

18 Jun 14:15 | 6

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

Version 4.18 rc1 also swats Spectre, cuddles Chromebooks

18 Jun 01:29 | 17

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 | 1

US regains supercomputer crown from Chinese, for now

America! FLOP yeah!

08 Jun 18:06 | 52

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 | 3

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

Startup has powerful backer to help it crack China

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