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US Department of Energy to Develop World’s Fastest Supercomputer
The United States Department of Energy (DoE) is set to develop the world’s fastest supercomputer, called Discovery. This new machine will surpass the current record-holder, Frontier, by up to five times in computational power. The DoE has issued a request for proposals to create Discovery, aiming for completion by late…
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Nvidia Builds the 7th Fastest Supercomputer in Just 4 Weeks
Following the completion of the Selene supercomputer, a design assembled by Nvidia, while representing the 7th most powerful supercomputer in the world, this (perhaps surprisingly) isn’t the most remarkable thing about it. Yes, it’s pretty amazingly strong in terms of computing output, but what if I told you that Nvidia…
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Nvidia Joins COVID-19 HPC Consortium to Fight the Virus!
With the outbreak of the Coronavirus, there are a lot of organizations around the world throwing their weight (or collective efforts) behind the race to find the cure. Well, more accurately, a vaccine. For example, we have reported (on a few occasions now) how Folding@Home allows us humble home PC…
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UK Prepares £1.2B for Weather Forecasting Supercomputer
With climate change and weather being one of the most pressing subjects for governments worldwide at the moment, it’s pretty clear that being able to successfully predict weather patterns in advance could not only help prepare better responses but also could help authorities take more pre-emptive action. In a report…
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Nvidia Quietly Adds the V100s to the Tesla Product Range
The chances are that you have probably heard about the Nvidia Tesla range of graphics cards, but have likely never encountered one. That is no criticism of your PC techiness as the Tesla range (not to be confused with the car brand) is largely aimed towards the workstation/supercomputer market. In…
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AMD and Cray Team-Up to Build the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
US Government Announces Project The US Department of Energy is announcing that they have tapped AMD to create the world’s fastest supercomputer. The chip company is doing this in collaboration with supercomputer manufacturer Cray for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Dubbed “Frontier”, it will go online by 2021…
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US Beats China To The Top Of The Supercomputer List
US Beats China To The Top Of The Supercomputer List Over the last 5 years, there has been something of a back-and-forth between China and the US over who has the most powerful computer. The term ‘supercomputer’ means exactly that, it is a system which has been designed to produce…
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Supercomputer with ‘One Million Cores’ Built in Manchester
The World’s Largest Neuromorphic Supercomputer Although Intel announced that they will have a 48-core Xeon processor coming out soon, AMD rained on their parade by announcing a 64-core EPYC processor of their own the next day. However, both pale in comparison to what scientists in the University of Manchester’s School…
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Scientists Arrested For Using Supercomputer To Mine Bitcoin
Scientists Mining Cryptocurrency We have all occasionally done things at work that was a little cheeky. A smidgen beyond the remit of acceptable behavior. In most instances this is limited to perhaps having an extra 10 minutes for your lunch. Maybe sneaking a cigarette break. One thing I doubt you…
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China Overtakes US to Top the ‘Supercomputer’ List
China beats the US to the top of the supercomputer list For several years now, America has topped the listings for the number of supercomputers in the world. Its dominance has in part been due to major manufacturing, but in addition, major corporations. China has, however, been hot on the…
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HP ‘The Machine’ Supercomputer Is 8000x Faster Than a PC
HP revealed their new prototype “the Machine” this week, in what they’re calling the world’s first demonstration of memory-driven computing! While this isn’t anything new, the system was revealed back in 2014, it’s only now that they’re finally getting something physical to show the world. The system offloads dependence on…
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Japan Wants to Build the World’s Fastest Supercomputer by 2018
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Japan wants to push the boundaries of technology further than ever before, but the country’s timeframe for building the fastest supercomputer in the world is certainly interesting. Japan wants to build such a machine by 2018, and in order to do this, officials will reportedly spend…
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US Plans to Build Pair of Exascale Supercomputers
A panel of US government scientists at the recent annual SuperComputing Conference have outlined an exascale strategy developed while under President Barack Obama’s administration involving the creation of two supercomputer systems. The project pair is expected to cost around $200 to $300 million each starting in 2019 with a projected…
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NVIDIA Builds World’s Most Efficient Supercomputer
NVIDIA has a powerful new supercomputer, and it’s been judged to be the most efficient in the world, and the 28th fastest, in the official Top500 list. The DGX SaturnV, which boasts 60,512 CPU cores and 63,488GB or RAM, powered by Intel’s Xeon E5-2698v4and the company’s Tesla P100 Pascal GPUs,…
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U.S. Wants IBM Supercomputer Competitor By 2018
Let it not be said that the US doesn’t get jealous, no sooner had China announced the Sunway TaihuLight, the first supercomputer in the world to have a theoretical speed of over 100 petaflops, 124.5 petaflops in fact. With China creating the first hundred petaflop computer, made entirely from Chinese…
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