Supercomputers
Japan’s Fugaku supercomputer to get quantum performance boost
Japan’s Riken Research Institute is working on bringing quantum computing technology into its Fugaku supercomputer to improve performance and tackle…
Hackers Force Supercomputers Offline in Multiple Breaches
The discovery of cryptomining operations has forced supercomputing clusters across the world offline in an incident that exposes the poor…
Welcome to the Petaflop Club: Supercomputing’s Top 500 Milestone
The latest Top 500 supercomputers list reveals that for the first time ever, all entrants deliver a petaflop or more…
Arm Claws Its Way onto Top 500 Supercomputers List, while NVIDIA Rises
UK-based Arm has made its way onto the global Top 500 supercomputers list for the first time, with an Arm-powered, HPE-built…
Cardiff University Launches £15M Supercomputing and Big Data Programme
Cardiff University on launched a £15 million research programme, called "Supercomputing Wales" that aims to put Wales on the global…
EU Council of Ministers Backs €1B 25-Nation Supercomputer Initiative, Leaves out UK
The European Union’s Council of Ministers has backed plans to invest €1 billion in European supercomputers, with a new legal…
Met Office Back in the Market for a New Supercomputer
The UK’s Met Office, which provides the country’s National Severe Weather Warning Service and advices the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate…
NVIDIA Releases Nine High Performance Computing Containers
NVIDIA have released nine new high performance computing containers as part of NVIDIA GPU Cloud. The American technology company’s news…
Nvidia, Dell EMC & HPE: Supercomputer giants go on the offensive
The supercomputer may be a bit more niche that cloud computing, but it remains a large, competitive market that sparks…
Microsoft boosts cloud HPC strategy with Cycle Computing acquisition
Microsoft has acquired Cycle Computing so that it can accelerate "Big Computing" in the cloud. Cycle Computing is described by…