IBM powers fastest Summit supercomputer
Smallest, has NV100 and Power9 combo
It’s been a while since China had the fastest supercomputer and all thathas just changed with the launch of US government owned Summit computer that is currently the world’s most powerful and smartest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer.
Fujitsu announces special K supercomputer
100 times faster than regular K and packed with vitamins and minerals
Fujitsu has unveiled a prototype of a next-generation supercomputer dubbed “post-K” to the media. The machine is expected to calculate 100 times faster than the K supercomputer, which is currently operating in Kobe.
China rules Top 500 Supercomputer List
America not going to be great again anytime soon
China appears to have made the semi-annual Top 500 Supercomputer List its kingdom. Not only does it top the list but also has 202 ranked systems on the list.
Now even the Swiss have a faster supercomputer than the US
And some of their soldiers have carried pikes for 600 years.
The US has been falling behind in the supercomputer race which it has dominated for 24 years and been losing ground to the Chinese who have the top two slots.
Nvidia creates AI supercomputer with Volta-based DGX-1
Eight Tesla V100 accelerators equivalent to 800 desktop CPUs
Nvidia had quite a few announcements packed into a single GTC keynote this year, but among the more performance-oriented of them includes a refreshed DGX-1 supercomputer powered by eight Volta-based Tesla V100 GPUs.
US falling behind in supercomputer stakes
Scientists fear America not really that great any more
Advanced computing experts at the National Security Agency and the Department of Energy are worried that that China is "extremely likely" to take the leadership in supercomputing as early as 2020.
Nvidia shows off Jetson supercomputer
An itsy bitsy teeny weeny mobile super brain
Nvidia has been showing off its Jetson TX2 mini supercomputer, which is a tiny PC that is designed for artificial intelligence (AI).
More details on Japanese HPC star in Nvidia’s universe
Not a Polaris at all
Details are coming out about the Global Scientific Information and Computing Center at the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s new supercomputer which is based around Nvidia GPUs.
Azure is the better HPC
Beats Amazon, Rackspace, IBM and a supercomputer
While replacing supercomputers with cloud computing frameworks is becoming a bit of a thing, some clouds are better than others.
Japan plans to build the world's largest super computer
130 petaflops
Japan's government plans to build the world’s fastest-known supercomputer for developing and improving AI, driverless cars, robotics and medical diagnostics.