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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Nvidia shows off “most efficient” super computer
DGX SaturnV with its Tesla P100s
The GPU maker named after a Roman vengeance daemon, Nvidia, has been patting itself on the back over the DGX SaturnV, which it says is the most energy efficient supercomputer of all time.
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Russian boffins love their Nvidia GPUs
Home PC is faster than a supercomputer
Russian researchers at the Lomonosov Moscow State University have taken a consumer-level Nvidia GPU and programmed it to beat a super-computer.
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China builds supercomputer without US
We don't need your imperalist Xeons
China has stuck two fingers up at the US ban on it importing Intel Xeon chips, by building the world's fastest super computer based around its own home grown chips.