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The UK is planning to spend nearly £1 billion to develop a new exascale supercomputer. The plan was unveiled during the Chancellor's Spring Budget. There's also prize money for those who advance AI.

Paul Hill · Mar 15, 2023 with 2 comments

Meta has unveiled the AI Research SuperCluster. The new supercomputer will help the company to unlock the next generation in artificial intelligence which it hopes to use in AI apps for the metaverse.

Paul Hill · Jan 24, 2022 with 5 comments

Following the controversial Huawei ban that prevents the company from buying products from American companies, the U.S. government has now placed similar restrictions on many Chinese firms.

João Carrasqueira · Jun 21, 2019 · Hot! with 48 comments

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced its intention to buy supercomputer manufacturer Cray in a deal valued at $1.3 billion. The acquisition is expected to close by Q1 of HPE's FY2020.

Florin Bodnarescu · May 17, 2019 · Hot! with 14 comments

The U.S. Department of Energy and IBM this week announced Summit, their latest and greatest supercomputer. Its purported 200 quadrillion calculations per second would make it the fastest in the world.

Muhammad Jarir Kanji · Jun 8, 2018 with 10 comments

Samsung has revealed some new Z-SSD devices aimed at HPC and AI tasks. The SZ985 drives come in 800GB and 240GB variants and can perform 30 drive writes per day for five years before failing.

Paul Hill · Jan 30, 2018 · Hot! with 3 comments

Samsung has started producing its next generation HBM2 solution which is 50% more powerful than the last iteration. It is intended for use in next-generation super computers and for AI processing.

Paul Hill · Jan 11, 2018 with 0 comments

Microsoft offers up some new information on how its Windows Azure cloud-based server business is helping to crunch some big numbers to help support medical research.

John Callaham · Nov 23, 2012 · Hot! with 3 comments

IBM once again dominated the competition in semiannual rankings of supercomputers, but the big news is what's coming next year. Big Blue is working on a computer nicknamed "Roadrunner" that will combine Cell processors, a...

Tom Warren · Nov 13, 2007 · Hot! with 6 comments

IBM and Sun Microsystems are looking to bring supercomputing into the "petaflop" era. The two IT giants will detail the specifics behind their new supercomputer systems to the audience attending the 2007 International Supercomputer Conference...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jun 27, 2007 with 4 comments

Speaking at a supercomputing conference in Seattle, Gates announced that the company has reached the Beta 2 stage for its Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003. The product consists of both a cluster-optimized version of Windows...

· Nov 16, 2005 with -1 comments

Looking to drive corporate adoption of its high-performance computing version of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft on Monday introduced an SDK (software development kit) for developers alongside a name change for the product. Just months after...

· Nov 8, 2004 with -1 comments

In one race to sell 64-bit x86 chips to high-performance computing customers, Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices both won. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has elected to buy an IBM supercomputer with...

· Aug 3, 2004 with -1 comments

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