Neowin News Feed for: Supercomputer

DAWN supercomputer to get sixfold processing increase with AMD MI355X chips

Paul Hill — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:36:01 +0000

The UK commits $49M to upgrade the University of Cambridge DAWN supercomputer with AMD MI355X chips and Dell hardware for advanced AI research. Read more...

UK to build exascale computer 50 times more powerful than its best supercomputer

Paul Hill — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:48:01 +0000

The UK government has announced that Edinburgh will be home to a new exascale supercomputer. The computer will be 50 times more powerful than the UK's best supercomputer, the ARCHER2. Read more...

AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer remains top dog and boosts performance

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 May 2023 17:00:01 +0000

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer has held onto its massive lead in the TOP500 supercomputing list. It still remains the only exascale supercomputer and has extended its lead. Read more...

UK to invest £900 million on exascale supercomputer

Paul Hill — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 22:24:03 +0000

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. Read more...

Microsoft shows how it combines Azure with NVIDIA chips to make AI supercomputers

John Callaham — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 21:56:01 +0000

Microsoft reveals a new AI virtual machine that can be used by companies to power AI features, and also explains more about it worked with OpenAI in the first place to create the ChatGPT computers. Read more...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier remains world's top supercomputer

Paul Hill — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 09:16:01 +0000

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer has held onto the top spot in the TOP500 list of supercomputers. The systems in second and third place remain far behind Frontier. Read more...

NASA announces huge upgrade with next-gen processors being "at least 100 times" faster

Sayan Sen — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:14:01 +0000

NASA has announced that is going to upgrade its ancient 30-year old systems with state of the art technology. The next-gen computing systems are going to be around a 100 times faster. Read more...

AMD-powered Frontier is now the world's fastest supercomputer, breaks exascale barrier

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 30 May 2022 15:32:01 +0000

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier is now the world's most powerful and efficient supercomputer. The machine is powered by AMD's EPYC CPUs and produces a power of 1.102 exaflops. Read more...

Meta introduces the world's fastest AI supercomputer

Paul Hill — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:50:01 +0000

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. Read more...

UK's Met Office and Microsoft sign supercomputer deal

Paul Hill — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:12:01 +0000

Microsoft and the UK's Met Office have signed a new provisioning agreement relating to a supercomputer that will be ready for use in the summer of next year and will make better weather predictions. Read more...

UK launches four nanosatellites to space, two have a supercomputer onboard

Ather Fawaz — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 04:22:02 +0000

Built by Spire, these four nanosatellites will track shipping movements. Two of them have a supercomputer to predict arrival times with ML algorithms, the other are meant to act as relays for comms. Read more...

NVIDIA partners with University of Florida to build AI supercomputer

Usman Khan Lodhi — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 04:30:01 +0000

NVIDIA has partnered with University of Florida to build the fastest AI supercomputer in academia. The project would help UF become a leading AI university and advance academic research. Read more...

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer comes first in TOP500 rankings

Paul Hill — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 19:46:01 +0000

Japan has ranked first place of the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. It came ahead of two U.S.-based systems and two Chinese-built systems. Japan's Fugaku system also ranked ninth for energy efficiency. Read more...

Microsoft unveils "fifth most powerful" supercomputer in the world

Hamza Jawad — Tue, 19 May 2020 15:00:06 +0000

The new supercomputer is noted to be the fifth most powerful publicly disclosed one across the globe, and it represents a key milestone in Microsoft's partnership with independent research org OpenAI. Read more...

Folding at Home now the fastest "computer" in the world, but also join our team

Christopher White — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 13:18:01 +0000

The Folding@Home project is really growing thanks to more people signing up to help scientists research cures for the novel coronavirus. Neowin has a folding team and we'd love for you to join us! Read more...

AMD's Zen 4 powered El Capitan exascale Supercomputer will be on nuclear duty

Sayan Sen — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:04:01 +0000

AMD's next-gen Epyc and Instinct will be inside the El Capitan exascale supercomputer. Expected to be the fastest Supercomputer ever, it will be overlooking U.S. nuclear research operations. Read more...

UK supercomputer set to help fight African locust outbreak

Paul Hill — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 12:48:01 +0000

The UK is funding a supercomputer which helps to track devastating locust swarms. It also uses predicted weather data to work out where the locusts will move to next, giving farmers time to prepare. Read more...

Toshiba's new algorithm seemingly leverages quantum computing while running on ordinary PCs

Ather Fawaz — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:06:01 +0000

Employing the principles of quantum computing while running on a PC built with off-the-shelf components, Toshiba's Simulated Bifurcation Algorithm churns through market data in microseconds. Read more...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise goes Cray, buys supercomputer maker for $1.3 billion

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 17 May 2019 16:44:02 +0000

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. Read more...

TOP500 November 2018 list released, U.S.' Summit number one

Paul Hill — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:02:02 +0000

The United States has maintained it perch in first place on the TOP500 list. China came in third and fourth place while we wait for its in development exascale supercomputer to make an appearance. Read more...

University of Manchester switches on ‘Human brain' supercomputer

Paul Hill — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 12:32:02 +0000

The University of Manchester has switched on its new SpiNNaker supercomputer. The machine is interesting because it emulates the workings of the human brain, albeit on a smaller scale. Read more...

U.S. one-ups China in supercomputing race with IBM-made machine

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 19:06:02 +0000

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. Read more...

EU wants world's fastest supercomputer by 2023 for €1B

Paul Hill — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:31:26 +0000

The European Union is planning to launch a €1 billion project to develop an exascale supercomputer by 2023. The EU hopes the machine will be the world's fastest but it faces a challenge from China. Read more...

This week in science: new detection of gravitational waves

Gabriel Nunes — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 23:22:01 +0000

The first detection of gravitational waves by both LIGO and Virgo detectors was announced this week; a new type of supercomputer using polaritons was successfully tested; and more. Read more...

China plans new supercomputer for June 2018

Paul Hill — Sat, 24 Jun 2017 09:46:01 +0000

China has announced that its first exascale supercomputer, which will be eight times faster than the Sunway TaihuLight, will be ready by June 2018. China came first place in the 2017 TOP500 list. Read more...

Cray announces AI-Focused supercomputers

Paul Hill — Fri, 12 May 2017 00:40:01 +0000

Cray has announced two new supercomputers, the 500GT and 500NX. Both of them will have a focus on AI oriented tasks to accommodate a growing demand. Both are compatible with Nvidia Tesla GPUs. Read more...

China wants to build an exascale supercomputer prototype this year

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:02:02 +0000

China wants to start working on an exascale prototype supercomputer this year. Being at least ten times more powerful than today's top performer, the exascale device won't be operational until 2020. Read more...

Japan plans to leap over China in supercomputer rankings

Paul Hill — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 07:06:01 +0000

Japan is reportedly working on a new supercomputer which it hopes will knock China off its number one spot in the TOP500 ranking list. The finished computer will help advance artificial intelligence. Read more...

MIT's Swarm wants to make your multi-core phones and PCs 18 times faster

Vlad Dudau — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 13:38:01 +0000

MIT has developed a new type of processor architecture that solves many of the inefficiencies that come with multi-core CPUs directly through hardware. It makes multi-core chips 18 times faster. Read more...

China leads TOP500 supercomputer list with Sunway TaihuLight

Paul Hill — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 00:28:02 +0000

China has topped the TOP500 supercomputer list with a new computer called Sunway TaihuLight. The TaihuLight is capable of 93 petaflops compared to the previous number one, which scored 33 petaflops. Read more...

China allegedly behind "massive" attack on Australian Government supercomputer

Matt Blowes — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 07:40:01 +0000

A supercomputer at the Bureau of Meteorology has believed to have been breached by hackers from China, potentially compromising several other Australian Government agencies. Read more...

Australia's most powerful supercomputer, Raijin, unveiled

Paul Ferson — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 20:14:14 +0000

Raijin was unveiled today at the National Computational Infrastructure, where it impressed with operation speeds of around 1.2 petaflops; it's currently Australia's fastest supercomputer. Read more...

Only 3 of the world's most powerful computers run Windows

Tyler Holman — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:39:35 +0000

3 of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers run Windows, compared to the 469 running Linux. The good news? That's more than in June. The bad news? It's still even less than last year. Read more...

Cray announces XC30 computer, capable of 100 petaflops worth of computing

Paul Ferson — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:27:00 +0000

Cray has announced its XC30 supercomputer, offering an impressive 100 petaflops of computing power to academics and researchers who might need it. No prizes for making a "that speed cray" joke. Read more...

Xeon Phi, Intel's new “co-processor” for supercomputing

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:46:04 +0000

The chipmaker introduced its new product for the HPC market dubbed “Xeon Phi”, a new “co-processor” that will work in tandem with Xeon CPUs to deliver new levels of performances. Read more...

IBM now has world's fastest supercomputer

John Callaham — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:03:50 +0000

IBM now holds the claim of building the world's fastest supercomputer. The Sequoia, installed in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, achieved 16.32 petaflops. Read more...

IBM's Watson poised to take over salesmen jobs

Christopher White — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:27:13 +0000

IBM continues to use their technology to take over the world. First Watson became a Jeopardy champion and later the company started pushing their solution to assist doctors in the medical world. Now it appears... Read more...

IBM's Watson to help doctors with diagnoses

Christopher White — Mon, 23 May 2011 01:49:58 +0000

Watson’s goal to take over the world is continuing. IBM’s supercomputer first took out top Jeopardy contestants earlier this year. Now, according to USA Today, Watson is preparing to be used in the medical field... Read more...

IBM's Watson beats Jeopardy champions in first round

Christopher White — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:44:05 +0000

"Elementary, my dear Watson." IBM's supercomputer, named Watson in honor of IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, bested star Jeopardy contestants Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings and it wasn't even close. Watson ended the day with... Read more...

IBM bored of chess, taking on Jeopardy. Wheel of Fortune next?

Brian Donohue — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:10:21 +0000

After tackling the world's Chess Grandmaster's, IBM has set its sights on a new and arguably more complicated game: Jeopardy. Chess moves and strategy are computable through algorithms and mathematics, but IBM's Watson is looking... Read more...