Neowin News Feed for: Supercomputers

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...

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...

TOP500: Fugaku supercomputer holds onto the top spot

Paul Hill — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 16:16:01 +0000

TOP500 has released the latest list of top supercomputers. There is one new entry on the list and Fugaku has managed to hold its lead. We are still waiting on exascale computers to hit the list. 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...

China has record number of supercomputers in TOP500

Paul Hill — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 11:06:01 +0000

The TOP500 list for November has been released and China, as ever, is doing very well. The U.S., on the other hand, has gotten a bit of a battering with losses on multiple fronts, to China and Japan. Read more...

Cray supercomputers come to Azure thanks to new partnership [Update]

Florin Bodnarescu — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:20:10 +0000

In an effort to bring more high-performance computing capabilities to those who need it, Microsoft has announced that customers will be able to provision Cray supercomputers in some Azure datacenters. Read more...

China maintains top places on TOP500 supercomputer rankings, US pushed to fourth

Paul Hill — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:46:01 +0000

China's TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 supercomputers have maintained their number one and two spots on the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. The US has been pushed out of the top three after two decades. Read more...

Trivia Tuesday: Supercomputing powers unite!

Tim Schiesser — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:14:39 +0000

It turns out that the fastest supercomputer in the world is around 110,000 times faster than the top Sandy Bridge consumer processor. This, and more supercomputing facts in today's Trivia Tuesday Read more...

Hand-held supercomputers 'on way'

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:53:47 +0000

Experts at a Scottish university say they have paved the way for the creation of tiny supercomputers which could fit in the palm of the hand. Engineers at the University of Edinburgh studied the behaviour... Read more...

Microsoft creating Windows for supercomputers

Mon, 24 May 2004 22:16:06 +0000

Microsoft has launched an effort to produce a version of Windows for high-performance computing, a move seen as a direct attack on a Linux stronghold. High-performance computing once required massive, expensive, exotic... Read more...