Neowin News Feed for: Supercomputing

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...

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...

U.S. escalates trade tensions by blocking out Chinese supercomputer firms

João Carrasqueira — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 19:54:01 +0000

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. 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...

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...

Samsung announces 800GB Z-SSD for HPC systems and AI

Paul Hill — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:28:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Samsung starts producing next-gen HBM2 dubbed Aquabolt

Paul Hill — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 10:08:01 +0000

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. Read more...

Microsoft shows how Windows Azure can crunch some big numbers

John Callaham — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:05:17 +0000

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. Read more...

IBM's Roadrunner set to smash supercomputing marks

Tom Warren — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:07:02 +0000

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... Read more...

IBM, Sun Look to Leave a 'Petaflop' Mark in Supercomputing

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 11:53:07 +0000

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... Read more...

Gates Touts Microsoft's Supercomputing Move

Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:03:27 +0000

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... Read more...

Microsoft Intros Supercomputing SDK

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 00:13:53 +0000

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... Read more...

Army supercomputing drafts Intel, AMD

Tue, 03 Aug 2004 12:47:01 +0000

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... Read more...