Brain-like neurochips good for supercomputers, not just AI, says Sandia Gee, could this be something Intel or IBM actually lead? HPC10 Mar 2022 | 1
Photonics startup Luminous Computing bags $105m Bill Gates among those plowing funds into AI supercomputing tech HPC05 Mar 2022 | 7
Russia scrambles to bootstrap HPC clusters with native tech Don't send a mobile chip to do a high-end CPU, GPU job. Unless you have no choice. HPC04 Mar 2022 | 25
D-Wave to go public after $1.2 billion merger deal with SPAC Quantum computing biz takes the easy route to IPO and future capital HPC08 Feb 2022 | 14
Joined up thinking: Europe to oversee trio of projects for homegrown chips, HPC gear Move comes ahead of draft law to turn continent into a center of semiconductor expertise HPC08 Feb 2022 | 4
India turns on a new supercomputer Pram Pravega's 3.3 petaFLOPS should make it India's fourth entrant in the Top500 list HPC07 Feb 2022 | 1
Ever-growing volumes of data mean computational storage is becoming crucial for HPC, say boffins at Dell's tech chinwag Data at rest should remain at rest HPC31 Jan 2022 | 3
Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe With microcode intact so it can talk to an original operator's console HPC27 Jan 2022 | 47
IBM confirms new mainframe to arrive 'late in first half of 2022' Hybrid cloud is Big Blue's big bet, but big iron is predicted to bring a welcome revenue boost HPC25 Jan 2022 | 35
A unified, agnostic software environment spanning HPC and AI won't be achieved Register debate Readers have their say HPC10 Dec 2021 | 2
A single HPC-AI software environment is less desirable than you might think Register Debate Every possible thing that can be tuned must be tuned – and tuned well HPC09 Dec 2021 | 1
We can unify HPC and AI software environments, just not at the source code level Register Debate Compute graphs are the way forward HPC08 Dec 2021 | 2
Why we will not have a unified HPC and AI software environment, ever Register Debate No good reason for vendors to play ball with each other HPC07 Dec 2021 | 15
This House believes: A unified, agnostic software environment can be achieved Register Debate How long will we keep reinventing software wheels? HPC06 Dec 2021 | 33
Now here's HPE with the weather in Northern Europe Firm to build Cray supercomputer to better grapple with 'new, dynamic weather patterns caused by climate change' HPC11 Nov 2021 | 4
AMD tries to spoil Nvidia's week by teasing high-end accelerators, Epyc chips with 3D L3 cache, and more Microsoft cloud first to privately preview Milan-X parts HPC09 Nov 2021 | 4
Quantum computing startups pull in millions as VCs rush to get ahead of the game Now they just have to make it work... HPC08 Oct 2021 | 17
'Quantum computer algorithms are linear algebra, probabilities. This is not something that we do a good job of teaching our kids' Assuming tech works as promised, overhaul needed in policy and supplies, panel says HPC01 Oct 2021 | 64
Calculating the big picture: Future HPC efforts will soon see off its von Neumann past Feature Dear John, I'm leaving you for a robot HPC27 Sep 2021 | 41
First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico HPC22 Sep 2021 | 24
'Large-scale computing' needs a government team driving it, says UK.gov Report from the Government Office for Science lays out the hurdles to supercomputing relevance HPC22 Sep 2021 | 13
HPE bags $2bn HPC-as-a-service gig with the NSA Ten-year agreement kicks off in 2022 to help spies do spying HPC01 Sep 2021 | 1
Google demonstrates impractical improvement in quantum error correction – but it does work Scale would need to be cranked way up to have an impact, however HPC16 Jul 2021 | 12
Nvidia opens Hardware Grant Programme – which doesn't mean RTX 30 series cards Teachers and researchers offered workstation, embedded, and data-processing gear instead HPC13 Jul 2021 | 1
Nvidia launches Cambridge-1, UK's most powerful supercomputer, in Arm's neighbourhood Plus: free supercomputing for 5 healthcare partners. Charm offensive to support Arm takeover plans? HPC07 Jul 2021 | 28
AMD opens wallet to lure scientific computing boffins away from Nvidia's CUDA onto its Instinct accelerators Only academics, researchers, nonprofits need apply to AIER initiative HPC29 Jun 2021 | 6
RISC-V boffins lay out a plan for bringing the architecture to high-performance computing 'The group is united in making RISC-V an option in HPC,' says SIG-HPC chair HPC10 Jun 2021 | 7
Bull in a cosmos shop: Edinburgh uni boffins strike deal with Atos for BullSequana supercomputer Time running out for secrets of cosmos to remain hidden HPC02 Jun 2021 | 6
South Korea to build an exascale supercomputer running local CPUs by 2030 Hopes to start selling ‘em too, because China and Japan are heading the same direction and aren’t good at sharing HPC28 May 2021 | 2
America to get world's 'most powerful' AI supercomputer to create the most detailed 3D map of the universe yet Perlmutter will help scientists study dark energy and more HPC27 May 2021 | 29
Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders Ampere’s Altra gets the gig at a cent-per CPU hour, with managed K8s for starters, managed MySQL coming soon HPC25 May 2021 | 4
Quantum computing: Confusion can mask a good story, but don't take anyone's word for it Column It'll do great things in the future, just don't impose timeframes on when HPC10 May 2021 | 28
You're V1 for me, says Arm: Chip biz's 'highest-performance core' takes aim at supercomputers, AI, anything relying on vector math Plus the N2, its first Armv9 blueprint HPC27 Apr 2021 | 2
Jensen Huang's kitchen gets another viewing as Nvidia teases Arm-powered supercomputing chip Grace GTC Also another data processing unit, system-on-a-chip for self-driving cars HPC12 Apr 2021 | 8
Biden administration effectively slaps bans on seven Chinese supercomputer companies for military links Organizations added to Entity list HPC09 Apr 2021 | 9
We need a 20MW 20,000-GPU-strong machine-learning supercomputer to build EU's planned digital twin of Earth And this machine will be used to *check notes* study climate change. Study it or cause it? HPC26 Feb 2021 | 94
US Air Force boots up not one but two AMD-powered supercomputers after five years of Intel Haswell CPUs Fawbush and Miller supers will crank away at weather-forecasting models HPC10 Feb 2021 | 8
Video games were 'Eureka!' moment that helped boffins simulate neural activity on a single commodity GPU 'Procedural generation' might offer a way forward for projects queueing up to use a supercomputer HPC03 Feb 2021 | 7
Nvidia accused of cheating in big-data performance test by benchmark's umpires: Workloads 'tweaked' to beat rivals in TPCx-BB GPU giant says it'll play ball soon HPC28 Jan 2021 | 11
AMD, Nvidia, HPE tapped to triple the speed of US weather super with $35m upgrade Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s HPC27 Jan 2021 | 15
HPE sees itself 'delivering supercomputing-as-a-service to the masses' as it chucks HPC chops into GreenLake Hardware infrastructure vendors' obsession with consumption-based tech continues HPC09 Dec 2020 | 3
When humans return to the Moon in '2024', HPE would like us to remember: We built the computer that simmed this What could go wrong with NASA's SLS rocket? The Aitken system is finding out HPC18 Nov 2020 | 20
Six months after A100 super-GPU's debut, Nvidia doubles memory, ups bandwidth Hardware aimed at supercomputers, servers, mega-workstations HPC17 Nov 2020 | 5
AMD unveils its MI100 GPU, said to be its most powerful silicon for supercomputers, high-end AI processing Chip takes aim at Nvidia's A100 HPC16 Nov 2020 | 3
HPE bags $160m to build 550-PFLOPS super for Europe out of tomorrow's AMD Epyc processors, graphics chips Finns are going Cray cray HPC22 Oct 2020 | 4
AMD scores 200,000 cores worth of secret silicon at new Australian supercomputer Chips will power $34m machine doing Square Kilometre Array work and more HPC19 Oct 2020 | 16
Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022 You were only supposed to blow the bloody bytes off! HPC15 Oct 2020 | 10
India to build home-grown supercomputers, from the motherboards up Minister says more supers will advance society. So why wait to develop silicon, networks, storage and more? HPC13 Oct 2020 | 11
Oracle adds Arm-powered servers with up to 160 cores to its cloud – must be why it sunk millions into Ampere Plans HPC play with AMD, Intel silicon, too HPC22 Sep 2020 | 12
Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup All aboard the exascale express HPC03 Aug 2020 | 14
Fujitsu, Japan strong-Arm their way to the top with world's fastest-known super: 415-PFLOPS Fugaku That big Arm news you were all expecting today, right? HPC22 Jun 2020 | 16
Microsoft claims it has spun up a top-five AI supercomputer for its pals at OpenAI – but won't reveal the full specs Build This big beast has more than '285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs' HPC20 May 2020 | 9
That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme Stuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber HPC19 May 2020 | 13
Reg readers have not one, but TWO teams in Folding@home top 1,000 as virus-bothering network hits 2.4 exa-FLOPS Distributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront HPC14 Apr 2020 | 22
PC owners borg into the most powerful computer the world has ever known – all in the search for coronavirus cure Move over, Summit. Distributed computing project hits 470 PFLOPS HPC24 Mar 2020 | 173
IBM fires up the big iron, Facebook hands out masks, Cisco splashes cash, and CDC gets an Azure-powered bot Roundup Everybody chill, Big Tech's got this HPC23 Mar 2020 | 13
Uncle Sam's nuke-stockpile-simulating souped-super El Capitan set to hit TWO exa-FLOPS, take crown as world's fastest machine in 2023 Department of Energy turns to HPE, AMD to flesh out monster HPC04 Mar 2020 | 46
Lustre HPC file systems no longer disappear in a puff on Amazon Web Services – but you'll pay more Throughput boosted and encryption in transit added to temporary counterparts HPC25 Feb 2020 |
A bridge over troubled water: Intel teases Ponte Vecchio, the GPU brains in US govt's 1-exaFLOPS Aurora supercomputer SC19 If at first you don't succeed, Phi Phi again HPC18 Nov 2019 | 26