While we’ve seen supercomputers break records before, rarely have we seen the barrier smashed quite so thoroughly as by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Sequoia supercomputer. Researchers at both LLNL and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute …
If you figured Titan’s title of the world’s most powerful supercomputer would give the folks at Oakridge National Laboratory reason to rest on their laurels, you’d be mistaken. The computer is set to have its fleet of 18,688 NVIDIA K20 GPUs and equal…
A universe that only exists in the mind of a supercomputer sounds a little far fetched, but one is going to come to live at the Argonne National Laboratory in October. A team of cosmologists is using IBM’s Blue Gene/Q “Mira” supercomputer, the third …
Ten-core, 2.4GHz Xeons? Pshaw. IBM is used to the kind of clock speeds and brute force power that lead to Europe-dominating supercomputers. Big Blue has no intentions of letting its guard down when it unveils its next generation processors at the upc…
Fujitsu’s 10.51 petaflop K supercomputer is pretty fast, but does it pack enough computational oomph to stave off underground nuclear testing? Probably — but the NNSA’s new sixteen petaflop rig does it better. According to the National Nuclear Secur…
Remember the Cray XK6 at the University of Illinois that drives the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project? Well, it looks like it’s getting a little memory upgrade, sorta. We’re not talking a slick new SSD here, or even a sweet NAS, all t…
Be honest: was there any doubt whatsoever that something called a “Holey Optochip” would be anything short of mind-blowing? No. None. The whiz-kids over at IBM have somehow managed to transmit a staggering 1Tbps of data over a new optical chip, with th…
Watson’s been a busy supercomputer since it took a couple of humans to school on Jeopardy last year — what with its stint at Columbia and a recent foray into hunting patent trolls — and now it’s taking on the financial industry. IBM and Citigroup re…
Fujitsu’s K supercomputer was on our radar before it was even completed, and naturally, we let you know when it smoked the competition and became the supercomputing speed king. So, when we had the opportunity to see a piece of K at Fujitsu’s North Ame…
In post-Soviet Russia, massive supercomputer programs you. (Sorry, we had to.) Recently, Russia’s Moscow State University contracted with high-performance computing company T-Platforms to create a ten petaflop cluster that’ll be operational in 2013….
