• Linux
  • By Marius Nestor
  • June 11th, 2018
Meet IBM Summit, World's Fastest and Smartest Supercomputer Powered by Linux

Meet IBM Summit, World's Fastest and Smartest Supercomputer Powered by Linux

Has a peak performance of 200 petaflops calculations/second

The World's Fastest Supercomputer Was Built in China Without Any US Components

The World's Fastest Supercomputer Was Built in China Without Any US Components

Sunway TaihuLight is the name of the world's most powerful supercomputer, made entirely with Chinese components

Australia Blames China for Hacking Weather Bureau Supercomputer

Australia Blames China for Hacking Weather Bureau Supercomputer

Chinese hackers wreak havoc in Australia's Weather Bureau

IBM Supercomputer Wants to Help Know Your Words Better

IBM Supercomputer Wants to Help Know Your Words Better

Yet, it fails at the most basic human sensitivity: humour

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • December 5th, 2014
Cryogenic Memory and Superconductors Allow Supercomputer to Reach 1 Exaflop

Cryogenic Memory and Superconductors Allow Supercomputer to Reach 1 Exaflop

That will make it 40 times faster than today's best systems

  • Storage
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • December 3rd, 2014
PMC-Sierra Releases Incredibly Fast SSDs for Supercomputers

PMC-Sierra Releases Incredibly Fast SSDs for Supercomputers

They have ultra-low latency and 3.2 GB/s transfer

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 28th, 2014
AMD's FirePro Cards Power World's Most Efficient Supercomputer

AMD's FirePro Cards Power World's Most Efficient Supercomputer

The L-CSC cluster from GSI wins the grand title

  • CPU
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 18th, 2014
Intel Reveals Supercomputer Plans: Knights Landing, Knights Hill and Omni-Path Architecture – Gallery

Intel Reveals Supercomputer Plans: Knights Landing, Knights Hill and Omni-Path Architecture – Gallery

A new range of Xeon Phi coprocessors will be released

  • Video
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 18th, 2014
NVIDIA Kepler GK210 GPU Specs Revealed, Here's What Powers the Tesla K80 – Gallery

NVIDIA Kepler GK210 GPU Specs Revealed, Here's What Powers the Tesla K80 – Gallery

Still no word on HPS applications of the Maxwell chip

  • Video
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 17th, 2014
NVIDIA Launches Tesla K80 GPU Compute Card, Readies New Titan Supercomputer – Video

NVIDIA Launches Tesla K80 GPU Compute Card, Readies New Titan Supercomputer – Video

The accelerator has 24 GB of GDDR5 memory and NVLINK

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 17th, 2014
AMD Given Millions of Dollars to Make Extreme Scale Supercomputers

AMD Given Millions of Dollars to Make Extreme Scale Supercomputers

It will use them for the FastForward 2 development program

IBM Watson Supercomputer Now Combing Through Massive Scientific Data

IBM Watson Supercomputer Now Combing Through Massive Scientific Data

The AI-endowed system has come far since winning “Jeopardy!”

  • Systems
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • August 25th, 2014
Robo Brain Invented, So That Robots Can Learn from the Internet

Robo Brain Invented, So That Robots Can Learn from the Internet

Makes you think about how the Transformers learned English

Is the Human Brain About to Be Surpassed by Computer Chips? Evidence Seems to Suggest It

Is the Human Brain About to Be Surpassed by Computer Chips? Evidence Seems to Suggest It

At least we can say that tomorrow’s machines will think just like us

  • CPU
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • August 8th, 2014
TrueNorth Is the Human Brain in CPU Form, as Strong as a Supercomputer – Gallery

TrueNorth Is the Human Brain in CPU Form, as Strong as a Supercomputer – Gallery

It will allow even the smallest devices, like phones, to gain artificial intelligence

  • Video
  • By Sebastian Pop
  • August 6th, 2014
AMD Launches Mighty Server/Supercomputer GPU with 16 GB GDDR5 VRAM

AMD Launches Mighty Server/Supercomputer GPU with 16 GB GDDR5 VRAM

It is said to be the most powerful server Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) ever built

IBM Watson Supercomputer May Gain Artificial Intelligence in a Decade

IBM Watson Supercomputer May Gain Artificial Intelligence in a Decade

The group overseeing the supercomputer has acquired AI company Cognea

 
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