Microsoft and OpenAI are developing a supercomputer on Azure
Microsoft and start-up OpenAI are developing a supercomputer that runs on the public cloud platform Azure. The goal of this supercomputer is to train massive AI models.
The supercomputer has approximately 285.000 cores, 10.000 GPUs and 400 Gbps of network connectivity per server. This ... Read more
“European supercomputers targeted by hackers”
According to security specialist Cado Security, various supercomputer environments in Europe have been targeted by hackers. The malicious parties installed cryptomining software on these systems.
According to the security specialist, several supercomputer environments in Germany, Spain, the Unit... Read more
US and tech companies deploy supercomputers against coronavirus
President Trump has announced the launch of a consortium with major US tech companies, with the aim of using supercomputers to combat the corona virus. The main members are the White House, the Department of Energy and IBM. Tech giants such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft are also contributing, as ... Read more
IBM deploys new AiMOS supercomputer for AI
IBM has installed its latest supercomputer AiMOS at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York. AiMOS should help develop new artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
The supercomputer has a speed of 8 petaflops and can therefore perform eight quadrillion calculations per second, says Silicon... Read more
Fujitsu supplies processors for Cray supercomputer
Fujitsu will supply A64FX processors, which are Armv8 compatible, to power Cray's new supercomputer. Cray, a supplier of supercomputers which is owned by HPE, is building a new supercomputer for research laboratories and universities.
The full specifications of the supercomputers have not yet be... Read more
Intel and Dell EMC showcase one of the world’s fastest academic supercomputers
Intel and Dell EMC have unveiled Frontera. Frontera is an academic supercomputer to replace the Stampede2 in the University of Texas. Intel now claims to be the fastest supercomputer in the world for academic workloads.
According to Intel, the Frontera can achieve performance of 38.7 quadrillion flo... Read more
HPE builds supercomputer for moon landing NASA
NASA is going to use an HPE supercomputer to land people on the moon again in 2024. In a press release, HPE states that the supercomputer should run workloads for models and simulations. These are intended to investigate and prepare certain phases of the lunar landing process.
The supercomputer... Read more
Lenovo and Intel work together on new generation supercomputers for AI
Lenovo and Intel have partnered to optimize data center technologies for convergence between high-performance computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
Lenovo believes its HPC infrastructure is the ideal platform to address the major computing challenges. AI software has the unique position to ... Read more
Virtual supercomputer built on AWS reaches Top 500
The Top 500 of the world's most powerful supercomputers has one very exceptional system on its list: after all, the copy of Descartes Labs only exists in the cloud.
The copy of Descartes Labs is ranked 136th on the list of the most powerful HPC systems in the world. The supercomputer has a basic com... Read more
HPE supercomputer back on earth after space experiment
HPE's Spaceborne Computer is back on earth after a one and a half hour test on board the ISS. The manufacturer is now going to extensively analyse the device, which consists of traditional earth components, in order to assess the impact of the challenging environment on the hardware.
In 2017, HPE se... Read more