US Edged Out of Third Place In latest Supercomputer Ranking
The 49th edition of the TOP500 list was released today, and although there were no new entrants in the top 10 places of the...
U.S. Department of Energy Awards Six Research Contracts Totaling $258 Million to Accelerate Supercomputing Technology
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded AMD, Cray Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, Intel and Nvidia $258 million, paving the way to build at...
Fujitsu to Build GPU-equipped RIKEN Deep Learning System Dedicated to AI Research
Fujitsu has received RIKEN's order for the "Deep learning system," which in terms of operations will be one of the largest-scale supercomputers in Japan...
Fujitsu Starts Operations For Japan's Fastest Supercomputer
The Oakforest-PACS supercomputer at the Joint Center for Advanced High Performance Computing (JCAHPC), which is jointly run by the University of Tokyo and the...
Japan To Build The World's Most Powerful Supercomputer
Japan plans to build the world's fastest supercomputer designed to enhance the country's research strength in areas such as driverless cars, robotics and medical...
New Cray Unveils XC50 Supercomputer Can Scale to 500 Petaflops
Cray has launched the XC50, the successor to the XC40 model. The big change from the XC40 is the additional support for the new NVIDIA...
China Dominates Global Supercomputers List
The 48th edition of the TOP500 list saw China and United States pacing each other for supercomputing supremacy. Both nations now claim 171 systems apiece...
China Tops Supercomputer Rankings with New 93-Petaflop Machine
A new Chinese supercomputer, the Sunway TaihuLight, captured the number one spot on the latest TOP500 list of supercomputers released on Monday morning at the...
China's Tianhe-2 Remains The World's Faster Supercomputer
For the sixth consecutive time, Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, has retained its position as the world’s No. 1...
IBM and NVIDIA Launch Supercomputer Centers With the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge and Lawrence Livermore National Labs
IBM along with NVIDIA and two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories today announced a pair of Centers of Excellence for supercomputing – one at...
