NOAA triples its supercomputing capacity for improved storm modelingThe pair of 12-petaflop General Dynamics systems cost a cool half-billion dollars. By A. Tarantola, 06.28.2022
US retakes first place from Japan on Top500 supercomputer rankingORNL's Frontier HPE Cray EX with AMD CPUs is the 'first true exascale machine.'By S. Dent, 05.30.2022
Supercomputer simulations show climate change’s role in early human migrationThe modeling efforts took six months to complete.By A. Tarantola, 04.13.2022
Meta says its new AI supercomputer will be the world's fastest by mid-2022It's using the AI Research SuperCluster to develop new experiences for the metaverse.By K. Holt, 01.24.2022
Tesla's 'Dojo' supercomputer will train its vision-centric autonomous techIt has to teach the systems to respond with the same acuity and speed as a human.By S. Dent, 06.22.2021
New AI supercomputer will help create the largest-ever 3D map of the universePerlmutter could complete tasks in days that would normally take months.By J. Fingas, 05.29.2021
Microsoft and the UK will build the world's 'most powerful' weather supercomputerThe new system is twice as fast as the Met Office's existing Cray XC40.By S. Shah, 04.22.2021
US blacklists Chinese supercomputer organizations over military supportThe US is worried China might claim an edge in combat.By J. Fingas, 04.08.2021
Supernovae may generate life-giving carbon atoms faster than thoughtA supercomputer shows exploding stars boost carbon production from deep inside. By S. Dent, 12.07.2020
ARM chips are inside the world's most powerful supercomputerFor the first time, an ARM-based system is number one spot on the Top500 list.By I. Bonifacic, 06.22.2020
Microsoft's OpenAI supercomputer has 285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUsIt's one of the five fastest systems in the world.By D. Hardawar, 05.19.2020
Supercomputers across Europe have fallen to cryptomining hacksThey may have been perpetrated by the same attacker.By J. Fingas, 05.17.2020
NVIDIA's newest AI supercomputer joins the fight against COVID-19The DGX A100 offers 5 petaflops of processing power.By A. Tarantola, 05.14.2020
NVIDIA is contributing its AI smarts to help fight COVID-19It's betting that raw computing power will help with research and treatment.By J. Fingas, 04.06.2020
UK to spend $1.6 billion on the world's fastest weather supercomputerIt'll deliver regional forecasts down to a quarter mile in size. By S. Dent, 02.17.2020
Amazon offers quantum computing on its AWS serversBraket makes quantum tech accessible to more developers and researchers.By R. England, 12.03.2019
NASA's new moon-landing supercomputer is more powerful and more eco-friendlyThe modular facility uses less water and less power.By G. Torbet, 08.26.2019
Cray is building a supercomputer to manage the US' nuclear stockpile'El Capitan' can perform 1.5 quintillon calculations a second.By R. England, 08.13.2019
Supercomputer creates millions of virtual universesIt could provide many answers about the evolution of galaxies.By J. Fingas, 08.11.2019
China's supercomputers are the latest target in US trade warThe Trump administration's export restrictions cut off Chinese supercomputer developers.By C. Fisher, 06.21.2019