At a high level, a supercomputer is exactly what it sounds like—namely, a computer so much more powerful than a desktop as to deserve the superlative. What makes supercomputers interesting isn't just ...

The US Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has completed the installation of its new "Crossroads" supercomputer. The high-performance computing (HPC) cluster was delivered to the Strategic Computing ...

First announced in April 2022, Ascend comprises of Dell PowerEdge servers, 48 AMD EPYC CPUs, and 96 Nvidia A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs with Nvidia NVLink, and connected by the NVIDIA Quantum 200 Gbps ...

Oracle and xAI love to flex the size of their GPU clusters. It's getting hard to tell who has the most supercomputing power as more firms claim the top spot. The real numbers are competitive intel and ...

China is no longer content to dominate supercomputing on the ground. It is now wiring thousands of satellites into a single, ...

Advances in computing power and acceptance of open standards in data transport could provide engineers with fast and complete design solutions to their most intricate problems. Applying the Internet's ...

Virginia Tech last week rolled out an 1,100-node cluster of Macintosh computers that will assist its researchers with quantum and computational chemistry, aerodynamics and the molecular modeling of ...