"high performance computing" news, interviews, and features

News about high performance computing

• NCI gets $70m to replace Raijin and return to world top 25

  The 1.67 Petaflop Raijin is fast approaching end of life and has slipped down global rankings

• Dell advances its HPC portfolio

  New systems designed to simplify mainstream enterprise adoption of HPC and data analytics in research, manufacturing and genomics

• Money talks, and that's all quantum maker D-Wave has to say

  Cloud-based quantum computing access may be ready globally in five years

• China has the fastest supercomputer, but the US still rules

  Despite increasing global competition in supercomputing, 90 per cent of the Top 500 systems are made by U.S. vendors

• U.S. research lab focuses on building computers of the future

  Sandia National Lab scientists study brain-inspired and quantum computers

• Researchers mimic human brain to build a better computer

  Future computer systems could better tackle big data and autonomous systems

Features about high performance computing

• Thanks to the NSA, quantum computing may some day be in the cloud

  The spy agency is spending $80M on basic research related to quantum computing

• Europe looks to ARM chips for supercomputing edge

  Can the chip used in Google's $249 Chromebook help solve the power problem facing high-performance computing? (See image below)

• High-performance computing turns to apps to cut cost and frustration

  A new model emerges for putting HPC into the hands of users