This $50,000 Apple Silicon cluster features a quartet of Mac Studios with 2TB unified memory. Hitting 3x speed using RDMA, to ...
The U.S. Department of Energy plans to build a new flagship supercomputer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The new machine will be ten times more powerful than the current supercomputer.
The Department of Energy announced details Thursday for an advanced supercomputer that would speed up development of technologies such as artificial intelligence and fusion, priorities for Energy ...
Sandia has been working with prototype NextSilicon hardware for the past three years, with Spectra co-developed by the lab ...
Georgia Tech has received a $20 million federal grant to build a powerful new supercomputer in Midtown that will harness artificial intelligence to boost the work of scientists across the nation.
HPE will build an Nvidia-powered supercomputer at the Leibniz Supercomputing Center (LRZ) in Germany. Dubbed Blue Lion, the system will employ 100 percent direct liquid cooling. The water-cooling ...
The Summit supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) has had its life extended for an additional year. Originally scheduled for shutdown at the start of ...
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What Is a Supercomputer?

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 ...