Supercomputers
Latest about Supercomputers
NASA's old supercomputers are causing mission delays
By Anton Shilov published
NASA's supercomputing capabilities are insufficient for its tasks, leading to oversubscription and overburdening. An internal audit recommends transiting from CPUs to GPUs.
AMD's fastest AI chips to get a memory boost as competition with Nvidia increases
By Anton Shilov published
AMD could be prepping an Instinct MI300 version with 12-Hi HBM3E memory.
China's secretive Tianhe 3 supercomputer uses a domestic hybrid CPU, rivals US systems
By Anton Shilov published
China's most powerful supercomputer uses MT-3000 processor with built-in accelerators.
China's first natively built supercomputer goes online — the Central Intelligent Computing Center is liquid-cooled and built for AI
By Matthew Connatser published
China Telecom claims to have launched the country's first supercomputer built entirely on top of domestic hardware and software.
AMD's customers begin receiving the first Instinct MI300X AI GPUs
By Anton Shilov published
LaminiAI receives AMD's first eight-way AMD Instinct MI300X systems and puts them to the test.
Frontier trained a ChatGPT-sized large language model with only 3,000 of its 37,888 Radeon GPUs
By Matthew Connatser published
Frontier, the world's fastest supercomputer, can train a large language model like GPT-4 with just 8% of its GPUs.
China uses mysterious homegrown chips for new Exaflop-class Tianhe Xingyi supercomputer
By Anton Shilov published
China's Tianhe-3 could approach exascale performance level using domestic processors, report says.
China's secretive Sunway Pro CPU quadruples performance over its predecessor
By Anton Shilov published
Sunway's SW26010 Pro packs 384 compute cores, could power exascale-class supercomputers.
Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter
Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.