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SiPearl's 72-Core Rhea HPC SoC to Be Made Using TSMC's N6 Node

By Anton Shilov

SiPearl's Rhea SoC for supercomputers will be developed in India, produced in Taiwan.

Architecture of Chinese Exascale Supercomputer Proposed: 80,000 Hybrid CPUs with 512-Bit Vector Units

By Anton Shilov

China explores exascale supercomputer architectures, but it needs advanced fabrication process to build hybrid CPUs.

Cineca HQ to house Leonardo AI supercomputer

Nvidia and Cineca Team Up to Create World's Fastest AI Supercomputer

By Jarred Walton

Nvidia and Cineca teamed up to create the world's fastest supercomputer with 14,000 A100 GPUs.

Japanese Arm-Based Supercomputer Fugaku Is Now World's Most Powerful

By Niels Broekhuijsen

Fugaku is now the world's most powerful supercomputer, besting IBM's Summit by a 2.8-fold.

Microsoft Announces Massive AI Supercomputer, Claims Top 5 Ranking

By Andrew E. Freedman

Microsoft has announced a new AI supercomputer in partnership with OpenAI, and claims it’s among the top five in the world.

Folding@Home Now More Powerful Than Top 500 Supercomputers Combined

By Niels Broekhuijsen

So many are donating their PC's leftover power to help fight the coronavirus that the Folding@Home network is now 15 times as powerful as Summit, the world's strongest supercomputer.

AMD and Nvidia Join Supercomputer-Powered Fight Against Coronavirus

By Niels Broekhuijsen

AMD and Nvidia have joined the COVID-19 HPC Consortium, a White House initiative to give supercomputer access to researchers fighting the coronavirus.

World's Most Powerful Supercomputer Fights Coronavirus

By Niels Broekhuijsen

IBM-Built Supercomputer 'Summit' has been assigned tasks to take down the Coronavirus

HPE Builds Supercomputer for NASA's Artemis Moon Mission

By Arne Verheyde

HPE has built a 3.69 PFLOPS supercomputer for NASA in support of the Artemis program. Based on Intel's Cascade Lake, the supercomputer is located in a new NASA computing facility.

European Processor Initiative Delivers First Designs

By Arne Verheyde

IBM's Power9 CPU Could Be Game Changer In Servers And Supercomputers With Help From Google, Nvidia

By Lucian Armasu

Google's and Nvidia's commitment to OpenPower architecture may make IBM's Power9 an unexpected success in servers and supercomputers, starting next year.

IBM's Watson Has Gone to College

By Kevin Parrish

Even supercomputers need a little schooling.

Intel, AMD, Nvidia Claim Greenest Supercomputer Technology

By Wolfgang Gruener

The world's most prestigious supercomputers are usually spotlighted in the Top500 list of the world's fastest systems.

Nvidia and AMD Inside Titan: Fastest Supercomputer on Earth

By Zak Islam

Replaces Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sequoia at the top spot.

Xeon Phi: Intel's Larrabee-Derived Card In TACC's Supercomputer

By Patrick Kennedy

After eight years of development, Intel is finally ready to announce its Xeon Phi Coprocessor, which is derived from the company's work with Larrabee. Although the architecture came up short as a 3D graphics card, it shows more promise in the HPC space.