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HP El Capitan Supercomputer in Las Vegas
The supercomputer race no longer means what it used to, as rankings lose relevance in the AI era

By Chris Stokel-Walker Published

Premium China and the United States are in a race for supercomputer supremacy – but does it actually have an impact on the tech we use?

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First ever Cray T3D Supercomputer goes up for auction with $81,000 reserve

By Mark Tyson Published

The first Cray T3D supercomputer ever produced, serial number 6001, was recently put up for auction, with opening bids from £60,000 (~$81,000) invited.

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Can you beat Fugaku? No chance.
Supercomputer beats human four sextillion to 13 in ‘Super Keisan Battle’ at Japanese tech show

By Mark Tyson Published

Fugaku stars in the calculation battle that 'no one can win' during the Nico Nico Super Conference.

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Tianhe
China releases Top 100 supercomputer list for 2024: No ExaFLOPS systems mentioned, obfuscation continues

By Anton Shilov Published

China unveils its 2024 Top 100 list of supercomputers, indicating no new systems entered it in 2024.

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Aurora
Russian government to issue grants enabling companies and researchers to rent supercomputers

By Anton Shilov Published

Russian government to support usage of supercomputers by research labs and businesses.

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Lenovo
Japan to begin developing ZetaFLOPS-scale supercomputer in 2025

By Anton Shilov Published

Japan to start development of Fugaku Next in 2025, aims to achieve Zeta-scale performance for AI.

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Inspur
Six Russian supercomputer centers pool resources to tackle modern scientific workloads

By Anton Shilov Published

900 servers, 1.5 FP64 PFLOPS, 15PB of storage: Six Russian HPC centers pool their resources.

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Tianhe
Supercomputing icon warns that China could have the world's fastest supercomputers

By Anton Shilov Published

China's government no longer wants to disclose performance of supercomputers, which creates suspicions in the U.S.

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InspireSemi's Thunderbird
Thunderbird packs up to 6,144 CPU cores into a single AI accelerator and scales up to 360,000 cores — InspireSemi's RISC-V 'supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip' touts higher performance than Nvidia GPUs

By Anton Shilov Published

InspireSemi's Thunderbird processor with 1,536 64-bit RISC-V cores promises CPU versatility and GPU-level parallelism.

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AMD
AMD talks 1.2 million GPU AI supercomputer to compete with Nvidia

By Aaron Klotz Published

AMD reveals that unnamed individuals are seriously considering building an AI "supercluster" with over a million AI GPUs.

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