HPC
Google demonstrates impractical improvement in quantum error correction – but it does work
Scale would need to be cranked way up to have an impact, however
16 Jul 11:59 | 12
HPC
HPC
Nvidia opens Hardware Grant Programme – which doesn't mean RTX 30 series cards
Teachers and researchers offered workstation, embedded, and data-processing gear instead
13 Jul 15:30 | 1
HPC
Nvidia launches Cambridge-1, UK's most powerful supercomputer, in Arm's neighbourhood
Plus: free supercomputing for 5 healthcare partners. Charm offensive to support Arm takeover plans?
07 Jul 13:30 | 27
HPC
AMD opens wallet to lure scientific computing boffins away from Nvidia's CUDA onto its Instinct accelerators
Only academics, researchers, nonprofits need apply to AIER initiative
29 Jun 20:10 | 6
HPC
RISC-V boffins lay out a plan for bringing the architecture to high-performance computing
'The group is united in making RISC-V an option in HPC,' says SIG-HPC chair
10 Jun 18:32 | 7
HPC
Bull in a cosmos shop: Edinburgh uni boffins strike deal with Atos for BullSequana supercomputer
Time running out for secrets of cosmos to remain hidden
02 Jun 13:02 | 6
HPC
South Korea to build an exascale supercomputer running local CPUs by 2030
Hopes to start selling ‘em too, because China and Japan are heading the same direction and aren’t good at sharing
28 May 06:58 | 2
HPC
America to get world's 'most powerful' AI supercomputer to create the most detailed 3D map of the universe yet
Perlmutter will help scientists study dark energy and more
27 May 17:58 | 29
HPC
Oracle intros Arm-powered cloud, includes on-prem option for big spenders
Ampere’s Altra gets the gig at a cent-per CPU hour, with managed K8s for starters, managed MySQL coming soon
25 May 15:01 | 4
Column
Quantum computing: Confusion can mask a good story, but don't take anyone's word for it
It'll do great things in the future, just don't impose timeframes on when
10 May 09:15 | 28
HPC
You're V1 for me, says Arm: Chip biz's 'highest-performance core' takes aim at supercomputers, AI, anything relying on vector math
Plus the N2, its first Armv9 blueprint
27 Apr 13:00 | 2
GTC
Jensen Huang's kitchen gets another viewing as Nvidia teases Arm-powered supercomputing chip Grace
Also another data processing unit, system-on-a-chip for self-driving cars
12 Apr 21:02 | 8
HPC
Biden administration effectively slaps bans on seven Chinese supercomputer companies for military links
Organizations added to Entity list
09 Apr 00:54 | 9
HPC
We need a 20MW 20,000-GPU-strong machine-learning supercomputer to build EU's planned digital twin of Earth
And this machine will be used to *check notes* study climate change. Study it or cause it?
26 Feb 07:27 | 94
HPC
US Air Force boots up not one but two AMD-powered supercomputers after five years of Intel Haswell CPUs
Fawbush and Miller supers will crank away at weather-forecasting models
10 Feb 22:21 | 8
HPC
Video games were 'Eureka!' moment that helped boffins simulate neural activity on a single commodity GPU
'Procedural generation' might offer a way forward for projects queueing up to use a supercomputer
03 Feb 11:02 | 7
HPC
Nvidia accused of cheating in big-data performance test by benchmark's umpires: Workloads 'tweaked' to beat rivals in TPCx-BB
GPU giant says it'll play ball soon
28 Jan 23:57 | 11
HPC
AMD, Nvidia, HPE tapped to triple the speed of US weather super with $35m upgrade
Scientists will focus on modelling hurricanes, wildfires, solar storms with Milan Epycs and Nv A100s
27 Jan 23:36 | 15
HPC
HPE sees itself 'delivering supercomputing-as-a-service to the masses' as it chucks HPC chops into GreenLake
Hardware infrastructure vendors' obsession with consumption-based tech continues
09 Dec 15:29 | 3
HPC
When humans return to the Moon in '2024', HPE would like us to remember: We built the computer that simmed this
What could go wrong with NASA's SLS rocket? The Aitken system is finding out
18 Nov 16:12 | 20
Popular
Bootnotes
D'oh! Misplaced chair shuts down nuclear plant in Taiwan
Surprisingly a real-life scenario and not a plotline from The Simpsons
Comment
AWS to retire EC2-Classic – the network glue that helped start the IaaS rush
You've got a year to sort yourself out if you're still using it for some reason
Science
Boeing and Rocket Lab hope for the best as both return to launchpad following failures
Space is hard
Servers
Microsoft abandons semi-annual releases for Windows Server
Special capabilities on Azure leaving on-premises users behind
Column
Great reset? More like Fake Reset: Leaders need a reality check if they think their best staff will give up hybrid work
Fortune favours the flexible in the new normal
Security
eBay ex-security boss sent down for 18 months for cyber-stalking, witness tampering
Four others at online tat bazaar admit trying to silence newsletter couple, two senior execs fight charges
Security
Tencent suspends signups to WeChat, citing 'security upgrade' and need to comply with Chinese laws
Promises everything will be back to normal sometime in early August
Review
Slacking off? It used to be there was pretty much one place to chat with your fellow developers: IRC
Reg tiptoes through the Zulip to review open source chat and collab software
Devops
About half of Python libraries in PyPI may have security issues, boffins say
Coding lingo's community says it has a plan to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities, though
Security
Biden warns 'real shooting war' will be sparked by severe cyber attack
Suggests incident 'of great consequence' in the real world could be a tipping point
STORIES
HPC
Six months after A100 super-GPU's debut, Nvidia doubles memory, ups bandwidth
Hardware aimed at supercomputers, servers, mega-workstations
17 Nov 01:34 | 5
HPC
AMD unveils its MI100 GPU, said to be its most powerful silicon for supercomputers, high-end AI processing
Chip takes aim at Nvidia's A100
16 Nov 22:02 | 3
HPC
HPE bags $160m to build 550-PFLOPS super for Europe out of tomorrow's AMD Epyc processors, graphics chips
Finns are going Cray cray
22 Oct 07:04 | 4
HPC
AMD scores 200,000 cores worth of secret silicon at new Australian supercomputer
Chips will power $34m machine doing Square Kilometre Array work and more
19 Oct 13:15 | 16
HPC
Nvidia signs up for an Italian Job: Building for Europe the 'world's fastest AI supercomputer' by 2022
You were only supposed to blow the bloody bytes off!
15 Oct 16:00 | 10
HPC
India to build home-grown supercomputers, from the motherboards up
Minister says more supers will advance society. So why wait to develop silicon, networks, storage and more?
13 Oct 01:57 | 11
HPC
Oracle adds Arm-powered servers with up to 160 cores to its cloud – must be why it sunk millions into Ampere
Plans HPC play with AMD, Intel silicon, too
22 Sep 17:03 | 12
HPC
Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup
All aboard the exascale express
03 Aug 23:23 | 14
HPC
Fujitsu, Japan strong-Arm their way to the top with world's fastest-known super: 415-PFLOPS Fugaku
That big Arm news you were all expecting today, right?
22 Jun 22:06 | 16
Build
Microsoft claims it has spun up a top-five AI supercomputer for its pals at OpenAI – but won't reveal the full specs
This big beast has more than '285,000 CPU cores, 10,000 GPUs'
20 May 06:04 | 9
HPC
That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme
Stuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber
19 May 05:08 | 13
HPC
Reg readers have not one, but TWO teams in Folding@home top 1,000 as virus-bothering network hits 2.4 exa-FLOPS
Distributed computing project sails past anticipated raw power of El Capitan – and you folks are at the forefront
14 Apr 12:15 | 22
HPC
PC owners borg into the most powerful computer the world has ever known – all in the search for coronavirus cure
Move over, Summit. Distributed computing project hits 470 PFLOPS
24 Mar 13:35 | 173
Roundup
IBM fires up the big iron, Facebook hands out masks, Cisco splashes cash, and CDC gets an Azure-powered bot
Everybody chill, Big Tech's got this
23 Mar 17:29 | 13
HPC
Uncle Sam's nuke-stockpile-simulating souped-super El Capitan set to hit TWO exa-FLOPS, take crown as world's fastest machine in 2023
Department of Energy turns to HPE, AMD to flesh out monster
04 Mar 18:01 | 46
HPC
Lustre HPC file systems no longer disappear in a puff on Amazon Web Services – but you'll pay more
Throughput boosted and encryption in transit added to temporary counterparts
25 Feb 13:13 |
