The Cray XC50 supercomputer's mission is to advance nuclear fusion research and development.
The field of competitors looking to bring exascale-capable computers to the market is a crowded one, but the United States and China continue to be the ones that most eyes are on.
Jasmin network supercomputer storage expands to 20PB of Panasas scale-out NAS, which has helped to cut analysis times for environmental data from days to hours.
Inspired by evolution in nature, Danish engineers used supercomputing to design a wing structure that resembles the interior of a bird’s wing or beak.
IBM’s Science for Social Good program will use AI, cloud and deep science to solve global challenges.
The University of Bristol is leading a £3m project to build the world’s largest ARM-based supercomputer.
Seven European countries announced a joint initiative to acquire and deploy world-class high-performance computers. EuroHPCEuroHPC aims to deploy so-called exascale computers that are capable of at least 10 to the 18th power calculations per second.
Supercomputers look set to improve medical practice to such a degree that our life expectancy could go up between five and 10 years.
Now physicists from the UK have created a blueprint for a soccer-field-sized machine they say could reach the blistering speeds that would allow them to solve problems beyond the reach of today’s most powerful supercomputers.
Chinese state media announced that by the end of the year it intends to put out a prototype of an exascale supercomputer that would be more than ten times as powerful as any existing machine.
Japan is reportedly planning to build a 130-petaflops supercomputer costing $173 million that is due for completion next year.
A team of researchers from Microsoft, Cray, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre have been working on a project to speed up the use of deep learning algorithms on supercomputers.
The fastest computer in the world today can deliver about 125 petaflops of performance, but that could quadruple in the coming years.
Google Brain is actually a real thing that exists inside Google's massive collection of data centers.
A prototype part of the software system to manage data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope has run on the world’s second-fastest supercomputer in China.
