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What Is a Supercomputer?

At a high level, a supercomputer is exactly what it sounds like—namely, a computer so much more powerful than a desktop as to deserve the superlative. What makes supercomputers interesting isn't just ...
First announced in April 2022, Ascend comprises of Dell PowerEdge servers, 48 AMD EPYC CPUs, and 96 Nvidia A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs with Nvidia NVLink, and connected by the NVIDIA Quantum 200 Gbps ...
The US Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has completed the installation of its new "Crossroads" supercomputer. The high-performance computing (HPC) cluster was delivered to the Strategic Computing ...
Who needs a revamped Mac Pro when you can just turn several Mac Studios into a unified computing system? With the upcoming macOS Tahoe 26.2 release, Apple is introducing a new low-latency feature that ...
Virginia Tech last week rolled out an 1,100-node cluster of Macintosh computers that will assist its researchers with quantum and computational chemistry, aerodynamics and the molecular modeling of ...
What if the power of a supercomputer could fit on your desk? For decades, high-performance computing (HPC) has been synonymous with sprawling facilities, massive energy demands, and sky-high ...
Elon Musk’s Tesla is seemingly not content with having one supercomputer for its growing needs. The company is reportedly working on a new supercomputer cluster – called Cortex 2.0 – in Texas. The ...
Advances in computing power and acceptance of open standards in data transport could provide engineers with fast and complete design solutions to their most intricate problems. Applying the Internet's ...
HPE-built Discovery will bolster productivity up to 10X and unlock new scientific horizons in precision medicine, cancer research, nuclear energy and aerospace The Lux system, to be built by HPE, will ...
PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fluidstack, a leading AI Cloud Platform, has partnered with Eclairion, a French specialist in modular, high-density data centers, to build Europe’s largest GPU supercomputer ...