The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has announced the installation of a supercomputer built by Penguin Systems, named the Raider. The system delivers about 12 petaFLOPS of compute power, ranking it in the vicinity of the 50th most powerful system in the world, according to the TOP500 ranking of HPC systems. The system is part of the Department of Defense’s HPC Modernization Program….
Building a Capable Computing Ecosystem for Exascale
September 18, 2023 by
With ECP, working together was a prerequisite for participation. “From the beginning, the teams had this so-called ‘shared fate,’” says Siegel. When incorporating new capabilities, applications teams had to consider relevant software tools developed by others that could help meet their performance targets, and if they didn’t choose to use them….
UK AI Supercomputer, ‘One of the Most Powerful in Europe,’ to Be Installed at Univ. of Bristol
September 14, 2023 by
The University of Bristol will host the new AI Research Resource, dubbed Isambard-AI, the UK announced, part of a £900 million supercomputing initiative made public last March. The UK said the system will be one the most powerful in Europe. “The world-class AIRR cluster will vastly increase the UK’s compute….
NOAA Supercomputing Capacity Expanded for Advanced National Weather Forecasting
August 15, 2023 by
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The computing capacity of twin supercomputers used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been expanded by 20 percent….
DUG Secures A$5M in Western Australia Government Funding for Geraldton HPC Campus
July 19, 2023 by
July 18, 2023 — DUG Technology Ltd (ASX: DUG) announced an agreement with the Western Australian state government under the Investment Attraction Fund and will receive A$5 million in grant funding for the first data hall of its Geraldton High Performance Computing campus. The funds will be disbursed over a two-year period. The first data […]
Eviden Announces 2 HPC and Quantum Pacts
July 10, 2023 by
Eviden, the advanced computing unit of Atos, announced two quantum computing partnerships this morning, with HPCNow!, a Barcelona-based HPC consulting firm, and with Alice & Bob, a quantum computing company in Paris. With Alice & Bob, Eviden will make Alice & Bob’s cat qubit technology accessible on Qaptiva, Eviden’s quantum application development platform. Eviden said […]
El Capitan Supercomputer Installation at Livermore Has Begun
July 5, 2023 by
With pictures to prove it, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced today it has begun receiving and installing components for El Capitan, what is expected to be the third exascale-class supercomputer in the U.S. The laboratory shared photos on social media today. Projected to exceed 2 exaflops, El Capitan will likely be the most powerful supercomputer […]
Intel Announces Installation of Aurora Blades Is Complete, Expects System to be First to Achieve 2 ExaFLOPS
June 22, 2023 by
Intel today announced the Aurora exascale-class supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory is now fully equipped with 10,624 compute blades. Putting a stake in the ground, Intel said in its announcement that “later this year, Aurora is expected to be the world’s first supercomputer to achieve a theoretical peak performance of more than 2 exaflops … […]
Eviden in $100M HPC Weather Systems Deal with India’s Earth Sciences Ministry
June 22, 2023 by
Paris – June 22, 2023 – Eviden, the Atos business for advanced computing, today announced it was awarded a $100M contract with NCMRWF, on behalf of the India Ministry of Earth Sciences, to build two AMD- and NVIDIA-powered supercomputers for weather modelling and climate research for IITM and NCMRWF. These systems, based on Eviden’s BullSequana […]
Stony Brook Univ. to Deploy HPE Supercomputer Powered by Intel
June 7, 2023 by
New York’s Stony Brook University has announced it will soon deploy an Intel-powered HPE supercomputer for science and engineering research across multidisciplinary fields, including engineering, physics, the social sciences and bioscience. The new solution is expected to be in production this summer and in operation sometime during the first semester of the 2023-24 academic year. […]
