Mercury’s high-performance RES AI GPGPU computing servers can harness up to eight NVIDIA GPUS to accelerate demanding artificial intelligence (AI), signal intelligence (SIGINT), and sensor fusion ...

The TeraGrid project to build and interconnect supercomputers gets a $35 million National Science Foundation grant to expand the "grid" beyond its original Itanium 2 designs. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Chapters 1 through 9 describe a long and largely successful history of supercomputing, a present state of turmoil, and an uncertain future. In this chapter the committee summarizes what it has learned ...

Nvidia Corp. today detailed how its chips are accelerating innovation in the high-performance computing industry for artificial intelligence-powered systems that will power scientific advances with ...

Cray has shown off its fastest supercomputer yet, which puts a petaflop of computing power in a single cabinet. The company also says it is adding machine-learning capabilities across its systems. The ...

Europe unveils 35 new systems in its biggest AI supercomputing expansion, giving millions of researchers access to HPC.

Samsung finally has a launch vehicle for its high-performance Z-NAND memory. Z-NAND, which is a supercharged variant of existing 3D NAND technology, is widely viewed as Samsung's credible alternative ...

For researchers, using high-performance computers can be a little intimidating. Understanding the best interface to use, how to make software scale, and working with huge datasets requires its own ...

The preceding chapter summarized some of the application areas in which supercomputing is important. Supercomputers are used to reduce overall time to solution—the time between initiating the use of ...