Making the Crays more powerful  

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), the former maker of expensive printer ink, has announced an impressive array of supercomputing solutions designed to power intense AI language and multi-modal model training workloads.

Supercomputer out matched by a Raspberry Pi

The UK government’s supercomputers in the 1970s would now be outclassed by a Raspberry Pi according to one of the testors of both.

Chummy with Microsoft

Cray continues to expand its HPC in the cloud plans and has teamed up with Microsoft to bring supercomputer-as-a-service solutions to Microsoft's cloud.

Only a flesh wound

Bad news for Nvidia as supercomputer maker Cray said that that Intel’s Knights Landing giving Nvidia a run for its money.

Need to beat the Chinese

The US is clearly embarrassed the Chinese Sunway TiahuLight system is leading the supercomputer arms race. Now the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced that is having a new IBM system, named Summit, delivered in early 2018 that will now be capable of 200 peak petaflops.

Chipzilla comes a full circle

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn that suggests that Chipzilla bigwigs want to get back into supercomputing.

Cray and Tesla veteran

Products coming by the end of the year