Pro IBM to sell off Watson Health assets Private equity firm Francisco Partners is buying a large portion of the AI healthcare unit for "more than $1bn" 24 Jan
Pro Japan’s Fugaku retains title of world’s fastest supercomputer The Arm-based machine was three times as fast as the machine that came second in the ranking 29 Jun
Pro Microsoft to help UK Met Office build world’s most advanced climate forecasting supercomputer New supercomputing capability, worth £1.2bn, is expected to become operational in July 2022 22 Apr
Pro ICHEC receives world’s highest-performing commercially available quantum simulator Deployment of Atos QLM E to boost national quantum learning platform 22 Dec
Pro ICHEC leads international supercomputing project Irish centre leading the development of quantum circuit simulation tools for Europe’s largest supercomputers 11 May
Life Google claims quantum supremacy over supercomputers Quantum computer takes less than three-and-a-half minutes to solve a problem that would take a supercomputer 10,000 years 24 Oct
Pro US blacklists five Chinese supercomputer firms Affected companies include AMD joint venture THATIC 24 Jun
Pro ICHEC gets quantum computing development funding Enterprise Ireland and Intel provide €150,000 for collaborative effort 5 Mar
Pro IBM ends China’s five-year reign atop supercomputer rankings 'Summit' takes title of world's fastest supercomputer, while Japanese scandal shakes up the Top500 supercomputer rankings 25 Jun
Pro HPC: from supercomputers to supercomputing The high-performance computing arena is maturing towards better utilisation and applications 4 May
Pro European Commission’s €1bn supercomputer investment Last year’s EuroHPC commitment gets investment plan 11 Jan
Pro Cray picks Cavium processors for ARM-based supercomputers Cavium makes big server wins, showing Qualcomm isn't going to have it all its own way 16 Nov
Pro AMD back in HPC fray with new systems New EPYC 7601 processor has a claimed three-fold performance advantage over competitors’ best 15 Nov
Pro Supercomputing sees efficiency drive Highest climber in supercomputer Top500 list is also one of its most efficient 13 Nov
Pro HPE to put a supercomputer in space Hewlett Packard Enterprise is sending the Spaceborne Computer to the International Space Station to test the durability of high-performance computing... 15 Aug
Pro Mid-range machines surge in supercomputer Top500 list Power efficiency and GPU adoption distinguish advances in the technology 20 Jun
Pro IBM’s new Q program will include a 50-qubit quantum computer Plans for Q quantum computing services will bring conventional computers one step closer to the tech rubbish heap 7 Mar
Life Trump budget cuts may gift China supercomputing crown US unlikely to deliver exascale system by 2021 if budget passes 28 Feb
Pro Japan plans super-efficient supercomputer by 2017 With its next supercomputer, Japan plans to deliver a tenfold increase in performance for the same power consumption 28 Nov
Pro US planning for two exascale supercomputers Both systems, using different architectures, will be developed simultaneously in 2019, if the new administration goes along with the plan 23 Nov
Pro IBM Watson evolves as it learns The technology underlying IBM's AI has evolved considerably over the years 11 Oct
Pro ARM has a new weapon in race to build world’s fastest computers Supercomputer chip design with vector extensions will be in Japan's Post-K computer 22 Aug
Pro Supercomputers give a glimpse of cybersecurity’s automated future Seven supercomputers compete to find software vulnerabilities 8 Aug
Pro US to have 200-petaflop supercomputer by early 2018 Energy department to develop IBM supercomputer for Oak Ridge National Laboratory 22 Jun
Pro Fujitsu drops Sparc, turning to ARM for Post-K supercomputer Using ARM processors in servers could be Fujitsu's next step, further chipping away Intel dominance 21 Jun
Life ‘Made in China’ dominates Top 500 supercomputer list Fastest of them all uses Chinese chips 20 Jun
Life Texas goes big with 18-petaflop supercomputer Current top-10 system, Stampede, is getting replaced 3 Jun
Pro Cray to light your Big Data fire New Urika-GX is tuned for highly iterative and interactive analytics 24 May
Life US amps up efforts to build next-gen supercomputer American plans envision 50x gain in solving science problems 26 Apr
Pro Supercomputing shifts from power to purpose Processing data creates a different set of demands 5 Apr
Life Brain-inspired supercomputer to explore deep learning for the US nuclear programme Based on IBM's TrueNorth chip, it will have the equivalent of 16m neurons and 4bn synapses but consume energy like a tablet PC 30 Mar
Life US invests $425m to regain supercomputing crown from China Department of Energy ordering systems up to seven times faster than existing hardware 17 Nov
Life Chinese supercomputer retains top spot in Top500 list Tianhe-2 still double speed of second placed Cray XK7 23 Jun
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