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Supercomputer Breaks the Exascale Barrier, Now Fastest in the World

May 31, 2022 4:16 pm

The AMD-powered Frontier supercomputer is now the first officially recognized exascale supercomputer in the world, topping 1.102 ExaFlop/s during a sustained Linpack run. That ranks first on the newly-released Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers as the number of …

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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building the world’s fastest supercomputer

January 24, 2022 10:00 pm

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is building the world’s fastest supercomputer Facebook founder’s planned metaverse, blending reality with digital experiences, will require enormous computing power Mark Zuckerberg has announced his social media empire is building what he claims is the world’s …

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Department of Energy will buy an Nvidia-AMD powered supercomputer because Intel is months late on delivery

August 27, 2021 9:12 am

Source: The U.S. Department of Energy is nearing a deal to purchase a supercomputer made with chips from Nvidia Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc as a key lab waits for a larger supercomputer from Intel Corp that has been …

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Meet the new supercomputer behind the US nuclear arsenal

November 21, 2018 9:44 am

“Sierra” was just crowned the second-most powerful supercomputer on the planet. And while most of its peers use their power for climate simulations, astrophysics, and other civilian work, Sierra is purpose-built for an entirely different mission: nuclear weapons. We took …

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‘Human brain’ supercomputer with 1 million processors switched on for first time

November 5, 2018 10:15 am

The world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer designed and built to work in the same way a human brain does has been fitted with its landmark one-millionth processor core and is being switched on for the first time. The newly formed million-processor-core …

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Largest, Fastest Supercomputer in the World Made Just For Artificial Intelligence

June 11, 2018 8:01 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coeE2WdHUw0 It’s an order of magnitude more powerful than current US supercomputers and fast enough to beat every other system in the world with a theoretical peak performance of 200 petaflops per second. More than that, it has the hardware …

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A Supercomputer Is Betting on a Market Crash in the Months Ahead

July 6, 2017 7:40 pm

by FS One of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, retrofitted for trading the stock market, appears to be betting on a crash in the months ahead. The Financial Crisis Observatory (FCO) at ETH Zurich released its latest Global Bubble Status …

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