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Microsoft and Nvidia team up to build new Azure-hosted AI supercomputer
Roughly two years ago, Microsoft announced a partnership with OpenAI, the AI lab with which it has a close commercial relationship, to build what the tech giant called an “AI Supercomputer”
Google’s ‘quantum supremacy’ usurped by researchers using ordinary supercomputer
Back in 2019, Google proudly announced they had achieved what quantum computing researchers had sought for years: proof that the esoteric technique could outperform traditional ones. But this demonstr
Meta leaps into the supercomputer game with its AI Research SuperCluster
There’s a global competition to build the biggest, most powerful computers on the planet, and Meta (AKA Facebook) is about to jump into the melee with the “AI Research SuperCluster,”
Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech
Data centers and bitcoin mining operations are becoming huge energy hogs, and the explosive growth of both risks undoing a lot of the progress that’s been made to reduce global greenhouse gas em
As it closes in on Arm, Nvidia announces UK supercomputer dedicated to medical research
As Nvidia continues to work through its deal to acquire Arm from SoftBank for $40 billion, the computing giant is making another big move to lay out its commitment to investing in U.K. technology. To
Microsoft teamed up with OpenAI to build a massive AI supercomputer in Azure
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that it has teamed up with OpenAI, the startup trying to build a general artificial intelligence, with — among other things — a
IBM, Amazon, Google and Microsoft partner with White House to provide compute resources for COVID-19 research
During today’s White House coronavirus task force press conference, President Trump announced the launch of a new public/private consortium to “unleash the power of American supercomputing
Nvidia acquires data storage and management platform SwiftStack
Nvidia today announced that it has acquired SwiftStack, a software-centric data storage and management platform that supports public cloud, on-premises and edge deployments. The company’s recent
NASA’s new HPE-built supercomputer will prepare for landing Artemis astronauts on the Moon
NASA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have teamed up to build a new supercomputer, which will serve NASA’s Ames Research Center in California and develop models and simulations of the landin
Quadric.io raises $15M to build a plug-and-play supercomputer for autonomous systems
Quadric.io, a startup founded by some of the folks behind the once-secretive bitcoin mining operation “21E6,” has raised $15 million in a Series A round that will fund the development of a su
NVIDIA to buy supercomputer chipmaker Mellanox for $6.9B, beating out Intel and Microsoft
After several days of speculation, today NVIDIA confirmed that it would acquire chipmaker Mellanox for $6.9 billion, paying $125 per share in cash, in an ongoing consolidation of chipmakers — a
IBM and the DoE launch the world’s fastest supercomputer
IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) today unveiled Summit, the department’s newest supercomputer. IBM claims that Summit is currently the worldR
IBM has launched a study on the human microbiome and its role in disease
How the bugs in our gut and elsewhere on our body affect our overall health still remains largely a mystery. But IBM is hoping to shed some light on the human microbiome and its role in autoimmune dis
Tokyo Institute of Technology taps Nvidia for Japan’s fastest AI supercomputer
Nvidia’s business is increasingly the business of artificial intelligence, and its latest partnership fits with that new role. The graphics processing maker is supplying the Tokyo Institute of T
Japan looks to create a superfast supercomputer for deep learning
Japan is reportedly eyeing a return to the top of the supercomputer ranks. The county’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry plans to spend 19.5 billion yen ($173 million) on a new supercomputer,
NVIDIA announces a supercomputer aimed at deep learning and AI
The sophisticated neural networks underlying systems like Google's Deep Dream and all manner of interesting experiments require a great deal of computing power. NVIDIA proposes to put all that horsepo
New Levitating 3D Printing Technology Prints In Mid-Air
Imagine printing something with multiple print heads while the object in question was floating in space. Please. Imagine it because I have no idea what is going on here. A new "levitating" 3D printing
Japan To Invest $1.3 Billion In New Supercomputer
There is a <a href="http://www.top500.org/list/2011/06/100">list</a> of the world’s 500 most powerful <a href="https://techcrunch.com/tag/supercomputer/">supercomputers</a>, and the last time it was
Japan Takes Top Spot From China: Fujitsu's "K" Is The World's Most Powerful Supercomputer
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The <a href="http://www.supercomp.de/isc11/">International Supercomputing Conference</a> is taking place in Hambur
Chinese Supercomputer Threatens Weaker American Computers
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/IBM7094.jpeg">A mainframe in China running a number of NVIDIA GPUs in parallel just hit 2.5 <a HREF="http://www.petaflop.info/">petaflops