Supercomputers

The US, which has been the supercomputing leader since the 1960s, now plays second fiddle to the Chinese.

Latest HPC deal announced as market awaits unveiling of major data center OEM deal

Critical Thinking: With HPC stalwarts such as Cray now embracing cloud, on-premises compute is becoming harder to justify.

HPC leader Cray will deploy custom systems for clients in Microsoft data centers, integrated with Azure services

GE-backed startup Avitas partners with GPU leader to automate industrial inspections

Kaye Wiggins (Bloomberg) — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. will carry a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. computing system that is designed to last longer and may help pave the way for extended periods of space travel, such as the journey...

The University of Nevada, Reno, is on its way to having a new supercomputer. Called Pronghorn — after the American antelope, the fastest mammal in North American — the new $1.3 million, 310 TFLOPS high-performance cluster is part of...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $258 million to six U.S. tech companies to build the country’s first exascale supercomputer – a move designed to help the United States regain its supercomputing dominance, but also to improve the nation...

Watson can eventually help banks with anti-money-laundering programs, risk modeling, surveillance and other issues, the company said.

Banks hope AI will help them fend off the encroachment into finance by internet giants like Google and Apple.