In Pictures: The 10 most powerful supercomputers on Earth
2015’s first edition of the top 500 list contains a new entrant but an old champion.
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In Pictures: The 10 baddest supercomputers on Earth
The latest Top 500 ranking sees China stay on top.
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In Pictures: 10 evil supercomputers - and their bloodthirsty plans for our demise
Nothing quite says Ctrl-Alt-Delete like a computer gone psychotic.
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In Pictures: The 10 fastest supercomputers on Earth
The latest twice-yearly Top 500 report is out – see which supercomputers are the world's fastest.
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SKA team completes design for world’s most powerful supercomputer
Australia’s CSIRO, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) are part of an international consortium that has completed a five-year effort to design supercomputing infrastructure that will help process the masses of data generated by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.
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New HPC facility launched at NZ’s NIWA
Research, science and innovation minister Dr Megan Woods has officially opened New Zealand’s High Performance Computing Facility at NIWA’s campus in Wellington, 17 months after the government announced plans to invest in the facility.
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NIWA and NeSI to get three new supercomputers
New Zealand weather and research bodies are to get three new Cray supercomputers under a six-year $31.7m contract announced today by science and innovation minister Paul Goldsmith.
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New supercomputer will unite x86, Power9 and ARM chips
For once, there will be a cease-fire in the war between major chip architectures x86, ARM and Power9, all of which will be in a supercomputer being built in Barcelona.
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Tianjin explosion shuts down Chinese supercomputer
The deadly explosion that rocked the Chinese city of Tianjin has caused the country to shut down a nearby supercomputer, also one of the fastest in the world.