British chip designer Arm achieves a major milestone with a new system in Japan becoming the world's fastest supercomputer as Intel and AMD continue to duke it out over the x86 server space.

If Beowulf clusters showed what commodity x86 hardware could do for research organizations, the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative, or ASCI Red supercomputer, which came online in early ...

Jack Dongarra, a supercomputer industry luminary and co ... as well as a 2 ExaFLOPS machine featuring x86 processors from Hygon. This information has never been confirmed, but the words of Jack ...

In June 2011, Japan’s K computer became the world’s fastest supercomputer, achieving a speed of over 8 petaflops — or 8 quadrillion (8 million billion) operations a second. In November the ...

The truth is, our desktop computers today would have been classed as supercomputers only a few ... and 40 that all used x86 CPUs. A ’45 had one or two UltraSPARC III 64-bit CPUs running at ...

Supercomputers typically consume anywhere between 1 to 10 megawatts of power on average. Architectural and software innovations are critical in driving energy-aware HPC. Supercomputers have been ...

The Texas A&M University System is set to acquire one of the highest-performing AI supercomputers for $45 million. The purchase is expected to triple the university's supercomputing capacity ...