First announced in April 2022, Ascend comprises of Dell PowerEdge servers, 48 AMD EPYC CPUs, and 96 Nvidia A100 80GB Tensor Core GPUs with Nvidia NVLink, and connected by the NVIDIA Quantum 200 Gbps ...

The Vista supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas is in full production and has been made available to the open science community. The AI cluster was ...

In high school, as in tech, superlatives are important. Or maybe they just feel important in the moment. With the breakneck pace of the AI computing infrastructure buildout, it's becoming increasingly ...

The Air Force Research Laboratory has built a supercomputer that is driven in part by several hundred Sony PlayStation 3 consoles. The Air Force Research Laboratory has built a supercomputer driven by ...

The newest of the exascale-class supercomputer to be profiled in the Top500 rankings in the June list is the long-awaited “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich facility in Germany. We finally ...

Learn what makes supercomputers so powerful and essential in today’s tech landscape. ExtremeTech breaks down the science. Discover supercomputing with us. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Amazon’s cloud computing arm Amazon Web Services Tuesday announced plans for an “Ultracluster,” a massive AI supercomputer made up of hundreds of thousands of its homegrown Trainium chips, as well as ...

Purdue University leaders at the dedication for the new Gautschi supercomputer. From left Petros Drineas, department head of Computer Science; Karen Plaut, executive vice president for research; Irena ...

Virginia Tech last week rolled out an 1,100-node cluster of Macintosh computers that will assist its researchers with quantum and computational chemistry, aerodynamics and the molecular modeling of ...

Advances in computing power and acceptance of open standards in data transport could provide engineers with fast and complete design solutions to their most intricate problems. Applying the Internet's ...

A team of University of California San Diego undergraduates won third place in the 2025 Student Cluster Competition at the ...

Oracle and xAI love to flex the size of their GPU clusters. It's getting hard to tell who has the most supercomputing power as more firms claim the top spot. The real numbers are competitive intel and ...