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Elon Musk’s xAI Closes $6bn Funding, Plots Colossus AI Supercomputer Expansion

SEC filing reveals that Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI, has raised another $6 billion, as it pledges to expand Colossus…

3 weeks ago

LUMI – The Most Powerful Supercomputer In Europe

Silicon tours the facilities housing Europe's most powerful supercomputer, and the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world

3 months ago

Government Shelves £1.3 Billion UK Tech, AI Plan

Labour government shelves £1.3bn of funding promised by the Conservatives for tech and artificial intelligence projects

5 months ago

Musk’s xAI ‘To Build Nvidia Supercomputer’

Elon Musk reportedly tells investors in start-up xAI company wants to build massive Nvidia-powered supercomputer by late next year

7 months ago

IBM Unveils Heron Quantum Chip, Plus Quantum System Two

Next generation quantum processor dubbed 'Heron', and the modular IBM Quantum System Two unveiled by Big Blue

1 year ago

AI Safety Summit 2023: UK To Invest £225m For AI Supercomputer

UK government says it will invest £225m ($273m) for AI supercomputer as it seeks to bolster its AI credentials with…

1 year ago

Nvidia Builds ‘Grace’ CPU-Powered Supercomputer

Nvidia, known for GPUs, scores with for new Grace CPU in University of Bristol's Isambard 3 supercomputer, to be built…

2 years ago

Start-Up Cerebras Builds Massive AI Supercomputer

California start-up Cerebras builds exaflop supercomputer for AI workloads by linking together 16 of its CS-2 systems

2 years ago

Meta Building Fastest AI Supercomputer In The World

Facebook building the world’s fastest AI supercomputer to help detect and moderate offensive posts and content, from among its billions…

3 years ago

UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer, Cambridge-1, Targets Healthcare

Nvidia's Cambridge-1 is now the UK's most powerful supercomputer, and will offer research capabilities for healthcare and AI

3 years ago

Nvidia Unveils Data Centre ARM CPU Dubbed ‘Grace’

New 'Grace' server chip from GPU giant Nvidia is designed to take the fight to Intel and AMD in the…

4 years ago

US Blacklists Seven Chinese Supercomputing Entities

Entity list additions. US Commerce Department adds seven Chinese supercomputing entities to US blacklist, for working with Chinese military

4 years ago

Supercomputers Across Europe Shut Down After Crypto-Mining Attacks

Hackers break into academic high-performance computing clusters in Edinburgh, Germany and Switzerland to install Monero currency-mining software

5 years ago

Coronavirus: Folding@Home Volunteers Merge Home PCs For Fastest Supercomputer

Folding@Home volunteers utilise home PCs to create world's fastest supercomputer to help tackle deadly Coronavirus pandemic

5 years ago

Google Claims “Quantum Supremacy”, But IBM Disagrees

Google and IBM publicly clash after the former claimed to have achieved a quantum computing breakthrough

5 years ago

HPE Bolsters HPC Credentials With $1.3bn Cray Deal

Veteran supercomputer maker Cray is to be acquired by HPE, to power its HPC push in the years ahead

6 years ago

Initial Design Work Completed On SKA Radio Telescope Supercomputer

The five-year project, led by the University of Cambridge, designs one of the two supercomputers planned to process data from…

6 years ago

America Tops Supercomputing Rankings

The United States now has the top two most powerful supercomputers in the world, rankings show

6 years ago

US To Retake Supercomputing Crown With ‘Summit’

The new Oak Ridge National Laboratories system will be used to help build an exascale computer running at 100 petaflops

7 years ago

ARM, HPE, SUSE To Build UK Supercomputer For AI Research

The supercomputer is to be powered by ARM and SUSE Linux and sited in clusters at Edinburgh, Bristol and Leicester…

7 years ago

Nvidia Unveils Titan V, The World’s Most Powerful GPU

Nvidia returns to its roots with the Ttian V, the world's most powerful GPU for the PC costs a cool…

7 years ago

HPE Supercomputer Is Big Step Towards Building Tech For Mission To Mars

HPE and NASA hope Spaceborne computer will work in space for a whole year, paving the way for long range…

7 years ago

Lenovo Implements ‘World’s Largest’ Intel-based Supercomputer

Does size matter? University in Barcelona gains 11.1 petaFLOP supercomputer, as Intel touts its HPC credentials

8 years ago

Tech Firms Handed $258m To Develop Exascale Supercomputer

Large chunk of money handed to tech firms from US government to develop 1,000 petaflop supercomputer

8 years ago

HPE Will Create Intel-Powered Supercomputer To Drive BASF’s Industrial Chemical Research

The supercomputer will aim to reduce research simulations and modeling down from months to days

8 years ago

Japan To Build World’s Fastest AI & Big Data Supercomputer

The AI Bridging Cloud Infrastructure is to target machine learning applications and big data analysis for academia, enterprises and start-ups

8 years ago

Nvidia Builds World’s Most Efficient Supercomputer

The SATURNV system is powered by Nvidia's own Tesla P100 GPUs and intended to help build autonomous driving software

8 years ago

Report: ARM Targets Supercomputers With New Chip Design

New chip design to extend ARM's ambitions from the data centre and into supercomputer territory

8 years ago

Nvidia ‘Deep Learning’ Supercomputer To Tackle AI Challenges

New supercomputer meets the need of next-generation AI applications, coupled with release of new data centre accelerator

9 years ago

Obama Orders Exascale Supercomputer Initiative

World's faster supercomputer. Obama orders creation of computer capable of 1,000 petaflops

9 years ago