A is for application: The most important letter that Dr. Edward Seidel thinks makes up the acronym for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, or NCSA. The NCSA hones in on this ...

Mercury’s high-performance RES AI GPGPU computing servers can harness up to eight NVIDIA GPUS to accelerate demanding artificial intelligence (AI), signal intelligence (SIGINT), and sensor fusion ...

Nvidia Corp. today detailed how its chips are accelerating innovation in the high-performance computing industry for artificial intelligence-powered systems that will power scientific advances with ...

Cray has shown off its fastest supercomputer yet, which puts a petaflop of computing power in a single cabinet. The company also says it is adding machine-learning capabilities across its systems. The ...

As perhaps the clearest evidence yet of the power of sophisticated but inexpensive game consoles, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...

Chapters 1 through 9 describe a long and largely successful history of supercomputing, a present state of turmoil, and an uncertain future. In this chapter the committee summarizes what it has learned ...

Rayadurgam Srikant will serve as the new director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Srikant succeeded previous director Bill Gropp and began his duties Jan. 1. Srikant is a ...

China’s National Supercomputing Center (NSCC) in Shenzhen has introduced “LineShine,” a next-generation supercomputing system ...

Canada is putting its hand up for the AI hardware race. On April 15, the federal government opened applications for the AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program, part of the Canadian Sovereign AI ...

Samsung finally has a launch vehicle for its high-performance Z-NAND memory. Z-NAND, which is a supercharged variant of existing 3D NAND technology, is widely viewed as Samsung's credible alternative ...

(Nanowerk News) A team led by Thomas Schulthess of the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory received the prestigious 2008 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell ...

The preceding chapter summarized some of the application areas in which supercomputing is important. Supercomputers are used to reduce overall time to solution—the time between initiating the use of ...