Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer systems, usually when they got used in different fields or technological improvements caused significant shifts. While ...

There's no one answer to how many types of supercomputers there are. You can split supercomputers into different sets by architecture, processors, performance, use, or all four, which will get you a ...

Even if you've never actually seen a supercomputer, odds are that movies and pop culture have given you a good idea of what they do, what they're used for, and maybe even what they look like. The U.S.

Moscow State University (MSU) in Russia has installed a new supercomputer, called MSU-270, dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). According to MSU, the new system has 400 "AI" petaflops of ...

Engineer wearing a hi-vis jacket and hard hat inside a data center full of server racks. - FOTOGRIN/Shutterstock Supercomputers are built to solve very large, difficult problems and do it quickly.

After years of abstinence, China is back. With its processor, its interconnect, and its own operating system, it takes first ...

China's new supercomputer, LineShine, has dethroned American machines by achieving a record computing power of 2.198 exaFLOPS ...

A supercomputer in Shenzhen was declared the world's fastest. It uses only standard microprocessors and not the special-purpose chips called graphics processing units ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Silicon Valley needs bigger and better supercomputers to get bigger and better AI. We just got an idea ...

As we talked about a decade ago in the wake of launching The Next Platform, quantum computers – at least the fault tolerant ones being built by IBM, Google, Rigetti, and a few others – need a massive ...

The Frontier Supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Wikimedia Commons There's no one answer to how many types of supercomputers there are. You can split ...