South Africa will host one of the fastest supercomputers in the world
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project will build two supercomputers that would be the joint sixth fastest in the world if they were finished today, according to Top500.
The supercomputers are being built for the SKA-Mid...
SA students compete to build fastest supercomputer
20 teams from South African universities will be seeking national honours in the 7th Student Cluster Competition at the annual CHPC conference.
Teams will build small high-performance computing clusters on the exhibition floor from hardware...
EU to spend $1.2 billion on supercomputer development
The European Union will spend one billion euros ($1.2 billion) to try to catch up to China, the U.S. and Japan in supercomputing.
How South Africa’s supercomputer team became champions
South Africa’s team at the 2016 ISC Student Cluster Competition came out victorious – this is how they won.
Chinese supercomputer now the world’s fastest
A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, comfortably overtaking a US machine which now ranks second.
IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) announced plans this week to build the worlds’ first water cooled supercomputer.
The supercomputer, which is an initiative to encourage increased energy awareness within computing, will be tasked with repurposing excess heat for the...
World's fastest supercomputer revealed
China overtook the United States at the head of the world of supercomputing on Sunday when a survey ranked one of its machines the fastest on the planet.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise...