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US's Next Exascale Supercomputer to Focus on Nuclear Arms Testing
The 'El Capitan' supercomputer is being built to simulate nuclear explosions. 'It will give us answers about the nuclear stockpile more accurately and more quickly than ever before,' said Bill Goldstein, director at the Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
US to Spend $600 Million on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer
The Frontier supercomputer follows Aurora, another 'exascale' machine the Energy Department announced in March. However, Frontier will be built using AMD chips; Aurora has Intel inside.
DoE Awards $258M for Exascale Supercomputer Research
AMD, Cray, HPE, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia receive funding to push ahead with energy efficient exascale supercomputers that use tens not hundreds of megawatts.
China's Next Supercomputer Capable of a Quintillion Calculations Per Second
A prototype of this exascale supercomputer is expected before the end of 2017.
China Tops Supercomputer List (Again)
China's Tianhe-2 was named the No. 1 supercomputer in the world for the sixth consecutive time.
Top of the Supercomputer Food Chain Gets a Little Greener
China's Tianhe-2 retained its top spot on the twice-yearly Top500 supercomputer list, but a new entry built by Cray, Piz Daint, is the most energy efficient system in the Top 10.
The World's Fastest Supercomputer Now in China
Yesterday's news that China's Tianhe-2 supercomputer is now the fastest in the world isn't all that shocking. After all, an earlier version was on top of the supercomputing list back in 2010.
Nvidia GPUs Assist in Battling HIV
A "major breakthrough" in battling HIV was achieved with the help of Nvidia's Tesla GPU accelerators in Cray's Blue Waters supercomputer, the graphics chip maker said Wednesday.