by EditorDavid | Jun 12, 2022 | supercomputing
"A new supercomputer called Frontier has been widely touted as the world's first exascale machine — but was it really?" That's the question that long-time Slashdot reader MattSparkes explores in a new article at New Scientist... Although Frontier, which was...
by BeauHD | Apr 12, 2022 | supercomputing
Russia is adapting to a world where it no longer has access to many technologies abroad with the development of a new supercomputer platform that can use foreign x86 processors such as Intel's in combination with the country's homegrown Elbrus processors. The Register...
by BeauHD | Mar 29, 2022 | supercomputing
"A reputed expert in the quantum computing field puts it in black and white: as of today, quantum computing is a paper tiger, and nobody knows when (if ever) it will become commercially practical," writes Slashdot reader OneHundredAndTen. "In the meantime, the hype...
by EditorDavid | Mar 7, 2022 | supercomputing
"The events of recent days have taken us away from the stable and predictable development of mankind," argue two Moscow-based technology professors in Communications of the ACM, citing anticipated shortages of high-performance processors. But fortunately, they have a...
by BeauHD | Nov 18, 2021 | supercomputing
According to a report from Nikkei Asia (paywalled), "The Japanese-made Fugaku captured its fourth consecutive title as the world's fastest supercomputer on Tuesday, although a rival from the U.S. or China is poised to steal the crown as soon as next year." From a...
by BeauHD | Oct 28, 2021 | supercomputing
Physicists in China claim they've constructed two quantum computers with performance speeds that outrival competitors in the U.S., debuting a superconducting machine, in addition to an even speedier one that uses light photons to obtain unprecedented results,...
