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 ...

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 ...

Engineers are preparing to send a new kind of supercomputer-grade chip into orbit, not as a science-fiction prop but as a practical tool that could reshape how satellites, networks, and even everyday ...

Right at the brink of a black hole, gravity twists space and time so violently that ordinary physics starts to fall apart. For decades, astronomers could only guess how gas, magnetic fields, and ...

The UF Data Center seemed unexceptional, ordinary in every sense of the word — at least from the outside. Clad in red brick, it was wedged into the interior of a near-empty parking lot where Erik ...

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When you think of supercomputers, you probably think of vast air-controlled rooms crammed full of cabinets and illuminated by banks of flashing LEDs. The first Cray supercomputer, for instance, cost ...

The new supercomputer shows the increasing desire of government labs to adopt more technologies from commercial artificial intelligence systems. By Don Clark Reporting from San Francisco Scientific ...

A quantum computer and conventional supercomputer that work together could become an invaluable tool for understanding chemicals. A collaboration between IBM and the Japanese scientific institute ...

Most AI training activity is now focused around the huge resources available to the tech giants, who build virtual supercomputers in their clouds. But in earlier days, research was largely carried out ...

Christian Jakob receives funding from the Australian Research Council and uses National Computational Infrastructure resources in his research. As Earth continues to warm, Australia faces some ...