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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory is livestreaming the announcement of its new 'world’s fastest exascale-class supercomputer' that is being built by Cray Inc and is scheduled to be delivered to ORNL in 2021. It will use custom AMD EPYC CPU and AMD Radeon Instinct GPU processors to power the...

Intel Corporation and Cray Inc. have announced that a Cray "Shasta" system will be the first U.S. exascale supercomputer. This $500 million Aurora supercomputer will be coming to the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in 2021 and will have a performance of one exaFLOP - a...

The Idaho National Laboratory is known as one of the primary cybersecurity facilities in the United States. It has a premier cybersecurity research and development lab that is currently getting a $85 million expansion complete with 20 laboratories and separately housed supercomputers. These...

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has added a new high performance computing (HPC) cluster called Corona in partnership with Penguin Computing that features AMD and Mellanox Technologies. The unfinished HPC cluster will allow researchers and industry partners to explore data science...

Blowing stuff up has been a great source for technology advancements for decades now. Los Alamos National Lab has the below video posted that very lightly touches on on some incredible tech that utilizes Vector Particle-In-Cell (VPIC) formulas produced back in the 1950s. The Trinity...

The United States has just brought back home the World's Fastest Supercomputer crown with Summit. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has a bit more information on what is on the inside. IBM and NVIDIA all mixed up with NVLink. Summit will have a hybrid architecture, and each node will contain...

In a report from international Business Times, a number of Russian nuclear scientists were arrested for allegedly using lab equipment to mine for cryptocurrencies. The report, originally on Russia's Interfax News Agency, said the engineers were working at the All-Russian Research Institute of...

HPE is currently working with NASA to launch a supercomputer into orbit to see how long it lasts so it can be used in deep space travels. Basically, they want to use the massive compute capabilities to monitor a number of data points, run applications, and also run analytics to figure out issues...

Researchers have used the Stampede1 and 2 supercomputers to complete one of the world's largest earthquake simulation models: The Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast (UCERF3). The simulations showed that in the week following a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, the likelihood of another...

Summit the next most powerful computer in the U.S. is getting ready to solve some of science's biggest questions. It's going to tackle testing and developing stronger, lighter manufacturing materials; the use of sounds waves to model the inside of the Earth; and other astrophysics projects...

Goodness, China, what a big Supercomputer you have! The better to brute force your encryption with, my dear! The NSA and the DOE are both warning that unless significant increases are made in U.S. investment into supercomputer resources, China is likely to take world leadership in...

SHA-1 has been known to be potentially insecure since 2005, but this wasn't proven in practice, at least not publicly, until Google recently announced they executed a successful collision attack, breaking it. The collision attack is notable as it takes about one 100,000th of the time to crack...