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Still of ORNL's YouTube video of dismantling the Alpine storage system
ORNL shreds 250 petabytes of disk drives from The Summit supercomputer

By Sunny Grimm Published

ORNL's Summit supercomputer sheds 32,000+ drives in its last stage of life.

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Summit supercomputer at ORNL
Summit supercomputer set to be retired in November

By Jowi Morales Published

Oak Ridge National Lab will retire the Summit supercomputer, once the fastest supercomputer on the planet, this coming November 2024.

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Lenovo
Japan to begin developing ZetaFLOPS-scale supercomputer in 2025

By Anton Shilov Published

Japan to start development of Fugaku Next in 2025, aims to achieve Zeta-scale performance for AI.

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Aurora
U.S. gov't tightens China restrictions on supercomputer component sales

By Anton Shilov Published

U.S. government wants to know if its citizens are involved in building 100 PetaFLOPS supercomputer in China.

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Inspur
Six Russian supercomputer centers pool resources to tackle modern scientific workloads

By Anton Shilov Published

900 servers, 1.5 FP64 PFLOPS, 15PB of storage: Six Russian HPC centers pool their resources.

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Tianhe
Supercomputing icon warns that China could have the world's fastest supercomputers

By Anton Shilov Published

China's government no longer wants to disclose performance of supercomputers, which creates suspicions in the U.S.

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ORNL
US requests proposals for next-gen Discovery supercomputer — will be up to five times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer, arrive in 2027

By Anton Shilov Published

ORNL's Discovery supercomputer could offer up to 6 ExaFLOPS performance.

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InspireSemi's Thunderbird
Thunderbird packs up to 6,144 CPU cores into a single AI accelerator and scales up to 360,000 cores — InspireSemi's RISC-V 'supercomputer-cluster-on-a-chip' touts higher performance than Nvidia GPUs

By Anton Shilov Published

InspireSemi's Thunderbird processor with 1,536 64-bit RISC-V cores promises CPU versatility and GPU-level parallelism.

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The Cray C90 wristwatch
Supercomputer designer shrinks the Cray C90 to wristwatch size … sort of

By Jeff Butts Published

An electrical engineer who designs real-life supercomputers took his love for Cray and built a supercomputer-inspired wristwatch.

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OpenUniverse-powered simulations of the parts of the sky that will be seen by Vera C. Rubin Observatory (left half) and NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope (right half).
Scientists used a retired supercomputer to prep for NASA’s Roman mission

By Christopher Harper Published

NASA is preparing to launch a new space telescope and is calibrating expectations with a supercomputer and the OpenUniverse project.

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