supercomputers Archives

Network routers of ISP. Many wires connect to the network interfaces of powerful Internet servers. Racks with computer equipment in the server room datacenter. (Image credit: Getty Images).

Department of Energy launches ESnet6 high-performance data-sharing network

ESnet6 increases the Energy Science Network's bandwidth to more than 46 terabits per second for handling data from experiments, models and simulations.

Oct 11, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir

Jamie Rhome, deputy director of NOAA’s National Hurricane Center, speaks to the media at the National Hurricane Center on June 01, 2022 in Miami. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

NOAA unveils 2 weather and climate supercomputers for improved forecasting

The new computing power will allow the service to get further ahead of catastrophic weather events like hurricanes.

Jun 28, 2022 By Dave Nyczepir

Aging infrastructure the ‘single, greatest threat’ to NASA missions and technology

Artemis Program investments are needed to maintain the agency's technical capabilities, according to one NASA official.

Jul 29, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

Energy awards $28M to 5 supercomputing projects

Winners will research quantum information science and chemical reactions with clean energy applications.

Jul 19, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

US President Joe Biden speaks as Vice President Kamala Harris and Attorney General Merrick Garland look on during an event about gun violence prevention in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 8, 2021. (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Biden administration proposes record $171.3B for R&D across civilian agencies

The proposed sum would come alongside extra funding for research included in the American Jobs Plan.

May 28, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

supercomputing supercomputer — (Getty Images)

Next Generation Computing Act proposed to speed U.S. supercomputer development

The Beyond Exascale Computing Program would provide support for a new generation of supercomputers.

May 24, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. (Argonne National Laboratory)

Argonne National Lab adds ‘AI supercomputer,’ boosting work of COVID-19 consortium

The NVIDIA DGX A100 cluster consists of 24 nodes for 120 petaflops of compute power, making it the fastest "AI supercomputer" at the consortium's disposal.

May 14, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir

Air Force wants turn its computers into brains for AI

The Air Force Research Lab wants insights into how to configure computers to field AI. One idea is to model computer systems after the brain.

May 1, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

The El Capitan supercomputer. (Department of Energy)

New supercomputer will let nuclear security agency do ‘1.5 quintillion calculations per second’

Imagine a computer that can do 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 calculations every second. It's coming to the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in 2022.

Aug 13, 2019 By Jackson Barnett

DOD supercomputer — Members assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Department of Defense leadership cut the ribbon for a new DoD super computer capability located at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, Feb. 26, 2019. This was the first-ever shared classified DoD high performance computing capability. (Air Force photo)

DOD gets first shared supercomputers for classified research

It's the first time the entirety of the Department of Defense will have access to such a supercomputing resource.

Mar 7, 2019 By Billy Mitchell