My temp accommodations have a sort of Kowloon Walled City Supercomputing Center feel to them.

So What is a Supercomputer Anyway? - Over the decades there have been many denominations coined to classify computer sy... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/19/so-what-is-a-supercomputer-anyway/ #parallelcomputing #computerhacks #supercomputer #featured #history #illiac #eniac

Today's Supercomputer of the Week is Alps, located at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano-Cornaredo, Switzerland. It has 2,121,600 processor cores and is currently ranked 7 on the top500. #hpc #supercomputer https://top500.org/system/180259/

Die kanadische Firma D-Wave Systems behauptet, ihr #Quantencomputer löse Optimierungsprobleme millionenfach schneller als die besten #Supercomputer – doch neue #Algorithmen für klassische Rechner holen auf. Kann die Behauptung standhalten? https://www.riffreporter.de/de/technik/quantencomputer-d-wave-systems-annealer-supercomputer-optimierungsprobleme-vergleich

ESA cuts the ribbon on 34,000-core Space HPC centre tailored for space workloads.

The aptly named "SpaceHPC" facility is billed as being "demonstrator infrastructure" designed to help Europe's space industry "mitigate risks associated with data processing, modelling, and simulations."

Located in the Italian town of Frascati, 20km outside Rome, SpaceHPC houses a machine with 5 petaflops of raw performance potential.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250313-esa-cuts-the-ribbon-on-34000-core-space-hpc-centre-tailored-for-space-workloads?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

JUPITER: New supercomputer module for European AI factory

The EuroHPC JU (European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking) plans to put six new AI factories into operation next year; one of them at Forschungszentrum Jülich.

The ExaFlops supercomputer JUPITER is getting a third computing module for this purpose.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250313-jupiter-new-supercomputer-module-for-european-ai-factory?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Goed nieuws!

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'AI-startup Juvoly plaatst supercomputers'

"Bij NorthC Datacenters in Rotterdam zijn op 10 maart de eerste NVIDIA DGX B200 supercomputers van Nederland onthuld"

"Juvoly, een Nederlandse AI-startup in de zorg, gebruikt de supercomputers voor het trainen van geavanceerde spraakherkenningsmodellen."

"Nederlandse organisaties zijn voor AI-training en hosting nog grotendeels afhankelijk van buitenlandse cloudproviders. Supercomputers, zoals de NVIDIA DGX B200, bieden echter de rekenkracht om grootschalige AI-modellen lokaal te ontwikkelen en te hosten, waardoor data binnen Nederland blijft. "

"Juvoly ontwikkelt en host inclusieve speech-to-tekstmodellen, geoptimaliseerd voor taalachterstanden, accenten en medische terminologie. Het resultaat: een model dat beter presteert, met een lager energieverbruik, dan de grote internationale spelers en al meer dan 5000 huisartsconsulten per dag verwerkt. Ook is Juvoly de enige aanbieder van Friese spraakherkenning. Momenteel werkt het bedrijf samen met Erasmus MC en de TU Delft aan de ontwikkeling van een Medisch Nederlands Large Language Model (LLM), dat in de toekomst open-source beschikbaar moet komen."

https://www.skipr.nl/nieuws/ai-startup-juvoly-plaatst-supercomputers/

@bert_hubert

A thought:

If the same message gets posted at the same time (UK morning) on three sites, let’s call them X, M, and B …

Q1: on which site do you first see the post?

Q2: on which site do you first reply / repost / like?

The problem with Seymour Cray’s infamous quote “would you rather have two oxen or 1000 chickens to plough a field” is that he failed to take into account that the 1000 would grow to a million chickens.

Happy to announce that the D-Wave #annealing #quantum computer remains at JSC after its purchase by Forschungszentrum Jülich. We’ve successfully hosted and used the D-Wave system for three years now. The Jülich Unified Infrastructure for Quantum computing (JUNIQ) at JSC gains complete access to all aspects of the system, allowing us to integrate it in new ways for new purposes, e.g., connecting it to the #exascale #supercomputer #JUPITER soon. More: https://www.fz-juelich.de/en/news/archive/press-release/2025/forschungszentrum-julich-strengthens-quantum-research-with-purchase-of-expect

#Aurora #supercomputer is now fully operational, available to researchers
Scientists use Aurora to drive breakthroughs in cancer, materials discovery, energy technologies and many other fields.
Aurora is one of first #exascale supercomputers, along with Frontier at #DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Exascale refers to systems performing at least an #exaflop — a quintillion (a billion billion) calculations/s.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/aurora-supercomputer-is-now-fully-operational-available-to-researchers

#Germany unleashes #AMD-powered Hunter #supercomputer
€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027
Built by #HewlettPackardEnterprise (#HPE), Hunter is based on a #Cray EX4000 platform and powered by a combination of AMD Instinct #MI300A accelerated processing units (#APU) and #Epyc Genoa #CPU.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/hlrs_supercomputer_hunter/

“Plans to boost the AI industry, beginning with a new growth zone in Oxfordshire…”

Yeah, so definitely no new supercomputer at Edinburgh Uni, then…

“The government’s ambitions for AI-driven public sector reform raise another set of questions—although the risk of harms being ignored in favour of a boosterish focus on benefits is the same.”

Yep.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/13/the-guardian-view-on-ai-and-public-services-computers-cant-cure-all-of-britains-problems

VIDIA Unveils Its Most Affordable #GenerativeAI #Supercomputer - https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/jetson-generative-ai-supercomputer/ "The Jetson Orin Nano Super delivers up to a 1.7x gain in generative AI performance, supporting popular models for hobbyists, developers and students." support for #opensource models

#ITByte: #Google has announced #Willow #QuantumComputing Chip.

As per Google, Willow is capable of performing a task in 5 minutes that would take a #Supercomputer 10 septillion (10^25)years to complete.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Google-Willow-Quantum-Chip-6757dd23a546d954326e8a4a

Google's #Willow can compute in 5 minutes what a #supercomputer would do in ten septillion years.

The rebound effect of such device will be #astronomical. For the #climate, the #environment, and us, it would be a game over ...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c791ng0zvl3o

In early November, researchers at #DoE’s Argonne National Laboratory used the fastest #supercomputer on the planet to run the largest astrophysical simulation of the #universe ever conducted.

https://www.ornl.gov/news/record-breaking-run-frontier-sets-new-bar-simulating-universe-exascale-era #Astrophysics #Physics #Space #Science

#UK crashes out of global top 50 #supercomputer ranking - https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/uk-crashes-out-of-global-top-50-supercomputer-ranking/ "The country’s current national supercomputer system, Archer2, is approaching end-of-life in 2026. According to the latest figures, it’s also now sitting in 62nd place globally"

Remembering Seymour Cray - If you think of supercomputers, it is hard not to think of Seymour Cray. He built ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/07/16/remembering-seymour-cray/ #retrocomputing #supercomputer #cray