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supercomputers in pictures
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In Pictures: The 10 baddest supercomputers on Earth
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In Pictures: 10 evil supercomputers - and their bloodthirsty plans for our demise
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In Pictures: The 10 fastest supercomputers on Earth
News about supercomputers
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NIWA relishes 5G opportunity, arrival of new supercomputers
The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research sees opportunity in fast networks and fast computing.
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$31.7M investment sees NZ hang on to Top500 supercomputer ranking
New Zealand has retained a presence on the Top500 ranking of global supercomputing power, but only just.
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$23M supercomputer facility opened in Wellington
New Zealand’s High Performance Computing Facility has officially opened at research institute NIWA’s Greta Point campus in Wellington.
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$18 million buys NIWA new Cray supercomputers
Water and atmospheric research institute NIWA and partners are investing in three new supercomputers to enhance scientists’ abilities to solve vexing problems.
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New supercomputer will unite x86, Power9 and ARM chips
For once, there will be a cease-fire in the war between major chip architectures x86, ARM and Power9, all of which will be in a supercomputer being built in Barcelona.
Features about supercomputers
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Inside Tsubame - the Nvidia GPU supercomputer
When you enter the computer room on the second floor of Tokyo Institute of Technology's computer building, you're not immediately struck by the size of Japan's second-fastest supercomputer. You can't see the Tsubame computer for the industrial air conditioning units that are standing in your way, but this in itself is telling. With more than 30,000 processing cores buzzing away, the machine consumes a megawatt of power and needs to be kept cool.
