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2015’s first edition of the top 500 list contains a new entrant but an old champion.

The latest Top 500 ranking sees China stay on top.

Nothing quite says Ctrl-Alt-Delete like a computer gone psychotic.

The latest twice-yearly Top 500 report is out – see which supercomputers are the world's fastest.

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NIWA relishes 5G opportunity, arrival of new supercomputers

By By Rob O'Neill | 15 March, 2019 07:45

The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research sees opportunity in fast networks and fast computing.
$31.7M investment sees NZ hang on to Top500 supercomputer ranking

By By Rob O'Neill | 13 November, 2018 09:00

New Zealand has retained a presence on the Top500 ranking of global supercomputing power, but only just.
$23M supercomputer facility opened in Wellington

By Rob O'Neill | 07 November, 2018 07:00

New Zealand’s High Performance Computing Facility has officially opened at research institute NIWA’s Greta Point campus in Wellington.
$18 million buys NIWA new Cray supercomputers

By Rob O'Neill | 08 June, 2017 11:51

Water and atmospheric research institute NIWA and partners are investing in three new supercomputers to enhance scientists’ abilities to solve vexing problems.
New supercomputer will unite x86, Power9 and ARM chips

By Agam Shah | 01 December, 2016 07:49

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

Inside Tsubame - the Nvidia GPU supercomputer

By Martyn Williams | 10 December, 2008 12:20

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.

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