Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer has held onto its massive lead in the TOP500 supercomputing list. It still remains the only exascale supercomputer and has extended its lead.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Frontier supercomputer has held onto the top spot in the TOP500 list of supercomputers. The systems in second and third place remain far behind Frontier.
TOP500 has released the latest list of top supercomputers. There is one new entry on the list and Fugaku has managed to hold its lead. We are still waiting on exascale computers to hit the list.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced its intention to buy supercomputer manufacturer Cray in a deal valued at $1.3 billion. The acquisition is expected to close by Q1 of HPE's FY2020.
The United States has maintained it perch in first place on the TOP500 list. China came in third and fourth place while we wait for its in development exascale supercomputer to make an appearance.
The TOP500 list for November has been released and China, as ever, is doing very well. The U.S., on the other hand, has gotten a bit of a battering with losses on multiple fronts, to China and Japan.
In an effort to bring more high-performance computing capabilities to those who need it, Microsoft has announced that customers will be able to provision Cray supercomputers in some Azure datacenters.
China's TaihuLight and Tianhe-2 supercomputers have maintained their number one and two spots on the TOP500 supercomputer rankings. The US has been pushed out of the top three after two decades.
It turns out that the fastest supercomputer in the world is around 110,000 times faster than the top Sandy Bridge consumer processor. This, and more supercomputing facts in today's Trivia Tuesday
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