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A History of Supercomputers

First Supercomputer: CDC 6600 The CDC 6600, introduced by the Control Data Corporation, usually gets the nod as the first ...
Tensor is trying to collapse the distance between a luxury car, a robotaxi and a cloud server rack. Its new Tensor Robocar is ...
The future of AI depends on building more powerful supercomputers. New research suggests how gargantuan these supercomputers could be by the end of the decade. Epoch AI projects that a top ...
Alireza Doostan is leading a major effort for real-time data compression for supercomputer research. A professor in the Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the ...
Most AI training activity is now focused around the huge resources available to the tech giants, who build virtual supercomputers in their clouds. But in earlier days, research was largely carried out ...
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System has received an HHS grant to build a second “big omics data engine,” named BODE 2, to advance translational bioinformatics research and data-enabled ...
From left) Yuetsu Komada, Mitsuhisa Sato and Tamiya Onodera. © 2026 RIKEN A pioneering project led by RIKEN is underway to ...
The Colombian government is converting an underused data center into a supercomputer. The government has said it will invest 1.5bn pesos ($330,000) into converting the data center into what it claims ...
A group of South Korean researchers has developed a floating point accelerator chip, which is a core technology for supercomputers. Developed for the first time domestically, the accelerator chip ...
In what is being described as a “groundbreaking” trial highlighting how advanced networks are foundational to unlocking the full potential of AI and high-performance computing, the CSC – IT Centre for ...
Trial helps researchers prepare network for high performance computing (HPC) clusters and AI Factories handling massive datasets and high-intensity workloads. Results confirm that multi-domain, ...