On Monday, at CES 2025, Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang introduced the company's $3,000 “personal AI supercomputer,” a compact, high-performance machine designed to run advanced AI models ...
The Lux AI supercomputer, powered by AMD (AMD) and housed at Oak Ridge National Labs, will be the first dedicated U.S. AI factory for science and will be deployed in early 2026. AMD will power the ...
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Austin is the flagship datacenter for supercomputing for the US National Science Foundation, and so what TACC does – and doesn’t do – is a kind ...
Company CEO Jensen Huang unveiled NVIDIA’s new hybrid computing architecture, NVQLink, on Tuesday, as well as the deployment of two new supercomputers at Argonne National Laboratory. Industry National ...
The newest of the exascale-class supercomputer to be profiled in the Top500 rankings in the June list is the long-awaited “Jupiter” system at Forschungszentrum Jülich facility in Germany. We finally ...
The fastest supercomputer in the world is a machine known as Frontier, but even this speedster with nearly 50,000 processors has its limits. On a sunny Monday in April, its power consumption is ...
Computation firm Nexus’ in-development decentralized supercomputer attracted more than 1.5 million nodes from 187 countries during a recent five-day testnet period. Nexus has been working on building ...
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced two next-generation systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) ...
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