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How SUSE plans to help customers innovate, compete and grow
DataCentre infrastructure

How SUSE plans to help customers innovate, compete and grow

SUSE introduces SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, its software-defined storage solution, offering enhanced cloud and data protection capabilities.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Wed, 22nd May 2019
HPE to acquire supercomputing leader Cray
DataCentre infrastructure

HPE to acquire supercomputing leader Cray

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is set to acquire Cray for $1.3bn in cash, in a move to expand its high-performance computing portfolio.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Mon, 20th May 2019
Google's scalable supercomputers now publicly available
Semiconductors

Google's scalable supercomputers now publicly available

In what it says is a bid to accelerate the largest-scale machine learning (ML) applications deployed today, Google has opened up its supercomputers.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Wed, 8th May 2019
Intel building US's first exascale supercomputer
DataCentre infrastructure

Intel building US's first exascale supercomputer

Intel and the Department of Energy are building potentially the world's first exascale supercomputer, capable of a quintillion calculations per second.

By Staff Writer • 3 min read • Tue, 19th Mar 2019
Photo gallery: The world's 'most beautiful' data centre
DataCentre infrastructure

Photo gallery: The world's 'most beautiful' data centre

Nestled in a former chapel, the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, housing MareNostrum, stuns with its beauty and power, reaching 13.7 petaflops.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Thu, 31st Jan 2019
Lenovo flaunts BSC: 'World's most beautiful data centre'
Semiconductors

Lenovo flaunts BSC: 'World's most beautiful data centre'

Lenovo recently held a press event in Barcelona, flying in media representatives from all over Europe to benefit from a content-packed event.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Thu, 31st Jan 2019
HPE building new supercomputer with €38m price tag
DataCentre infrastructure

HPE building new supercomputer with €38m price tag

It will be installed at the High Performance Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart and will be the world's fastest for industrial production.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Thu, 15th Nov 2018
HPE opens up 'cloud above the clouds' for space travel
Space

HPE opens up 'cloud above the clouds' for space travel

HPE has launched a supercomputer on the ISS, enabling astronauts to analyse data in space, speeding up research without Earth-based delays.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Fri, 2nd Nov 2018
Diginex and Symbioses deploy decentralised supercomputing network
DataCentre infrastructure

Diginex and Symbioses deploy decentralised supercomputing network

Diginex will provide up to 2,500 nodes at its Switzerland data centre to perform optimised cryptocurrency mining on the Symbioses network.

By Ashton Young • 2 min read • Mon, 3rd Sep 2018
HPE to triple performance with new supercomputer for US laboratory
DataCentre infrastructure

HPE to triple performance with new supercomputer for US laboratory

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has opted with Hewlett Packard Enterprise for a new supercomputer.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Wed, 15th Aug 2018
HPE to provide supercomputer for Swiss brain research initiative
DataCentre infrastructure

HPE to provide supercomputer for Swiss brain research initiative

HPE has won a supercomputer bid for a Swiss brain research initiative that employs futuristic data centre technology.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 10th Jul 2018
Lenovo Data Center Group largest provider of TOP500 supercomputers
DataCentre infrastructure

Lenovo Data Center Group largest provider of TOP500 supercomputers

Lenovo Data Center Group announced at ISC in Frankfurt that it now leads the TOP500 supercomputer list, with 117 systems globally.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 26th Jun 2018
HPE leaping ahead in exascale race with world's largest Arm supercomputer
DataCentre infrastructure

HPE leaping ahead in exascale race with world's largest Arm supercomputer

​Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced a major stepping stone in its path to exascale computing with a new supercomputer for the U.S. DOE.

By Ashton Young • 3 min read • Tue, 19th Jun 2018
NVIDIA's GPU supercomputer for the office
DataCentre infrastructure

NVIDIA's GPU supercomputer for the office

The DGX Station is a quiet, compact GPU-powered deep learning supercomputer that is quiet and small enough to sit next to a desk.

By Ben Moore • 2 min read • Thu, 14th Jun 2018
Industry and academia partner to push UK supercomputer adoption
DataCentre infrastructure

Industry and academia partner to push UK supercomputer adoption

HPE today announced a plan of action with Arm, SUSE, and three UK universities to accelerate the adoption of supercomputer applications in the UK.

By Ashton Young • 5 min read • Mon, 16th Apr 2018

Stories from Other Regions

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Alibaba Cloud discusses past and unveils 'strategic upgrade'
DataCentre infrastructure

Alibaba Cloud discusses past and unveils 'strategic upgrade'

Alibaba Group's Jeff Zhang spoke about the company's aim to develop into a more technologically inclusive platform.

By Ashton Young • 4 min read • Fri, 22nd Mar 2019
Fujitsu building massive supercomputer for the University of Tokyo
DataCentre infrastructure

Fujitsu building massive supercomputer for the University of Tokyo

Fujitsu is set to build a supercomputer, Oakbridge-CX, for the University of Tokyo, boasting a performance peak of 6.6 petaflops via 1,368 servers.

By Staff Writer • 2 min read • Mon, 18th Feb 2019