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 ...
Buildout of the 44 petaflops Kestrel supercomputer is now fully complete, and available for use. Located at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) ...
China is no longer content to dominate supercomputing on the ground. It is now wiring thousands of satellites into a single, ...
It has been clear for some time that Japan wants to have a certain amount of economic and technical independence when it comes to cloud computing in the Land of the Rising Sun. This is what the fork ...
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 ...
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What Is a Supercomputer?

When you think of a supercomputer, what do you see in your mind's eye? A gigantic mainframe like ENIAC? A sinister emergent ...
Guest author Jonathan Goldberg is the founder of D2D Advisory, a multi-functional consulting firm. Jonathan has developed growth strategies and alliances for companies in the mobile, networking, ...