One threat facing the world’s fastest supercomputer? Raccoons
At times, wildlife have gotten into infrastructure used to provide power to the supercomputers at the Oak Ridge National Lab.
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Department of Energy launches ESnet6 high-performance data-sharing network
ESnet6 increases the Energy Science Network's bandwidth to more than 46 terabits per second for handling data from experiments, models and simulations.
NOAA unveils 2 weather and climate supercomputers for improved forecasting
The new computing power will allow the service to get further ahead of catastrophic weather events like hurricanes.
Aging infrastructure the ‘single, greatest threat’ to NASA missions and technology
Artemis Program investments are needed to maintain the agency's technical capabilities, according to one NASA official.
Energy awards $28M to 5 supercomputing projects
Winners will research quantum information science and chemical reactions with clean energy applications.
Biden administration proposes record $171.3B for R&D across civilian agencies
The proposed sum would come alongside extra funding for research included in the American Jobs Plan.
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Next Generation Computing Act proposed to speed U.S. supercomputer development
The Beyond Exascale Computing Program would provide support for a new generation of supercomputers.
Argonne National Lab adds ‘AI supercomputer,’ boosting work of COVID-19 consortium
The NVIDIA DGX A100 cluster consists of 24 nodes for 120 petaflops of compute power, making it the fastest "AI supercomputer" at the consortium's disposal.
Air Force wants turn its computers into brains for AI
The Air Force Research Lab wants insights into how to configure computers to field AI. One idea is to model computer systems after the brain.
New supercomputer will let nuclear security agency do ‘1.5 quintillion calculations per second’
Imagine a computer that can do 1,500,000,000,000,000,000 calculations every second. It's coming to the Lawrence Livermore National Lab in 2022.