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Supercomputer

Cambridge-1: The UK’s Fastest Supercomputer

In October 2020, Nvidia revealed plans to begin developing Cambridge-1, UK’s fastest supercomputer. The project would cost an estimated £40 million, or $51.7 million. As we all know, the COVID-19 took a stronghold in 2020. With the global pandemic still in full effect, Nvidia was head-on with a list of likely challenges. For one, the ability to remotely manage the implementation of a supercomputer from the other side of the Atlantic. So far, only 20 weeks after it was first revealed,

Steven April 6, 2021

Information Technology

Meet Summit, The IBM Supercomputer

Imagine a single computer so advanced in power and efficiency that it’s a million times more powerful than a high-end laptop, allowing it to sift through thousands and thousands of variables and create models and simulations to help find answers to the world’s most complex problems. Meet Summit, a supercomputer developed by IBM for use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, capable of solving an estimated 200 quadrillion calculations (200 petaFLOPS) per second. In November 2014, the United States Department of Energy awarded a $325 million contract to IBM, NVIDIA, and Mellanox.

Steven February 16, 2021