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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 ...
The Swiss National Supercomputing Center, also known as CSCS, built and deployed a new supercomputer in collaboration with Nvidia and HPE. I’ll start by explaining the difference between CSCS and Alps ...
From left) Yuetsu Komada, Mitsuhisa Sato and Tamiya Onodera. © 2026 RIKEN A pioneering project led by RIKEN is underway to ...
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Nvidia announced on Monday that it is planning to manufacture AI chips and supercomputers in the U.S. for the first time. Nvidia is constructing supercomputer manufacturing plants in Texas as it ...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Cadence today announced the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer featuring NVIDIA Blackwell systems, for AI-basted simulation for engineering and drug design workloads. The ...