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HPE Wins Another European HPC Center With Cray EX Plus AMD Compute

November 16, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Per aspera, ad astra, an old Latin adage that means “through striving, to the stars,” is the root of the name for a hybrid HPC and AI supercomputer that the Grand Équipment National de Calcul Intensif (GENCI), working in conjunction with the Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur (CINES), one of three national HPC centers in France, will be building next year to bring a factor of 20X more compute power to bear on scientific applications. …

Europe Opens Second Front For Domestic HPC Processors

November 14, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has launched the European Laboratory for Open Computer Architecture (LOCA), a five-year effort aimed at developing energy efficient, high performance computing chips based on open architectures. …

Europe’s Homegrown HPC Compute Begins To Take Shape

June 10, 2019 Michael Feldman Comments Off

At the recent EuroHPC Summit in Poland, the nature of Europe’s first homegrown HPC processor was described in some detail. …

HiPEAC: Shifting Focal Points in European HPC Research

January 22, 2019 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 2

This week we delved into a wide variety of European projects that address future needs of systems in research and industry at HiPEAC in Valencia, Spain. …

The Plan For Europe’s Homegrown Exascale HPC

October 24, 2018 Dan Olds Comments Off

It has been a long time since Europe has had indigenous suppliers of the core components that go into high performance computing systems. …

GENCI: Advancing HPC in France and Across Europe

December 12, 2017 Linda Barney Comments Off

One of the more significant efforts in Europe to address the challenges of the convergence of high performance computing (HPC), high performance data analytics (HPDA) and soon artificial intelligence (AI), and ensure that researchers are equipped and familiar with the latest technology, is happening in France at GENCI (Grand équipement national de calcul intensif). …

ARM Momentum Builds for European HPC Set

February 3, 2016 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Comments Off

One look at the architectural ambitions for next-generation supercomputers in the United States versus those in Europe reveals an expected, but no less striking, emphasis on ARM systems for high performance computing applications. …

Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant

December 10, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

We are still mulling over all of the new HPC-AI supercomputer systems that were announced in recent months before and during the SC25 supercomputing conference in St Louis, particularly how the slew of new machines announced by the HPC national labs will be advancing not just the state of the art, but also pushing down the cost of the FP64 floating point operations that still drives a lot of HPC simulation and modeling work. …

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Nvidia Brings Together Quantum And AI For HPC Centers

November 18, 2025 Jeffrey Burt Comments Off

Nvidia has spent much of the year launching new products and partnerships that aim to ensure it keeps its place atop the wild west that is still the AI market while establishing its place in the emerging quantum computing space, where co-founder and chief executive officer Jensen Huang sees Nvidia being a key infrastructure provider and accelerator. …

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Modest HPC Centers Drive Top500 Supercomputer Rankings This Time Around

November 17, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

For the past two years now, we have been picking apart the semi-annual rankings of supercomputers known as the Top500 is a different way, focusing on the new machines that come into each list in either June or November. …