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Soviet 80s supercomputer project "Start" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-28 | tags: soviet, supercomputer, start

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Nvidia CEO wants Taiwan to be center of “AI revolution,” not US (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-27 | get Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 → | tags: nvidia, taiwan, ai revolution

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AI Datacenters Were Built for GPUs. What Happens When You Remove the GPUs? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-25 | by Published By | get GPU Cooling Fan → | tags: ai datacenters, nvidia, gpu removal

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First ever Cray T3D Supercomputer goes up for auction with $81,000 reserve — Europe’s fastest supercomputer in June 1996 goes on the block (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-24 | by Mark Tyson | get Cray T3D Supercomputer Model → | tags: cray t3d, edinburgh university, top500 list

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AMD’s Next Big Chip Hopes To Beat Nvidia’s CPUs While They’re in the Crib (gizmodo.com)

2026-05-21 | get AMD Ryzen 7000 Series → | tags: amd, nvidia, ai supercomputer

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China bypasses US GPU bans with 1.54-exaflops 'LineShine' supercomputer — CPU-only monster packs 2.4 million Huawei-designed Armv9 cores (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-17 | by Anton Shilov | get Huawei Ascend AI Processor → | tags: china, huawei, armv9

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Colossus: The Forbin Project (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | tags: colossus, forbin project, supercomputer

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The Quest to Use AI to Help Find New Drugs (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-05-02 | tags: eli lilly, roche, supercomputers

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China announces CPU-only exascale supercomputer with 47,000 homemade processors, record 2 Exaflops of performance without GPUs — Lingshen super said to use Huawei Kunpeng servers and no foreign-made components (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-28 | by Luke James | get Huawei Kunpeng Server → | tags: huawei kunpeng, exascale supercomputer, ling shen

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The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund (wired.com)

2026-04-16 | by Joel Khalili | get AI Development Kit → | tags: sovereign ai, uk government, openai

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Hacker Steals 10 Petabytes of Data From China's Tianjin Supercomputer Center (slashdot.org)

2026-04-09 | get Data Storage Backup Drive → | tags: tianjin supercomputer, national supercomputing center, flamingchina

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The Download: AstroTurf wars and exponential AI growth (technologyreview.com)

2026-04-09 | by Thomas Macaulay | get AI Development Kit → | tags: astroturf, microsoft ai, google deepmind

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Mustafa Suleyman: AI development won’t hit a wall anytime soon—here’s why (technologyreview.com)

2026-04-08 | by Mustafa Suleyman | get AI Development Book → | tags: nvidia, maia 200, hbm3

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Fujitsu plans dedicated 1.4nm AI chip manufactured entirely in Japan by Rapidus — AI chip to be designed and manufactured domestically (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-31 | by Luke James | get Fujitsu AI Chip Kit → | tags: fujitsu, rapidus, npu

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I reverse-engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from marketing photos (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-16 | get TiinyAI Pocket Lab Kit → | tags: tiinyai, nvidia dgx spark, ai supercomputer

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Why Sierra the Supercomputer Had to Die (wired.com)

2026-02-26 | by Rebecca Heilweil | get I can't fulfill this request. → | tags: supercomputer, silicon valley, ibm power9

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Elon Musk's xAI Colossus 2 is nowhere near 1 gigawatt capacity, satellite imagery suggests — despite claims, site only has 350 megawatts of cooling capacity (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-21 | by Anton Shilov | get AI Colossus → | tags: colossus, cooling, power

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AMD and Eviden unveil Europe's second exascale system — EPYC 'Venice' and Instinct MI430X powered system breaks the ExaFLOP barrier (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-18 | by Anton Shilov | get EPYC Venice → | tags: accelerators, alice, alice recoque

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The Seymour Cray Era of Supercomputers (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-10-31 | get leadership development book → | tags: book, computing, cray