Supercomputers
A supercomputer is a computing installation, a small-scale or piece-by-piece computer, many times superior in computing power to massively produced computers, when performance is measured in millions/trillions of operations per second. A supercomputer is a machine aimed primarily at large-scale calculations, which means that the time for performing complex, as a rule, engineering or scientific calculations is reduced.
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Initially, supermachines were used for the military-industrial complex and worked to predict the consequences of nuclear, thermonuclear and hydrogen explosions. The transfer of testing of neutron and nuclear bombs from physical space to the virtual of leading superpowers was forced by the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed in 1996.
In Russia, such tasks are calculated on the Sarov supercomputer, which was built with the money of Rosatom, and part of the funds was raised from the country's military budget. The power of this machine is classified, presumably it is approximately 10 Pflops. "Civil" "Lomonosov" has a capacity of 1.2 Pflops.
In 2017-2018, there were major changes in the architecture of supercomputers (more).
Supercomputers in Russia and the CIS
Global Supercomputing Market
Supercomputer technologies
Project Catalog
The TAdviser website maintains a catalog of projects to launch supercomputers.
History
2024: Cancellation of supercomputer project in Britain
In early August 2024, it became known that Britain canceled two contracts for the development of supercomputer computing for 1.3 billion pounds due to lack of funds. Read more here.
2023
The world's first neuromorphic supercomputer has been developed
On December 13, 2023, Australian researchers at Western Sydney University reported the development of the world's first supercomputer capable of simulating pulsed neural networks at the scale of the human brain. A neuromorphic machine called DeepSouth is expected to be able to process huge amounts of data at high speed, while consuming much less power than conventional supercomputers. Read more here.
China unveils first supercomputer on its own architecture
On December 6, 2023, China introduced the first supercomputer on its own architecture. A high-performance complex called Tianhe Xingyi was developed by specialists from the National Supercomputing Center in Gaongzhou. Read more here.
The most powerful supercomputer in Europe cost 0.5 billion euros
On October 3, 2023, the European Joint Venture for the Development of High-Performance Computing (EuroHPC JU) announced a contract for the creation of the most powerful supercomputer in Europe. We are talking about a computing complex called Jupiter, which will be mounted at the Juelich Research Center in Germany. Read more here.
Britain allocated $1.1 billion to create a Isambard-3 supercomputer for the development of AI
On September 13, 2023, the British authorities announced the allocation of £900 million (approximately $1.1 billion at the exchange rate as of September 15, 2023) to create a powerful Isambard-3 supercomputer designed to solve resource-intensive problems in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Read more here.
2022: Meta creates the fastest supercomputer in the world. Planned capacity - 5 exaflops
At the end of January 2022, Meta announced the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer. It is called Research SuperCluster (RSC) and is positioned as the fastest in the world. True, for the system to officially acquire such a status, it needs refinement, which the developers promise to carry out by mid-2022. Read more here.
2016: Japan creates world's fastest supercomputer - 130 petaflops
On November 25, 2016, it became known about the creation of the world's fastest supercomputer in Japan. It is planned to be used to reduce the cost and accelerate development and research in the field of unmanned vehicles, robotics and medical diagnostics. Read more here.
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