Supercomputing Month
Charting the Exascale Horizon: As the calendar turns to November 2025, The Register is locked onto the pulse of supercomputing. This month coincides with the esteemed SC25 conference, and we're dedicating our coverage to the technical marvels and milestones of high-performance computing (HPC). We'll dissect the latest breakthroughs pushing towards exascale computing, unravel the complexities of advanced parallel processing architectures, and spotlight the innovations in energy-efficient design that keep these giants running cooler. From tackling grand global challenges to driving forward the frontier of artificial intelligence, join us in a month-long technical tribute to the titans of computational might.
GPUs aren't worth their weight in gold – it just feels like they are
Nvidia's accelerators look pricey, but bullion still wins on cost per ounce
Supercomputing Month28 Nov 2025 |38
HPC won't be an x86 monoculture forever – and it's starting to show
Feature Arm and RISC-V would like a word
Supercomputing Month27 Nov 2025 |12
Norway's most powerful supercomputer will use waste heat to raise salmon
HPE-built system mixes Nvidia's Grace-Hopper superchips with AMD Turin CPUs to maximize HPC potential
Supercomputing Month26 Nov 2025 |11
The exascale offensive: America's race to rule AI HPC
Feature From nuclear weapons testing to climate modeling, nine new machines will give the US unprecedented computing firepower
Supercomputing Month26 Nov 2025 |6
India has satisfied its supercomputing needs, but not its ambitions
Feature Creating 37 supers in a decade is impressive. The homegrown tech in them, less so
Supercomputing Month26 Nov 2025 |1
UK lines up £250M cloud procurement to feed its growing AI research appetite
Plan would link commercial capacity with Britain's flagship supercomputers
Supercomputing Month25 Nov 2025 |3
How high-end supercomputer filesystem DAOS can break out of its niche
DAOS needs user education, Nvidia GPU access, and better manageability to grow
Supercomputing Month24 Nov 2025 |4
Eviden set to build France's first exascale supercomputer with AMD at the wheel
€544M Alice Recoque system aims to lift Europe's research horsepower
Supercomputing Month18 Nov 2025 |1
Power: The answer to and source of all your AI datacenter problems
Interview Digital Realty CTO Chris Sharp weights impact of densification on the datacenter and the rise of the AI factory
Supercomputing Month15 Nov 2025 |21
GPU goliaths are devouring supercomputing – and legacy storage can't feed the beast
VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash
Supercomputing Month14 Nov 2025 |9
HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-gen Cray supercomputers
Promised for 2027 racks, mixing Nvidia and AMD silicon in one liquid-cooled box
Supercomputing Month13 Nov 2025 |1
Battery trade war hits booming datacenter industry
Tariffs can't stop cheaper, better Chinese tech, says Jefferies. Tesla is America's great hope
Supercomputing Month11 Nov 2025 |22
AI isn't throttling HPC. Itis HPC
Opinion Your real problem: 40kW racks, melting datacenters and rising power bills
Supercomputing Month11 Nov 2025 |14
Oak Ridge lab bags $125M to bolt quantum onto supercomputers
The DoE’s planned funding runs through 2030
Supercomputing Month05 Nov 2025 |4
Power crunch threatens to derail AI datacenter construction
Supply chains also unprepared for liquid cooling demands
Supercomputing Month05 Nov 2025 |12
$10B + spent on liquid cooling this week – it's only Tuesday
Eaton and Vertiv splash cash as HPC infrastructure and AI factories run hot
Supercomputing Month04 Nov 2025 |4
AI's trillion dollar deal wheel bubbling around Nvidia, OpenAI
Feature How to build a trillion-dollar industry: Step 1, invest in your customers. Step 2, sell them stuff
Supercomputing Month04 Nov 2025 |28
Nvidia, Oracle to build 7 supercomputers for Department of Energy, including its largest ever
100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system
Supercomputing Month28 Oct 2025 |9
HPE's Discovery to succeed Frontier supercomputer with next-gen Cray tech
Oak Ridge's $500M system due in 2028, paired with a separate Lux AI cluster arriving two years earlier
Supercomputing Month27 Oct 2025 |3
NextSilicon Maverick-2 promises to blow away the HPC market Nvidia left behind
The one chip startup building accelerators for something other than AI boasts performance up 10x that of modern GPUs using a fraction the power
Supercomputing Month22 Oct 2025 |2
Popular
Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it
The software doesn't show what files it's working on
Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DoJ
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Penguin-powered platform board keels over at Alpine station
Bork!Bork!Bork! It must be that fresh mountain air
GPT-5 bests human judges in legal smack down
ai-pocalypse But that doesn't mean AI is ready to dispense justice
Cisco set to release home-brew hypervisor as a VMware alternative
Only for its own comms apps – whose users can probably do without a full private cloud
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation
opinion The subtractive bias we're ignoring
If Microsoft made a car... what would it be?
What is the automotive equivalent of Word, and where does Copilot fit?
You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options
OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents
Whatever comes next will be ‘core to OpenAI product offerings’
STORIES
UK waves £750M supercomputer contract at HPC builders
Pre-market charm offensive begins for Edinburgh's next national number-cruncher
Supercomputing Month13 Oct 2025 |7
Tsunami forecasting about to get a lot faster thanks to El Capitan super
The world's most powerful known supercomputer stretches its legs with some life-saving science
Supercomputing Month13 Aug 2025 |18
Biting the hand that feeds IT
