Supercomputers on demand: Rescale, Parallel Works ramp up for DIU cloud contract

Supercomputers on demand: Rescale, Parallel Works ramp up for DIU cloud contract
Supercomputers on demand: Rescale, Parallel Works ramp up for DIU cloud contract

“You click a big button and in two minutes, you get one of these [high-powered computing] systems ready to go,” Matthew Shaxted, co-founder and CEO of Parallel Works, told Breaking Defense of a new DIU initiative.

DARPA’s explorations in quantum computing search for the art of the possible in the realm of the improbable

DARPA’s explorations in quantum computing search for the art of the possible in the realm of the improbable
DARPA’s explorations in quantum computing search for the art of the possible in the realm of the improbable

Physicists say it is a flip of the coin whether quantum computing will end up a revolutionary capability or not much better than today’s supercomputers. And yet, quantum’s potential means there’s too much promise there to ignore.

DoD Buys Two New Supercomputers That Rank Among Its Most Powerful Ever

DoD Buys Two New Supercomputers That Rank Among Its Most Powerful Ever
DoD Buys Two New Supercomputers That Rank Among Its Most Powerful Ever

The two new supercomputers, according to the company, will provide DoD with a combined total of over 365,000 cores, more than 775 terabytes of memory, and a total of 47 petabytes of high-performance storage.