On Monday, a joint Slovenian-Chinese virtual laboratory for high performance computing was launched, kicking off a multi-year collaboration between the two countries.

Earlier this month Fujitsu launched a quantum computing cloud service based on its very own quantum computing processor, known as the Digital Annealing Unit (DAU).

At Intels inaugural AI DevCon conference this week, AI Products Group chief Naveen Rao updated their roadmap for its artificial intelligence chips. The changes will impact the much-anticipated Neural Network Processor, and to a lesser degree, its general-purpose products like Xeons and FPGAs.

Episode 223: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze this week's product announcements from Cavium and Google.

Intel and Micron together announced the industrys first commercial quad-level cell (QLC) memory products, providing the highest density NAND components on the market.

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has installed two Cray XC50 supercomputers,further cementingCraysposition as the leading supplier of HPC systems forweather and climate centers.

Tachyum, a Silicon Valley startup has unveiled a new processor that the company says can tackle a broad range of workloads in HPC, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and web services, while using a fraction of the power of existing chips.

Intel has come up with a multi-chip module containing a Xeon Skylake processor integrated with an Arria 10 field programmable gate array (FPGA).

Episode 222: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze new HPC installations in Italy, Belgium and Australia and predict where they may appear on next months TOP500 list.

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is expanding its Nimbus cloud service with NVIDIA V100 GPU-powered servers in order to provide additional capabilities for researchers.