Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Uncle Sam's next big #supercomputer might use something more exotic than GPUs
Chip startup #NextSilicon's high-performance-computing-focused accelerators get #SandiaNationalLab's stamp of approval
Sandia’s new #Spectra supercomputer, was built in collaboration with #PenguinSolutions and NextSilicon. Compared to exascale systems like Frontier or El Capitan, Spectra is tiny. The machine counts 64 nodes and 128 of NextSilicon’s “runtime-configurable” accelerators.
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/18/uncle-sams-next-big-super-might-not-use-gpus/5242137 #HPC
Chip startup #NextSilicon's high-performance-computing-focused accelerators get #SandiaNationalLab's stamp of approval
Sandia’s new #Spectra supercomputer, was built in collaboration with #PenguinSolutions and NextSilicon. Compared to exascale systems like Frontier or El Capitan, Spectra is tiny. The machine counts 64 nodes and 128 of NextSilicon’s “runtime-configurable” accelerators.
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/05/18/uncle-sams-next-big-super-might-not-use-gpus/5242137 #HPC
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