Supercomputers Simulated a Black Hole And Found Something We’ve Never Seen Before

While black holes might always be black, they do occasionally emit some intense bursts of light from just outside their event horizon. Previously, what exactly caused these flares had been a mystery to science.    That mystery was solved recently by a team of researchers that used a series of supercomputers to model the details of black holes‘ magnetic … Read more

Supercomputers: Meta is building specialised machine for running AI

Facebook’s owner wants extraordinary computing power to develop AI models to recognise speech, translate languages and power 3D worlds Technology 24 January 2022 By Matthew Sparkes Meta’s RSC supercomputer Meta Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is building the world’s most powerful AI-specific supercomputer to develop better speech-recognition tools, automatically translate between different languages and help build … Read more

Supercomputers: UK’s ARCHER2 starts working on real science

ARCHER2, a £79 million machine funded by the UK government, is still in a testing period, but already working on real science such as modelling volcanic plumes Technology 12 January 2022 By Matthew Sparkes Supercomputers can perform billions or trillions of calculations per second Timofeev Vladimir/Shutterstock A government-funded machine has become the UK’s mightiest supercomputer, … Read more