Parallel computing
Programming paradigm in which many processes are executed simultaneously
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| June 12 2025 |
AMD Instinct
AMD announced the MI350X and MI355X GPU accelerators, continuing their ongoing development of high-performance computing solutions.
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| 2025 |
Julia
Google Colab officially begins native support for the Julia programming language.
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| 2025 |
Alps
Swissinfo reported that the Alps supercomputer is powered entirely by hydropower, with minimal direct COâ‚‚ emissions. The cooling water is repurposed to supply hot water to the city of Lugano, demonstrating an innovative approach to sustainable computing infrastructure.
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| 2025 |
Itanium
Support for Itanium-based NonStop hardware is scheduled to end.
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| January 2025 |
Apache Storm
Apache Storm released Version 2.8.0, which requires Java 17 or higher as the minimum Java version.
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| January 2025 |
ROCm
Planned release of Navi 4X GPU series, expected to feature RDNA 4 microarchitecture.
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| 2024 |
Alps
Alps supercomputer has an annual operating budget of CHF37 million, highlighting its significant ongoing operational investment.
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| 2024 |
Supercomputer
Alps supercomputer at CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre becomes operational, featuring 748,800 ARM Neoverse V2 cores and 1,372,800 Nvidia Hopper H100 GPU cores
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| 2024 |
Supercomputer
El Capitan becomes the world's top supercomputer, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, with 1,051,392 CPU cores and 9,988,224 GPU cores, utilizing HPE Cray EX255a architecture and AMD technologies
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| 2024 |
MATLAB
MATLAB releases R2024a (version 24.1) and R2024b (version 24.2) with corresponding Simulink versions 24.1 and 24.2
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| 2024 |
VEGA Microprocessors
Planned release of multiple VEGA microprocessors: Dhanush64, Dhruv64, and Dhanush64+ microprocessors.
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| November 2024 |
Apache Storm
Apache Storm released Version 2.7.1, which was the last release supporting Java 11.
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| November 2024 |
High-performance computing
Eni launched HPC6, the most powerful industrial supercomputer in the world, with 606 petaFLOPS of computing power, located at the Eni Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone, Italy.
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| October 10 2024 |
AMD Instinct
Introduction of MI325X GPU accelerator with 256 GB HBM3E memory and enhanced computing capabilities.
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| October 10 2024 |
AMD Instinct
AMD introduced the MI325X GPU accelerator with HBM3E memory and further performance enhancements.
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| October 7 2024 |
Julia
Julia 1.11 is released, adding parallel garbage collection and introducing a new 'public' keyword to signal safe public API.
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| August 28 2024 |
VEGA Microprocessors
L&T Semiconductor Technologies (LTSCT) and C-DAC signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to commercialize VEGA processor technologies, aiming to develop indigenous ICs and SoCs for automotive, industrial, ICT infrastructure, and energy sectors.
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| June 2024 |
Alps
Alps supercomputer ranks 6th on the TOP500 list of world's fastest computers.
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| June 2024 |
Itanium
Debian officially drops support for Itanium, with unofficial support available through Debian Ports until this date.
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| 2023 |
Elbrus-8S
A benchmark demonstrated moderate gaming performance with older games and incompatibility with many modern games for the Elbrus-8SV.
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| 2023 |
OpenCL
Intel adds support for 14th generation processors (Raptor Lake) Refresh with Windows graphics drivers.
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| 2023 |
Supercomputer
Eagle supercomputer by Microsoft becomes fourth most powerful, using NDv5 architecture with 2,073,600 total cores and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
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| 2023 |
Supercomputer
Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory ranks third, with 1,104,896 CPU cores and 8,159,232 GPU cores using Intel Xeon Max processors
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| 2023 |
MATLAB
MATLAB releases R2023a (version 9.14) and R2023b (version 23.2) with corresponding Simulink versions 10.7 and 23.2
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| 2023 |
VEGA Microprocessors
C-DAC plans to release a dual-core chip for high-end applications in the second half of the year as part of the India Microprocessor Development Programme.
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| December 25 2023 |
Julia
Julia 1.10 is released, featuring parallel garbage collection, improved package load times, and a new parser rewritten in Julia.
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| December 6 2023 |
AMD Instinct
AMD released the MI300A and MI300X GPU accelerators using CDNA 3 architecture, featuring advanced 6 & 5 nm process and significant performance improvements.
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| November 2023 |
Apache Storm
Apache Storm released Version 2.6.0, which dropped support for Java 8 and removed deprecated components.
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| July 2023 |
VEX prefix
Intel announced Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) using the REX2 prefix and updated EVEX prefix.
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| June 2023 |
OpenVMS
Released x86-64 Limited Production Release with AMD CPUs, OpenSSL 3.0, and native compilers
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| June 2023 |
Julia
JuliaHub received a $13 million strategic investment led by AE Industrial Partners HorizonX, a venture capital platform formed in partnership with The Boeing Company.
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| May 7 2023 |
Julia
Julia 1.9 is released, enabling full native machine code precompilation for packages, potentially improving first-use performance by hundreds of times.
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| March 2023 |
SYCL
The Khronos Group announced the creation of the SYCL SC Working Group, aimed at developing a high-level heterogeneous computing framework specifically for safety-critical systems in domains like avionics, automotive, industrial, and medical sectors.
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| February 2 2023 |
OpenHPC
OpenHPC version 2.61 released, continuing development of open-source High Performance Computing (HPC) Linux tools
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| January 2023 |
Apache Samza
Apache Samza released Version 1.8, which is the current stable release with continued improvements to performance and stability.
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| 2022 |
C++ AMP
C++ AMP was declared deprecated in Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.0), signaling the end of its official support.
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| 2022 |
Julia
Julia 1.8 is released with improvements in distributing Julia programs and compiler speedup.
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| 2022 |
OpenCL
Nvidia introduces OpenCL support for Ada Lovelace GPUs with graphics driver 525+.
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| 2022 |
OpenCL
Intel adds support for 13th generation processors (Raptor Lake) with Windows graphics drivers.
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| 2022 |
OpenCL
Intel Arc discrete graphics introduced with OpenCL support via Windows graphics driver.
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| 2022 |
OpenCL
Samsung launches Xclipse 920 GPU with OpenCL support, based on AMD RDNA2 architecture.
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| 2022 |
CUDA
Neither Intel nor AMD officially released ZLUDA due to lack of a clear business use case, though AMD's contract allowed Janik to independently release a version supporting AMD GPUs.
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| 2022 |
Supercomputer
Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ranks second globally, featuring 614,656 CPU cores and 8,451,520 GPU cores with HPE Cray EX235a system
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| 2022 |
Supercomputer
Exascale supercomputers capable of performing over 1018 FLOPS were developed, representing a significant leap in computational power.
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| 2022 |
MATLAB
MATLAB releases R2022a (version 9.12) and R2022b (version 9.13) with corresponding Simulink versions 10.5 and 10.6
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| December 2022 |
ROCm
Introduction of Navi 3X GPU series, representing the RDNA 3 microarchitecture with further architectural improvements.
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| November 13 2022 |
SYCL
SYCL 2020 revision 6 was published, focusing on C++17 and OpenCL 3.0 support with unified shared memory (USM) for GPUs.
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