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Building Israel’s AI supercomputer

Posted on May 19, 2025

Phase II of Israel’s National Artificial Intelligence Program is to build a new National AI Supercomputer. At a cost of half a billion shekels, Israeli-founded Nebius, with R&D in Tel Aviv, has committed to delivering computing power of 16,000 petaflops, … Continue reading →

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Israel’s supercomputer microchips

Posted on November 3, 2024

Israel’s NextSilicon (see here previously) has launched a new supercomputer chip, the Maverick-2 and has already received orders totaling tens of millions of dollars. NextSilicon has 300+ Israeli-based employees and is set to rival Nvidia’s Israeli-based Mellanox. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bk5eooyz1g

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Israeli supercomputer is so fast

Posted on November 26, 2023

Phase 1 of building Nvidia’s Israel-1 AI supercomputer is complete, two months ahead of schedule. It will be one of the world’s fastest AI supercomputers with 8 exaflops of peak AI performance and 130 petaflops of scientific computing and will … Continue reading →

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The world’s fastest AI supercomputer

Posted on June 4, 2023

US-based Nvidia Corporation has announced that, by the end of 2023, it will start to build one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers at its facilities in Israel. Designated “Israel-1”, it is expected to deliver up to 8 exaflops … Continue reading →

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Many more contracts for SuperCom

Posted on June 2, 2019

My last report on Israel’s Supercom (Nov 2017) was when it won a big contract to build an e-Passport system in Iceland.  Since then it has won contracts in Kentucky, Idaho, North and South Carolina, Africa, Texas, Sweden, Minnesota, Europe, … Continue reading →

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Israel hosts supercomputing conference

Posted on January 5, 2014

Tel Aviv is the venue for the PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) Feb 2014 Winter School. The event begins with a workshop on Israeli innovation in High Performance Computing. Delegates include from Turkey, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. … Continue reading →

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A supercomputer replica of the brain

Posted on May 26, 2013

It sounds like science fiction, but the European Commission has granted 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to Weizmann Institute graduate and ex-faculty member Henry Markram to simulate the entire human brain on a supercomputer. 6,000 researchers are expected to work … Continue reading →

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Supporting criminal rehabilitation in the US

Posted on May 11, 2025

Israel’s SuperCom (see here previously) has won recent contracts in Arizona, and Utah, making eight US States in total. It also has signed a new Electronic Monitoring contract with a government agency in Kentucky to expand its business in that … Continue reading →

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Combating domestic violence in Alabama

Posted on January 26, 2025

Israel’s SuperCom (see here previously) has won a new contract to provide its advanced GPS tracking and domestic violence (DV) monitoring solutions to a government agency in Alabama. It is SuperCom’s 5th new US state since Aug 2024 and its … Continue reading →

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A quantum alliance

Posted on June 23, 2024

Israel’s Classiq (see here previously) has partnered with Hewlett Packard. Classiq’s synthesis engine uses HP’s Cray supercomputer to synthesize Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) circuits.  And no, I have absolutely no idea why that is important to quantum computing, but … Continue reading →

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