AMD's new Instinct MI100 accelerator is said to be the world's fastest HPC GPU and the first x86 server GPU to exceed 10 Tflops (FP64).
The US has regained the number one position in the six-monthly TOP500 supercomputer rankings with a brand new Summit supercomputer measured at a sustained 122.3 petaFLOPs (with a transient maximum of 187.7).
Even though the name ununseptium (symbol: Uus) is only temporary, Russian and U.S. scientists still have made an important discovery of a new chemical element, one with an atomic number of Z=117.