Parallel computing
Programming paradigm in which many processes are executed simultaneously
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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 CO₂ 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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| 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 |
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 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 |
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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| 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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| February 2 2023 |
OpenHPC
OpenHPC version 2.61 released, continuing development of open-source High Performance Computing (HPC) Linux tools
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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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| July 27 2022 |
Julia
JuliaCon 2022 held virtually from July 27 to July 29, marking the first conference conducted in multiple languages, not just English.
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| 2021 |
OpenCL
Arm introduces OpenCL support for Mali-G78, Mali-G310, Mali-G510, Mali-G610, Mali-G710, and Mali-G78AE GPUs.
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| 2021 |
OpenCL
Intel adds support for 11th and 12th generation processors (Rocket Lake, Alder Lake) with Windows graphics drivers.
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| 2021 |
OpenCL
Nvidia provides OpenCL support for Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, and Ampere GPUs with graphics driver 465+.
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| 2021 |
OpenCL
Version 3.0.7 of C++ for OpenCL with Khronos OpenCL extensions was presented at IWOCL 21.
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| 2021 |
Itanium
VSI released the final version of OpenVMS on Itanium (V8.4-2L3).
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| 2021 |
Itanium
Oracle unsuccessfully appealed the previous court decision to the California Court of Appeal.
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| 2021 |
Itanium
Linus Torvalds marks the Itanium code as orphaned, noting that HP and Intel have ceased accepting new hardware orders.
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| 2021 |
CUDA
Andrzej Janik was contracted by both Intel and AMD to develop ZLUDA, a drop-in replacement for CUDA on AMD and Intel GPUs.
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| 2021 |
Multi-core processor
IBM releases Power10, a 15 or 30-core PowerPC processor. IBM also releases Telum, an eight-core z/Architecture processor.
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| 2021 |
Julia
JuliaCon held virtually with keynote addresses from notable professors including William Kahan, Jan Vitek, Xiaoye Sherry Li, and Soumith Chintala. The conference grew to 43,000 unique attendees and featured over 300 presentations.
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| 2021 |
Julia
Federal Reserve Bank of New York used Julia to estimate COVID-19 economic shocks.
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| 2021 |
MATLAB
MATLAB releases R2021a (version 9.10) and R2021b (version 9.11) with corresponding Simulink versions 10.3 and 10.4
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| December 2021 |
OpenCL
A new provisional C++ for OpenCL version 2021 was released, which is fully compatible with the OpenCL 3.0 standard.
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| December 7 2021 |
VEGA Microprocessors
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology honored the Swadeshi Microprocessor Challenge winners. Ten teams were recognized, with Team VEGA FCS FT winning first place (₹35 lakh) for an AI drone application, Team HWDL receiving second place (₹30 lakh) for FM Radio Data System Utilities, and Cytox taking third place (₹25 lakh) for a 'cell count' project.
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| November 2021 |
Julia
Julia 1.7 is released, introducing a new faster random-number generator.
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| November 16 2021 |
OpenHPC
OpenHPC version 2.4 released, advancing open-source HPC infrastructure
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