Obscure Technologies Blog

Today at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) it was announced that the Fugaku supercomputer, a system jointly developed by RIKEN and Fujitsu Limited, and based on Arm technology, was awarded the number one spot of the TOP500 list. Having been crowned the world’s most efficient supercomputer on the Green500 list in November 2019, Fugaku was today also given top honors on the HPCG list, a ranking of benchmarks across real-world applications, and the HPL-AI, which rates performance on tasks used in artificial intelligence applications.

McAfee has announced new innovations to its cloud-native MVISION platform with the availability of Unified Cloud Edge (UCE), which provides unified data and threat protection from device level to the cloud.

While the majority of schools are reopening for grades 7 and 12, South Africa’s lockdown has not prevented some learners from preparing hard for their final matric exams. A partnership between the Siyavula Foundation and the MTN SA Foundation has seen 50 learners completing, and scoring 100%, for the entire year’s maths and science curriculum, using Siyavula’s online platform, in the past couple of months.