Here are some (mostly) recent things I found interesting:
- Green500 List of energy-efficient supercomputers. Almost as fun as the Top500 list itself. The Green500 ranks supercomputers by how energy-efficient they are. NVIDIA Corporation took the top spot with 9,462.09 MFLOPS per Watt with their DGX-1 system, using their P100 Tesla GPUs.
- Spray-on concrete for EMP shielding. This just sounds cool. A team from the University of Nebraska has created a cost-effective concrete mix that acts as a shield against "intense pulses of electromagnetic energy".
- HP - The Machine. HP has been running a series of posts on their vision for the future of computing - The Machine. These posts elaborate their process to build this vision and the research behind it.
- France's nuclear fusion reactor. Interesting article on how countries around the world are contributing billions to the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).