Jan. 29, 2019 -- A new research collaboration between the Enabling Practical-Scale Quantum Computing (EPiQC) project led by the University of Chicago and | Continue reading
It turns out, astronomers have lots of photos of the sky but seek knowledge about what the photos mean. Sound familiar? Big data problems are often | Continue reading
URBANA, Ill., Dec. 17, 2018 -- In biomedical research, plant breeding, and countless other endeavors, geneticists are on the hunt for the specific genes | Continue reading
NEW YORK, Dec. 3, 2018 -- ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has released the highly anticipated report “Retention in Computer Science | Continue reading
AMHERST, Mass., Nov. 15, 2018 – A research team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst says it has developed a promising building block for the next | Continue reading
SEATTLE, November 11, 2018 -- GW4, the Met Office and global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced that the Arm-based supercomputer in Europe, | Continue reading
Nov. 1, 2018 -- During a large earthquake, energy rips through the ground in the form of seismic waves that can wreak havoc on densely populated areas, | Continue reading
According to a report yesterday in MIT Technology Review, Google is working with NASA to “prove quantum supremacy within a matter of months.” Tech Reviews | Continue reading
Nvidia and the Scripps Research Translational Institute today announced a collaboration to develop AI and deep learning best practices, tools and | Continue reading
Last Thursday the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Quantum Initiative Act (NQIA) intended to accelerate quantum computing research and | Continue reading
Despite transitional growing pains, the promise of artificial intelligence (AI) in innovation and decision-making offers a future with better decisions | Continue reading
As is often noted the race to exascale computing isn’t just about hardware. This week the U.S. Exascale Computing Project (ECP) released its latest | Continue reading
On Thursday, July 12, the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology heard from four academic and industry leaders – representatives from Berkeley Lab, Argonne Lab, GE Global Research and Carnegie Mellon University – on the opportunities springing from the intersection of … | Continue reading
A year ago AMD returned to the server market with its EPYC processor line. The earth didn’t tremble but folks took notice. People remember the Opteron fondly but later versions of the Bulldozer line not so much. Fast forward to last Thursday when AMD executive Forrest Norrod, SVP … | Continue reading
From smarter, more personalized apps to seemingly-ubiquitous Google Assistant and Alexa devices, AI adoption is showing no signs of slowing down – and yet, the hardware used for AI is far from perfect. Currently, GPUs and other digital accelerators are used to speed the processin … | Continue reading
June 13, 2018 -- Austria has become the latest European country to sign the EuroHPC declaration. The Austrian Minister of Education, Science and Research Heinz Faßmann signed the EuroHPC Declaration in Vienna today in the presence of Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Digital Econo … | Continue reading
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., June 8, 2018 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveiled Summit as the world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer. With a peak performance of 200,000 trillion calculations per second—or 200 petaflops, Summit wi … | Continue reading
As a complement to its Digital Single Market strategy, the European Commission today proposed a €9.2 billion investment aimed at increasing the EU’s international competitiveness and developing its digital capabilities. | Continue reading
With plans for exascale system developments around the world firming up and actual systems due to roll out on a near continual basis starting in 2020, one thing has become quite clear: the emphasis on being able to use indigenous processor technology is a key design goal for just … | Continue reading
Quantum error correction, essential for achieving universal fault-tolerant quantum computation, is one of the main challenges of the quantum computing field and it’s top of mind for Google’s John Martinis. At a presentation last week at the HPC User Forum in Tucson, Martinis, one … | Continue reading