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A Zillow listing for a $2.4 million house in a Dallas suburb is grabbing attention for its 5,786-square-foot data center with immersion cooling tanks, massive server racks, and two separate power grids. Tom’s Hardware reports: With a brick exterior, cu… Continue reading $2.4 Million Texas Home Listing Boasts Built-In 5,786 sq ft Data Center
Longtime Slashdot reader MattSparkes shares a report from NewScientist: Quantum computing experts are baffled by the UK government’s new export restrictions on the exotic devices (source paywalled), saying they make little sense. [The UK government has… Continue reading UK Imposes Mysterious Ban On Quantum Computer Exports
This week the nonprofit Linux Foundation announced the launch of the High Performance Software Foundation, which “aims to build, promote, and advance a portable core software stack for high performance computing” (or HPC) by “increasing adoption, lower… Continue reading Linux Foundation Announces Launch of ‘High Performance Software Foundation’
Josh Norem reports via ExtremeTech: At the recent International supercomputing conference called ISC 2024, Intel’s newest Aurora supercomputer installed at Argonne National Laboratory raised a few eyebrows by finally surpassing the exascale barrier. Be… Continue reading Intel Aurora Supercomputer Breaks Exascale Barrier
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Washington Post: A key supplier to the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies is building a $20 million supercomputer with buzzy chipmaker Nvidia to speed deployment of artificial intelligence capabilities … Continue reading Defense Think Tank MITRE To Build AI Supercomputer With Nvidia
An anonymous reader quotes a report published last week by Physics World: Researchers at the Dutch quantum institute QuTech in Delft have announced plans to build Europe’s first 100-quantum bit (qubit) quantum computer. When complete in 2026, the devic… Continue reading Europe Plans To Build 100-Qubit Quantum Computer By 2026
Scientists from Oxford University Physics have developed a breakthrough in cloud-based quantum computing that could allow it to be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies. The findings have been published in the journal Physical Review Lette… Continue reading New Advances Promise Secure Quantum Computing At Home
Dan Robinson reports via The Register: Quantum companies received 50 percent less venture cap funding last year as investors switched to generative AI or shied away from risky bets on Silicon Valley startups. Progress in quantum computing is being made… Continue reading Investors Threw 50% Less Money At Quantum Last Year
Equinix Private AI can now run on NVIDIA DGX, a supercomputing platform for enterprise AI. Customers are asking for secure AI that can use current data, Equinix and NVIDIA said. Continue reading NVIDIA Teams Up With Equinix to Bring Generative AI Training to Data Centers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Tuesday, the quantum computing startup Quera laid out a road map that will bring error correction to quantum computing in only two years and enable useful computations using it by 2026, years ah… Continue reading Quantum Computing Startup Says It Will Beat IBM To Error Correction