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IBM has announced its goal to build a 100,000-qubit quantum computing machine within the next 10 years in collaboration with the University of Tokyo and the University of Chicago. MIT Technology Review reports: Late last year, IBM took the record for t… Continue reading IBM Wants To Build a 100,000-Qubit Quantum Computer
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The UK government is to invest 900 million pounds in a cutting-edge supercomputer as part of an artificial intelligence strategy that includes ensuring the country can build its own “BritGPT”. The … Continue reading UK To Invest 900 Million Pounds In Supercomputer In Bid To Build Own ‘BritGPT’
insideHPC reports that Satoshi Matsuoka, the head of Japan’s largest supercomputing center, has co-authored a high-performance computing paper challenging conventional wisdom.
In a paper entitled “Myths and Legends of High-Performance Computing” app… Continue reading Satoshi Matsuoka Mocks 12 Myths of High-Performance Computing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: IBM wants to scale up its quantum computers to over 4,000 qubits by 2025 — but we’re not quite there yet. For now, we have to make do with significantly smaller systems and today, IBM announced the … Continue reading IBM Unveils Its 433 Qubit Osprey Quantum Computer
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Electrek: Tesla has unveiled its latest version of its Dojo supercomputer and it’s apparently so powerful that it tripped the power grid in Palo Alto. Dojo is Tesla’s own custom supercomputer platform built from… Continue reading Tesla Unveils New Dojo Supercomputer So Powerful It Tripped the Power Grid
Chinese search engine giant Baidu revealed its first quantum computer on Thursday and is ready to make it available to external users, joining the global race to apply the technology to practical uses. Reuters reports: The Baidu-developed quantum compu… Continue reading China’s Baidu Reveals Its First Quantum Computer, ‘Qianshi’
“A new supercomputer called Frontier has been widely touted as the world’s first exascale machine — but was it really?”
That’s the question that long-time Slashdot reader MattSparkes explores in a new article at New Scientist…
Although Fronti… Continue reading Are the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputers Operating In Secret?
Russia is adapting to a world where it no longer has access to many technologies abroad with the development of a new supercomputer platform that can use foreign x86 processors such as Intel’s in combination with the country’s homegrown Elbrus processo… Continue reading Russia Cobbles Together Supercomputing Platform To Wean Off Foreign Suppliers
“A reputed expert in the quantum computing field puts it in black and white: as of today, quantum computing is a paper tiger, and nobody knows when (if ever) it will become commercially practical,” writes Slashdot reader OneHundredAndTen. “In the meant… Continue reading ‘Quantum Computing Has a Hype Problem’
“The events of recent days have taken us away from the stable and predictable development of mankind,” argue two Moscow-based technology professors in Communications of the ACM, citing anticipated shortages of high-performance processors. But fortunate… Continue reading Can Russia Bootstrap High-Performance Computing Clusters with Native Tech?