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According to a report from Nikkei Asia (paywalled), “The Japanese-made Fugaku captured its fourth consecutive title as the world’s fastest supercomputer on Tuesday, although a rival from the U.S. or China is poised to steal the crown as soon as next ye… Continue reading Japan’s Fugaku Retains Title As World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Physicists in China claim they’ve constructed two quantum computers with performance speeds that outrival competitors in the U.S., debuting a superconducting machine, in addition to an even speedier one that uses light photons to obtain unprecedented r… Continue reading China’s New Quantum Computer Has 1 Million Times the Power of Google’s
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: A relatively new type of computing that mimics the way the human brain works was already transforming how scientists could tackle some of the most difficult information processing problems. Now, resear… Continue reading Scientists Develop the Next Generation of Reservoir Computing
Slashdot reader 4wdloop shared this report from NVIDIA’s blog, joking that maybe this is where all NVIDIA’s chips are going:
It will help piece together a 3D map of the universe, probe subatomic interactions for green energy sources and much more. Per… Continue reading World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer Built from 6,159 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs
Slashdot reader 4wdloop shared this report from NVIDIA’s blog, joking that maybe this is where all NVIDIA’s chips are going:
It will help piece together a 3D map of the universe, probe subatomic interactions for green energy sources and much more. Per… Continue reading World’s Faster AI Supercomputer Built from 6,159 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs
Google developers are confident they can build a commercial-grade quantum computer by 2029. Engadget reports: Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the plan during today’s I/O stream, and in a blog post, quantum AI lead engineer Erik Lucero further outlin… Continue reading Google Plans To Build a Commercial Quantum Computer By 2029
The U.S. Commerce Department said Thursday it was adding seven Chinese supercomputing entities to a U.S. economic blacklist for assisting Chinese military efforts. From a report: The department is adding Tianjin Phytium Information Technology, Shanghai… Continue reading US Adds Chinese Supercomputing Entities To Economic Blacklist
An anonymous reader writes:
The fact that Apple is moving away from Intel to ARM has been making a lot of headlines recently — but that’s not the only new place where ARM CPUs have been making a splash.
ARM has also been turning heads in High … Continue reading ARM Not Just For Macs: Might Make Weather Forecasting Cheaper Too
The world’s fastest computer is now part of “a vast supercomputer-powered search for new findings pertaining to the novel coronavirus’ spread” and “how to effectively treat and mitigate it,” according to an emerging tech journalist at Nextgov.
It’s pa… Continue reading A Volunteer Supercomputer Team is Hunting for Covid Clues
NVIDIA is using its background in AI and optimizing supercomputer throughput to the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium group, which plans to support researchers by giving them time with 30 supercomputers offering a combined 400 petaflops of… Continue reading NVIDIA Is Contributing Its AI Smarts To Help Fight COVID-19