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An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: D-Wave today made its quantum computers available for free to researchers and developers working on responses to the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. D-Wave partners and customers Cineca, Denso, Forsc… Continue reading D-Wave Makes Its Quantum Computers Free To Anyone Working On Coronavirus Crisis
Microsoft’s new Xbox Series X, formerly known as Project Scarlet, is slated for release in the holiday period of 2020. Like any new console release, it promises better graphics, more immersive gameplay, and all manner of other superlatives in the press releases. In a sharp change from previous generations, however, …read more
Continue reading The New Xbox: Just How Fast Is 12 teraFLOPS?
On Tuesday the University of Texas at Texas launched the fastest supercomputer at any academic facility in the world.
The computer — named “Frontera” — is also the fifth most-powerful supercomputer on earth. Slashdot reader aarondubrow quotes their … Continue reading University of Texas Announces Fastest Academic Supercomputer In the World
It wasn’t that long ago when hard drives that boasted a terabyte of capacity were novel. But impressive though the tera- prefix is, beyond that is peta and even further is exa — as in petabyte and exabyte. A common i7 CPU currently clocks in at about 60 gigaflops (floating …read more
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: At the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt, Germany this week, Santa Clara-based chipmaker Nvidia announced that it will support processors architected by British semiconducto… Continue reading Nvidia Will Support ARM Hardware For High-Performance Computing
Why would someone build their own Beowulf cluster — a high-performance parallel computing prototype — using 12 Raspberry Pi boards? It’s using the standard Beowulf cluster architecture found in about 88% of the world’s largest parallel computing syst… Continue reading ‘Pi VizuWall’ Is a Beowulf Cluster Built With Raspberry Pi’s
Maybe we could do it one day, too. Continue reading Scientists Used Supercomputers to Learn How Pythons Regenerate Their Organs
Long-time Slashdot reader haruchai writes: Canadian company D-Wave has released their qbsolv tool on GitHub to help bolster interest and familiarity with quantum computing. “qbsolv is a metaheuristic or partitioning solver that solves a potentially lar… Continue reading D-Wave Open Sources Its Quantum Computing Tool
The national weather service of the U.K. claims it can now predict the weather up to a year in advance.
An anonymous reader quotes The Stack: The development has been made possible thanks to supercomputer technology granted by the UK Government in 201… Continue reading A British Supercomputer Can Predict Winter Weather a Year In Advance
Seeking a future where networks patch themselves, DARPA stages an AI vs. AI smackdown. Continue reading The World Series of Hacking—without humans