The HPC sector is on the cusp of yet another change in the way it does business, except this time the pendulum is swinging away from HPC vendors having the upper hand in choosing the products they deliver towards HPC users who define their workloads and then assemble the vendor-agnostic hardware and software they need […]
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) public affairs specialist Chad Boutin interviewed Alexey Gorshkov, a NIST theorist at NIST/University of Maryland’s Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) and Joint Quantum Institute, who works at the intersection of physics and computer science research. His efforts are helping in the design of quantum […]
The El Niño climate pattern, when it occurs, presents as warmer-than-usual water in the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean. The changes in temperature and rainfall that ensue from this warmer water can affect natural disasters, crop yields and even the proliferation of disease — but El Niño’s variations can be hard to predict. Recently, […]
Microchips are everywhere, running computers and cars, and even helping people find lost pets. As microchips grow smaller, faster and capable of doing more things, the wires that conduct electricity to them must follow suit. But there’s a physical limit to how small they can become—unless they are designed differently. The post Physicists Work To […]
Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Columbia University, the University of Connecticut, University of Edinburgh, Regensburg University, and the University of Southampton are seeking answers to physics mysteries at the highest energies and shortest distances. The team is devising new methods and enhancing their code in order to exploit the huge potential of the forthcoming Intel-HPE […]
While the HPC community is certainly aware of the shifting HPC technology landscape, it is worthwhile to occasionally take stock of how the overall changes are driving future architecture. Towards the end of last year, the National Science Foundation authored a paper outlining trends as NSF perceives them along with an explanation of the NSF […]
A collaboration between Harvard University with scientists at QuEra Computing, MIT, University of Innsbruck and other institutions has demonstrated a breakthrough application of neutral-atom quantum processors to solve problems of practical use. The work led by Professors Mikhail Lukin and Markus Greiner at Harvard and Vladan Vuletic at MIT, titled “Quantum Optimization of Maximum Independent […]
The first exoplanet detection happened only 30 years ago—but now, thanks to rapid advances in observation and data processing technologies, astronomers are working to not only detect exoplanets, but also to characterize them. This work—enabled by a supercomputer at the University of Cambridge—is providing unprecedented understanding of these extraterrestrial atmospheres. Header image: artist’s impression of […]
More than 90 percent of plastic remains unrecycled, and as a result, billions of tons of plastic reside in landfills (or worse, in natural environments) around the world. This snowballing environmental disaster has caught the attention of researchers from a wide range of fields, who have proposed solutions ranging from the robotic to the chemical […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief how small elements of a virus can play a crucial role in combating it with therapeutic drugs and vaccines. In Covid’s case, this research has included highly detailed simulations of viral features like the spike protein and the glycan shield; now, researchers from the University of Delaware […]
