For scientists, data is the lifeblood of research. Collecting, organizing and sharing data both within and across fields drives pivotal discoveries that make us better off and more secure. Making data open and available, however, only answers part of the question about how different scientists — often with very different training — can draw useful conclusions from the same […]

When Tony Stark needs to travel to space in the original Iron Man movie, he asks his artificial intelligence (AI) assistant J.A.R.V.I.S. to make a suit that can survive harsh conditions. As AI specialist Kamal Choudhary explains: “The way I see it, what J.A.R.V.I.S. did is, it had a database of materials, scanned the database, […]

As climate change continues to accelerate, many scientists are increasingly worried that the world will not be able to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels quickly enough to meaningfully avert worst-case scenarios. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies, which would remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it have been hotly discussed and prototyped […]

EOSC-Nordic, the Nordic and Baltic coordinator of the European Open Science Cloud is running calculations on the new pre-exascale supercomputer, LUMI, through one of the chosen Norwegian pilot projects for the new HPC system in Finland. The post LUMI Supercomputer Aids in Nordic Climate Modeling appeared first on HPCwire.

It’s no secret that finding and correcting errors in modern computer chips is an ever-growing problem. An article published this week in the New York Times (NYT) – Tiny Chips, Big Headaches – suggests the challenge is reaching critical proportion. While not especially technical, the NYT piece includes comments from chip players and cites papers by […]

Duke University and IonQ researchers today reported developing a powerful new approach to executing multi-qubit entanglement gates that “can dramatically simplify quantum circuit structures, speed up their execution, and extend the power of quantum computer systems facing decoherence.” The post IonQ, Duke Report Multi-Qubit Gate Advance for Quantum Computing appeared first on HPCwire.

On March 1, 2002, European researchers looked to the sky as the Envisat satellite mission began. Envisat hosted nine instruments designed to gather information about the Earth’s atmosphere in unprecedented detail. The satellite continued to send data back to Earth until 2012, when European Space Agency (ESA) staff lost contact and declared an official end […]

Beyond the immediate investigations surrounding new variants and pharmaceuticals, the Covid-19 pandemic is raising the profile of another crucial, anxiety-inducing question: where will the next pandemic come from, and how can we be better-prepared? As Covid took hold, Artem Babaian—a researcher at the University of Cambridge—scoured enormous genomic datasets for viral fingerprints, leveraging vast cloud […]

Once fully operational, LUMI is expected to be one of the world’s most efficient and environmentally friendly supercomputers. Launching LUMI is a multi-stage process: the operating environment expands as the system is commissioned. The post Multi-Phase Launch of LUMI Supercomputer Promising for Solving Intricate Research Challenges appeared first on HPCwire.

The Ohio State University recently announced it is establishing the Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (CQISE), building on the momentum around a discipline with far-reaching economic and societal impacts. The post Ohio State Establishes Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering appeared first on HPCwire.