High-performance computing, or supercomputing, combined with new data-science approaches such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) give scientists the ability to explore phenomena at levels of detail that would otherwise be impossible or impractical. This ranges from solving the most difficult physics calculations, to designing better drugs for cancer and COVID-19, to optimizing additive […]

Love it or hate it, improv — though it may appear random — is often more purposeful and patterned than it may seem. And, improbable as it may seem, supercomputing is at play here, too: a team of Penn State-led researchers applied the university’s Roar supercomputer to map and analyze the patterns in the improvisational […]

Q-CTRL, a global leader in developing useful quantum technologies, today announced the results of hardware benchmarking experiments demonstrating its autonomous error-correction techniques increased the likelihood of quantum computing algorithm success over 1000x on real hardware, surpassing a 25x improvement reported last November. Source: Q-CTRL The post Q-CTRL Achieves 9000x Improvement in Quantum Algorithmic Success appeared first on […]

Currently, there are many qubit technologies vying for sway in quantum computing. So far, superconducting (IBM, Google) and trapped ion (IonQ, Quantinuum) have dominated the conversation. Microsoft’s proposed topological qubit, which relies on the existence of a still-unproven particle (Majorana), may be the most intriguing. Recently, neutral atom approaches have quickened pulses in the quantum […]

Even the toughest materials on Earth are vulnerable under the most extreme conditions. A supercomputer simulation visualized just that by cracking, melting and recrystallizing a virtual diamond under immense pressure and unimaginable temperatures. The post Sandia Supercomputer Model Simulates a Melting Diamond appeared first on HPCwire.

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign developed GPU-accelerated software to simulate a 2-billion-atom cell that metabolizes and grows like a living cell The post NVIDIA GPUs Enable Simulation of a Living Cell appeared first on HPCwire.

Scientists working with the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have developed Ginkgo, a sparse linear algebra library designed to increase portability of software among heterogeneous supercomputing architectures. The portability problem is usually addressed by applying a portability layer, which generates language-specific kernels through interfaces like Kokkos, RAJA or OpenMP. The Ginkgo effort choses a different strategy […]

When it comes to developing quantum computers and harnessing quantum information, scientists require a complete understanding of the materials that make up superconducting qubits, or quantum bits, the core component of a quantum computer that holds information. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, along with collaborators such as Rigetti Computing […]

When considering a large complex system, such as an AI cluster, supercomputer, or compute cluster, you may think you only have two options—build from scratch from the ground up, or buy a pre-configured, supercomputer-in-a-box from a major technology vendor that everyone else is buying. But there is a third option that takes a best-of-both-worlds approach. […]

In this regular feature, HPCwire highlights newly published research in the high-performance computing community and related domains. From parallel programming to exascale to quantum computing, the details are here. The post What’s New in HPC Research: BaGuaLu, PolyCoder, Turbulent Flows & More appeared first on HPCwire.