Microsoft’s Singularity is a response to the computational costs of training deep learning workloads—costs that have quickly spiraled as those workloads have grown in size, complexity and number. It is also an attempt to maximize the use of idle time, which has increasingly become a focus of discussions of how to minimize the costs and […]

SupermarQ is a suite of benchmarks that measure a machine’s performance on a range of applications. These applications mirror real-world problems in a variety of domains such as finance, chemistry, energy, and encryption. The post Super.tech Releases SupermarQ – A New Suite of Benchmarks for Quantum Computers appeared first on HPCwire.

Advances in quantum science have the potential to revolutionize the way we live. Quantum computers hold promise for solving problems that are intractable today, and we may one day use quantum networks as hackerproof information highways. The post Researchers Develop New Platform for Customizable Quantum Devices appeared first on HPCwire.

Permafrost covers more than 10 percent of the planet and stores vast amounts of carbon in frozen soil, making it a crucial—and dangerous—carbon sink. Understanding how (and why) permafrost is changing with the climate is critical to estimating (and mitigating) carbon emissions, but these dynamics remain largely opaque to researchers. A trio of researchers are […]

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.