Getting intact qubits from here-to-there is the basic challenge for any quantum internet scheme. Now, scientists from the University of Chicago, Stanford University, and California Institute of Technology have introduced a completely new idea for how to transmit quantum data — using vacuum beam guides (VBG) strung together in chains. The post Researchers Propose New […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — a Defense Department agency that invests in breakthrough technologies for national security — and the State of Illinois are partnering to test quantum technology prototypes on the state’s soon-to-be-built quantum campus, leveraging Illinois’ recent $500 million quantum budget outlay and the region’s deep bench of world-leading scientists to […]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 to John J. Hopfield, Princeton University, and Geoffrey E. Hinton, University of Toronto, “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” The post Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 Awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey […]

In a recent paper,  the authors suggest that AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data points from previous LLM models. Basically, the snake is eating its tail. Generative-AI has been successful in mining the Internet to create large LLM models that provide human-like answers to many problems. In particular, creating new text has […]

After much anticipation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued its first Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standards today. They are intended to defeat efforts by quantum computers powerful enough to decrypt data and communications that have been encrypted mostly using the RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptosystem. This is significant step forward and expected to prompt […]

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have been awarded more than 3 million node hours on the nation’s most powerful computers to explore questions around pathogens, climate and energy-efficient microelectronics. The post PNNL Scientists Tap Nation’s Fastest Computers to Explore Critical Science Questions appeared first on HPCwire.

Under a new agreement, NASA will host supercomputing resources for the University of California, Berkeley, at the agency’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. The agreement is part of an expanding partnership between Ames and UC Berkeley and will support the development of novel computing algorithms and software for a wide variety of scientific […]

GPUs are often likened to the “gold” of artificial intelligence, vital to today’s generative AI age. This article aims to explain why AI is unachievable without GPUs. Let’s start with a simple processor task — displaying an image on the screen. The post Understanding the GPU —The Catalyst of the Current AI Revolution appeared first on HPCwire.

Lehigh University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have developed an accelerating sparse accumulation (ASA) architecture, specialized hardware that enables faster computation on data sets that have a high number of zero values. Their work was first published in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization and has led to a provisional patent. The post Berkeley […]

Although technology has been instrumental in finding exoplanets, finding exoplanets remains challenging. With the sheer volume of data generated by space missions, satellites, and telescopes, traditional methods for data analysis are often insufficient. The variable sizes, great distances, brightness contrast with host stars, and obscured orbital positions have added to the challenge. The post AI […]