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ORNL: World’s Fastest Supercomputer Takes on Large Language Modeling
A team led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory explored training strategies for one of the largest artificial intelligence models to date with help from the world’s fastest supercomputer. The post ORNL: World’s Fastest...
Labs Keep Supercomputers Alive for Ten Years as Vendors Pull Support Early
Laboratories are running supercomputers for much longer, beyond the typical lifespan, as vendors prematurely deprecate the hardware and stop providing support. A typical supercomputer lifecycle is about five to six years. However, Japan-based RIKEN is planning to run...
Robotic buoys make their mark at the 2024 Paris Olympics
At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, robotic marks are being employed for the first time. These robotics marks are inflatable and have an underwater hull, battery pack, and thrusters that make them mobile on top of the water. The RC commands each mark to a GPS waypoint,...
UChicago Researchers Leverage Anton Simulations to Explore Protein Dynamics
Malfunction of the proteins that sense voltage changes in our nerve cells underlies a number of human diseases throughout the body. A University of Chicago team used an Anton 2 supercomputer developed by D. E. Shaw Research and hosted at PSC to simulate a...
IEEE launches study group to explore and develop humanoid robot standards
As humanoid robots garner widespread public attention, such systems will also need to stand up to safety and performance standards. IEEE’s Robotics & Automation Society today announced the formation of a new study group that will look into the current humanoid...
Robotics Manufacturing Hub to help small and midsize U.S. manufacturers compete
When the ARM Institute launched its Robotics Manufacturing Hub about a year ago, it quickly realized that U.S. manufacturers weren’t looking at robotics and automation because they weren’t interested in the technology. Instead, the barriers to automation loomed so...
ProGlove study shows retail managers are cautiously optimistic about automation
Up to 36.5% of retail leaders looking to automate expect to see benefits from new technology in two to five years, according to a recent study from wearable technology developer ProGlove. The Chicago-based company surveyed more than 1,000 retail management...
Harvard/Google use AI to help Produce Astonishing 3D Map of Brain Tissue
Although LLMs are getting all the notice lately, AI techniques of many varieties are being infused throughout science. For example, Harvard researchers, Google, and colleagues published a 3D map in Science that reveals a small chunk of as human brain in astonishing...
Computational Tools Fuel Reconstruction of New and Improved Bird Family Tree
An international team of scientists has built the largest and most detailed bird family tree to date—an intricate chart delineating 93 million years of evolutionary relationships between 363 bird species, representing 92% of all bird families. The advance was made...
Researchers build microrobots to remove microplastics from water
When old food packaging, discarded children’s toys and other mismanaged plastic waste break down into microplastics, they become even harder to clean up from oceans and waterways. These tiny bits of plastic also attract bacteria, including those that cause disease....
LLNL Team Accelerates Multi-Physics Simulations with El Capitan Predecessor Systems
=Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have achieved a milestone in accelerating and adding features to complex multi-physics simulations run on Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), a development that could advance high performance computing and...
Edge-to-Cloud: Exploring an HPC Expedition in Self-Driving Learning
The journey begins as Kate Keahey’s wandering path unfolds, leading to improbable events. Keahey, Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, leads Chameleon. This innovative project offers an edge-to-cloud platform tailored for...