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Altair Survey Reveals Growing Impact of Digital Twin Tech in Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance Industries
Altair, a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), released results from a global survey that reveals the widespread use of digital twin technology in the banking and financial industries. The post Altair Survey Reveals Growing Impact...
Enhancing Risk Management and Trading Strategies with GPU-Accelerated High-Performance Computing
In today’s fiercely competitive financial markets, staying ahead of the game requires ongoing refinement of risk management and trading strategies. Yet financial firms face diverse challenges—from processing and securing ever-growing amounts of data at unprecedented...
Los Alamos Researchers Advance Quantum Hardware with New Natural Interaction Approach
A potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids much of the problematic complexity found in current quantum computers. The strategy implements an algorithm in natural quantum interactions to process a variety of real-world...
Generative AI Boosts Demand for Compute Resources: Altman Solon Analysis
Altman Solon believes growth in enterprise-level generative AI tools will lead to incremental demand for compute resources, positively benefiting core, centralized data centers, where training occurs, and local data centers, where inference occurs. Network providers...
WEKA Sheds Light on Data Infrastructure Challenges Hampering AI Adoption at Scale
According to a new global study conducted by S&P Global Market Intelligence and commissioned by WEKA, the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) by enterprises and research organizations seeking to create new value propositions is accelerating, but data...
Researchers use ChatGPT to make a tomato picking robot
A team of researchers at the Technical University in Delft, Netherlands and the Swiss technical university EPFL used ChatGPT to help them develop a tomato-picking robot. A study about the development of the robot was recently published in Nature Machine Intelligence. ...
Maximizing GPU Performance Amidst Today’s Increasing Shortages
Expanding a GPU cluster is far from straightforward, especially as generative AI has accelerated shortages. NVIDIA A100 GPUs were some of the first to be impacted (reported increases by up to 40% above MSRP according to WCCFtech) and they are now so scarce that the...
What is a Cat Qubit and Why Should You Care? Ask Alice & Bob
Quantum computing is in the midst of the so-called NISQ era – a time of noisy intermediate scale quantum devices based a variety of qubit modalities, all of which are too error-prone for practical computing. While the qubit zoo keeps growing – superconducting, trapped...
The dual aspects of robot safety
If you have an interest in robot safety of industrial robots, you don’t have to search far to find videos of industrial robots flawlessly stopping upon collision with various obstacles – this could be anything from people to water bottles or balloons. The common...
NERSC Supercomputers Enable Bioinspired Chemical Strategy for Efficient Energy Conversion
Inspired by how our body’s motor proteins facilitate tasks like muscle contraction and cellular migration, scientists have been looking for efficient ways to convert chemical energy (the energy stored in substances) into useful mechanical work. By understanding and...
Supercomputer Simulations Generate Surge of New Data Related to Stormy Weather Predictions
To better predict the specifics of these storms, researchers at The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) recently used Expanse at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego and Stampede2 supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to...
LLNL Researchers Harness Machine Learning for Advanced Simulations of Water Structure in Carbon Nanotubes
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists recently combined large-scale molecular dynamics simulations with machine learning interatomic potentials derived from first-principles calculations to examine the hydrogen bonding of water confined in carbon...