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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...
Inside Meta’s research with Boston Dynamics’ Spot
Researchers at Meta AI and Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) have been working with Boston Dynamics‘ Spot quadruped to push the robot to new heights. Their research resulted in two significant breakthroughs toward creating general-purposed embodied AI agents that are...
How Do We Make Supercomputing Operations More Sustainable Today and in the Future?
Sustainability in high-performance computing (HPC) has been on everyone’s mind lately. In the most recent survey from Hyperion Research, sustainability and energy efficiency rose to the top of priority lists for many HPC datacenter procurement plans, second only to...
This turtle-inspired robot can dig through sand
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a robot that can swim under the sand and dig itself out. The robot has two front limbs that mimic the oversized flippers of turtle hatchlings. The post This turtle-inspired robot can dig through sand...
Researchers Utilize Monte Carlo Simulations to Decipher Long-Range Interactions
Researchers at Leipzig University have developed a highly efficient method to investigate systems with long-range interactions that were previously puzzling to experts. These systems can be gases or even solid materials such as magnets whose atoms interact not only...











