China now has the world's two fastest supercomputers and is tied with the United States for the largest number of supercomputers.
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According to China's official list of its fastest supercomputers, the institute still runs two of China's three fastest supercomputers on Intel processors.
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In 2001, there were no Chinese supercomputers on the Top500.
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Are the supercomputers in our pockets to blame, offering an
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The industry noticed, and Nvidia made a play for supercomputers.
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The fight against the coronavirus has a new ally: supercomputers.
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The schools run some of the world's most advanced supercomputers.
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The same goes for artificial intelligence, mobile technology and supercomputers.
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Designers there have developed chips for sensitive applications such as supercomputers.
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Intel chips dominate high-powered computing in desktops, servers and supercomputers.
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But other key technologies in the fastest supercomputers will be affected.
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To do this, we need supercomputers capable of performing these calculations.
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Airlines use supercomputers to constantly tweak and optimize their price discrimination.
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Supercomputers are used for scientific research, including medical treatments and weather prediction.
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With 70 qubits, it would require enough supercomputers to fill a city.
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That's not to say supercomputers aren't being used for grander scientific research.
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IN 2000 CHINA had two supercomputers ranked among the world's fastest 500.
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It maintains two supercomputers that together carry out 90trn calculations per second.
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China is catching up to the U.S. in the development of supercomputers.
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Japan comes in third with 35 supercomputers, and Germany fourth with 20.
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A few supercomputers must cost way less than billions in disaster recovery!
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A similar kind of chip was being used to build advanced supercomputers.
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That data in turn will be run through IBM's Power9 supercomputers, the same ones used in the U.S. Department of Energy's Summit and Sierra supercomputers, and modeled using supplementary data from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
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Inside, it's home to two supercomputers that focus on the vast landscape above.
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Here's a list of the Top 10 most powerful supercomputers in the world.
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Of the top 500 supercomputers, China holds the largest number of systems: 219.
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But the United States' horde of supercomputers controls 38.4% of the supercomputing power.
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Supercomputers are also used for national defense and scientific research, among other projects.
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But the supercomputers that process their complex algorithms are nowhere to be seen.
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These problems can take decades for even the fastest current supercomputers to solve.
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Users have transformed the computers into cell towers, supercomputers, and retro game consoles.
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In 2001, there were no Chinese supercomputers in the world's top 500 ranking.
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The United States had the largest number of supercomputers in the top 20.
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In this case, the supercomputers weren't supposed to be connected to the internet.
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Artificial intelligence and supercomputers have armed traders with an unprecedented amount of information.
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The models are powered by supercomputers that simulate weather all over the world.
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Even while these projects were being built, supercomputers were advancing, becoming more powerful.
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Having a slow connection is always frustrating, but just imagine how supercomputers feel.
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And now those mining startups might also have to compete with nuclear facility supercomputers.
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The Department of Energy is currently home to the fastest supercomputers in the world.
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Currently, IBM is the maker of the world's two fastest supercomputers, Summit and Sierra.
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Delos must have gotten a sweet deal on supercomputers when it built The Forge.
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Supercomputers use leading edge semiconductor technology to solve complex computational problems at extraordinary speeds.
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Previously, Descartes Labs built one of the world&aposs most powerful supercomputers using AWS.
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But it has also tried kneecapping Chinese producers of microchips, surveillance gear and supercomputers.
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They noted that access to time on traditional, stand-alone supercomputers is limited for researchers.
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In this gulf lies the vast stew of fake news and wrist supercomputers; now what?
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There's been a lot of talk recently about using supercomputers to simulate the human brain.
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Tweaked versions of Nvidia's GPUs can now be found in supercomputers, data-centres and cars.
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Darpa was also in charge of the Illiac IV, one of the world's first supercomputers.
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Ensuring U.S. leadership in this critical area goes beyond just building the world's fastest supercomputers.
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These supercomputers model the upper atmosphere as well as what is happening near the ground.
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The analyst cited how only 15 of the world's top 500 supercomputers use GPU chips.
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New orbits are calculated with supercomputers to see if there's a chance of any collisions.
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Its most powerful, high-end servers and supercomputers often rely in part on American technology.
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It's a list scientists put together twice a year of the top 500 fastest supercomputers.
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Even though Lapenta got his new supercomputers in January, most of the system remains idle.
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Intel and Cray are also supplying new software to make advanced supercomputers easier to program.
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Experts say the dual partnerships could help China develop a new generation of powerful supercomputers.
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Even supercomputers cannot simply calculate all possible moves, presenting a big challenge for AlphaGo's creators.
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Running it means performing quadrillions of mathematical operations a second—hence the need for supercomputers.
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We carry supercomputers in our pockets and place them next to us as we sleep.
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While the U.S. continues to hold a prominent position in HPC, the Associated Press recently reported that China has now officially displaced the U.S. for the first time with the most supercomputers on the Top 500 listing of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
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The world's two fastest supercomputers are now American, according to the rankings that are released biannually.
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The U.S. holds the most spots on the list, with five supercomputers that made the cut.
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The Commerce Department said the companies use their supercomputers and components for military and nuclear purposes.
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Some researchers are trying to demonstrate that their quantum computers can solve problems that supercomputers can't.
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The data is then processed and re-processed by some of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
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Exascale supercomputers can operate at quintillion calculations per second, according to the DOE's Exascale Computing Project.
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Building supercomputers is a digital arms race, and China is moving quickly to solidify its lead.
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Using its supercomputers, on Friday NASA was able to animate the predicted path of the snowstorm.
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It boasts that its technology is used in half of the top 500 most powerful supercomputers.
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That could prove useful in designing drugs or optimizing chemical processes — problems that currently occupy supercomputers.
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It's not about super-doctors -- or supercomputers for that matter -- parachuting in to save the day.
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China's investment in high-performance chips and supercomputers in recent years has been significant and effective.
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He predicts 100 percent of these supercomputers will be GPU accelerated over the next five years.
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Fabric animation is still very trial-and-error, and it requires time-intensive supercomputers to render.
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Some Chinese officials said the chips could be used in a new generation of faster supercomputers.
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Supercomputers have been used in past outbreaks, including the 2014 Ebola epidemic and 2015 Zika epidemic.
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But with new technologies turning automobiles into supercomputers on wheels, Delphi is trying to reinvent itself.
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It has been invested in improved supercomputers, more observation data points and increasingly advanced scientific models.
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Supercomputers are differentiated from mainframe computers by their vast data storage capacities and expansive computational powers.
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Last week, the department gave the same treatment to one of China's leading makers of supercomputers.
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So-called quantum computers will be far more powerful than the fastest supercomputers in existence today.
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The United States has long stated that holding the most powerful supercomputers are crucial for national security.
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Quantum computers are the newest generation of supercomputers — powerful machines with a new approach to processing information.
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Resembling NASA's mission control, every aspect of the AI's performance could be regulated from the team's supercomputers.
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Supercomputers like the Sunway TaihuLight are often used to solve complex systems problems of non-linear dynamics.
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Once it does — with these specs — Summit should remain the king of supercomputers for the immediate future.
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This will help improve performance, but Nvidia is going a step further with the help of supercomputers.
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In the high-tech sector, the developer's investments include supercomputers, surgical robotics, unpiloted aircraft and health engineering.
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Summit is one of two of these next-generation supercomputers that IBM is building for the DEO.
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If a quantum computer can be built, it will be exponentially more powerful than even today's supercomputers.
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That could eventually benefit regional forecasters in parts of the world where access to supercomputers is scarce.
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One of them, Lenovo, which bought former IBM hardware operations, led the rankings with 140 supercomputers installed.
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And many types of disciplines, from supercomputers to molecular biology, must be brought together to do that.
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U.S. company Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) still maintains the most supercomputers in the world with 127 machines.
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Combines guided by GPS, drones, satellite imagery, soil sensors and supercomputers all help the nation's food production.
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Other than that, both supercomputers run on similar specs: IBM Power9 processors with Nvidia Tesla V100 accelerator chips.
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Shannon went on to invent the math behind search engines, and Hillis designed one of the first supercomputers.
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But until today, it wasn't certain that the technology would be faster than supercomputers we can build now.
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Right now, the fastest supercomputers in the world can make quadrillions — or thousands of trillions — calculations each second.
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The United States, China, the European Union and Japan have all announced plans to build exaflop-capable supercomputers.
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We may have supercomputers in our pockets, but aren't they causing an epidemic of loneliness among the young?
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San Francisco-based startup Atomwise is looking to replace test tubes with supercomputers during the drug development process.
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Nvidia is working with chip designer ARM on technology that's designed to allow for more energy-efficient supercomputers.
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Researchers are using supercomputers and lookout stations like this to model the dynamics of wildfires in real time.
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Why it matters: Today's supercomputers are on processing par with quantum computers operating with less than 50 qubits.
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SGI, a maker of supercomputers, denied that it had ever done business with one of his companies, Cloudcroft.
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His (to scale) sculptures of current IBM supercomputers are now at Petzel Gallery in Manhattan through April 30.
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That means that even cheap, battery-powered chips now offer performance better than the supercomputers of the 20183s.
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After publication, an Argonne spokesperson clarified that Aurora, unlike other DOE supercomputers, will not be involved in weapons work.
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When scientists sought to model the universe's evolution, they brought their data to the experts and supercomputers at DOE.
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The source of chips for supercomputers has become a factor in trade tensions between the United States and China.
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Or all those little apps on our phones—those incredible pocket supercomputers—talking to billions of other little apps.
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The keys are so complex that it would take all the supercomputers on earth billions of years to guess.
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It took about 30 million processor hours of supercomputing time, split between two supercomputers, to create the new model.
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From supercomputers to embedded control systems to user-facing interfaces, everything is constantly rolling on to the next version.
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China dominates a biannual ranking of the world's 220 fastest supercomputers, called the Top210, that was published on Monday.
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Even more than for the bragging rights, supercomputers now matter for everything from weather forecasting to packaged-goods design.
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Automobiles have essentially become supercomputers on wheels, and more of them are linked to the internet, posing security risks.
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OpenAI will ensure its services work on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, and the companies will collaborate on new supercomputers.
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The first task for the supercomputers in the cancer project is analyzing patient records and genomic data, he said.
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And with supercomputers, scientists are also designing their own enzymes using the ones they've found in nature as templates.
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It now claims more than 200 of the fastest 500 supercomputers, while the United States has fewer than 150.
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Supercomputers now perform tasks that include simulating nuclear tests, predicting climate trends, finding oil deposits and cracking encryption codes.
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Tristan Harris said we have the smartest engineers in the country turning supercomputers into dopamine delivery devices for teenagers.
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This is also the first time that the U.S. does not have the most supercomputers on the Top500 list.
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Overall, five of the top 10 supercomputers are American, two are Chinese, and Switzerland, Japan, and Germany each have one.
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Containing over 100 desks and supercomputers, it was built to observe the adjacent million square feet of stacked AI servers.
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That way, the company can potentially build supercomputers for use on deep-space missions to the Moon and Mars someday.
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Without access to supercomputers, they said, running virtual experiments of potential drug compounds on traditional computers would take much longer.
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As of last June, China has more supercomputers in the world's top 500 than the US — 167 compared to 165.
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Supercomputers have a much higher processing capacity compared to a general-use computer, and a much higher speed of calculation.
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Now we've all got supercomputers in our pockets, whether we use a Mac, a PC, or no computer at all.
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We also have a new processor, certain to be a hit for supercomputers, coming out this year that has 72.
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Companies often argue that privacy is what we sacrifice for the supercomputers in our pockets and their highly personalized services.
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She added that the 14 groups collectively went to the government and offered their services and time on their supercomputers.
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The company said today that it had achieved "quantum supremacy," a milestone that would make current supercomputers look like toys.
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To turn McDonald's, a chain better known for supersized portions than for supercomputers, into a saltier, greasier version of Amazon.
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The new Chinese supercomputer, dubbed the Sunway TaihuLight, was in the first slot on the Top500 list of supercomputers Monday.
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Some are still working together in smaller supercomputers at other schools; others have broken down or been lost to time.
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At the heart of these versatile and powerful networks is a volume of calculation only achievable by the equivalent of supercomputers.
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Forecast models help predict the weather; they're run using supercomputers that input atmospheric data from around the world into specific formulas.
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The supercomputers will work this out using early access copies of the game, with these instructions then used by Nvidia's GPUs.
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The current best supercomputers are able to simulate only what more general-purpose quantum computers of about 50 qubits can do.
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"Traditional supercomputers are still very important for reduced latency, but AWS and Azure are starting to offer these capabilities," Moorhead says.
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The company, led by former Google executive Jeff Huber, was originally an offshoot of Illumina, which develops supercomputers for genomic sequencing.
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Finding digits of pi may be a favorite pastime for researchers with idle supercomputers, but this is mostly just showing off.
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Additionally, many U.S. companies will utilize supercomputers to analyze and create products with a greater level of precision than ever before.
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Each day, DOE's supercomputers are being used to explore fundamental scientific questions and address some of our nation's most complex challenges.
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Cars are in the fast lane to becoming supercomputers on wheels, and that will change the way we live our lives.
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Today's supercomputers are made up of thousands of connected processors, and their speed has grown exponentially over the past few decades.
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Supercomputers are used for functions like forecasting weather and climate trends, simulating nuclear tests, performing pharmaceutical research and cracking encryption keys.
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The brute force of "petaflop" supercomputers capable of cranking out 1,000 trillion floating-point calculations per second has helped reduce guesswork.
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The pictures are so detailed they had to use one of the most powerful supercomputers on Earth to ingest the data.
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Supercomputers are made by lashing together thousands of processors, linked by a specialized fabric of digital circuitry known as interconnect technology.
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These inter- and intra-molecular interactions are the kind of thing supercomputers can grind away at endlessly to cover every possibility.
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China already makes the world's fastest computers, but they run on homegrown chips that cannot read commonly available software for supercomputers.
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On Wednesday, Google said its researchers had performed a calculation that the largest supercomputers could not complete in under 10,000 years.
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The return on investment for supercomputers, then, is found in the accelerated way that its benefits are distributed throughout the university.
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Modern magic being what it is, the crystal balls are actually supercomputers running programs with 1m or more lines of code.
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By the 1980s, as supercomputers let us model the climate with ever greater power, we came to understand our possible fate.
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Today, supercomputers can run trillions of calculations per second and account for many more of the complex interactions influencing global climate.
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There Richardson's forecast factories have become real-life cathedrals of calculation, with supercomputers housed in rooms the size of volleyball courts.
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The supercomputers can be used to forecast climate change, look into a cure for cancer, and research nuclear fusion, among other tasks.
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One of Nvidia's claims to fame is its incredible graphical processors, which help power some of the fastest supercomputers in the world.
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There's no reason to think they won't achieve it, either, since Chinese supercomputers have reliably been among the fastest in the world.
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It's an achievement that took supercomputers, eight telescopes stationed on five continents, hundreds of researchers, and vast amounts of data to accomplish.
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Sushant Singh Rajput casually talks about the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, supercomputers and non-linear thinking while doodling furiously on piece of paper.
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Some think the dwarfs are targets being eliminated by the storm, others think they are seven supercomputers operated by the intelligence community.
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While those hefty supercomputers were brand spanking new in the '60s, it'd be absurd if the IRS still used those mainframes today.
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This super-theoretical work is the foundation for super-new materials that might one day replace wires and parts in future supercomputers.
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But the theory itself is mathematically cumbersome, and crunching the numbers is computing-intensive: Even relatively simple quark simulations can require supercomputers.
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The "uploaders" are those who are happy with the prospect of coming back to life as sentient software running on future supercomputers.
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"Today even consumer detergent bottles are designed with supercomputers," said Eric D. Isaacs, a physicist and provost of the University of Chicago.
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We can now summon cars to ferry us wherever we want to go, giving form to thought using our connected pocket supercomputers.
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So, SAT methods offer a way into automated formal verification and the cheap supercomputers of 2017 offer a way into formal verification.
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Joining the dots, supercomputers generate weather maps and spew out forecasts by matching them with similar weather patterns recorded in the past.
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Centers of exascale supercomputers — computers able to perform at least a billion billion calculations per second — would be up to the task.
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Supercomputers have long been a mainstay of military and intelligence agencies, used for chores ranging from cracking codes to designing nuclear weapons.
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"Building AI supercomputers is exciting to the entire SwiftStack team," says the company's co-founder and CPO Joe Arnold in today's announcement.
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Supercomputers that are five times faster — 1,000 petaflops, or an exaflop — are in the works, both abroad and in the United States.
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Of the world's four fastest supercomputers, two are located in the United States and two are located in China, according to TOP2003.
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A new consortium of top scientists will be able to use some of the world's most advanced supercomputers to look for solutions.
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Race for vaccine, medical supplies The speed of the pandemic presents an unprecedented challenge for scientists, but supercomputers could offer some help.
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Supercomputers can solve calculations and run experiments that, if done on traditional computing systems or by hand, would take months or years.
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China's overarching policy, Mr. Stevens said, is "to play the long game in technology, and supercomputers are just one part of that."
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China also has almost twice as many supercomputers and about 15 times as many deployed 5G base stations as the United States.
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Qualcomm is also helping the Chinese government develop supercomputers, a technology the United States government has discouraged American companies from supporting overseas.
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The data collected are sent to NOAA supercomputers that produce digital weather forecasts, which arrive in the hands of meteorologists hours later.
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The Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world was released yesterday at the 2017 International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Sugon is a major provider of data centers and supercomputers in China, and one of the leading computer systems manufacturers in the world.
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Once, Big Oil was at the forefront of digitisation, pioneering the use of 3-D seismic data and supercomputers to help find resources.
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If Google's chip had used 60 qubits rather than 53, then simulating its results with IBM's approach would require 30 Oak Ridge supercomputers.
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NVidia contributes the pure power with four NVIDIA DGX-1 supercomputers, delivering four petaFLOPS of performance with NVIDIA ® Tesla ® V100 GPUs.
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In 2008, China had a twentieth of the number of supercomputers that the U.S. had, but by 2018, it had twice as many.
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Fortunately, modern GPUs are basically sandwich-sized supercomputers, so it can now be done in a high-end laptop watching the drone's feed.
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"Without supercomputers and the ability to do a lot of simulations very quickly, we really couldn't do any of this work," Wall said.
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Summit is expected to end that run when the official ranking of supercomputers, from an organization called Top500, is updated later this month.
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Even in the nice neighborhoods, it ain't like people are there, you know, living comfy when now we have supercomputers that's threatening everything.
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But it was right around the time when 3D was coming out of STI and the domain of supercomputers to the consumer space.
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The star is an incredibly complex system of interwoven magnetic fields that are difficult to re-create using even the most advanced supercomputers.
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While the quants have crunched their numbers through supercomputers their models for what works are based virtually entirely on "backtesting" against historical data.
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With on-board lidar, cameras and ultrasonic sensors, as well as Nvidia's Jetson TX1 AI supercomputers, Marble's robots perceive the environment around them.
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China also leads a more obscure category — total processing power, or the combined computing speeds of all of its supercomputers on the list.
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One valuable ally is a research group at the University of Western Australia (UWA) -- home to one of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
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Today, supercomputers at US national laboratories are used for everything from simulating the conditions around detonated nuclear bombs to modeling the Earth's climate.
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The fight against the novel coronavirus is just one example of how supercomputers have become an essential part of the process of discovery.
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Today, given the flood of digital health data and supercomputers, Dr. Gaziano said that population science might be entering a new golden age.
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To apply for time on these supercomputers, teams of scientists must submit a two-page proposal summarizing their goals, resource needs, and qualifications.
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The simulation, which anyone with a virtual reality setup can access, is being run on Oracle supercomputers, with a grant from the company.
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In areas such as supercomputers, satellite navigation and drones, Mr. Xi has pushed Chinese companies to work alongside the military to chase breakthroughs.
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We live longer, eat better, and keep in our pockets computers more powerful than the supercomputers that guided the first people in space.
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Google may have bested supercomputers for now, but eventually someone could find a clever way for a traditional computer to win a rematch.
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As an astrophysicist, he built galaxy simulations, using supercomputers to model the way the universe expands and how galaxies crash into one another.
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To improve the performance of one of the world's biggest supercomputers, the agency is crowdsourcing some new ideas about an old coding language.
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While the Chinese have perfected the manufacture of traditional supercomputers pioneered by American companies like IBM and Cray, the United States may focus on new, more efficient supercomputers that might lead to machines intended for challenges like artificial intelligence, according to Larry Smarr, a physicist who directs the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University of California, San Diego.
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All this data is transmitted to the National Hurricane Center in real time; it's fed into supercomputers that predict where the hurricane is going.
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Darpa's Cyber Grand Challenge played in the ballroom of the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas---and inside seven supercomputers perched atop the ballroom stage.
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At the same time, it provides computing power to researchers that even eclipses that of supercomputers because of the limited availability of the latter.
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Thankfully, over time, these upcoming exascale supercomputers will likely be freed from the military apparatus and put to work divining new insights from data.
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Scientists at a company lab said they had taken a big step toward creating a machine that would make today's supercomputers look like toys.
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Consider this: The smartphone in your pocket is 463 times more powerful than the fastest multi-million dollar supercomputers of just 20 years ago.
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Rival Intel would have faced challenges as it along with Mellanox are dominant suppliers of InfiniBand technology, a networking standard commonly used in supercomputers.
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Probably. But a dumb phone can show us glimpses, however brief, of a life without all the indulgences and interruptions of our pocket supercomputers.
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As the number of qubits in a quantum computer passes this threshold, it becomes computationally intractable for even classical supercomputers to use the protocol.
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Several American scientists compared what is going on now to the 1980s, when they worried that the nation was losing ground to Japanese supercomputers.
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Engineers at General Motors, meanwhile, have used supercomputers to simulate crash tests from every angle, test seatbelt and airbag performance, and improve pedestrian safety.
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Against long odds, and despite an abstruse structure, in which supercomputers "mine" the currency via mathematical formulas, Bitcoin has become a multibillion-dollar industry.
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China now has the world's fastest supercomputers, manufactures most of the world's computer chips and is the leading maker of drone hardware, he observed.
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Zen chips have won a string of contracts with Microsoft and Sony (for new games consoles), Google (data centres) and Cray (supercomputers), among others.
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Two dark minimalist sculptures, "IBM Blue Gene 1" and its mate "2," recreate the mass and exterior detailing of giant supercomputers, also in graphite.
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Uber began the launch with Volvo XC2100 SUVs outfitted with sensors and supercomputers in an expansion of the self-driving pilot project in Pittsburgh.
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Basically, we can put together optimized brute-force problem solving and accessible modern supercomputers and get a reasonable way of solving super-complex problems.
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Oil companies like BP and Italy's Eni use powerful supercomputers to crunch data from sound waves into images of petroleum deposits in the ground.
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A quantum machine could one day drive big advances in areas like artificial intelligence and make even the most powerful supercomputers look like toys.
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Then again, for instance, we are now placing supercomputers with access to all of human knowledge in the hands of almost everyone on earth.
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A February 2018 story in Science reported that the top two Chinese computers were more powerful than all of the DOE's 21 current supercomputers combined.
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Most people have likely never seen a supercomputer in person, let alone sat on one, as the vintage Cray supercomputers memorably allowed people to do.
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FLOPs is another common term, which means floating-point operations per second; these pertain to higher-precision math often used by supercomputers for scientific calculations.
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But now, the scientists must take their data back to supercomputers, line up those light sources, and run special algorithms to get the final picture.
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This analysis takes a considerable amount of computational power, similar to what you'd expect from Google's search engine and from Unit 8200's massive supercomputers.
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Despite the fact that the Chinese now have the most supercomputers on the list, the United States still dominates the top 20, with 10 machines.
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The combination of artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and drug discovery is a growing field in medicine — and some fear a computer could one day replace doctors.
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Google designed an experimental processor that could process computations in 200 seconds that would take today's fastest supercomputers 10,000 years to achieve, the company says.
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The United States' nuclear stockpile will be managed by a $600 million supercomputer called "El Capitan" that's more powerful than the top 100 supercomputers combined.
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Sugon supercomputers support State Grid, the monopoly that runs China's electric grid; China Mobile, the country's largest telecom services provider; and the China Meteorological Administration.
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With A.M.D.'s help, experts say, Sugon could develop chips that could make China's supercomputers more versatile and adaptable and replace those from foreign firms.
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The company's chips — known as graphics processing units, or GPUs — are finding homes in drones, robots, self-driving cars, servers, supercomputers and virtual-reality gear.
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I'm friends with Tristan Harris, who talks about how we have some of the smartest engineers in this country turning supercomputers into dopamine delivery devices.
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The telescope array collected 5,000 trillion bytes of data over two weeks, which was processed through supercomputers so that the scientists could retrieve the images.
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For this reason, cosmology is seeing a boom in dark energy research that uses supercomputers to model various aspects of dark matter and dark energy.
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The top 500 supercomputers use a litany of chips: Intel mainly supplies the processors, while Nvidia provides accelerator chips that are made similarly to its GPUs.
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But IBM is hoping to shed some light on the human microbiome and its role in autoimmune diseases using crowdsourced supercomputers through its World Community Grid.
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In 2015, Helix spun out of San Diego-based Illumina, the $20 billion genomics giant whose supercomputers sequence about 90 percent of the world's DNA data.
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The designers of Everest were able to make this happen using a technique known as photogrammetry, which essentially uses supercomputers to recreate photos as 3D objects.
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Catherine Plesko of Los Alamos National Laboratory uses supercomputers to study how to break up asteroids using nuclear explosions and "kinetic impactors," essentially giant space cannonballs.
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Going forward, almost anything could run on a phone-class processor and a smallish battery, and let the supercomputers in the cloud handle the real work.
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It's worth mentioning here that this result does in a way depend on the current state of supercomputers and simulation techniques, which could very well improve.
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"Increasingly, we researchers are depending on supercomputers to crunch immense amounts of data in order to learn more about cancer and other serious illnesses," says Kaplan.
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All this information is then fed into supercomputers that spit out predictions and tell forecasters whether the hurricane season will be above, near, or below average.
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Top500, the organization that ranks supercomputers around the world, is expected to place Summit atop its list when it releases its new rankings later this month.
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Intel has been fending off rival U.S. chipmaker Nvidia Corp's rise in the chip content of supercomputers as the machines take on more artificial intelligence work.
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DLSS is a method that uses Nvidia's supercomputers and a game-scanning neural network to work out the most efficient way to perform AI-powered antialiasing.
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Large-scale quantum computers are expected to dramatically outperform even the most powerful classical supercomputers by leveraging properties of quantum mechanics such as superposition and nonlocality.
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Simply choosing random moves with the hopes of solving the cube is simply not going to work, neither for humans nor the world's most powerful supercomputers.
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Linux powers 98.8 percent of the world's supercomputers, 36.72 percent of web servers and 53.96 percent of mobile devices (most commonly through the Android operating system).
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Analysts believe Intel would have faced even greater challenges as it and Mellanox were dominant suppliers of InfiniBand technology, a networking standard commonly used in supercomputers.
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The National Weather Service (NWS) has completed a major upgrade to its main supercomputers, which are now processing weather data in four dimensions instead of three.
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Quantum computers rely on qubits, which can simultaneously represent both a one and a zero, and can execute calculations thousands of times faster than existing supercomputers.
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Either way, though, natural selection could not have foreseen the consequences of mixing such behaviour with either pocket-sized supercomputers or massive, fast-moving metal objects.
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Last year, the Obama administration began a new effort to develop a so-called "exascale" supercomputer that would be 373 times faster than today's fastest supercomputers.
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Quantum computers are still an early-stage technology, but they promise to someday allow us to perform some calculations exponentially faster than today's most advanced supercomputers.
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I sat down with O'Connell to talk scary supercomputers, the inconvenience of occupying a fleshy human form, and how decidedly dystopian beating death would actually be.
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The world's top supercomputers, by the numbers: Summit, built by IBM, secured its top position performing at 122.3 petaflops, but it could theoretically reach 200 petaflops.
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It's the first time the top high-performance computer maker has been based outside the U.S. Go deeper: China now has more supercomputers than the U.S.
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Yet as supercomputers become more important for cutting-edge scientific research and developing artificial intelligence capabilities, the US is investing more heavily in its supercomputing infrastructure.
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Even their cyborgs and supercomputers, though distinguished by red eyes (the Terminators) or Canadian inflections ( HAL 25, in " 25: A Space Odyssey "), still feel like kinfolk.
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Aurora, which far exceeds the $200 million price for Summit, represents a record government contract for Intel and a test of its continued leadership in supercomputers.
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Beijing has made it clear that it intends to help its companies dominate the industries of the future, from artificial intelligence and supercomputers to aerospace equipment.
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Modeling even a single one at high resolution requires the fastest supercomputers in the world; modeling a planet's worth will be beyond our capabilities for decades.
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The DOE plans to lend support for veteran care in the form of their ultra-powerful supercomputers, bringing Big Data and AI into the VA's information ecosystem.
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There is now talk of impending "quantum supremacy": the moment when a quantum computer can carry out a task beyond the means of today's best classical supercomputers.
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But for those unfamiliar with these multi-million-dollar supercomputers, perhaps one of the most awesome and interesting use cases for them is perhaps jet engine design.
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Using algorithms that recast problems in quantum-amenable forms, such computers will be able to chomp their way through calculations that would take today's best supercomputers millennia.
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Volvo has already announced that it's to test the new supercomputers in 100 of its XC90 SUVs that will be made available for public use next year.
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But desperate times will require desperate measures, and we'll have little choice but to rely on complex climate models and supercomputers to ensure safety and efficacy. 8.
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In 103, for instance, it banned the sale of high-end chips made by Intel, the world's second-biggest semiconductor firm, to Chinese labs that design supercomputers.
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Supercomputers are used by governments and research institutions around the world to solve some of science's most complex problems, such as hurricane forecasting and modeling atomic weapons.
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Backed by Seedcamp, Kima Ventures and Frontline Ventures this connects the web browsers of a large number of participating users and turns them into virtual supercomputers. Unbabel
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SAN FRANCISCO — A new list of the world's fastest supercomputers provides more evidence that the once-yawning technology gap between the United States and China is closing.
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The government has said state organizations such as those managing government websites and building supercomputers had promptly installed security patches issued by Microsoft Corp, immunizing their systems.
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Supercomputers can handle this complexity by leveraging parallel processing architectures, in which thousands of CPUs and GPUs are coordinated to run similar processes at the same time.
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The team used two Illinois-based computing centers to process the data: Northwestern's Quest cluster and the National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment supercomputers.
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And there are chips that run various processes for computers, from the supercomputers used to create models for global warming to personal computers, internet servers and smartphones.
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The capability of a typical smart phone far exceeds the capability of the supercomputers of the 1980s—and the cost of such power has fallen tremendously too.
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First of all, NEC and D-Wave will come together to develop hybrid services that combine NEC's supercomputers and other classical systems with D-Wave's quantum technology.
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Even with supercomputers and other modern assets at their disposal, forecasting storms such as this one still tests meteorologists' ability to anticipate what the capricious atmosphere will do.
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But trying to stop that pursuit rather than maintaining influence through cooperation — in areas such as space, supercomputers and transportation — is actually having the opposite effect, Chan warned.
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To give an idea of the scale of this sort of machine, AMD says Frontier will have as much processing power as the next 160 fastest supercomputers combined.
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Many of the computer models have been upgraded over the past few years, and are now run on faster supercomputers aimed at capturing more details about the atmosphere.
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Quantum computers refer to supercomputers, like that built by Google, which use qubits to process huge amounts of data that would be beyond the capabilities of traditional machines.
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But to help improve the design and flight characteristics of future drones, NASA had its supercomputers simulate what that air movement actually looks like, and it's impossibly complex.
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It also heightens the stakes in a race in which the United States, China, the European Union, and Japan have all announced plans to build exaflop-capable supercomputers.
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Here's some cloud computing news you probably didn't see coming: Microsoft has partnered with Cray to bring that company's supercomputers and its storage system to the Azure platform.
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But it's also a computationally demanding process: since each pixel must be scrutinized with care, analyzing hours of HD video was best left to the supercomputers at home.
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When Libratus took on the poker pros, it ran on the Bridges supercomputer at the federally funded Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center; Sandholm says his startups have also used supercomputers.
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Los Alamos, which has one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, isn't pouring resources into this program just because someone might want to frame Moore for a robbery.
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We spend our days staring at the supercomputers in our pockets, but we might actually be learning how to be more aware of other people because of it.
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Why it matters: The power of supercomputers is crucial to some of the most important sciences of our age, including weather forecasting, climate change modeling, and astronomical exploration.
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The technological progress that has put supercomputers into the pockets of half the world has made it possible do a lot more in orbit with much smaller spacecraft.
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But supercomputers can't crack RSA 2048 encryption even if you give them a few billion years to try, and Google's quantum supremacy machine won't be able to either.
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The technologies we need to develop are neither mysterious nor nonexistent—science and technology enable us to probe materials at the nanoscale and simulate novel ideas on supercomputers.
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When it comes to the shiniest wonders of the modern world—as the supercomputers in our pockets communicate with satellites—science and technology are indeed hand in glove.
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The fast-paced song lauds China's recent moon-landing, powerful supercomputers and ability to clone monkeys, alongside sometimes clumsy English references to kidney stones and cartoon character Popeye.
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In this case, the microscope is the mile-wide apparatus, and the eye is a building-sized detector hooked up to the experiment's brain, a network of supercomputers.
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This means that these experimental quantum computers are on the cusp of being able to model physics that is too complex even for the most powerful conventional supercomputers.
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Nvidia's tech now resides in many of the world's most powerful supercomputers, and the applications include fields that were once considered beyond the realm of modern computing capabilities.
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For these simulations, bathymetry—the exact shape of the bottom of the pool—was critical, and the scientists ran models on parallel supercomputers for weeks at a time.
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Supercomputers, which play a major role in tasks such as weapons design and code-breaking, have long been considered a proxy for national competitiveness in science and technology.
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Granted, the Commerce Department on Friday barred five Chinese firms involved in supercomputers from buying American products, but that kind of action would not be on Trump's radar.
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Where current supercomputers can digitally model a single heart, for instance, exascale machines will be able to simulate how the heart works together with blood vessels, she predicts.
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Unlike the quantum startups that focus on providing hardware for the supercomputers, those firms help with building applications and developing systems that increase the capabilities of the devices.
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Those squat boxes, hulking on entertainment systems or dust-covered in the back of a closet, were once coveted by researchers who used the consoles to build supercomputers.
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We might someday evolve the correct biological hardware to live in harmony with portable supercomputers that satisfy our every need and connect us to infinite amounts of stimulation.
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Mellanox makes high-speed networking chips that help stitch together many smaller computers into a larger one and is found in some of the world's most powerful supercomputers.
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According to the BBC, it has about 20,000 employees and one of the country's strongest supercomputers, which can run at one petaflop, or perform a quadrillion operations per second.
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"GPU deep learning has given us a new tool to tackle grand challenges that have, up to now, been too complex for even the most powerful supercomputers," he said.
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New York (CNN Business)The US Commerce Department on Friday detailed new restrictions on American companies from doing business with five Chinese entities that make supercomputers and supercomputer components.
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Classical computers, like ThinkPads, iPhones, and the best high-performance supercomputers, perform all their operations by translating data into one or many combinations of bit values, zeroes and ones.
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To all appearances, a 53-qubit device really was able to harness 9 quadrillion amplitudes for computation, surpassing (albeit for a special, useless task) all the supercomputers on earth.
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Quantum computing, which holds the promise of outclassing even the world's fastest supercomputers, at least for certain types of problems, is now at a similar stage in its development.
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Already China has the world's largest internet and mobile communication markets, the most supercomputers, the highest number of STEM graduates, at 22016 million, and the most scientific academic papers.
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Tapio Schneider, a climate scientist at Caltech, decided to focus on Stratocumulus clouds in a small patch of subtropical oceans, running highly detailed calculations on supercomputers for several weeks.
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The term 'quantum supremacy' is a bit loaded insofar as it only refers to the ability of a quantum computer to outperform classical supercomputers on some types of equations.
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Screenshot: AT&T Road To Climate ResilianceThe simulations were done on supercomputers like Argonne's Theta computer which was previously used to map brain neurons and peering into particle physics.
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Publishing their findings in the journal Nature Genetics, a group of 54 scientists from seven countries successfully sequenced over 26,000 genes in the koala genome, assembling it with supercomputers.
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The advances and innovations that top supercomputers can bring -- to say nothing of their importance to America's security and economic prosperity -- are far too valuable to miss out on.
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The United States' nuclear stockpile will be managed by a $600 million supercomputer called "El Capitan" that's more powerful than the top 100 supercomputers in the world today combined.
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Nvidia, which makes high-end graphics chips used for PC video games, self-driving cars and supercomputers, said demand for games in China was hurt by broader economic weakness.
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"Eventually [I] ended up evolving into building computing systems, supercomputers, other things on hardware, and then ultimately evolving into lasers, optics and photonics — those kind of things," says Russell.
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Schneider's team used the AREPO code, a sophisticated cosmological simulation run by supercomputers at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, to model the stellar merger hypothesis of magnetar formation.
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This year, the TOP500 organization announced in its biannual global listing of the top supercomputers that China has overtaken the United States in the amount of computers being used.
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More than 50 years later, Earth is being rediscovered from space once again, but this time it is through the "eyes" of satellites, supercomputers, and artificial intelligence (AI) networks.
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It followed suit this month by adding several Chinese companies and a government-owned institute to the list over concerns about military applications of the supercomputers they are developing.
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When America agreed to stop underground testing of nuclear weapons, supercomputers from the U.S. Department of Energy provided the precise and sophisticated simulations necessary to ensure the arsenal's ongoing effectiveness.
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The smartphone weather app is "the handsome face of a complex and sprawling machine", a vast operation encompassing awesome supercomputers, tens of thousands of observation stations and over 100 satellites.
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Galen Gisler and his colleagues at LANL are using supercomputers to visualize how the kinetic energy of a fast-moving space rock would be transferred to the ocean on impact.
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Meanwhile, Oak Ridge has worked hard to be home to the world's most powerful supercomputers, having done so three times previously since 2005 (with its Jaguar, Titan and Summit machines).
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The likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft are winning new customers - asset managers who gain access to the latest supercomputers without having to buy any hardware, helping them cut costs.
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The ECMWF's superior forecasts were largely a result of a more sophisticated algorithm being run on two supercomputers that rank as the 23th and 22017th most powerful in the world.
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SGI had much of the technology to drive the industry forward, but the company was built around ultra-high-end supercomputers, and that left standard PCs out of the equation.
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The problem is that the concept of "artificial intelligence" is way too potent for its own good, conjuring images of supercomputers that operate spaceships, rather than particularly clever spam filters.
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Carbon nanotubes are one of those supermaterials — a cylinder with a diameter of one or two nanometers — that are full of dreamy applications, ranging from supercomputers to ultra-efficient smartphones.
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As John Markoff writes, China dominates the newest list of the world's fastest supercomputers, with both the fastest calculating machine and the most computers among the world's 500 fastest machines.
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Quantum — or IBM Q, as the U.S.-based company calls it — is a computer that uses quantum bits (or qubits) to top the capabilities of even the most advanced supercomputers.
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For example, National Science Foundation supercomputers were used to mine between $8,000 and $10,000 worth of Bitcoin in 2014, even though the computing power ended up costing the facility $150,000.
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The Office of Science and Technology Policy has been separately engaging tech company representatives on issues like removing online misinformation, and using artificial intelligence and supercomputers to analyze medical research.
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By relying on chips made by AMD and Intel, Sugon's supercomputers can run a wider array of software than some of the country's faster computers built around domestically produced chips.
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There are other technical issues for autonomous vehicles, like teaching machines an artificial version of human intuition and keeping hackers out of what could be described as supercomputers on wheels.
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Just think about what can be assessed in our supercomputers… they are world-class… And second when it comes to both [EU sat-nav] Galileo and [earth observation program] Copernicus.
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To do that, the government has long relied on a program that avoids the need for underground testing, instead using data from supercomputers and laboratory experiments and inspecting the warheads.
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The deal underscores ongoing consolidation in the world of processors, and is a key move for NVIDIA to shore up its market share, specifically in high-performance computing and powering supercomputers.
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Nvidia's chips are found in five of the world's current top-10 supercomputers, though the Nvidia chips are found alongside chips from its rivals, according to TOP500, which ranks the machines.
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The technology inside was developed by Japan's Junkosha and originally used in supercomputers for its high purity, and now it's being adapted for the task of channeling tunes into human ears.
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Two teams of physicists have built the largest controlled quantum simulators yet, which allowed them to determine how matter can behave at the quantum level, something conventional supercomputers struggle to do.
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The sci-fi future of controlling our most powerful supercomputers with our voices is now closer than ever, thanks to the success of Alexa and the Amazon-made Echo smart speaker.
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There were strong partnerships with American companies and universities employing thousands of experts to design, build, and launch the GOES-R and JPSS satellites and develop the models for the supercomputers.
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Our aim is to be ahead of technological development, to maximize the impact of investment in supercomputers and research and to encourage more A.I. use by the private and public sectors.
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"We're pointing the most powerful supercomputers in the world at our brains to suck the attention out of it," Harris, who once worked as a design ethicist at Google, told CNBC.
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And eventually, it turned out that neural nets were as powerful a tool as we could have hoped for; they just need powerful supercomputers, and tons of data, to be useful.
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Everyone is connected to one another and the entire compendium of human knowledge by the supercomputers we carry around in our pockets, and we have never felt more anxious or alone.
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Meaning "our sea" in Latin, the original MareNostrum was capable of performing 42.35 teraflops—42.35 trillion operations per second—making it one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe at the time.
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That's nearly 30,5003 times faster than an iPhone Xs. The United States has held the fastest supercomputer title since June 2018, according to the Top500, an independent study of the world's supercomputers.
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"We've studied it theoretically, and we've simulated it with supercomputers, but up to now we haven't known what controls the conversion of magnetic energy into particle energy," Burch said in a statement.
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IBM offers researchers and businesses access to a functioning 20-qubit processor, and Rigetti offers a 19-qubit processor, while classical supercomputers can simulate quantum computers' abilities up to about 50 qubits.
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The deal underscores ongoing consolidation in the world of processors, and is a key move for NVIDIA to shore up its market share, specifically in high-performance computing and powering supercomputers. 2.
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Bill Mannel, VP and general manager of HPC Segment Solutions at HPE, told The Verge that this research grant had been in the works as part of HPE's continued work with supercomputers.
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The EHT observations are also helping scientists figure out how black holes generate huge jets of radiation that structure the galaxies around them, something they've only been able to simulate on supercomputers.
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Chipmaker AMD, long in Intel's shadow, will be at the heart of one of the world's most powerful new supercomputers, a new Cray machine being built for the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Modern supercomputers, having essentially maxed out the number of transistors they can pack upon a single chip, have expanded outward across as many as 100,000 parallel cores that crunch numbers in concert.
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This approach gives beautiful pictures of another kind: In recent years this direct approach, carried out on banks of supercomputers, has led to successful calculations of the masses of protons and neutrons.
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He led the company through a difficult period and presided over its transformation into a stronger player in supercomputers — and ultimately, to a $1.3 billion sale to HPE, announced earlier this year.
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Whirring supercomputers — some more than 70,000 times as powerful as an everyday laptop — can quickly crunch geological and seismic data, helping energy makers find savings amid low oil and natural gas prices.
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Still, its exclusion from American technology is an especially bitter pill for Beijing to swallow, as its supercomputers form the core of some of the Chinese government's most sensitive and important systems.
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In one "particularly worrying" case, a professor at the University of New South Wales worked with a Chinese general to develop supercomputers used in nuclear-weapons tests, notes Alex Joske of ASPI.
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Thatcher ensured that the Treasury invested in the supercomputers to model climate change at the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, still one of the world's leading outfits for such modelling.
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A very powerful computer, of the sort that has never been seen before, may use that great power to factor numbers much more quickly than could be accomplished using even non-quantum supercomputers.
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Google today announced that its second- and third-generation Cloud TPU Pods — its scalable cloud-based supercomputers with up to 1,000 of its custom Tensor Processing Units — are now publicly available in beta.
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The actual specs shown on screen don't mean much to hardware fiends — teraflops are how supercomputers are rated, not graphics cards, which have sophisticated custom units and pathways for different effects and calculations.
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One question is whether other firms that have a huge demand for computing power, including banks and oil giants, will buy such AI supercomputers, instead of having their data crunched in a cloud.
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The provider of technology for the iPhone, satellites and supercomputers said that given restrictions linked to Softbank's recommended offer it would not be providing its usual full-year revenue guidance at this stage.
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While the radar, satellites, and supercomputers used by National Weather Service meteorologists excelled at big-picture projections, they could provide only limited, low-resolution information about conditions on the ground in specific locations.
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It has older memory-chip technology, meaning it is limited in the speed with which it can move data in and out of each processor when compared with the most powerful American supercomputers.
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All that's needed are better algorithms to prove that complicated questions—such as protein folding, efficient marketplaces, and combinatorial analyses—are merely variations of simpler problems that supercomputers are already able to solve.
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But additional accelerator chips are considered essential to reach the very highest speeds, and its rival Nvidia has built a sizable business adapting chips first used with video games for use in supercomputers.
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Supercomputers are making the jump from government labs to higher education — and they may soon play as vital a role in college life as cramming for finals or Ultimate Frisbee on the quad.
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Simulations made by US federal agencies for weather forecasting, for example, have to process up to 100 terabytes of data from weather stations every day and take hours to run on expensive supercomputers.
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DXR is still a long way from being part of your daily gaming life, the technology currently only works on Nvidia's volta architecture, which is the tech it uses in it's line of supercomputers.
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Cloud is now about the many different types of projects that can run on the supercomputers, benefiting from the software engineering at Google and Amazon as well as a new generation of internet companies.
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It was recorded onto half a ton of hard drives and then physically sent to centralized locations where it was analyzed by supercomputers for months in order to get the image we see today.
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Earlier this week, Nvidia Corp, a major chip supplier to supercomputer makers, said it was working with Softbank Holdings Group owned chip firm Arm Holdings to make its chips work with Arm's for supercomputers.
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Their simulation, which ran for 21 million core-hours on supercomputers in Switzerland and California, modeled a roughly 2200-by-210-kilometer patch of stratocumulus cloud much like the clouds off the California coast.
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Image courtesy of Crypt Thing Supercomputers, cyberpunk, and Norwegian television—all these and more inform electronic musician and artist Crypt Thing's debut four-track EP Shodan, released today on South East London label squareglass.
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The weather satellite data is also sent to supercomputers in the United States and Europe that ingest it to produce and refine digital weather forecasts for several days ahead in a matter of hours.
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US government bans professor for secretly mining with National Science Foundation supercomputers We like to think that our scientists — and especially those employed by our taxpayer-funded government agencies — would be better than this.
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Working with the Department of Veterans Affairs, ACTIV seeks to use DOE's fastest supercomputers to analyze our vast sets of veteran's medical data in order to optimize their treatments and improve their health outcomes.
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As part of an experiment, the company developed a processor that was able to perform a computation in just 200 seconds that would take the world's fastest supercomputers 10,000 years to achieve, Google said.
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In his 2013 book, "Average Is Over," Mr. Cowen briefly mentioned how two average human chess players, working with three regular computers, were able to beat both human chess champions and chess-playing supercomputers.
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It's thought that small neuromorphic chips would consume much less power — perhaps even up to 1,000 times less — while efficiently processing millions of computations simultaneously, something currently possible only with large banks of supercomputers.
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But what if you could enter a virtual reality environment where the molecules lie before you, obeying all the laws of molecular physics as calculated by supercomputers, and move them around in three dimensions?
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From pioneering nuclear technology to housing some of the world's fastest supercomputers, the network of national laboratories and offices at DOE are assets to U.S. manufacturers that provide a leg up on global competition.
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It took the team three years to develop the new AI, and required building a huge database on the world's fastest astronomical supercomputers: ATERUI and ATERUI II at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
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The National Weather Service is in the midst of a technology revolution, bringing new satellites, supercomputers and upgraded models online to provide forecasts and warnings that are among the most accurate in the world.
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Researchers used one of the world's most powerful supercomputers to better understand how jets of high energy plasma escapes the intense gravity of a black hole, which swallows everything else in its path—including light.
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In contrast, one of the world's largest and fastest supercomputers, the K computer in Kobe, Japan, consumes as much as 9.89 megawatts of energy—an amount roughly equivalent to the power usage of 10,20033 households.
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After the contest was underway, as these bots began hunting for security bugs planted inside seven supercomputers perched atop the ballroom stage, the agency revealed that some of these bugs were inspired by Internet history.
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The aim is to harness modern supercomputers and machine learning systems to predict how molecules will behave and how likely they are to make a useful drug, thereby saving time and money on unnecessary tests.
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Importantly, respecting robot rights could also serve to protect other types of emerging persons, such as cyborgs, transgenic humans with foreign DNA, and humans who have had their brains copied, digitized, and uploaded to supercomputers.
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Catharine Plesko, a researcher at Los Alamos who uses supercomputers to model asteroid deflection scenarios, says that with decades to centuries of lead time, the more pacifistic kinetic impactor approach is preferred for asteroid deflection.
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The aim is to use modern supercomputers and machine learning systems to predict how molecules will behave and how likely they are to make a useful drug, thereby saving time and money on unnecessary tests.
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The country now has more machines on a list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers than the U.S. China has 202 systems on the Top500's supercomputer list, with the U.S. comparatively having only 143.
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They are increasingly important for the great number of products and processes that are being developed using A.I. The United States lost the race to the top in supercomputers, but it still placed pretty well.
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In a blog post, OpenAI explained the rationale behind its decision: We'll need to invest billions of dollars in upcoming years into large-scale cloud compute, attracting and retaining talented people, and building AI supercomputers.
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The two dominant operating systems for mobile phones — those supercomputers most of us carry around all day — are Apple's iOS and Google's Android, which together run most of the planet's 3 billion-plus smartphone devices.
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Supercomputers like Summit, which cost $25 million in government money to build, can accelerate the development of technologies at the frontier of computing, like artificial intelligence and the ability to handle vast amounts of data.
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It has spent hugely to help fund efforts by private Chinese companies and state-run national champions to acquire foreign firms that make microchips, the brains of everything from supercomputers to smartphones to guided missiles.
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Using higher-dimensional geometry, they deploy supercomputers the size of a proton to spy on every terrestrial activity and utterance; Earth's entire fleet of starships proves no match for one small, droplet-shaped Trisolaran probe.
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In a technological age marked by supercomputers and the like, "Universal Paperclips," in the face of its perceived simplicity, acts as a timely reminder of how artificial intelligence blurs the boundary between object and life.
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Inside a 303,000 square foot room within Argonne National Laboratory one of the most formidable supercomputers in the world — Theta — is applying its incredible computing power to the largest batch of data ever recorded or analyzed.
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Entanglement can help vastly increase the precision of sensors and navigation, underpin the fundamental unhackability of quantum-enabled networks and empower novel computers to solve some classes of problems that grind current supercomputers to a halt.
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"By the end of the decade, two-thirds of the region will have smart devices — supercomputers in their pockets — which means increased innovation, problem-solving and purchasing power," said Christopher M. Schroeder, an American venture capitalist.
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IBM, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the Department of Energy announced Sunday they are spearheading the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which aims to use supercomputers to study the coronavirus.
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The project stats page now shows a total compute performance of over 1.5 ExaFLOPS (aka 193,500,000,000,000,000,000 floating point operations per second), which dwarfs the computing ability of even the most powerful mainframe supercomputers on the planet.
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Chips, which serve as the tiny sensors, brains and memories of all high-tech devices, are crucial to next-generation telecom networks, supercomputers, artificial intelligence and driverless cars, as well as military ships, satellites and aircraft.
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City: College Park, MDYear founded: 2015Total funding: $77.1 millionValuation: $185.1 millionWhat it does: IonQ develops quantum computers, which have special properties that allow them to potentially be exponentially more powerful than the most powerful supercomputers today.
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Supercomputers are used to simulate and study everything from the paths of hurricanes to the genetic origins of man and are critical to future advances in health care, the development alternative energy resources and national security.
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The US government has invested in the supercomputers arms race, recently pouring $258 million in 2017 into funding companies like IBM, Cray, AMD, Intel, and Nvidia to build computers that can perform these incredible feats of calculation.
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Illustration: Chelsea Beck/GMGThe little pocket supercomputers we all constantly carry around with us aren't just supplying us with useful information, they're also collecting a host of data on us and our habits, all of the time.
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In order to count trillions of microbes as well as distinguish among hundreds of different species, there are four broad requirements: conceptual development, sequencing machines, analytic approaches and supercomputers to conduct the near hopelessly complex statistical analyses.
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise, not to be confused with the personal computing brand from which it split in 2015, said today that it acquired Cray, an iconic maker of supercomputers with a rich history in the computing industry.
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While the likes of Nvidia are putting supercomputers into cars to power autonomous driving, ARM believes its chips are great for doing object detection in a smart mirror, for example, where there are heat and space constraints.
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In a few decades or a few centuries at most, according to top scientists such as Stephen Hawking, future technology could permit copying the information encoded in a preserved brain, and uploading the mind to advanced supercomputers.
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It organizes and improves resources like supercomputers that need to be shared by research efforts all over the country; XSEDE helped produce things like LIGO's detection of gravity waves and the Illustris galaxy formation study pictured above.
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The most powerful supercomputers in the world could not solve it, but the community of video gamers called to the task solved it, and it's now of huge importance in research in basics of cancer and AIDS.
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Nvidia's advantage is that it would have a greater chance of obtaining U.S. and Chinese regulatory approval as Intel and Mellanox control the market for InfiniBand technology, a networking communications standard commonly used in supercomputers, Calcalist said.
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To put that very large number in perspective, consider IBM's recent announcement that the company is working with the U.S. Department of Energy and others to pool the power of several supercomputers for coronavirus-related protein crunching.
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At a research lab in California, a mathematical calculation that the largest supercomputers could not complete in under 10,000 years was done in 3 minutes 20 seconds, Google said in a paper in the science journal Nature.
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One strategic benefit is that quantum computing will enable something that even our current supercomputers cannot do — crack strong encryption of the type that now protects our commercial financial transactions, our weapons systems and government's secret communications.
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They used a device with 53 qubits (the quantum analogues of a classical computer's bits), and they report that it took just minutes to perform quantum computations that would take today's most powerful supercomputers thousands of years.
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Essentially, the Earth itself is turned into a telescope, but instead of focusing light in a mirror as a single telescope does, the light gets captured in individual radio telescopes and focused by comparing the information in supercomputers.
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Supercomputers often take up the size of a basketball court and cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but as Github user Wei Lin has demonstrated, it's possible to make a homebrew computing cluster that doesn't break the bank.
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This upgrade—which added the supercomputers Luna and Surge to NOAA's weather modeling arsenal in Virginia and Florida, respectively—represented a nearly tenfold increase in NOAA's computing power to 23 petaflops, or 23,780 million million operations per second.
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You can think of multicore processors, or supercomputers with tens or hundreds of thousands of multicore processors, as either being able to do a bunch of things at once, or to be able to do one thing faster.
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Supercomputers are viewed in scientific circles as an indicator of national technology leadership, and they are vital for research in areas ranging from the development of new weapons and medicines, to the design of cars and consumer products.
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Later this month, computer scientists from the Top 500 list who rank the world's supercomputers will swing by the lab to do some tests at which point Summit will officially be named the fastest supercomputer in the world.
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The highlight of the evening was the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, which pitted supercomputers against one another in a cybersecurity exercise called Capture the Flag, which required the computers to detect and patch software vulnerabilities without human input.
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The iPhone X is genuinely different from iPhones that have come before — it has a new interface, a new kind of screen technology, and it really does seem to mark a foundation for the future of these supercomputers.
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There is nothing comforting about the idea that it takes tremendous scientific effort, taxing supercomputers not yet in existence, to predict how systems that have remained largely stable since before the invention of writing are going to behave.
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In addition to new observational instruments, Congress should prioritize research to assimilate the increased observational data into computer models more quickly and effectively, and funding for faster supercomputers to run the increasingly complex models and generate timely forecasts.
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But in another, more important way, that pocket computer is a joke compared with real supercomputers — and Intel and Cray are putting together one of the biggest ever with a half-billion-dollar contract from the Department of Energy.
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As Google notes, that raw computing power puts it within the top 5 supercomputers worldwide, but you need to take that number with a grain of salt given that the TPU pods operate at a far lower numerical precision.
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To try and edge the United States ahead of other countries in the arms race of building supercomputers, the Department of Energy today awarded a total of $258 million in funding to HPE, Cray, AMD, Intel, IBM, and Nvidia.
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Uber's self-driving cars are making the move to San Francisco, in a new expansion of its pilot project with autonomous vehicles that will see Volvo SUVs outfitted with sensors and supercomputers begin picking up passengers in the city.
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India's National Informatics Centre, which builds and manages almost all government websites, and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, a premier research institute that has built supercomputers, have actively installed patches to immunize their Windows systems, Sundararajan said.
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As shown by FOGGIE and NASA in this new video, supercomputers can help to fill in the gaps, while also producing stunning visualizations of the epic cycle of star death and rebirth that drives so much of galactic evolution.
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Many on the left, including labor and civil rights leaders, are skeptical that rules designed for the Depression era phone network will help close the digital divide, let alone usher in a world of driverless cars and mobile supercomputers.
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Eventually, researchers discovered they were highly effective at supporting machine-learning tasks via artificial neural networks, which are run on supercomputers and allow for the training and inference tasks that make up the main segments of any AI workflow.
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China, under President Xi Jinping, has launched an ambitious plan to dominate mobile technology, supercomputers, artificial intelligence and other cutting-edge industries, putting huge resources behind an effort that it considers crucial to the country's government, military and economy.
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Sunway TaihuLight is three times more powerful than the previous champ, Tianhe-2, according to the latest edition of the twice-a-year list of the world's top 5003 supercomputers put out by researchers in the U.S. and Germany.
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Mellanox Technologies, which makes hardware that helps power supercomputers and Ethernet products used in data centers, has hired a financial adviser to seek a sale after receiving takeover interest from at least two companies, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Nvidia is an instructive example in this category: the graphics card company spent the past three years talking about its deep learning "supercomputers" for self-driving cars and other incredibly nerdy things that had little to no resonance with regular consumers.
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Cray, which was founded in 1972 by "the father of supercomputing," Seymour Cray, is currently contracted to build two of the world's fastest supercomputers for two US Department of Energy Labs: the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory.
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I am proud that some of those resources and computers live at our DOE National Labs, where we currently possess five of the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world, including the top two fastest and the world's top AI supercomputer.
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" In 2015, the Commerce Department added China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) to the list "because of its use of U.S-origin multicores, boards, and (co)processors to power supercomputers believed to support nuclear explosive simulation and military simulation activities.
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For now, the idea exists in supercomputers and the imaginations of scientists, although it was fleshed out a bit more concretely last year, with the first draft of a NASA mission proposal called Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response (HAMMER).
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You don't need a lot of qubits to quickly surpass the memory banks of the world's most powerful modern supercomputers—meaning that for specific tasks, a quantum computer could find a solution much faster than any regular computer ever would.
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Kelly and his colleagues at Google's Quantum AI lab hope this processor will be the first chip to achieve quantum supremacy, the point at which quantum computers can perform calculations that are beyond the capabilities of even the most advanced supercomputers.
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Parabon used the DoD's supercomputers to refine the technique to create Snapshot, which allows cops to send off DNA and get a genetic profile and even a composite sketch of what that person may look like, based on their DNA.
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And tons and tons of people have smartphones in their pockets — which means tons of people are carrying around little supercomputers that can run apps to control an entirely new generation of gadgets in an entirely new set of ways.
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Sure, supercomputers have beaten chessmasters at their own game before, but due to the extremely complex nature of the 5000-year old game of Go, this was an unprecedented upset that experts had predicted wouldn't happen for another 10 years.
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From at least 2005 to 2017, an office inside DHS, in tandem with analysts and supercomputers at several national laboratories, produced detailed analyses of what would happen to everything from transportation systems to hospitals if a pandemic hit the United States.
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Perry marks a sharp shift for the Energy Department, which is an agency that deals with specialized scientific applications, including supercomputers that help project climate change scenarios and programs that aim to assure the safety and effectiveness of nuclear weapons.
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After all, if they can crack this problem, their supercomputers will be at an immense advantage over others in the world, in particular those in China, which has vied with the U.S. in the high-performance computing arena for years.
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Quantum computing is still at its early stages, but experts predict that it will be exponentially more powerful than the most powerful supercomputers today and can be used for drug discovery, modeling molecules, logistics planning, and even predicting the stock market.
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Pretty much the pinnacle of open-source, the operating system has the largest installed base of any general-purpose computer operating system and is found on more servers than any other OS. 99.6 percent of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers run Linux.
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While we've somehow gotten used to impossibly thin TVs, pocket-size supercomputers, and a worldwide network capable of connecting Mumbai and New York instantaneously, Dear Future is a series built on the premise that technology and science are still capable of wowing us.
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We've connected the planet, put supercomputers in the pockets of a third of the world, made solar/wind power and electric cars both increasingly widespread and increasingly cost-effective, and we're working hard at replacing most rote human drudgery with robot labor.
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The US has also invested plenty in the supercomputers arms race, pouring a total of $258 million last year alone in funding companies including Cray, AMD, Intel, Nvidia, and others to build exascale computers that can perform a billion billion calculations per second.
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As of last year, the Bitcoin network—comprised of all the machines on Earth running the Bitcoin software—used 6,000 times more computing power than the world's top 500 supercomputers combined to run the decentralized system that mines and tracks the digital currency.
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I have the privilege of overseeing the Department of Energy's (DOE's) 17 national laboratories -- or what I like to call our country's "crown jewels" of science and innovation -- which house some of the most significant computing resources and supercomputers in the world.
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As these types of quantum simulators keep adding more qubits into the mix, they will be able to simulate ever more complex atomic interactions that are far beyond the capabilities of conventional supercomputers and usher in a new era of physics research.
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Led by Daniel Anglés-Alcázar, an astrophysicist based at Northwestern University's Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), the authors used supercomputers to run complex simulations of our galactic neighborhood's formation and evolution from the Big Bang to the present.
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The clunky machine, which looks more like an office copier on wheels than the Terminator, uses a combination of supercomputers, high-res 3D maps, cameras, and sensors to navigate the city with minimal collateral damage to passersby or your Pad Thai order.
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In 2015, the Commerce Department moved to add China's National University of Defense and Technology to the entity list, to cut it off from using Intel chips in supercomputers that the United States government said were being used to model nuclear detonations.
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If it works as predicted, the machine will have a speed of 2 exaflops, meaning it will be able to perform 2 quintillion - or 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 - calculations per second and would be faster than the current top 200 supercomputers in the world combined.
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If it works as predicted, the machine will have a speed of 2 exaflops, meaning it will be able to perform 1 quintillion - or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 - calculations per second and would be faster than the current top 200 supercomputers in the world combined.
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If it works as predicted, the machine will have a speed of 2 exaflops, meaning it will be able to perform 2 quintillion - or 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 - calculations per second and would be faster than the current top 200 supercomputers in the world combined.
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Led by Fabian Schneider, an astronomer at Heidelberg University, the team used advanced supercomputers to show how stellar mergers can "explain the strong magnetic fields observed in a subset of massive stars and potentially also the origin of magnetars," according to the study.
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The department was adding Sugon, the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology along with numerous aliases of the five entities to the list on concerns about military applications of the supercomputers they are developing.
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Having personally designed large-scale distributed systems for some of the world's fastest supercomputers, Deepak knows how to be the best-in-class cheerleader and the leverage point for entrepreneurs who are looking to change the worlds of cybersecurity, big data, storage and data center.
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Until President Obama signed the National Strategic Computing Initiative last July, the construction of the fastest American supercomputers had largely been driven by the nation's Stockpile Stewardship and Management program, which was created in 1995 to simulate the testing and maintenance of nuclear weapons.
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Indeed, Lapenta told me that the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, which directs the National Hurricane Center, might never have obtained additional funding from Congress to buy new supercomputers had Mass not drawn public attention to the center's inadequacies in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
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"America is coming together to fight COVID-19, and that means unleashing the full capacity of our world-class supercomputers to rapidly advance scientific research for treatments and a vaccine," Michael Kratsios, Chief Technology Officer for the United States, said in an emailed statement.
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Advancements in sensor technology coupled with breakthroughs in machine learning — the ability of computers to learn from vast amounts of data and improve over time — mean driverless cars (essentially supercomputers on wheels) could become a regular sight on the roads over the next few years.
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Aside from China's new Sunway TaihuLight, other leading top supercomputers include: The National Academy of Sciences, in its study "The Future of Supercomputing," envisions investments in supercomputing as highly beneficial and that it plays an essential role in national security and in scientific discovery.
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The department said it was adding Sugon, the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology, along with numerous aliases of the five entities to the list on concerns about military applications of the supercomputers they are developing.
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The department said it was adding Sugon, the Wuxi Jiangnan Institute of Computing Technology, Higon, Chengdu Haiguang Integrated Circuit and Chengdu Haiguang Microelectronics Technology - along with numerous aliases of the five entities - to the list over concerns about military applications of the supercomputers they are developing.
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Since then, researchers have come up with a rich variety of problems for which quantum computers should be superior to the best supercomputers—and a number of algorithms, or sets of steps, to break down problems in such a way that quantum computers can crunch through them.
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We live in an era where so much emotion—or performance of emotion—is mediated and complicated by our relationships both with the supercomputers that live in our pockets and the knowledge that in the most literal of senses we are being watched at every moment.
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Bar-Yam's area of study is to literally explain why the world works the way it does, and he has repeatedly hit the nail right on the head with his hypotheses and explanations, which use big data sets and supercomputers to separate the signal from the noise.
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The revised estimates for Los Angeles are the result of a five-year project by the Southern California Earthquake Center, a research organization of seismologists and engineers, that used some of the country's most powerful supercomputers to study how earthquake shaking moves through local ground conditions.
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Zhong blamed the trade imbalance in part on controls over U.S. high-tech exports to China, repeating a Chinese claim that Washington could narrow its trade deficit if it allowed China to buy more "dual use" technology such as supercomputers and advanced materials with military applications.
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But those results are achieved with the benefit of supercomputers and parallelized GPUs; who knows how long it takes a state of the art algorithm to look at an image and say, "there are six boats, two cars, a phone and a bush," as well as label their boundaries.
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The number of "bits" is often listed next to the type of encryption being used tell you how many possible combinations there are for the unlock code—something locked with 256-bit encryption would take a bank of supercomputers billions of years to decode using brute force alone.
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In future, rather than checking patients' vital signs only at intervals, or parking ICU-nurses next to beds, live data-streams from medical machines and wearable devices could flow straight to such command centres, where supercomputers could screen them for anything worth bringing to the attention of medical staff.
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After several days of speculation, today NVIDIA confirmed that it would acquire chipmaker Mellanox for $6.9 billion, paying $125 per share in cash, in an ongoing consolidation of chipmakers — and in this case those making chips for supercomputers, a crucial market segment in this age of cloud services.
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While you probably won't solve the toughest problems in physics by scaling this computer cluster architecture, it is a pretty neat application for inexpensive hardware that is capable of quickly performing computations in parallel and is a nice way to learn how supercomputers actually work without breaking the bank.
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FUN3D is used for solving nonlinear partial differential equations, and the challenge — which is being supported by NASA's partners, HeroX and TopCoder — encourages computer whizzes to assist NASA in improving the code so that it can become compatible with some of the most advanced, fastest supercomputers in the world.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed a forthcoming generation of the company's self-driving Drive PX supercomputers for use in vehicles – the successor to the current Drive Pegasus, which will be called the Drive Orin and which will use essentially two Drive Pegasus computers combined into one, much smaller packages.
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Optical fibre networks and 5G technology that helps support that network will connect supercomputers and super storage systems to support AI. If one AI is able to replace ten workers, then the UK will become an industrial power with a workforce equivalent to hundreds of millions of people.
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Theoretically, quantum computers could calculate far faster than traditional supercomputers thanks to the fact that their bits can exist in multiple quantum states instead of simply being on (1) or off (0), and that's what Google recently claimed it had achieved with its 54-qubit Sycamore quantum computer.
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In a move that harkens back to Cray's supercomputers with its expensive couches, IBM worked with design studios Map Project Office and Universal Design Studio, as well Goppion, the company that has built, among other things, the display cases that house the U.K.'s crown jewels and the Mona Lisa.
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Already on Earth, the control systems used to benchmark the two experimental supercomputers sent to the ISS have demonstrated that this works – a recent lightning storm struck the data center where they're stationed, causing a power outage and temperature fluctuations, which did not impact the results coming from the HPCs.
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Silicon Graphics machines, whether the workstations or the supercomputers, represent a interesting niche in retro computing, in that they're machines that won't likely be recreated in a "classic" form, that cost a sizable amount of money to collect, and in some form factors, can be very expensive to even maintain.
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Quantum — or IBM Q, as the U.S.-based company calls it — is a computer that uses quantum bits (or qubits) to top the capabilities of even the most advanced supercomputers and "tackle problems…seen as too complex and exponential in nature for classical systems to handle," according to an IBM release.
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Attendees at this annual hacker carnival have access to smart cars and other top of the line IoT products for their hacking pleasure, there are seminars on how to overthrow a government, biohackers can augment their body with RFID chips, and supercomputers compete against one another in contests while generating stunning visual displays.
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My guess, and it is a guess, is that the rate of change in tech is so great, and I have to remind people that if you were a farmer, you had to learn how to go from using a plow to using a tractor, to using the supercomputers that are tractors.
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Technology makes such eerie interactions possible, and that's the paradox of the pervasive presence of scientific wonders in our daily lives: We carry futuristic fact-checking supercomputers in our pockets, but they don't make us any less superstitious, susceptible to trickery or caught in the thrall of our deep-down Dark Ages tendencies.
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Such observations, rapidly fed into high-resolution models and run on increasingly powerful supercomputers, can give forecasters critical information about subtle events, such as steering currents in the atmosphere or upper-ocean heat content, that can influence a hurricane's power and influence whether it remains offshore or take a dangerous turn toward a populated coastline.
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And number two, the data is somewhere that's ... The farmer needs to know where the data is, they just do, they need a local contact of ... I mean, OK, yes, farmers are not sitting around with supercomputers, but if they know that this extension worker has access to their data, then that's what matters.
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Key components of that foundation today include the powerful supercomputers needed to run the models; satellites, radar, and other instruments carried on airplanes, balloons and other platforms that make the key observations the models need to start their predictions; and, equally important, an understanding of how the atmosphere and ocean work, separately and together.
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Exascale systems are capable of at least a billion-billion calculations per second, which means they are at least 10 to 20 times faster than today's fastest supercomputers, and 50 to 100 times more powerful – the equivalent of going from a flip phone to a smart phone or from a dialup to a 4G internet connection.
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But of course it's also a world where sometimes you have to hit a robot or a spaceship to get it to work, like an old dashboard radio, a place where the supercomputers are operated manually and where buttons and control panels and screens seem far removed from our own galaxy: tactile, lo-fi, and elegantly simple.
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DARPA wants to build an AI to find the patterns hidden in global chaos That delta between the NIC and the other components of the network means a fundamental limit in how quickly information can be shared between different computing units — like the hundreds or thousands of servers and GPUs that make up supercomputers and data centers.
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After a few ups and down and ownership changes in the '90s, Cray has started to find its footing again, and its newest systems, like the XC and CS series, are now standards-based supercomputers that use Nvidia GPUs and Intel processors (and, on select models, this also includes FPGAs) to achieve peak performance of a petaflop or more in a single cabinet.
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Although Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been a leader in developing new supercomputing systems for decades—it was the first in the world to perform teraflop (a trillion operations per second) and petaflop calculations, and is gunning to be the first to reach an exaflop (a quintillion operations per second)—most of the leading supercomputers in the world reside in China.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) is hoping its supercomputers at national laboratories can be a key part of Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE's mission to find cancer therapies.
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Energy Secretary Ernest MonizErnest Jeffrey MonizBiden under pressure from environmentalists on climate plan Pelosi, Clinton among attendees at memorial reception for Ellen Tauscher 2020 is the Democrats' to lose — and they very well may MORE, who sits on the task force for Biden's Cancer Moonshot, wrote in a blog post that DOE's supercomputers are some of the most powerful in the world.
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Supercomputers have already been used to research the coronavirus, which has infected over 35,85033 individuals in the U.S. Researchers at the University of Tennessee in collaboration with IBM screened 8,000 compounds to find the ones most likely to render the protein in coronavirus unable to attach to human cells, narrowing the massive list to a more manageable and testable 77.
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A Green New Deal will be enabled by the government just as it has enabled every modern high-tech industry today: by funding (military technology, the space program), by direct purchases (supercomputers, semiconductors), by market subsidies (wind power, solar power, electric vehicles), by technology transfer out of government labs and programs (the internet, genomics, satellites), and the list goes on.
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Baker Hughes is working with Nvidia on making this happen using its range of AI-enabling GPU tech, including both its Nvidia DGX-1 supercomputers, which are large, data center powerhouses, to its DGX Stations for desktop supercomputer capabilities, and even the Nvidia Jetson AI, its platform for computing at the edge, which enables deep learning processing locally, rather than routing it through the cloud.
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"According to several estimates, supercomputers can now—or in the near future—do more elementary operations per second than human brains, so we might already have the necessary hardware to compete with brains," said Jaan Tallinn, a computer programmer, founding member of Skype, and co-founder of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, a research center at the University of Cambridge concerned with human extinction scenarios.
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Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion.
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