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How Fast is Your Rubik Solver; This One’s Probably Faster

In the race to solve Rubik’s Cube, the time-to-finish keeps shrinking. This year Philipp Weyer from Germany won the 10th World Cube Association (WCA) Championship held in Melbourne, Australia, …

By John Russell

Liquid Cooling Makes a Splash in Enterprise Data Centers

Direct liquid cooling is now gaining momentum in mainstream data centers — for many good reasons.

As servers get faster, they generate more heat, and that increases the need for innovative a …

Intel Debuts Pohoiki Beach, Its 8M Neuron Neuromorphic Development System

Neuromorphic computing has received less fanfare of late than quantum computing whose mystery has captured public attention and which seems to have generated more efforts (academic, government, a …

By John Russell

New CMU AI Poker Bot – Pluribus – Humbles the Pros Again

Remember Libratus, the Carnegie Mellon University developed AI poker bot that’s been humbling poker professionals at Texas hold’em for a couple of years. Well, say hello to Pluribus, an upgra …

By John Russell

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Quantum Start-up Rigetti Acquires QxBranch; Bolsters App Dev Capability

July 11, 2019

Quantum startup Rigetti Computing announced today it acquired QxBranch, a quantum computing and data analytics software startup. The latest move marks what has Read more…

By John Russell

MIT Aims to Ease AI Programming

July 2, 2019

A new AI programming language seeks to ease the process of writing inference algorithms and other predictive models without the hassle of grinding out complicated equations and code. Among the goals of the probabilistic programming system dubbed “Gen” is making it easier for coding novices to write models and algorithms for broader AI applications such as computer vision and robotics. Read more…

By George Leopold

MLPerf Expands Toolset; Launches Inferencing Suite

June 24, 2019

MLPerf today launched a benchmark suite for inferencing, v0.5, which joins the MLPerf training suite launched a little over a year ago. The new inferencing benc Read more…

By John Russell

Jack Wells Joins OpenACC; Arm Support Coming

June 17, 2019

Perhaps the most significant ISC19 news for OpenACC wasn’t in its official press release yesterday which touted growing user traction and the notable addition Read more…

By John Russell

D-Wave Debuts Lower Noise Version of Its 2000Q System

May 15, 2019

Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Systems today announced access to a lower noise version of its 2000Q system as part of its Leap quantum computing cloud service Read more…

By John Russell

CCC Offers Draft 20-Year AI Roadmap; Seeks Comments

May 14, 2019

Artificial Intelligence in all its guises has captured much of the conversation in HPC and general computing today. The White House, DARPA, IARPA, and Departmen Read more…

By John Russell

Ten Great Reasons to Build the 1.5 Exaflops Frontier

May 7, 2019

It’s perhaps obvious that the fundamental reason for building expensive exascale computers is to drive science and industry forward, realizing the resulting b Read more…

By John Russell

Doug Kothe Delivers Whirlwind ECP Update in 70 (or so) Slides

May 2, 2019

So much attention is given to forthcoming exascale hardware – Aurora is scheduled to be the first U.S. exascale system to go live around 2021/22 – that the Read more…