Supercomputers

02 Dec 23

IBM Offers Quantum Error Suppression Out Of The Box

Computer & Information Technology

The error-prone nature of today’s quantum computers can make doing any useful computation on them a major headache. IBM has announced that, as of this past week, they have integrated error suppression technology from Q-CTRL into IBM cloud quantum services, letting users slash error rates by simply flicking a switch.…

04 Oct 23

How Researchers Use Nvidia’s GPUs to Simulate Qubits

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Between integrating its Grace Hopper chip directly with a quantum processor and showing off the ability to simulate quantum systems on classical supercomputers, Nvidia is making waves in the quantum computing world this month.Nvidia is certainly well positioned to take advantage of the latter. It makes GPUs that supercomputers use,…

20 Jul 23

Cerebras Introduces Its 2-Exaflop AI Supercomputer

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

“Generative AI is eating the world.”That’s how Andrew Feldman, CEO of Silicon Valley AI computer maker Cerebras, begins his introduction to his company’s latest achievement: An AI supercomputer capable of 2 billion billion operations per second (2 exaflops). The system, called Condor Galaxy 1, is on track to double in…

20 Apr 23

Industry Out of Phase With Supercomputers

Computer & Information Technology

Technical and economic changes in the semiconductor industry threaten to stifle U.S. development of the next generation of high-performance computers, warns a new report from the National Research Council.With Moore’s Law and the scaling of transistors waning, the industry is turning to chip designs that don’t work for the supercomputing…

21 Feb 23

AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

Computer & Information Technology

“Over the next decade, we must think of energy efficiency as the most important challenge,” Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, told engineers at the 2023 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), in San Francisco.Despite a slowdown of Moore’s Law, other factors have pushed mainstream computing capabilities to…