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Oct 28, 2024

‘During the launch of Denmark’s inaugural AI supercomputer

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

‘During the launch of Denmark’s inaugural AI supercomputer, Gefion, alongside Jensen Huang, King Frederik of Denmark remarked, ‘I am not the only king in this room; the other one is wearing a leather jacket.’‘

Oct 27, 2024

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and the King of Denmark plug in the country’s first AI supercomputer — Gefion leverages 1,528 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics, robotics/AI, supercomputing

King Frederik X of Denmark practically called Huang a king with a leather jacket on.

Oct 25, 2024

‘Scission neutron’ existence confirmed in nuclear fission simulation

Posted by in category: supercomputing

Scientists used a supercomputer to simulate nuclear fission with unprecedented accuracy, confirming the existence of scission neutrons.

Oct 24, 2024

Tracking down nuclear fission’s elusive scission neutron with a supercomputer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nuclear energy, supercomputing

Nuclear fission—when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy—may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since, fission is a constant factor in modern life, used in everything from nuclear medicine to power-generating nuclear reactors. However, it is a force of nature that still contains mysteries yet to be solved.

Researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle, or UW, and Los Alamos National Laboratory have used the Summit supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory to answer one of fission’s biggest questions: What exactly happens during the nucleus’s “neck rupture” as it splits in two?

The resulting paper is published in the journal Physical Review Letters.

Oct 16, 2024

Elon Musk’s xAI built a 100,000-GPU supercluster in just 19 days

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, supercomputing

Crazy: Few would argue that Elon Musk is driven. Despite his various detractors, the entrepreneur has built Tesla and SpaceX into major competitors, if not leaders, in their respective industries. This success comes amid various side endeavors like Neuralink and Twitter/X transition. Now, his xAI team has gotten an AI supercluster up and running in just a few weeks.

Elon Musk and his xAI team have seemingly done the impossible. The company built a supercluster of 100,000 Nvidia H200 Blackwell GPUs in only 19 days. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the feat “superhuman.” Huang shared the incredible story in an interview with the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley group on X.

According to Huang, constructing a supercomputer of this size would take most crews around four years – three years in planning and one year on shipping, installation, and operational setup. However, in less than three weeks, Musk and his team managed the entire process – from concept to full functionality. The xAI supercluster even completed its first AI training run shortly after the cluster was powered up.

Oct 15, 2024

Nu Quantum Unveils Qubit-Photon Interface to Enable Distributed Quantum Computing Networks

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, robotics/AI, supercomputing

CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 15, 2024 — Nu Quantum has announced a proof-of-principle prototype that advances the development of modular, distributed quantum computers by enabling connections across different qubit modalities and providers. The technology, known as the Qubit-Photon Interface, functions similarly to Network Interface Cards (NICs) in classical computing, facilitating communication between quantum computers over a network and supporting the potential growth of quantum infrastructure akin to the impact NICs have had on the Cloud and AI markets.

For quantum computers to achieve practical applications—such as accurately simulating atomic-level interactions—they must scale to 1,000 times their current size. This will require a shift from single quantum processing units (QPUs) to distributed quantum systems composed of hundreds of interconnected QPUs, operating at data center scale, similar to cloud and AI supercomputers.

The efficient transfer of quantum information between matter and light at the quantum level is the biggest challenge to scaling quantum computers, and this is the specific issue that the QPI addresses.

Oct 10, 2024

Google’s Sycamore quantum computer chip can now outperform the fastest supercomputers, new study suggests

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, supercomputing

Experiments on Google’s 67-qubit Sycamore processor showed operations entering a new “weak noise phase” in which calculations were complex enough to outperform supercomputers, based on benchmark testing.

Oct 8, 2024

DoD launches new biological defense supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore Lab

Posted by in categories: biological, government, security, supercomputing

The US government has launched a new supercomputer in Livermore, California.

The Department of Defense (DoD) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) this month inaugurated a new supercomputing system dedicated to biological defense at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).


Specs not shared, but same architecture as upcoming El Capitan system.

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Sep 19, 2024

The First ‘Zeta-Class’ Supercomputer Will Revolutionize Science in Just 6 Years

Posted by in categories: science, supercomputing

Once online in 2030, it will make modern speeds feel like dial-up.

Sep 18, 2024

Nuclear theorists turn to supercomputers to map out matter’s building blocks in 3D

Posted by in categories: education, particle physics, supercomputing

Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom’s nucleus—particles called hadrons that a high school student would recognize as protons and neutrons—are made up of a seething mixture of interacting quarks and gluons, known collectively as partons.

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