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Aug 10, 2024

Exploring the evolution of social norms with a supercomputer

Posted by in categories: evolution, supercomputing

Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (Japan) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology (Germany) have published new findings on how social norms evolve over time. They simulated how norms promote different social behavior, and how the norms themselves come and go. Because of the enormous number of possible norms, these simulations were run on RIKEN’s Fugaku, one of the fastest supercomputers worldwide.

Aug 10, 2024

New supercomputing network could lead to AGI, scientists hope, with 1st node coming online within weeks

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

Scientists hope to accelerate the development of human-level AI using a network of powerful supercomputers — with the first of these machines fully operational by 2025.

Aug 9, 2024

NASA Visualizes Earth’s CO2 Emissions With a Cool Animation

Posted by in categories: satellites, supercomputing, sustainability

Using supercomputers and satellite imagery, the researchers showed our planet breathing.

Aug 6, 2024

US uses neural networks to make energy-efficient supercomputers

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

Researchers develop energy-efficient supercomputing with neural networks and charge density waves.


Researchers are creating efficient systems using neural networks and charge density waves to reduce supercomputing’s massive energy use.

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Aug 6, 2024

“Chip Wars” Will Soon Be “Data Center Wars”, As Our “Next AI Trade” Develops

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, robotics/AI, supercomputing

As we have alluded to numerous times when talking about the next “AI” trade, data centers will be the “factories of the future” when it comes to the age of AI.

That’s the contention of Chris Miller, the author of Chip War, who penned a recent opinion column for Financial Times noting that ‘chip wars’ could very soon become ‘cloud wars’

He points out that the strategic use of high-powered computing dates back to the Cold War when the US allowed the USSR limited access to supercomputers for weather forecasting, not nuclear simulations.

Aug 6, 2024

Ultrafast electron microscopy technique advances understanding of processes applicable to brain-like computing

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

Today’s supercomputers consume vast amounts of energy, equivalent to the power usage of thousands of homes. In response, researchers are developing a more energy-efficient form of next-generation supercomputing that leverages artificial neural networks.

Aug 5, 2024

Will neuromorphic computers accelerate AGI development?

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI, supercomputing

Neuromorphic computers are devices that try to achieve reasoning capability by emulating a human brain. They are a different type of computer architecture that copies the physical characteristics and design principles of biological nervous systems. Although neuromorphic computations can be emulated, it’s very inefficient for classical computers to simulate. Typically new hardware is required.

The first neuromorphic computer at the scale of a full human brain is about to come online. It’s called DeepSouth, and will be finished in April 2024 at Western Sydney University. This computer should enable new research into how our brain actually functions, potentially leading to breakthroughs in how AI is created.

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Aug 3, 2024

NVIDIA Accelerating the Future of AI & Humanoid Robots

Posted by in categories: economics, robotics/AI, singularity, supercomputing, virtual reality

And this shows one of the many ways in which the Economic Singularity is rushing at us. The 🦾🤖 Bots are coming soon to a job near you.


NVIDIA unveiled a suite of services, models, and computing platforms designed to accelerate the development of humanoid robots globally. Key highlights include:

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Jul 30, 2024

AI brain images create realistic synthetic data to use in medical research

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI, supercomputing

An AI model developed by scientists at King’s College London, in close collaboration with University College London, has produced three-dimensional, synthetic images of the human brain that are realistic and accurate enough to use in medical research.

The model and images have helped scientists better understand what the human brain looks like, supporting research to predict, diagnose and treat such as dementia, stroke, and multiple sclerosis.

The algorithm was created using the NVIDIA Cambridge-1, the UK’s most powerful supercomputer. One of the fastest supercomputers in the world, the Cambridge-1 allowed researchers to train the AI in weeks rather than months and produce images of far higher quality.

Jul 23, 2024

A hybrid supercomputer: Researchers integrate a quantum computer into a high-performance computing environment

Posted by in categories: chemistry, energy, quantum physics, supercomputing

Working together, the University of Innsbruck and the spin-off AQT have integrated a quantum computer into a high-performance computing (HPC) environment for the first time in Austria. This hybrid infrastructure of supercomputer and quantum computer can now be used to solve complex problems in various fields such as chemistry, materials science or optimization.

Demand for computing power is constantly increasing and the consumption of resources to support these calculations is growing. Processor clock speeds in conventional computers, typically a few GHz, appear to have reached their limit.

Performance improvements over the last 10 years have focused primarily on the parallelization of tasks using multi-core systems, which are operated in HPC centers as fast networked multi-node computing clusters. However, computing power only increases approximately linearly with the number of nodes.

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