Physicists Reveal Material for High-Speed Quantum Internet
The race for quantum computing is on: Industry giants, such as Google, IBM, and Microsoft, and leading international research centers and universities are involved in the global effort to build a quantum computer. It is not known yet when this new technology can become a reality, but the world is getting ready. The greatest expectation…
Fueled by Data, Cardiology Ripe for Precision Medicine Research
Data driven precision medicine could empower the world’s providers to treat and potentially prevent virtually any disease, taking into account a person’s health information, environment and lifestyle. While cancer patients are beginning to realize precision medicine’s power to accurately diagnose and treat many malignancies, cardiovascular disease— the number one cause of death globally—is just beginning…
Scientists Estimate North American Snowfall with NASA’s Pleiades Supercomputer
There’s a lot more snow piling up in the mountains of North America than anyone knew, according to a first-of-its-kind study. Scientists have revised an estimate of snow volume for the entire continent, and they’ve discovered that snow accumulation in a typical year is 50 percent higher than previously thought. In the journal Geophysical Research Letters,…
A Game Changer: Metagenomic Clustering Powered by Supercomputers
Did you know that the tools used for analyzing relationships between social network users or ranking web pages can also be extremely valuable for making sense of big science data? On a social network like Facebook, each user (person or organization) is represented as a node and the connections (relationships and interactions) between them are…
A Game Changer: Metagenomic Clustering Powered by Supercomputers
Did you know that the tools used for analyzing relationships between social network users or ranking web pages can also be extremely valuable for making sense of big science data? On a social network like Facebook, each user (person or organization) is represented as a node and the connections (relationships and interactions) between them are…
TACC, Lamont Observatory of Columbia University Host One of the Largest Earth Sciences Data Collections in the Country
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin is partnering with the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) at Columbia University to host one of the largest data collections for Earth sciences of its type in the country. The data relates to the Ross Ice Shelf, a massive slab of floating ice that…
Researchers Find Algorithm for Large-Scale Brain Simulations
An international group of researchers has made a decisive step towards creating the technology to achieve simulations of brain-scale networks on future supercomputers of the exascale class. The breakthrough, published in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, allows larger parts of the human brain to be represented, using the same amount of computer memory. Simultaneously, the new algorithm significantly…
UC San Diego Launches Data Science Institute
A new institute at the University of California San Diego, which will be celebrated tomorrow at a campus dedication, is building on the university’s strengths of multidisciplinary collaboration and data science to allow researchers across the campus to incorporate data science into their respective disciplines to better understand and make predictions about the world around us. The cross-disciplinary Halicioğlu Data Science Institute,…
Want More Efficient Simulators? Store Time in a Quantum Superposition
Largest Supercomputer Simulation of Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake
The December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake was one of the most powerful and destructive seismic events in history. Failure of 1300–1500 km of the Sumatra subduction zone caused more than eight minutes of violent shaking. The resulting Mw 9.1–9.3 megathrust earthquake generated a tsunami that was up to 30m high along the northern coast of Sumatra. The…
Supercomputers Aid Discovery of New, Inexpensive Material to Make LEDs with Excellent Color Quality
A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego has used data mining and computational tools to discover a new phosphor material for white LEDs that is inexpensive and easy to make. Researchers built prototype white LED light bulbs using the new phosphor. The prototypes exhibited better color quality than many commercial…
‘Memtransistor’ Brings World Closer to Brain-Like Computing
Physics Data Processing at NERSC Dramatically Cuts Reconstruction Time
In a recent demonstration project, physicists from Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used the Cori supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) to reconstruct data collected from a nuclear physics experiment, an advance that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to make detailed data available…
NWChem “Best Paper” Demonstrates Many-Core Strong Scaling for HPC and Computational Chemistry Applications
New, many-core scalability results delivered a best paper award to NWChem researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) at the latest Intel Xeon Phi User’s Group (IXPUG). “Our achievement is especially good news for researchers who use NWChem because it means that they can exploit multicore architectures of current…
Leading Cloud Providers Join with NSF to Support Data Science Frontiers
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing nearly $30 million in new funding for research in data science and engineering through its Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing Foundations and Applications of Big Data Sciences and Engineering (BIGDATA) program. NSF’s awards are paired with support from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP),…
ALCF ESP Calls for Data Science and Machine Learning Proposals for Nation’s First Exascale Computer
Smartly Containing the Cloud Increases Computing Efficiency, Says First-Of-Its-Kind Study
An Unbiased Approach for Sifting Through Big Data
A new method could help researchers develop unbiased indicators for assessing complex systems such as population health. Researchers have developed a complex system model to evaluate the health of populations in some U.S. cities based only on the most significant variables expressed in available data. Their unbiased network-based probabilistic approach to mine big data could…
Researchers Observe Electrons Zipping Around in Crystals
The end of the silicon age has begun. As computer chips approach the physical limits of miniaturization and power-hungry processors drive up energy costs, scientists are looking to a new crop of exotic materials that could foster a new generation of computing devices that promise to push performance to new heights while skimping on energy…
Applying Machine Learning to the Universe’s Mysteries
Computers can beat chess champions, simulate star explosions, and forecast global climate. We are even teaching them to be infallible problem-solvers and fast learners. And now, physicists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and their collaborators have demonstrated that computers are ready to tackle the universe’s greatest mysteries. The team…
Ultralow Power Consumption for Data Recording
A team of researchers at Tohoku University, in collaboration with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Hanyang University, has developed new phase change material which has electrical characteristics that behave differently to those of conventional materials. This new material allows a drastic reduction in power consumption for data-recording in non-volatile…
BSC Identifies New Risk Variants for T-2 Diabetes by the Reanalysis of Public Data with Innovative Computational Methods
HPC Systems, Netlist, and Nyriad to Accelerate the Adoption of Persistent Memory and GPUs for Storage
Quantum Race Accelerates Development of Silicon Quantum Chip
The worldwide race to create more, better and reliable quantum processors is progressing fast, as a team of TU Delft scientists led by Professor Vandersypen has realised yet again. In a neck-and-neck race with their competitors, they showed that quantum information of an electron spin can be transported to a photon, in a silicon quantum…