Multiverse Computing, a quantum computing solution company, and IKERLAN, a technology transfer company, have released the results of a joint research study that detected defects in manufactured car pieces via image classification by quantum artificial vision systems. The research team developed a quantum-enhanced kernel method for classification on universal gate-based quantum computers as well as…
Multiverse Computing announces quantum digital twin initiative with Bosch Group
Quantum computing company Multiverse Computing announces a collaboration in a research project with the Bosch Automotive Electronics plant in Madrid to use the power of quantum computing in the virtual replica or “digital twin” of a factory. Multiverse is implementing quantum-based optimization algorithms at Bosch, delivering cutting-edge electronics components to several OEMs around the world.…
Frontier supercomputer debuts as world’s fastest, breaking exascale barrier
From Oak Ridge National Laboratory… The Frontier supercomputer at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory earned the top ranking today as the world’s fastest on the 59th TOP500 list, with 1.1 exaflops of performance. The system is the first to achieve an unprecedented level of computing performance known as exascale, a threshold of…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Mochi: Customizable Data Navigation Tool
Mochi, developed by Argonne National Laboratory, is a game-changing open-source tool for rapid development of customized data services supporting high-performance computing (HPC), big data and large-scale learning across many scientific fields. The Mochi framework enables composition of distributed data services from a collection of connectable modules and subservices. These customized data services require relatively small…
Siemens collaborates with Pasqal to research quantum applications in computer aided engineering, simulation and testing
Pasqal, a neutral atom-based quantum computing company, has announced a multi-year research collaboration with Siemens Digital Industries Software to advance the field of quantum computational multiphysics simulation. Siemens is well known in the field of computer-aided engineering. Pasqal’s proprietary quantum methods to solve complex nonlinear differential equations are expected to enhance the performance of Siemens’…
Q-CTRL and The Paul Scherrer Institute partner to support the scale-up of quantum computers
Q-CTRL, a developer of useful quantum technologies, announces a partnership with The Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), Switzerland’s largest research institute for natural and engineering sciences, to pioneer R&D in the scale-up of quantum computers. The strategic partnership will leverage Q-CTRL and PSI’s combined expertise to deliver transformational capabilities to the broader research community. This partnership…
R&D 100 winner of the day: SZ: A Lossy Compression Framework for Scientific Data
Scientific data reduction is a critical problem that must be addressed for the success of exascale supercomputers and next-generation facility-size scientific instruments at a time when they are urgently needed to address important societal problems like climate change, water management, advanced manufacturing and the development of new vaccines and drugs. The SZ compression framework for…
Agnostiq releases benchmark research on quantum computing hardware
Agnostiq, the first-of-its-kind quantum computing SaaS startup, has announced its latest benchmark research which analyzed the state of quantum computing hardware to determine its current and future practicality as a mainstream solution. The findings show that quantum computing hardware has improved over time and that application-specific benchmarks can serve as a more practical yardstick for…
Scientists announce first proof of quantum boomerangs and share backstory of Google’s Time Crystal
Researchers will discuss new experimental milestones in quantum science at the 2022 APS March Meeting, during a press conference at 10 a.m. CDT on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. The conference will be held onsite and streamed via Zoom. A new study in Physical Review X reports experimental evidence for a recently predicted quantum theory. “We…
Quantum technology startup awarded grant for advanced scientific computing research
Q-CTRL, a producer of useful quantum technologies, has announced the company’s U.S. office will receive a $230,000 Phase-1 SBIR grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for advanced scientific computing research. Q-CTRL’s funding is one of 158 grants totaling $35 million nationwide to support scientific innovation and clean energy development. Q-CTRL will leverage the…
MITRE and Quantum Moonshot team reach milestone on race toward a quantum computer
MITRE, MIT and Sandia National Laboratories are collaborating on a moonshot effort to build a quantum computer and recently published experimental findings in Nature Photonics. “We’re excited to announce a milestone toward scalable quantum computing,” said Gerald Gilbert, Ph.D., MITRE Fellow and leader of MITRE’s Quantum Moonshot program. “Based on optical entanglement of spin quantum…
How Sandia Labs is revealing the inner workings of quantum computers
From Sandia National Laboratories A precision diagnostic developed at the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories is emerging as a gold standard for detecting and describing problems inside quantum computing hardware. Two papers published this week in the scientific journal Nature describe how separate research teams — one including Sandia researchers — used a Sandia…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Flux: Next-Generation Workload Management Software Framework
Flux, developed by researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is a next-generation workload management framework for supercomputers, high-performance computing (HPC) clusters, servers in the cloud and laptops. It combines fully hierarchical resource management with graph-based scheduling to improve the performance, portability, flexibility and manageability of scheduling and execution of complex…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Free-space quantum network link architecture
MIT’s free-space quantum network link architecture enables efficient and high clock-rate generation, synchronized distribution and high-fidelity remote interaction of entangled photons across free-space links. These architecture capabilities are needed for development and realization of emerging quantum network applications such as networked quantum computing and enhanced distributed synchronization and sensing. In contrast to previous architectures, its…
What is supercomputing?
Supercomputers are very large and powerful computers able to perform calculations much more rapidly than general-purpose computers. They achieve this with a massively parallel architecture. Today’s supercomputers use the same off-the-self processors, operating at the same clock speeds, as desktop computers, but they have a large number of them so that many calculations can be…
Pistoia predicts focus on fight against AMR and a surge in quantum computing research for 2022
The Pistoia Alliance, a global, not-for-profit alliance that advocates for greater collaboration in life sciences R&D, has outlined predictions for the life sciences industry in 2022. The predictions come from three experts recently appointed by the Alliance to drive collaboration efforts across its three key themes. Their insights span the urgent fights against antimicrobial resistance,…
Sandia Labs shows advanced wayfinding tech could finally become compact, fieldable
From Sandia National Laboratories Don’t let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It’s what’s on the inside of this small, curious device that could someday kick off a new era of navigation. For over a year, the avocado-sized vacuum chamber has contained a cloud of atoms at the right conditions for…
Photonic chip is key to nurturing quantum computers
A team of researchers from Bristol’s Quantum Engineering and Technology Labs (QETLabs) has shown how to protect qubits from errors using photons in a silicon chip. Quantum computers are gaining pace. They promise to provide exponentially more computing power for certain very tricky problems. They do this by exploiting the peculiar behavior of quantum particles,…
Department of Energy invests $2.8M for novel research in high-performance algorithms
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $2.8 million for six research projects to develop faster and more efficient ways to apply high-performance computing for scientific discoveries. The projects – housed in six states and involving five universities and one DOE national laboratory – will focus on the development of “randomized algorithms” for transforming DOE…
DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise ready for exascale era with new testbed supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled a new testbed supercomputer to prepare critical workloads for future exascale systems that will deliver up to 4x faster performance than Argonne’s current supercomputers. The new system, which Argonne has named Polaris, will be built by HPE, and hosted and…
Leading experts urge applying the power of quantum technology to sustainability in new documentary
A new documentary – Quantum Technology | Our Sustainable Future from The Quantum Daily, developed in partnership with Oxford Instruments Nanoscience – was released today with a call from industry experts to leverage the power of quantum computing in addressing the world’s urgent sustainability challenges. The global premiere of Quantum Technology | Our Sustainable Future is…
$4M DOE grant will use high-performance exascale computing
By Holly Ober UC Riverside engineers will soon be using supercomputers and machine learning to control the behavior of materials with light. The project, a collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL, has received a $4 million grant from the Department of Energy to use high-performance exascale computing to control material systems with light.…
DOE provides $28M to advance scientific discovery using supercomputers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces $28 million in funding for five research projects to develop software that will fully unleash the potential of DOE supercomputers to make new leaps in fields such as quantum information science and chemical reactions for clean energy applications. “DOE’s national labs are home to some of the world’s fastest…
Advancing future energy technologies with more accurate electrochemical simulations
Accurate predictive simulations of the electrochemical reactions that power solar fuel generators, fuel cells and batteries could advance these technologies through improved material design, and by preventing detrimental electrochemical processes, such as corrosion. However, electrochemical reactions are so complex that current computational tools can only model a fraction of all relevant factors at one time…
What are supercomputers?
Today’s personal computer (PC) is far more powerful than its predecessor from previous generations and, unlike PCs of the past, can handle numerous operations at once, but it is no match for a supercomputer. The supercomputer is like asking 100 million PCs to work on a complex problem. Supercomputers have many processors that split problems…