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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

CIO Business Intelligence

Among those ranked in the 59 th edition of the TOP500 announced at the 2022 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Hamburg, Germany, are standouts conducting powerful research in energy generation, cyber and physical threats, and astrophysics. Eni, HPC5: The Supercomputer Working for Energy. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76

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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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NASA awards millions to boost technology innovations created by small businesses

GeekWire

One grant would support the development of a lunar power distribution system. JX Crystals: Based in Issaquah, JX Crystals proposes developing and demonstrating a compact, high-efficiency power beaming system that could couple a laser source to an infrared receiver for power distribution from the edge of a moon crater to a charging station.

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AI makes its mark in ‘Innovation of the Year’ category at the 2023 GeekWire Awards

GeekWire

Finalists for the 2023 GeekWire Innovation of the Year award, clockwise from upper left: the Yoodli team; Byron Boots of Overland AI; Samar Abbas and Maxim Fateev of Temporal; Ghostwriter developer Patrick Husting; and Sam Browd of Proprio. The GeekWire Awards recognize the top innovators and companies in Pacific Northwest technology.

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Nvidia speeds AI, climate modeling

CIO Business Intelligence

Nvidia is hoping to make it easier for CIOs building digital twins and machine learning models to secure enterprise computing, and even to speed the adoption of quantum computing with a range of new hardware and software. Seeing double. It’s at the high end of that range that Nvidia plays. Quantum to come.

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X-ray vision in the warehouse: ThruWave raises $6.4M to help online retailers see through packages

GeekWire

Fortune 100 customers in retail and e-commerce warehouses are using the company’s hardware and software, which was first developed at the University of Washington. ThruWave’s sensors mount alongside conveyor belts and make 3D images of the items inside via antennas and what the company calls “compressive sensing.”

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Junior Geek of the Month: Nigel Barnett will pursue engineering at MIT, and later, his astronaut dream

GeekWire

He started with LEGOs, moved on to DC motors and circuits, then computer hardware, 3D printing, and now, in high school, a solar car. At Raisbeck he’s been involved in the school’s Green Energy Team and among 20 or so students, he is the main structural designer of the team’s solar car.