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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

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Six Washington state companies are on the list for SBIR Phase I grants: HyBird Space Systems: The Spanaway-based company is developing a 3D-printed retrobraking propulsion system known as RT-5X, with the initial application focused on deorbiting spacecraft in low Earth orbit at the end of their operating life.

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

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Last year’s winner was First Mode , developer of a hydrogen fuel cell generator that can power massive trucks, retrofitting big vehicles to provide a clean source of energy. The system helps clinicians place incisions and guide placement of hardware, such as devices that can help straighten a spine.

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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.

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

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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

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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.