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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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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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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. This category recognizes breakthrough innovations with the potential to change the way we live and work.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

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Steve Jobs once called the personal computer “a bicycle for our minds,” a tool that helps us go farther with the same amount of energy. Puma Energy is the fuels retailing arm of Swiss-based … Read more on Ferret. a software company specializing in … Read more on TechTarget. Read more on opensource.com.

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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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Fictional plans for building a space station beyond the moon reflect Jeff Bezos’ vision

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To try to lift polluting and heavy industries into space, to avail ourselves of new energy and resources without further impacting the planet.” Yet another frontier has to do with robotic additive manufacturing, otherwise known as 3D printing. based Tethers Unlimited are testing 3D printers and recyclers that are optimized for zero-G.

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