Computer scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed an open source software platform that allows quantum programmes to run on multiple quantum computers regardless of their unique architecture. Read further...

Defiance ETFs has launched the Defiance Quantum ETF, a fund designed to provide investors with access to cutting edge technologies that are exponentially increasing computing speeds and making it possible to solve increasingly complicated problems. Read further...

The quantum computers of the future will be able to perform computations that cannot be done on today's computers. These may likely include the ability to crack the encryption that is currently used for secure electronic transactions, as well as the means to efficiently solve unwieldy problems in which the number of possible solutions increases exponentially. Read further...

On 4 September 2018, 11 national research funding organisations, with the support of the European Commission including the European Research Council (ERC), have launched cOAlition S, an initiative to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality. It is built around Plan S, which was announced at EuroScience Open Forum - ESOF in Toulouse in July 2018. Read further...

The National Centre for Supercomputing Applications in Sofia, Bulgaria will organize the PRACE Winter School on Computational Chemistry, Biochemistry and Medicinal chemistry - Methods and Tools, November 26-29, 2018. Read further...

DataDirect Networks (DDN), a supplier of high-performance data management solutions for customers at scale, has completed the acquisition of Tintri Inc. for $60 million after an extensive bidding process, which saw DDN declared as the auction winner, followed by court approval and ratification of DDN's winning bid. Read further...

Bright Computing, a global expert in cluster and Cloud infrastructure automation software, has signed a reseller agreement with Japan-based Towa Electric. Read further...

Altair has released and immediately made availabie the Altair Inspire simulation-driven design platform, and the Altair 365 Cloud collaboration platform. The Altair Inspire platform enables manufacturers to leverage simulation to drive the entire design process, accelerating the pace of innovation and reducing time-to-market. This new platform brings together simulation solutions for generative design, engineering analysis, and manufacturability under a single, intuitive user environment, appealing to designers and engineers with little or no simulation experience. Read further...

DataDirect Networks (DDN) has launched a new data management solution developed and deployed at the University of Michigan (U-M) that will help support an increasingly diverse set of research projects spanning machine learning, transportation, precision health, chemistry, computational flow dynamics, life sciences, physics and public policy. Read further...

Super Micro Computer Inc., a global expert in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, is shipping a new all-flash NVMe - Non-Volatile Memory Express - storage server optimized to support Samsung's new NF1 form factor SSDs. Read further...

Marian Gazdik, the Director of Startup Grind Europe, an entrepreneurship community powered by Google for Entrepreneurs, has joined Tachyum's Board of Advisors to help guide Tachyum's success in transforming the landscape of intelligent data processing and big AI. Read further...

GigaSpaces, the provider of InsightEdge, an in-memory real-time analytics platform for instant insights to action, will demonstrate support for Kubernetes orchestration at the GigaSpaces booth at the Strata Data Conference, September 11-13 in New York, as multiple customers from various industries plan production deployments in coming months. Read further...

Fujitsu will begin sales of its Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY Liquid Immersion Cooling System in Japan today, with a global roll-out to follow. This product is a cooling system designed to efficiently cool the entire IT devices equally by immersing it in cooling fluid. Large-scale cooling equipment is not required, so the system reduces the total power consumption for the server system as a whole by about 40% compared to existing air cooling systems. This dramatic reduction of power consumption allows customers to approximately double the server density in the same installation space. Read further...

A Big Data Center collaboration between computational scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and engineers at Intel and Cray has yielded another first in the quest to apply deep learning to data-intensive science: CosmoFlow, the first large-scale science application to use the TensorFlow framework on a CPU-based high performance computing platform with synchronous training. It is also the first to process three-dimensional (3D) spatial data volumes at this scale, giving scientists an entirely new platform for gaining a deeper understanding of the universe. Read further...

Two PhD students who first came to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as summer interns in 2016 are spending six months a year at the lab through 2020 developing new data analytics tools that could dramatically impact climate research and other large-scale science data projects. Read further...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched the Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High-Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP). The $25 million software-focused institute will tackle the unprecedented torrent of data that will come from the high-luminosity running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator located at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) will provide scientists with a unique window into the subatomic world to search for new phenomena and to study the properties of the Higgs boson in great detail. The 2012 discovery at the LHC of the Higgs boson - a particle central to our fundamental theory of nature - led to the Nobel Prize in physics a year later and has provided scientists with a new tool for further discovery. Read further...

If you've followed any science-based news over the past few years, you've probably read a thing or two about gravitational waves, and how recent discoveries have provided some of the strongest evidence to support Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Back in 2015, researchers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) used detectors in Washington and Louisiana to identify gravitational waves emitted by a cosmic black-hole binary collision. Read further...

At the end of its life, a red supergiant star explodes in a hydrogen-rich supernova. By comparing observation results to simulation models, an international research team found that in many cases this explosion takes place inside a thick cloud of circumstellar matter shrouding the star. This result completely changes our understanding of the last stage of stellar evolution. Read further...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), one of the giants of contemporary science, considered "entanglement" the most interesting property in quantum mechanics. In his view, it was this phenomenon that truly distinguished the quantum world from the classical world. Read further...

At the Baidu 2018 ABC Summit in Shanghai, Baidu and Intel outlined new artificial intelligence (AI) collaborations showcasing applications ranging from financial services and shipping to video content detection. Specifically, Baidu Cloud is leveraging Intel Xeon Scalable processors and the Intel Math Kernel Library-Deep Neural Network (Intel MKL-DNN) as part of a new financial services solution for leading China banks; the Intel OpenVINO toolkit in new AI edge distribution and video solutions; and Intel Optane technology and Intel QLC NAND SSD technology for enhanced object storage. Read further...