From its virtual 4m below sealevel studioPrimeur Magazinereported from the RISC-V Global Forum that went online on September 3, 2020. The focus in this video is on the relationship between RISC-V and high performance computing. Firstly, the European Processor Initiative (EPI) is highlighted. Secondly comes BLAS, a basic algorithm underlying a lot of software in high performance computing. Thirdly, SemiDynamics is addressed. This Barcelona-based company, also involved in European processor activities, came out of stealth mode during the RISC-V Global Forum. Read further...

Jacqueline Chen, whose work on fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions in combustion helped advance the design of automotive, gas turbine and jet engines, was selected by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science as a distinguished scientist fellow - one of only eight researchers in the nation to hold the distinction. Read further...

Quantum information is fragile, which is why quantum computers must be able to correct errors. But what if whole qubits are lost? Researchers at the University of Innsbruck, in collaboration with RWTH Aachen University and University of Bologna, are now presenting a method in the journalNaturethat allows quantum computers to keep going even if they lose some qubits along the way. Read further...

Q-CTRL, a start-up that applies the principles of control engineering to accelerate the development of quantum technology, and Quantum Machines, creator of the first complete hardware and software solution for the control and operation of quantum computers, have signed a global commercial partnership to integrate Q-CTRL's firmware into Quantum Machines' quantum hardware platform. Read further...

Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) has added an experienced quantum computing executive to its Business Development team. Reporting to the firm's Chief Business Officer, Denise Ruffner, Mehdi Bozzo-Rey will take responsibility for a variety of key markets and clients in the USA, Canada and France and further expand CQC's leadership in business areas where corporations are rapidly adopting quantum computing solutions in order to address critical challenges now and in the future. Read further...

Researchers at Linköping University have developed a molecule that absorbs energy from sunlight and stores it in chemical bonds. A possible long-term use of the molecule is to capture solar energy efficiently and store it for later consumption. Read further...

As PROCESS comes to its final stages, the first packaged version of the software developed in the project is ready and at disposal of potential users. Read further...

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), Ireland's High-Performance Computing authority announced on September 11, the details of seven academic projects which will be supported by its new Academic Flagship Programme. This two year programme aims to increase Irish competitiveness in the European supercomputing landscape. The seven successful projects were selected from a competitive call which received 13 proposals from researchers distributed across 17 universities/institutes across Ireland, UK, Spain, France, Germany, Denmark, Japan and the USA. The Academic Flagship Programme will operate under the EuroHPC Competency Centre for Ireland which ICHEC recently launched. It is one of 33 similar centres across Europe which form the ambitious EuroHPC programme. Read further...

Developing predictive computational tools for the design, development, and manufacture of next-generation devices and materials is a grand challenge problem in material sciences. A first step in reaching this long-term goal is conducting detailed studies of how existing materials behave at the atomic level under a wide variety of conditions. Read further...

Donna J. Cox, director of NCSA's Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL), was recently awarded the International Planetarium Society's 2020 Technology Innovation Award. This is just the eighth time since the society's founding in 1958 that this honor has been bestowed. It is only awarded when a recipient is identified as meeting the award criteria: an individual with "a broad, deep and concrete effect in the profession and its development" and "whose technology and/or innovations in the planetarium field have been, through the years, utilized or replicated by other members and/or other planetariums". Read further...

KAIST researchers advanced non-volatile memory express (NVMe) controller technology for next generation information storage devices, and made this new technology named 'OpenExpress' freely available to all universities and research institutes around the world to help reduce the research cost in related fields. Read further...

Credo, a global innovation expert in high performance, low power serial connectivity solutions, has launched the DOVE Platform, the second generation, low power PAM4 DSP family for high-speed data networks. The DOVE Platform includes products for 100/200/400G optical interconnects. Read further...

Tachyum Inc. is opening a business unit to serve U.S., EU and NATO member government customers of its Prodigy Universal Processor for demanding HPC, artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. Read further...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded CENIC a $4 million, five-year grant for continued operation and enhancement of Pacific Wave International Exchange. A joint project of CENIC and the Pacific Northwest Gigapop (PNWGP), Pacific Wave interconnects international Asia-Pacific research and education networks, key U.S. Western regional research and education networks, leading national-scale research networks, and major commercial research Cloud services. Read further...

The Unified Communication Framework (UCF), a collaboration of industry, laboratories, and academia to create production-grade communication frameworks and open standards for data-centric and high-performance applications, has announced an open source contribution of an OpenSHMEM-based I/O research extension to access persistent memory storage, in collaboration with Arm. Provided to the UCF's Open Smart Network Application Programming Interface (OpenSNAPI) project, the open source software enables Smart Networking Adapters to provide real-time access to large datasets and deliver higher application performance for latency-sensitive applications such as fraud detection, cybersecurity analysis, web-scale personalization, and Internet of Things (IoT). Read further...

Liqid, a composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) platform provider, has signed a new agreement with Arrow Electronics to distribute Liqid's line of composable infrastructure solutions and services to Arrow's large network of channel partners. Read further...

The "Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) and High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Suppliers Strategic Positioning and Leadership Quadrant" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Read further...

Quantum Corp. has announced that Genomics England has expanded their Quantum ActiveScale object storage solution as part of an integrated environment designed to store, protect, and provide access to hundreds of petabytes of genomic data. The solution enabled the organisation to scale up from sequencing 100.000 genomes to millions while improving data resilience, controlling costs, and avoiding IT complexity. The implementation supports Genomics England's commitment to sequence the genomes of intensive care patients with COVID-19 and other people with the virus and is an example of Quantum's leadership in storing and managing unstructured data. Read further...

NVIDIA and SoftBank Group Corp. (SBG) have signed a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Arm Limited from SBG and the SoftBank Vision Fund (together, "SoftBank") in a transaction valued at $40 billion. The transaction is expected to be immediately accretive to NVIDIA's non-GAAP gross margin and non-GAAP earnings per share. Read further...

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have launched the new Center for AstroPhysical Surveys (CAPS). The centre is a collaborative effort between NCSA, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, Department of Astronomy, and the Department of Physics at Illinois which seeks to bring cohesion and advancement to astrophysical survey science efforts across campus. Read further...

The largest collaborative undertaking yet to explore the relic light emitted by the infant universe has taken a step forward with the U.S. Department of Energy's selection of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to lead the partnership of national labs, universities, and other institutions that will carry out the DOE roles and responsibilities for the effort. This next-generation experiment, known as CMB-S4, or Cosmic Microwave Background Stage 4, is being planned to become a joint DOE and National Science Foundation project. Read further...

Insilico Medicine, a global expert in artificial intelligence for drug discovery and development, has launched a new system for COVID-19 basic and clinical research. COVIDomic is a foundational technology which enables scientists to use anonymized patient data to integrate with a variety of existing data sets. Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools can then be applied in many ways, starting with better stratifying COVID-19 patients, understanding the disease trajectory and identifying relevant disease pathways and targets. COVIDomic is built using massive multi-omics data sets, sophisticated dimensionality reduction algorithms and deep learning systems. This amount of computing will rely on Intel Xeon processors. Read further...

Research conducted by the Computational Neuroscience Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) has shown for the first time that a computer model can replicate and explain a unique property displayed by a crucial brain cell. Their findings, published in eLife , shed light on how groups of neurons can self-organize by synchronizing when they fire fast. Read further...

Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Russian Quantum Center, joined by colleagues from Saratov State University and Michigan Technological University, have demonstrated new methods for controlling spin waves in nanostructured bismuth iron garnet films via short laser pulses. Presented inNano Letters, the solution has potential for applications in energy-efficient information transfer and spin-based quantum computing. Read further...

The EBRAINS infrastructure for neuroscience has officially submitted an application for inclusion in the ESFRI Roadmap 2021. EBRAINS offers researchers a comprehensive package of powerful tools, facilities and resources that have been jointly developed by scientists and engineers in the Human Brain Project, a ten-year European Flagship project running until 2023. ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, plays a central role in establishing shared infrastructures for Science in Europe and helps guide decisions in research policy. The application of EBRAINS to the ESFRI Roadmap is supported by a ten-country strong coalition, led by France as lead country. Additional backing is provided in over 90 letters of support from European scientific institutions, medical associations and industry. Read further...

The world inside the human cell grew a bit more interesting in recent years as the role of a new biological structure became clearer. Read further...

Sunspots are darker regions which often appear on the Sun's surface. They are caused by strong concentrations of magnetic field, and can be as big as the Earth, or even much bigger. Read further...

The Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (HCB) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) work together to create a model based on artificial intelligence (AI) that helps doctors predict the evolution of patients with COVID-19 and those responsible for the centres to plan their internal organisation in the event of a new wave. The project is part of the Plan for the Promotion of Language Technologies of the Secretary for Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, in which the BSC participates, and it is open to the collaboration of more hospitals. Read further...

In 182 days, the eROSITA X-ray telescope on board the Russian-German "Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma" (SRG) mission at a distance of 1,5 million kilometers to the Earth, delivered around 165 gigabytes of data and millions of images, mainly of black holes in galaxies, but also of hot gas in galaxy clusters and in and around our galaxy. Galaxies are the islands of the cosmos and places where life originates. Read further...

Altair, a global technology company providing solutions in data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC), will hold its 2020 Global Altair Technology Conference (ATC) virtually October 5-7. The ATC brings together the brightest minds around the world to share breakthrough digital discoveries and industry-first innovations, all while continuing to explore solutions for a smarter, more connected world. Read further...

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego and its partners at the University of Washington (UW), UC Berkeley, and Strategic Blue have entered production operations of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded CloudBank programme, which aims to simplify the use of public Clouds across computer science research and education. Read further...

Schlumberger, IBM and Red Hat, have signed a collaboration to accelerate digital transformation across the oil and gas industry. The joint initiative will provide global access to Schlumberger's leading exploration and production (E&P) Cloud-based environment and cognitive applications by leveraging IBM's hybrid Cloud technology, built on the Red Hat OpenShift container platform. Read further...

Red Hat Inc., a global provider of open source solutions, and IBM, have made available Red Hat Marketplace, a one-stop-shop to find, try, buy, deploy and manage enterprise applications across an organisation's hybrid IT infrastructure, including on-premises and multi-Cloud environments. Read further...

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions and an industry expert in memory interface products, has introduced a new high-speed, low-power DDR5 data buffer for data centre, server, and high-performance workstation applications. Read further...

NETINT Technologies, an innovator of computational storage and video processing SoC solutions, has deployed its video transcoding technology in the Nimbix Cloud. Read further...