John Russell

1 week ago | hpcwire.com | John Russell

Brace for a deluge of all things quantum today as the third World Quantum Day takes place around the world. The date April 14, was selected because4/14 is close to first three numbers of Planck’s constant: 4.1356677×10−15 eV⋅s, which is the fundamental constant governing quantum physics. Broadly-speaking, there is no central coordination; instead there is a wide variety of events conducted worldwide by governments, academia, and prominent laboratories.

2 weeks ago | hpcwire.com | Yuval Boger |John Russell

Clinical trials, particularly for rare diseases, oncology, and precision medicine, often grapple with a critical challenge: too little data. Many standard machine-learning algorithms require substantial data sets to achieve credible accuracy, and smaller data sets can lead to overfitting, high variance in predictions, and poor generalization.

2 weeks ago | hpcwire.com | John Russell

There’s a race around the world to build the next Silicon Valley, but for quantum computing. Quantum advocates see riches, influence, and maybe redemption for sites like south Chicago. The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park is being built on the site of US Steel’s South Works, which closed in 1992. Bloomberg today posted a fascinating article by Zach Mortice describing Chicago’s effort to transform the site of a once-thriving-now-dead steel works into a quantum powerhouse.

3 weeks ago | hpcwire.com | John Russell

Hyperion Research just issued the results of its first Top of Mind survey. The idea is to take a quick pulse (5 questions) of HPC/AI/Quantum community opinion every 2-3 months. This first effort looked at AI, mixed precision data formats, hyperscalers and the Top 500 list, quantum computers, and HPC hardware shortcomings. So without prelude here are the first two quick pics:Probably no great surprises in the first two.

4 weeks ago | hpcwire.com | John Russell

Looking to brush up on the basics of quantum computing? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has posted a mini primer that explains many aspects of quantum information science in layman terms. Presented under the title — Quantum Computing Explained — the short NIST commentary tackles quantum computing’s mystery words — superposition and entanglement — and includes the following sections:• What is quantum, anyway? • What could quantum computers do?