Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1111823 "large-scale simulation modeling (fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, structural mechanics, nuclear physics) using rigorous partial differential equations' exascale-level computations using much less power than conventional supercomputers... leads to world's first neuromorphic supercomputer... additionally, a health angle: brain’s architecture naturally wired for complex physics, so neurological disorders like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s may be diseases of computation" Related: Great Sky Unveils Brain-like Computing Architecture Built for the Next Era of AI https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260313838393/en/Great-Sky-Unveils-Brain-like-Computing-Architecture-Built-for-the-Next-Era-of-AI Inspired by the brain, researchers build smarter, more efficient computer hardware https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1127351

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1108915 "fundamentally different approach to data processing that does not treat all data equally... up to 10X performance improvements at half the power without requiring users to rewrite their applications... national security tasks, such as advanced fluid dynamics simulations helping assess nuclear deterrent safety/ reliability without underground testing... more sophisticated/ efficient simulations... scalable, featuring innovative server/ advanced cooling... smarter, more adaptive designs rather than just bigger machines"

https://phys.org/news/2024-02-key-photonic-components-supercomputing-technology.html "Programmable photonic IC, silicon-based MEMS... faster, 5X smaller, fW levels (>1 million times less power consumption), parallel computing... not dependent on temperature changes but on mechanical movements powered by electrostatic forces... manipulate light wave phase, controlling coupling between parallel waveguides interacting with micromechanical switches... can use conventional silicon wafer production... AI crucial inference tasks, advanced image processing, high-bandwidth data transmission" Related: New nanocrystalline material significantly extends MEMS switch chip lifespan https://phys.org/news/2026-01-nanocrystalline-material-significantly-mems-chip.html

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-grace-drives-wave-of-new-energy-efficient-arm-supercomputers "384 Arm NVIDIA Grace CPU Neoverse platform's Isambard 3... 6x performance and energy efficiency Isambard 2... FP64 peak performance 2.7 PFLOPS <270 KW... life sciences, medical, astrophysics, biotech, wind farms, fusion reactors, Parkinson’s disease, osteoporosis and COVID-19... highest-performing cores, highest memory bandwidth and optimal memory capacity per core provided by Grace... spring 202... users to increase significantly beyond the current 800" Related: AI chip race heats up as AMD introduces rival to Nvidia technology https://techxplore.com/news/2023-06-ai-chip-amd-rival-nvidia.html New material could hold key to reducing energy consumption in computers and electronics https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/995423 Musk Builds Digital Giant: Colossal Supercomputer With 1 Million GPUs Set to Redefine AI Power and Dominate Global Compute Race http...

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-08-australia-supercomputer.html "speed at which we reproduced our current workflows is a good sign as we look to improve and optimize them to fully exploit Setonix's capabilities... 30 times more powerful than Pawsey's earlier Galaxy and Magnus systems combined. This will allow for more processing of the vast amounts of data coming in from many projects, and more science will be achieved in a fraction of the time" Related:   Tachyum Submits Bid to Build 20 Exaflops Supercomputer https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tachyum-submits-bid-to-build-20-exaflops-supercomputer Laser Lab supercomputer ranked one of the world’s most powerful https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/conesus-supercomputer-high-performance-computing-570552/

https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/nanowire-transistor-integrated-memory-enable-future-supercomputers " a transistor at the bottom, and a very small memory element located further up on the same wire. This makes it into a compact integrated function where the transistor controls the memory element ... to build vertically in a 3D configuration... Future applications could, for example, be various forms of machine learning such as radar-based gesture control, climate modelling or development of various drugs... even works without a power supply"