Distributed Computing News

November 29, 2023

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Measuring Long-Term Heart Stress Dynamics With Smartwatch Data

Nov. 27, 2023 — Biomedical engineers have developed a method using data from wearable devices such as smartwatches to digitally mimic an entire week's worth of an individual's heartbeats. The new 'digital twins' computational framework captures personalized ...

New Computer Code for Mechanics of Tissues and Cells in Three Dimensions

Nov. 20, 2023 — Biological materials are made of individual components, including tiny motors that convert fuel into motion. This creates patterns of movement, and the material shapes itself with coherent flows by constant consumption of energy. Such continuously ...

Adaptive Optical Neural Network Connects Thousands of Artificial Neurons

Oct. 23, 2023 — Physicists working with computer specialists have developed a so-called event-based architecture, using photonic processors. In a similar way to the brain, this makes possible the continuous adaptation of the connections within the neural ...

Self-Correcting Quantum Computers Within Reach?

Oct. 12, 2023 — Quantum computers promise to reach speeds and efficiencies impossible for even the fastest supercomputers of today. Yet the technology hasn't seen much scale-up and commercialization largely due to its inability to self-correct. Quantum computers, ...

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A New Way to Erase Quantum Computer Errors

Oct. 11, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated a type of quantum eraser. The physicists show that they can pinpoint and correct for mistakes in quantum computing systems known as 'erasure' ...

Cloud Services Without Servers: What's Behind It

Sep. 20, 2023 — A new generation of cloud services is on the rise. It is based on the paradigm of 'serverless computing'. A recent article deals with the history, status and potential of serverless ...

Not Too Big: Machine Learning Tames Huge Data Sets

Sep. 11, 2023 — A machine-learning algorithm demonstrated the capability to process data that exceeds a computer's available memory by identifying a massive data set's key features and dividing them into manageable ...

An Easier Way to Learn Quantum Processes

July 5, 2023 — Scientists show that even a few simple examples are enough for a quantum machine-learning model, the 'quantum neural networks', to learn and predict the behavior of quantum systems, bringing us ...

Mathematicians Solve Long-Known Problem

June 26, 2023 — Making history with 42 digits: Scientists have unlocked a decades-old mystery of mathematics with the so-called ninth Dedekind number. Experts worldwide have been searching for the value since 1991. ...

New Technique in Error-Prone Quantum Computing Makes Classical Computers Sweat

June 14, 2023 — Today's quantum computers often calculate the wrong answer because of noisy environments that interfere with the quantum entanglement of qubits. IBM ...

New Superconducting Diode Could Improve Performance of Quantum Computers and Artificial Intelligence

June 6, 2023 — A team has developed a more energy-efficient, tunable superconducting diode -- a promising component for future electronic devices -- that could help ...

Quantum Computers Are Better at Guessing, New Study Demonstrates

June 5, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated a quantum speedup over the most efficient classical computer algorithm possible for what is believed to be the first time. The accomplishment was performed on an IBM ...

Two Qudits Fully Entangled

Apr. 20, 2023 — Recently quantum computers started to work with more than just the zeros and ones we know from classical computers. Now a team demonstrates a way to efficiently create entanglement of such ...

How to Overcome Noise in Quantum Computations

Apr. 6, 2023 — Scientists have made significant progress in quantum computing by deriving a formula that predicts the effects of environmental noise. This is crucial for designing and building quantum computers ...

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New Chip Design to Provide Greatest Precision in Memory to Date

Mar. 30, 2023 — Everyone is talking about the newest AI and the power of neural networks, forgetting that software is limited by the hardware on which it runs. But it is hardware become 'the bottleneck.' ...

Cleaning Up the Atmosphere With Quantum Computing

Mar. 14, 2023 — Practical carbon capture technologies are still in the early stages of development, with the most promising involving a class of compounds called amines that can chemically bind with carbon dioxide. ...

New Kind of Transistor Could Shrink Communications Devices on Smartphones

Mar. 8, 2023 — One month after announcing a ferroelectric semiconductor at the nanoscale thinness required for modern computing components, a team has now demonstrated a reconfigurable transistor using that ...

Will Future Computers Run on Human Brain Cells?

Feb. 28, 2023 — A 'biocomputer' powered by human brain cells could be developed within our lifetime, according to researchers who expect such technology to exponentially expand the capabilities of modern ...

Securing Supply Chains With Quantum Computing

Feb. 14, 2023 — New research in quantum computing is moving science closer to being able to overcome supply-chain challenges and restore global security during future periods of ...

Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Developing Practical Quantum Computers That Can Solve Big Challenges of Our Time

Feb. 8, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated that quantum bits (qubits) can directly transfer between quantum computer microchips and demonstrated this with record-breaking connection speed and accuracy. This ...

Computers That Power Self-Driving Cars Could Be a Huge Driver of Global Carbon Emissions

Jan. 12, 2023 — A new model quantifies emissions that will be generated by computers on fully autonomous vehicles. If self-driving cars are widely adopted, their emissions will rival those generated by all the data ...

New Quantum Computing Architecture Could Be Used to Connect Large-Scale Devices

Jan. 5, 2023 — Researchers have demonstrated an architecture that can enable high fidelity and scalable communication between superconducting quantum processors. Their technique can generate and route photons, ...

Quantum Algorithms Save Time in the Calculation of Electron Dynamics

Nov. 22, 2022 — Quantum computers promise significantly shorter computing times for complex problems. But there are still only a few quantum computers worldwide with a limited number of so-called qubits. However, ...

New Form of Universal Quantum Computers

Oct. 28, 2022 — Computing power of quantum machines is currently still very low. Increasing it is still proving to be a major challenge. Physicists now present a new architecture for a universal quantum computer ...

Seeing Electron Movement at Fastest Speed Ever Could Help Unlock Next-Level Quantum Computing

Oct. 12, 2022 — The key to maximizing traditional or quantum computing speeds lies in our ability to understand how electrons behave in solids, and researchers have now captured electron movement in attoseconds--the ...

New Method to Systematically Find Optimal Quantum Operation Sequences for Quantum Computers Developed

Sep. 2, 2022 — Computer scientists have succeeded in developing a method for systematically finding the optimal quantum operation sequence for a quantum computer. They have developed a systematic method that ...

From Bits to P-Bits: One Step Closer to Probabilistic Computing

Aug. 29, 2022 — Scientists have developed a mathematical description of what happens within tiny magnets as they fluctuate between states when an electric current and magnetic field are applied. Their findings could ...

Optimizing SWAP Networks for Quantum Computing

Aug. 4, 2022 — Researchers have demonstrated how a smart compiler specifically tailored for superconducting quantum hardware can optimize circuits and networks and execute less error-prone quantum algorithms such ...

Anti-Butterfly Effect Enables New Benchmarking of Quantum-Computer Performance

July 26, 2022 — Research drawing on the quantum 'anti-butterfly effect' solves a longstanding experimental problem in physics and establishes a method for benchmarking the performance of quantum ...

Quantum Digits Unlock More Computational Power With Fewer Quantum Particles

July 21, 2022 — For decades computers have been synonymous with binary information -- zeros and ones. Now a team has realized a quantum computer that breaks out of this paradigm and unlocks additional computational ...

Deep Learning for New Alloys

July 20, 2022 — Supercomputer simulations are helping scientists discover new high-entropy alloys. XSEDE allocations on TACC's Stampede2 supercomputer supported density function theory calculations for largest ...

Researchers Find the Missing Photonic Link to Enable an All-Silicon Quantum Internet

July 13, 2022 — Researchers have made a crucial breakthrough in the development of quantum technology. Their research describes their observations of over 150,000 silicon 'T center' photon-spin qubits, an ...

Quantum Computer Programming Basics

June 14, 2022 — For would-be quantum programmers scratching their heads over how to jump into the game as quantum computers proliferate and become publicly accessible, a new beginner's guide provides a thorough ...

Scientists Observe Quantum Speed-Up in Optimization Problems

May 5, 2022 — Scientists have demonstrated a breakthrough application of neutral-atom quantum processors to solve problems of practical ...

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