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Overcoming the Limitations of Classical HPC and Quantum: A New Computational Method

By Ruti Ben-Shlomi, CEO and Co-founder, LightSolver There’s a lot of excitement around exascale-class supercomputing and the possibilities of quantum computing, but there’s an emerging alternative advanced computing paradigm that transcends the limits of classical HPC and is more practical than quantum computing for complex, multivariable problems. Called the laser-based processing unit (LPU), this entrant […]

Quantum Delta NL SME Call Awards €4.7M to 6 Dutch Companies

DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS, 14 July 2023 — Quantum Delta NL revealed the recipients of the second ‘Quantum SME call’. The call, amounting to a total of 4.73 million euros, has been granted to six SME quantum companies: Amsterdam Scientific Instruments B.V., Quantamap B.V., VTEC Lasers & Sensors, Software for Chemistry & Materials BV, Leiden Cryogenics B.V., […]

Quantum Startup Oxford Ionics Raises £30M

January 9, 2023: Quantum startup Oxford Ionics announced it has raised £30 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Oxford Science Enterprises and Braavos Investment Advisers. Lansdowne Partners, Prosus Ventures, 2xN, Torch Partners and Hermann Hauser (founder of chip giant ARM) also participated. Founded in 2019 by Dr Chris Ballance and Dr […]

Due Credit: Sierra, JADE and HPC’s Role in Livermore’s Fusion Ignition Breakthrough

There’s an unsung hero in Livermore Lab’s announcement this week regarding heroic progress made on fusion energy. It was unsung even by Livermore. It’s HPC. Two supercomputers powered the research of hundreds of scientists at Livermore’s National Nuclear Security Administration facility: — Sierra, the IBM supercomputer installed at NNSA in 2018 and currently ranked number […]

Ayar Labs Wins $15M Optical I/O Contract from DoD

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Nov. 10, 2022 – Ayar Labs, a developer of chip-to-chip optical connectivity, was awarded a $15 million multi-year prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) in support of Project KANAGAWA (the Co-Packaged Analog-Drive High-Bandwidth Optical Input/Output Project). The OTA, a non-traditional government contracting method for fast tracking research and innovation, was issued by Naval Surface […]

AWS Launches Center for Quantum Networking

June 21, 2022 — Amazon Web Services today announced the AWS Center for Quantum Networking (CQN), whose mission is to address scientific and engineering challenges and to develop new hardware, software, and applications for quantum networks. AWS said CQN will complement the quantum science and engineering efforts underway at the AWS Center for Quantum Computing and […]

LLNL Entrepreneur Hall of Fame Inducts 1 Current, 2 Former Lab Scientists

One current and two former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists have been inducted into the Laboratory’s Entrepreneurs’ Hall of Fame (EHF). The trio, who represent the third class of inductees into the Lab’s EHF, have been honored for developing technologies during or after their lab careers that created major economic impacts or spawned new […]

NeoPhotonics Announces 53 Gbaud PAM4 Driver ICs for 100G and 400G Hyperscale Data Center Networks  

SAN JOSE — March 8, 2022 – NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based lasers, modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-speed communications networks, today announced that it has shipped more than one million single and quad drivers for PAM4 transceivers used in hyperscale data center networks.  NeoPhotonics […]

HPE and Ayar Labs Partner to Bring Optical I/O to Slingshot Fabric for HPC and AI

HPC systems leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise and startup Ayar Labs, maker of chip-to-chip optical I/O connectivity, today announced a strategic collaboration to integrate silicon photonics within HPE’s high performance Slingshot fabric. Longer term, HPE envisions future generations of HPC systems interconnects significantly enhanced by optical I/O, which is a silicon photonics-based technology that uses light instead of electricity to transmit data. The technology addresses both the need for higher data rates and improved energy efficiency (see “Composable HPC-AI at Scale: The Emergence of Optical I/O Chiplets”).

Quantum: Argonne Reports Preservation of Qubit Memory for 5+ Seconds

A major challenge in quantum computing has been short lifespan of memory, or coherence, held in qubits, quantum’s version of a bit.  To date, information is stored in qubits for microseconds or milliseconds. But a team of researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago have reported two advances to overcome common […]