Monthly Archives: December, 2021
The Invisible Incentives Of Bitcoin – Bitcoin Magazine
What incentives does Bitcoin offer? Money accumulation, or is there any greater purpose and incentive for miners securing the network? Mining is a most important process of the Bitcoin network, yet relatively few actually understand it
Microsoft and KPMG will try out quantum algorithms on real-world problems – GeekWire
Krysta Svore, general manager of Microsoft Quantum, explains how quantum computing hardware works during a Seattle science conference in 2020. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Microsoft and KPMG are getting set to test Azure Quantums capabilities on the sorts of real-world problems that should give quantum computing an edge over traditional approaches. Such problems have to do with optimizing systems and networks, such as where best to place cellular phone towers or how to allocate investments to match a clients priorities relating to risks vs
Where does EU stand in the quantum computing race with China and US? – TechHQ
The leading contenders in the race to qubits (the basic measuring unit in quantum computing) superiority have always been dominated by the US and China. The competition between the superpowers has been ramping up as the quantum research arena has flourished in recent years despite still being a pretty nascent technology. But while the efforts in both the far east and west draw headlines, an often-overlooked region in the quantum conversation has been Europe.
Honeywell Superpositions Itself in the Quantum Computing Industry With New Company Quantinuum – TECHdotMN
The concept of quantum superposition is mind melting. Explained in its most basic form (that is to say, with no math, an area of school which was definitely not my strong suit), quantum superposition means that instead of something being X or Y, it can be X and Y simultaneously (until observed, which is a whole different can of quantum worms). The concept allows a wave to be a particle, a particle to be a wave, and a cat to be alive and dead at the same time.
Tencent Cloud and AMD Join Forces to Launch StarLake Servers in Southeast Asia – HPCwire
Singapore, Nov. 29, 2021 Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of global technology company Tencent, today announced its collaboration with leading semiconductor company AMD to introduce StarLake servers powered by AMD EPYC processors for hyperscale data centers in Southeast Asia.
A Climate Dystopia Displayed at the UMOCA with ‘the weight of a cloud’ – Daily Utah Chronicle
Walking into UMOCAs Exit Gallery, one wouldnt realize they are entering a sort of uncanny valley. The lush green landscapes and flowery imagery draws you in, but upon closer inspection, you see scenes of burning forests, nuclear towers and animal skulls
AWS Announced General Availability of Elastic Disaster Recovery – InfoQ.com
Recently AWS announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS). With this new service, organizations can minimize downtime and data loss through the fast, reliable recovery of on-premises and cloud-based applications
5 questions for Mark Mills on the cloud revolution – Washington Examiner
After the 1918 Spanish Flu came the bustling era of the radio and the automobile known as the Roaring Twenties. Hoping history will repeat this post-pandemic boom, some have predicted a New Roaring Twenties
The Benefits of Using a Share File Server in Education – eLearningInside News – eLearningInside News
61% of businesses migrated their workloads to the cloud in 2020, and this trend is likely to rise in the next decade. One of the main areas the cloud is universally leveraged in is education, with schools and colleges using different resources to share and distribute educational material
Inspur Information Impresses in AI Performance with 7 Titles in MLPerf Training v1.1 – Business Wire
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The open engineering consortium, MLCommons released its latest Training v1.1 results. Inspur Information submitted NF5488A5 and NF5688M6 server results for all 8 single-node closed division tasks, winning 7 of them.