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Illinois, IBM creating $200M Institute on emerging technology | – University Business
The Discovery Accelerator will allow university students and industry researchers to work on complex global solutions with AI, quantum technology and cloud computing.
The state of Illinois has invested nearly $1 billion in education initiatives around emerging technology over the past few years. The latest $200 million endeavor a collaboration between the University of Illinois and IBM promises to drive innovation and boost workforce skills well beyond its borders.
The Grainger College of Engineering,along with the state and the business services company are planning to launch a Discovery Accelerator Institute on the Urbana-Champaign campus, a 10-year research project that they say will focus on solving global challenges in four main areas: hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence, quantum technology, accelerated materials discovery and sustainability.
The goal is to bring together two fields areas of expertise higher education and industry to spark new ideas and forge solutions that can be technology difference-makers.
This IBM investment will not only lift up a world-class educational institution, but also will invite national and international scientists, entrepreneurs, businesses, and innovators toIllinois, IllinoisGov.J.B. Pritzker said. It sets our state up to become a serious technology industry leader on the international stage.
Students from Illinois and researchers from IBM will work together on creating a more adaptable and foolproof AI-powered global cloud infrastructure while pushing the bounds of quantum computing. The collaboration will offer both STEM learning and experiential opportunities for students.
I couldnt be more excited about the new model of partnership we are building with theUniversity of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, saidArvind Krishna, CEO of IBM. Were bringing together some of the brightest minds across both the industry and academia. Im eager to see the groundbreaking research and solutions the teams will pioneer from the discovery of new materials to carbon capture.
Inside the Institute
More than just a space to develop new technology and conduct research, the Institute promises to be a pipeline to help spur job growth in the state through a diverse pool of workers, students and skillsets.
This new collaboration builds on the foundational success of the IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR) since 2016, saidRashid Bashir, dean of The Grainger College of Engineering. New collaborations between IBM researchers andIllinoisfaculty will allow for faster translation of bleeding-edge innovation to society.
That innovation includes four targeted areas the two teams say they will be focused on:
This institute with IBM is a pioneering new model of how we can build academic and researcher collaboration into technology and innovation at unmatched excellence and scale, saidRobert J. Jones, chancellor of theUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. What excites us the most is imagining the exponentially expanded possibilities in these new emerging fields that will define the 21st century.
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CINECA and D-Wave Expand Access to Quantum Computing Technology and Resources in Italy – HPCwire
BOLOGNA, Italy and BURNABY, British Columbia, May 11, 2021 CINECA, the Italian inter-university consortium and one of the worlds leading global supercomputing centers, and D-Wave Systems Inc., a leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, have announced a formal collaboration to offer Italian universities, researchers, and developers expanded access to practical quantum computing technology and resources through D-Waves Leapquantum cloud service.
CINECA, which is made up of 69 Italian universities, 25 national research institutions, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Universities and Research, will benefit from expanded, real-time access to theLeapquantum cloud service. This access includes D-Waves hybrid quantum/classical solvers, which leverage both quantum solutions and best-in-class classical algorithms to run large-scale business-critical problems. With real-time access to quantum computers via the cloud, the Italian and international scientific community have the opportunity to further quantum education, publication, and R&D, while boosting the development of real-world quantum applications.
This collaboration aids the consortiums mission to support Italys scientific community and improve quantum computing literacy and skills training for university partners. This, in turn, will benefit the larger public administration and private enterprise ecosystem. CINECA university members, suchas the Polytechnic University of Milan,have alreadyexpressed interest in leveraging quantum computing to explore drug repurposing and development, natural disaster response and relief, and sustainability challenges such as decarbonization and energy production. As an example of the value of the collaboration, D-Wave and CINECA hosted a jointwebinaron March 31stshowcasing CINECAs work on molecular docking for drug discovery utilizing D-Waves quantum system.
D-Wave will also provide cloud access via Leap to its latest generation quantum system, Advantage, which includes:
We have enjoyed a long-standing relationship with the pioneering team at CINECA, which was one of the first non-profit consortiums to explore quantum computing with us, said Daniel Ley,SVP Global Sales, D-Wave. Bringing quantum computing to the world requires more than just vendors alone. We need to continue to build a robust ecosystem of developers and researchers, innovative scientific institutions, cutting-edge academic organizations, and forward-thinking businesses to work together. CINECA is aligned with us in that mission and committed to helping their ecosystem build practical and applied quantum computing applications.
At CINECA we are very happy to be part of this agreement with D-Wave. Quantum computing is a field that has been strongly emerging in recent years, said Sanzio Bassini, Head of the HPC Department at CINECA. Its natural association with HPC, which CINECA has been dealing with for more than 50 years, makes the issue of high interest both for CINECA and for the entire ecosystem of universities and research institutions that it represents. Thanks to D-Wave for the collaboration. I have no doubt that it will be a wonderful experience for both parties.
To learn more about how CINECA and D-Wave are working together to expand access to quantum computing technology and resources in Italy clickhere. To find out more about CINECAs work in molecular docking for drug discovery utilizing D-Waves quantum systems, clickhere.
About CINECA
CINECA established in 1969, is a not-for-profit consortium of 69 Italian Universities 25 national research institutions, the Italian Ministry of Education, and the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research. CINECA is the Italian national facility for supercomputing applications and research, one of the largest in Europe. It develops advanced Information Technology applications and services supporting the European scientific communities, the Italian academic administration offices, the Italian Ministry of Education, the Italian Ministry of Universities and Research, and the world of industry and Public Administration.
CINECAs HPC infrastructure is equipped with cutting-edge technology managed by qualified personnel, which cooperates with researchers and customers for the most effective exploitation of the HPC systems, in both the academic and industrial fields. The mission of CINECA is to accelerate the scientific discovery by providing high performance computing resources, data management and storage systems and tools, HPC services and expertise at large. CINECA represents Italy in PRACE (the pan-European ESFRI e-infrastructure for HPC) and in the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (a joint initiative between the EU, European countries and private partners to develop a World Class Supercomputing Ecosystem in Europe).
About D-Wave Systems Inc.
D-Wave is a leader in the development and delivery of quantum computing systems, software and services and is the worlds first commercial supplier of quantum computers. Our mission is to unlock the power of quantum computing for the world. We do this by delivering customer value with practical quantum applications for problems as diverse as logistics, artificial intelligence, materials sciences, drug discovery, scheduling, cybersecurity, fault detection, and financial modeling. D-Waves systems are being used by some of the worlds most advanced organizations, including NEC, Volkswagen, DENSO, Lockheed Martin, USRA, USC, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. With headquarters near Vancouver, Canada, D-Waves US operations are based in Palo Alto, CA. D-Wave has a blue-chip investor base including PSP Investments, Goldman Sachs, BDC Capital, NEC Corp., and In-Q-Tel. For more information, visit: http://www.dwavesys.com.
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New Evidence for Controversial Theory That the Electron Is Composed of Two Particles – SciTechDaily
Researchers at Princeton University conducted experiments on materials known as quantum spin liquids, finding evidence that the electrons in the quantum regime behave as if they are made up of two particles. Credit: Catherine Zandonella, Princeton University
Results from a Princeton-led experiment support a controversial theory that the electron is composed of two particles.
A new discovery led by Princeton University could upend our understanding of how electrons behave under extreme conditions in quantum materials. The finding provides experimental evidence that this familiar building block of matter behaves as if it is made of two particles: one particle that gives the electron its negative charge and another that supplies its magnet-like property, known as spin.
We think this is the first hard evidence of spin-charge separation, said Nai Phuan Ong, Princetons Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and senior author on the paper published this week in the journal Nature Physics.
The experimental results fulfill a prediction made decades ago to explain one of the most mind-bending states of matter, the quantum spin liquid. In all materials, the spin of an electron can point either up or down. In the familiar magnet, all of the spins uniformly point in one direction throughout the sample when the temperature drops below a critical temperature.
However, in spin liquid materials, the spins are unable to establish a uniform pattern even when cooled very close to absolute zero. Instead, the spins are constantly changing in a tightly coordinated, entangled choreography. The result is one of the most entangled quantum states ever conceived, a state of great interest to researchers in the growing field of quantum computing.
The 3D color-plot, a composite of many experiments, shows how the thermal conductivity xx (vertical axis) varies as a function of the magnetic field B (horizontal axis) and the temperature T (axis into the page). The oscillations provide evidence for spinons. Credit: Peter Czajka, Princeton University
To describe this behavior mathematically, Nobel prize-winning Princeton physicist Philip Anderson (1923-2020), who first predicted the existence of spin liquids in 1973, proposed an explanation: in the quantum regime an electron may be regarded as composed of two particles, one bearing the electrons negative charge and the other containing its spin. Anderson called the spin-containing particle a spinon.
In this new study, the team searched for signs of the spinon in a spin liquid composed of ruthenium and chlorine atoms. At temperatures a fraction of a Kelvin above absolute zero (or roughly -452 degrees Fahrenheit) and in the presence of a high magnetic field, ruthenium chloride crystals enter the spin liquid state.
Graduate student Peter Czajka and Tong Gao, Ph.D. 2020, connected three highly sensitive thermometers to the crystal sitting in a bath maintained at temperatures close to absolute zero degrees Kelvin. They then applied the magnetic field and a small amount of heat to one crystal edge to measure its thermal conductivity, a quantity that expresses how well it conducts a heat current. If spinons were present, they should appear as an oscillating pattern in a graph of the thermal conductivity versus magnetic field.
The oscillating signal they were searching for was tiny just a few hundredths of a degree change so the measurements demanded an extraordinarily precise control of the sample temperature as well as careful calibrations of the thermometers in the strong magnetic field.
The team used the purest crystals available, ones grown at the U.S. Department of Energys Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) under the leadership of David Mandrus, materials science professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Stephen Nagler, corporate research fellow in ORNLs Neutron Scattering Division. The ORNL team has extensively studied the quantum spin liquid properties of ruthenium chloride.
In a series of experiments conducted over nearly three years, Czajka and Gao detected temperature oscillations consistent with spinons with increasingly higher resolution, providing evidence that the electron is composed of two particles consistent with Andersons prediction.
People have been searching for this signature for four decades, Ong said, If this finding and the spinon interpretation are validated, it would significantly advance the field of quantum spin liquids.
Czajka and Gao spent last summer confirming the experiments while under COVID restrictions that required them to wear masks and maintain social distancing.
From the purely experimental side, Czajka said, it was exciting to see results that in effect break the rules that you learn in elementary physics classes.
Reference: Oscillations of the thermal conductivity in the spin-liquid state of -RuCl3 by Peter Czajka, Tong Gao, Max Hirschberger, Paula Lampen-Kelley, Arnab Banerjee, Jiaqiang Yan, David G. Mandrus, Stephen E. Nagler and N. P. Ong, 13 May 2021, Nature Physics.DOI: 10.1038/s41567-021-01243-x
The experiments were performed in collaboration with Max Hirschberger, Ph.D. 2017 now at the University of Tokyo, Arnab Banerjee at Purdue University and ORNL, David Mandrus and Paula Lempen-Kelley at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and ORNL, and Jiaqiang Yan and Stephen E. Nagler at ORNL. Funding at Princeton was provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation also supported the crystal growth program at the University of Tennessee.
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Outlook on the Quantum Technology Global Market to 2026 – – GlobeNewswire
Dublin, May 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Quantum Technology Market by Computing, Communications, Imaging, Security, Sensing, Modeling and Simulation 2021 - 2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the quantum technology market. It assesses companies/organizations focused on quantum technology including R&D efforts and potential gaming-changing quantum tech-enabled solutions. The report evaluates the impact of quantum technology upon other major technologies and solution areas including AI, Edge Computing, Blockchain, IoT, and Big Data Analytics. The report provides an analysis of quantum technology investment, R&D, and prototyping by region and within each major country globally.
The report also provides global and regional forecasts as well as the outlook for quantum technology's impact on embedded hardware, software, applications, and services from 2021 to 2026. The report provides conclusions and recommendations for a wide range of industries and commercial beneficiaries including semiconductor companies, communications providers, high-speed computing companies, artificial intelligence vendors, and more.
Select Report Findings:
Much more than only computing, the quantum technology market provides a foundation for improving all digital communications, applications, content, and commerce. In the realm of communications, quantum technology will influence everything from encryption to the way that signals are passed from point A to point B. While currently in the R&D phase, networked quantum information and communications technology (ICT) is anticipated to become a commercial reality that will represent nothing less than a revolution for virtually every aspect of ICT.
However, there will be a need to integrate the ICT supply chain with quantum technologies in a manner that does not attempt to replace every aspect of classical computing but instead leverages a hybrid computational framework. Traditional High-Performance Computing (HPC) will continue to be used for many existing problems for the foreseeable future, while quantum technologies will be used for encrypting communications, signaling, and will be the underlying basis in the future for all commerce transactions. This does not mean that quantum encryption will replace Blockchain, but rather provide improved encryption for blockchain technology.
The quantum technology market will be a substantial enabler of dramatically improved sensing and instrumentation. For example, gravity sensors may be made significantly more precise through quantum sensing. Quantum electromagnetic sensing provides the ability to detect minute differences in the electromagnetic field. This will provide a wide-ranging number of applications, such as within the healthcare arena wherein quantum electromagnetic sensing will provide the ability to provide significantly improved mapping of vital organs. Quantum sensing will also have applications across a wide range of other industries such as transportation wherein there is the potential for substantially improved safety, especially for self-driving vehicles.
Commercial applications for the quantum imaging market are potentially wide-ranging including exploration, monitoring, and safety. For example, gas image processing may detect minute changes that could lead to early detection of tank failure or the presence of toxic chemicals. In concert with quantum sensing, quantum imaging may also help with various public safety-related applications such as search and rescue. Some problems are too difficult to calculate but can be simulated and modeled. Quantum simulations and modeling is an area that involves the use of quantum technology to enable simulators that can model complex systems that are beyond the capabilities of classical HPC. Even the fastest supercomputers today cannot adequately model many problems such as those found in atomic physics, condensed-matter physics, and high-energy physics.
Key Topics Covered:
1.0 Executive Summary
2.0 Introduction
3.0 Quantum Technology and Application Analysis3.1 Quantum Computing3.2 Quantum Cryptography Communication3.3 Quantum Sensing and Imaging3.4 Quantum Dots Particles3.5 Quantum Cascade Laser3.6 Quantum Magnetometer3.7 Quantum Key Distribution3.8 Quantum Cloud vs. Hybrid Platform3.9 Quantum 5G Communication3.10 Quantum 6G Impact3.11 Quantum Artificial Intelligence3.12 Quantum AI Technology3.13 Quantum IoT Technology3.14 Quantum Edge Network3.15 Quantum Blockchain
4.0 Company Analysis4.1 1QB Information Technologies Inc.4.2 ABB (Keymile)4.3 Adtech Optics Inc.4.4 Airbus Group4.5 Akela Laser Corporation4.6 Alibaba Group Holding Limited4.7 Alpes Lasers SA4.8 Altairnano4.9 Amgen Inc.4.10 Anhui Qasky Science and Technology Limited Liability Company (Qasky)4.11 Anyon Systems Inc.4.12 AOSense Inc.4.13 Apple Inc. (InVisage Technologies)4.14 Biogen Inc.4.15 Block Engineering4.16 Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.4.17 BT Group4.18 Cambridge Quantum Computing Ltd.4.19 Chinese Academy of Sciences4.20 D-Wave Systems Inc.4.21 Emerson Electric Corporation4.22 Fujitsu Ltd.4.23 Gem Systems4.24 GeoMetrics Inc.4.25 Google Inc.4.26 GWR Instruments Inc.4.27 Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.4.28 Hewlett Packard Enterprise4.29 Honeywell International Inc.4.30 HP Development Company L.P.4.31 IBM Corporation4.32 ID Quantique4.33 Infineon Technologies4.34 Intel Corporation4.35 KETS Quantum Security4.36 KPN4.37 LG Display Co. Ltd.4.38 Lockheed Martin Corporation4.39 MagiQ Technologies Inc.4.40 Marine Magnetics4.41 McAfee LLC4.42 MicroSemi Corporation4.43 Microsoft Corporation4.44 Mirsense4.45 Mitsubishi Electric Corp.4.46 M-Squared Lasers Limited4.47 Muquans4.48 Nanoco Group PLC4.49 Nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies GmbH4.50 Nanosys Inc.4.51 NEC Corporation4.52 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation4.53 NN-Labs LLC.4.54 Nokia Corporation4.55 Nucrypt4.56 Ocean NanoTech LLC4.57 Oki Electric4.58 Oscilloquartz SA4.59 OSRAM4.60 PQ Solutions Limited (Post-Quantum)4.61 Pranalytica Inc.4.62 QC Ware Corp.4.63 QD Laser Co. Inc.4.64 QinetiQ4.65 Quantum Circuits Inc.4.66 Quantum Materials Corp.4.67 Qubitekk4.68 Quintessence Labs4.69 QuSpin4.70 QxBranch LLC4.71 Raytheon Company4.72 Rigetti Computing4.73 Robert Bosch GmbH4.74 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (QD Vision Inc.)4.75 SeQureNet (Telecom ParisTech)4.76 SK Telecom4.77 ST Microelectronics4.78 Texas Instruments4.79 Thorlabs Inc4.80 Toshiba Corporation4.81 Tristan Technologies4.82 Twinleaf4.83 Universal Quantum Devices4.84 Volkswagen AG4.85 Wavelength Electronics Inc.4.86 ZTE Corporation
5.0 Quantum Technology Market Analysis and Forecasts 2021 - 20265.1 Global Quantum Technology Market 2021 - 20265.2 Global Quantum Technology Market by Technology 2021 - 20265.3 Quantum Computing Market 2021 - 20265.4 Quantum Cryptography Communication Market 2021 - 20265.5 Quantum Sensing and Imaging Market 2021 - 20265.6 Quantum Dots Market 2021 - 20265.7 Quantum Cascade Laser Market 2021 - 20265.8 Quantum Magnetometer Market 2021 - 20265.9 Quantum Key Distribution Market 2021 - 20265.9.1 Global Quantum Key Distribution Market by Technology5.9.1.1 Global Quantum Key Distribution Market by Infrastructure Type5.9.2 Global Quantum Key Distribution Market by Industry Vertical5.9.2.1 Global Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Market by Government5.9.2.2 Global Quantum Key Distribution Market by Enterprise/Civilian Industry5.10 Global Quantum Technology Market by Deployment5.11 Global Quantum Technology Market by Sector5.12 Global Quantum Technology Market by Connectivity5.13 Global Quantum Technology Market by Revenue Source5.14 Quantum Intelligence Market 2021 - 20265.15 Quantum IoT Technology Market 2021 - 20265.16 Global Quantum Edge Network Market5.17 Global Quantum Blockchain Market5.18 Global Quantum Exascale Computing Market5.19 Regional Quantum Technology Market 2021 - 20265.19.1 Regional Comparison of Global Quantum Technology Market5.19.2 Global Quantum Technology Market by Region5.19.2.1 North America Quantum Technology Market by Country5.19.2.2 Europe Quantum Technology Market by Country5.19.2.3 Asia Pacific Quantum Technology Market by Country5.19.2.4 Middle East and Africa Quantum Technology Market by Country5.19.2.5 Latin America Quantum Technology Market by Country
6.0 Conclusions and Recommendations
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IBM Think 2021- All In On Hybrid Cloud And AI – Forbes
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna
IBM is in the middle of a company transformation. With CEO Arvind Krishna and President Jim Whitehurst at the helm for a year, the company is going all-in on the cloud with its Red Hat and other investments and getting in a better posture for growth and focus with its recent Kyndryl spin-out. At the same time, the company continues to create leading edge research output in hardware, software and the cloud and creating some very innovative products simultaneously.
IBM made many announcements prior to THINK. The company announced the worlds first 2nm nanosheet device here, check out an interview I had with IBM Cloud leader Howard Boville here, see Z mainframe as a service here, check out Steve McDowells analysis of Spectrum Fusion here, and see Paul Smith Goodsons coverage of Qiskit Metal for quantum computing here.
This week, I attended the IBM Think 2021 event which is the premier hybrid cloud and AI event for IBM as well as the companys annual flagship event for customers and partners. Last year, the Think event had almost 120,000 people attend the event from all over the globe for the second year in a row, the event has gone virtual with some on-demand options. Think consisted of three different times or airings so that the globe can experience the event in different time zones. IBM made several key announcements here and lets take a closer look at what CEO Arvind Krishna had to say in his keynote.
CEO Arvind Krishna sets the stage
The annual THINK conference kicked off with some great news and announcements on hybrid cloud, AI, and quantum computing. First, Arvind Krishna, IBM Chairman and CEO, kicked off his keynote talking about how the pandemic has caused a great deal of disruption but that, in turn, digital transformation accelerated. Arvind stated, everywhere you look, the forces of digital technology are turning our economies on its head. As the world recovers, there is no going back. Well reflect on this past year as the moment when the world entered the digital century in full force. While I have heard many other tech CEOs talk about this on-stage, you need to realize that with IBM at the heart of most of banking, healthcare, transportation, and retail industries, they will have seen a unique view.
With digital transformation in full force, collaboration, security, and modernization are more critical than ever. I believe IBM is all in for hybrid cloud and AI in its mission to modernize systems and businesses. These innovations show IBM's goal of helping its customers and partners accelerate its digital transformation, automate time-consuming work, and make collaboration easier. According to a report developed by IBM last year, 43% of IT professionals say its company has accelerated its rollout of AI, and half are evaluating.
Arvind introduced many guests on stage to share some significant partnerships with Siemens, CVS Health, and Salesforce. President and COO of Salesforce, Bret Taylor, touted that a few big things are to come out of this year of disruption: real urgency and speed, breaking down silos, and the importance of creating a single unified experience. The great partnership examples from the keynote show the importance of modernizing technology in a digital transformation era.Karen Lynch, President and CEO of CVS Health, tells how hybrid cloud and AI have impacted the future of healthcare - technology will be the backbone of how consumers interface with the healthcare system, the health care system will change dramatically. And I think the partnership that we have, we will be the leader.
I appreciated the increased depth of conversations Arvind had with his clients as these are many times just content-less CEO fly-bys. It would have been even better had a few more products been name-dropped. I get that this is a CEO to CEO/President conversations, but IBM needs people to love its products, too.
Product Announcements
IBM made five key announcements.
IBM announced a breakthrough capability in Cloud Pak for data that uses AI to get answers to queries 8x faster and at half the cost of competitors (IBM). AutoSQL integration can help eliminate the high cost of moving data while using AI-driven predictions. This new tool should help with the automation of data and run across any hybrid multi-cloud environment. IBM describes AutoSQL as a universal query engine and many have described it as IBMs take on the data lake which means that data may reside in Cloud Pak for Datas own data lake.
IBM also announced Watson Orchestrate, a new AI capability. According to the IBM newsroom and pre-briefs, Watson Orchestrate uses AI to improve and maintain context-based off on prior interactions. IBM developed this tool to help business professionals with productivity in its work environments working to solve a big pain point that arose for business owners amidst the pandemic. Watson Orchestrate claims to help professionals reclaim 50% of its time to focus on strategic work. The tool uses AI to sequence the prepackaged skills that are needed to perform a task for sales, HR, or operational functions. It is compatible with Slack Technologies, Salesforce, SAP SE, and Workday. Watson Orchestrate also allows regular professionals to have access to big pools of data that many companies have.
IBM announced the launch of Maximo Mobile, a mobile asset management solution that is a part of the IBM Maximo Application Suite for intelligent mobile EAMIBM developed this solution to aid field technicians and equip them with an AI tool to solve complex problems in remote locations. Maximo Mobile allows the customer to keep track of their assets regardless of location or network connectivity. IBM has been helping companies move sustainability forward by providing technicians with more sustainable maintenance. Maximo completely changes the way that field technicians work by equipping them with the best information and knowledge to solve problems more efficiently. IBM gives a great real life technician example on their website, often, when major assets break down, a technician must travel back and forth to the site to research solutions and analyze data before making any repairs. Slowing them down even more many of the assets that they help maintain are also located in places that are difficult to reach and potentially dangerous, like gas or electrical transmission lines, offshore wind turbines or scaffolding on buildings and bridges (IBM). Maximo mobile allows the technician to access a more powerful solution, including the ability to remotely collaborate with experts and diagnose problems and identify the likeliest fixes.
Fourth, IBM announced a preview of Project Codenet, a largescale opensource dataset comprised of 14 million code samples, 500 million lines of code and 55 programming languages to help with AIs understand of translating code (IBM). Codenet focuses on solving problems of code translation, similarity, and constraints. According to astudy from the University of Cambridges Judge Business School, programmers spend 50.1% of their work time not programming; half of the rest of their time is spent debugging. And the total estimated cost of debugging is $312 billion per year per Venture Beat. This AI code suggestion helps to cut development costs while allowing them to focus on more creative tasks.
Lastly, IBM announced a new quantum computing breakthrough. Qiskit Runtime Software Boosts have a 120X increase in quantum circuit processing speed that works with IBMs hybrid cloud solutions (IBM). This software allows customers to run complicated calculations and modeling in a matter of hours vs. weeks. If you want to learn more, one of my analysts, Paul Smith-Goodson, wrote a great article on IBM's descriptive quantum roadmap here.
IBM made many announcements prior to THINK. The company announced the worlds first 2nm nanosheet device here, check out an interview I had with IBM Cloud leader Howard Boville here, see Z mainframe as a service here, check out Steve McDowells analysis of Spectrum Fusion here, and see Paul Smith Goodsons coverage of Qiskit Metal for quantum computing here.
Wrapping up
In summary, IBM made clear that it is all in on the hybrid cloud and enterprise AI. It made some significant new announcements that give an optimistic outlook on a year that has not been so. Many of IBM's product announcements have many commonalities in the problems that it aims to solve. Cloud Pak, Watson Orchestrate, Maximo Mobile, CodeNet, and Qiskit Runtime Software boost all work to streamline processes, aid productivity, cut costs, and modernize the business. All in all I am enthusiastically optimistic to see how these products play out in the next few months. IBM appears to be transforming in front of my eyes and its exciting.
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IBM Think 2021 kicks off with AI innovations and some interesting quantum news – The Next Web
IBM today kicked off its annual THINK conference with a hefty dose of AI news and some tantalizing tidbits about the companys current quantum computing endeavors.
Weve got the skinny, but theres a lot to get through so strap in and get comfy.
AutoSQL and Cloud Pak for Data: IBMs touting a breakthrough in cloud-based database management. Basically, where businesses serve up answers to customer queries using cloud-managed AI databases, this will significantly speed things up.
According to IBM, the new system gives answers to distributed queries as much as 8x faster than previously and at nearly half the cost of other compared data warehouses.
Per an IBM press release:
With the launch of AutoSQL, IBM Cloud Pak for Data now includes the highest-performing cloud data warehouse on the market (based on our benchmarking study) that can run seamlessly across any hybrid multi-cloud environment including private clouds, on-premises and any public cloud.
Quick take: Its tempting to call this a bit hyperbolic, but IBMs brought receipts in the form of internal benchmarking. Anything that speeds up customer-facing AI is a boon for businesses and the people who use their products. Get more info here.
Watson Orchestrate: The no code AI paradigm is picking up steam and this is a great example of how that can be useful. Orchestrate is an AI system designed to augment workflows for individuals.
According to IBM, its meant to be interactive and easy to use:
Requiring no IT skills to use, Watson Orchestrate enables professionals to initiate work in a very human way, using collaboration tools such as Slack and email in natural language. It also connects to popular business applications like Salesforce, SAP and Workday.
Quick take: I hate virtual assistants because theyre virtually useless. But this is integrated, not an externaltalking bot, so it looks like something that could legitimately accelerate workflows for people who tend to have a lot going on. Theres more info available here on IBMs website.
Maximo Mobile: IBM recently launched this new mobile asset management platform for workers tied to infrastructure-scale jobs such as electric company employees or maintenance crews who work on bridges and roads.
Quick take: Ever wonder why it takes so long for the power to come back on after something goes wrong? According to that video, when it comes to the people who maintain large assets, fix our powerlines, and operate refineries, as much as 15-20% of a technicians time can be spent on paperwork.
Thats ridiculous!
Maximo Mobile is IBMs solution to the data and asset management issues these large-scale operations face in the field.
Mono2Micro: A common problem for businesses is figuring out how to get legacy applications into new-fangled AI systems.
Per IBM:
Mono2Micro uses AI developed by IBM Research to analyze large enterprise applications and provide recommendations on how to best adapt them for the move to cloud.
Quick take: This is simple, but brilliant. Basically, when it comes to integrating legacy AI applications into hybrid-cloud environments, the only option used to be manually changing the code. Now, with Mono2Micro, that process can be automated. This could make it more cost-effective to port your old apps than it is to build something new from the ground up. Check out more info here.
IBM also announced several new initiatives and more information on its $1 billion investment in its partner ecosystem, but most of these announcements were news wed heard before.
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Where things got real interesting is when IBM announced a new quantum computing breakthrough.
Qiskit software boosts: IBM today announced a 120X increase in quantum circuit processing speed thanks to IBMs hyrbid-cloud solution.
Instead of storing data on the physical quantum computer and thus necessitating more complex architecture and power requirements IBMs keeping things hybrid by enabling high-speed cloud-based data transfer via its Qiskit runtime.
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By introducing Qiskit Runtime, IBM is enabling quantum systems to run complex calculations such as chemical modeling and financial risk analysis in hours, instead of several weeks. To show the power of the software, IBM recently demonstrated how the lithium hydride molecule (LiH) could be modeled on a quantum device in nine hours, when previously it took 45 days.
Quick take: If were ever going to have a useful quantum computer, we need to scale the experimental builds were currently working with. IBMs new Quiskit Runtime service offloads a portion of the process to the cloud so the quantum part of the computer can do what it does unfettered.
Itll be a while before we see exactly what this means, but its reason for optimism in a field that already looks pretty bright. You can learn more here.
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Quantum Computing Professor, Researcher Yacoby Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences – HPCwire
We are honoring the excellence of these individuals, celebrating what they have achieved so far, and imagining what they will continue to accomplish, said David Oxtoby, President of the American Academy. The past year has been replete with evidence of how things can get worse; this is an opportunity to illuminate the importance of art, ideas, knowledge, and leadership that can make a better world.
Yacoby holds appointments in the Physics Department and at theHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(SEAS)and is a member of the National Academy of Science.
Yacobys research explores topological quantum computing, interacting electrons in layered materials, spin-based quantum computing and the development of novel quantum sensing probes such as scanning single electron transistors and color centers in diamond for unraveling the underlying microscopic physics of correlated electron systems.
Yacoby is leading a research area at theDepartment of Energys Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centerat Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where his work will focus on using quantum sensing techniques to explore quantum materials.
Yacoby is a member and sits on the executive committee of theHarvard QuantumInitiativeand a participant in theCenter for Integrated Quantum Materials(CIQM), a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center, based at SEAS. CIQM is dedicated to studying new quantum materials with non-conventional properties that could transform signal processing and computation.
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Wannabe Wired: When will we feel like we’re living in the future? – The Lawton Constitution
The golden age of science fiction predicted a world filled with flying cars, mega-cities gleaming with neon where the streets are unseen and robots walking freely among the populace. The 21st century was going to be an age of technological miracles, but what do you see when you look out your window? No gleaming neon metropolis, no flying cars, no robots. So what gives?
As Einstein would say, its all relative.
You dont feel like youre living in the future for the same reason that anyone born in the 90s doesnt feel like its been over 20 years since the 90s ended. Its difficult for us to feel like were living in the future because were only ever living in the present, but if we take a moment to step back and take a deeper, more complex look at the world around us it becomes quite clear that the world we are living in is full of what would have been considered futuristic 50 years ago.
One of the stalwarts for future-present comparisons comes from the cartoon The Jetsons, which, other than the flying cars and sky-high condos, seems rather quaint by modern standards.
Video calls, smart watches, robotic vacuums, flat screen TVs, The Jetsons is full of futuristic technology that we consider commonplace in the 21st century. And yet nostalgia and the shows retro-futurist feel keep the comparison alive. If you really want to look at cutting edge technology, technology that makes you feel like we are living on the cusp of a truly futuristic world, consider some of the following.
3D Printed Food
In 2018, the first meat-free steak that perfectly imitates the texture and taste of real meat was made from vegetables using a 3D printer. The process has been around for some time now, but in the last five years it has been perfected to the point that restaurants devoted to the process have been opening across the world.
Biohacking
Anyone with a passing familiarity of the cyberpunk genre has likely heard of biohacking. In many near-future dystopias, biohacking is representative of a way to mold man and machine together. While it sounds like fodder for science fiction, biohacking is already here and it has been for a while. Transhumanists, followers of the philosophical movements that advocates for enhancing the human condition through technology, have already begun implanting themselves with chips that allow them to do things like open doors or operate devices without the need for a fob or keycard. Others have argued for altering human DNA through CRISPR, a technology that can be used to edit genes.
Quantum Computing
We all know that computers are fast. My iMac boots up in about 10 seconds which is lightyears ahead of some of the first desktop computers. But quantum computers make even the most expensive computers on the home market look like fossils. These computers work off of quantum phenomena such as superposition which I wont even begin to try and explain because I barely understand it myself. Suffice it to say, quantum computers, with their unimaginable computing power and speed, will likely lead to some major breakthroughs.
Near-Sentient Artificial Intelligence
This one is a bit controversial. Ive written about AI in the past. True artificial intelligence, the kind that can literally think and reason on its own, is well and truly far off from where we are today. However, near-sentient AI, like your Alexa devices or Siri, is advancing every day and can already hold complex conversations based off machine learning. Right now there are AI assistants being tested that can carry on full blown conversations without skipping a beat.
While those are just a few examples of how futuristic our present truly is, there are plenty more to be found from advancements in augmented reality to nanorobots that can infiltrate the human body to scan for disease. So the next time you feel like you are missing out on the future promised to us by science fiction writers, take a look around you and recognize just how far weve come.
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How Merck works with Seeqc to cut through quantum computing hype – VentureBeat
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When it comes to grappling with the future of quantum computing, enterprises are scrambling to figure just how seriously they should take this new computing architecture. Many executives are trapped between the anxiety of missing the next wave of innovation and the fear of being played for suckers by people overhyping quantums revolutionary potential.
Thats why the approach to quantum by pharmaceutical giant Merck offers a clear-eyed roadmap for other enterprises to follow. The company is taking a cautious but informed approach that includes setting up an internal working group and partnering with quantum startup Seeqc to monitor developments while keeping an open mind.
According to Philipp Harbach, a theoretical chemist who is head of Mercks In Silico Research group, a big part of the challenge remains trying to keep expectations of executives reasonable even as startup funding to quantum soars and the hype continues to mount.
We are not evangelists of quantum computers, Harbach said. But we are also not skeptics. We are just realistic. If you talk to academics, they tell you there is no commercial value. And if you talk to our management, they tell you in 3 years they want a product out of it. So, there are two worlds colliding that are not very compatible. I think thats typical for every hype cycle.
Mercks desire for the dream of quantum computing to become reality is understandable. The fundamental nature of its business biology and chemistry means the company has been building molecular or quantum level models for more than a century.
Part of the role of the In Silico Research group is to develop those models that can solve quantum problems using evolving technologies such as data analytics and AI and applying them to natural sciences to make experimental work less time-consuming.
But those models are always limited and imperfect because they are being calculated on non-quantum platforms that cant fully mimic the complexity of interactions. If someone can build a fully fault-tolerant quantum computer that operates at sufficient scale and cost, Merck could unlock a new generation of efficiencies and scientific breakthroughs.
The quantum computer will be another augmentation to a classical computer, Harbach said. It wont be a replacement, but an augmentation which will tackle some of these problems in a way that we cannot imagine. Hopefully, it will speed them up in a way that the efficacy of the methods we are employing will be boosted.
About 3 years ago, Merck decided it was time to start educating itself about the emerging quantum sector. The companys venture capital arm, M Ventures, began looking within the company for experts who could help it with due diligence as it began to assess quantum startups. That included mapping out the players and the whole value chain of quantum computing, according to Harbach.
That led to the formal creation of the Quantum Computing Task Force, which has roughly 50 members who try to communicate with quantum players large and small as well as peers among Mercks own competition.
We are basically an interest group trying to understand this topic, Harbach said. Thats why we have a quite good overview and understanding on timelines, player possibilities, and applications.
As part of that exploration, M Ventures eventually began investing in quantum-related startups. In April 2020, the venture fund announced a $5 million investment in Seeqc, a New York-based startup that bills itself as the Digital Quantum Computing company.
We thought that it might be good to have partners in the hardware part and in the software part, Harbach said. Seeqc will partner with us within Merck to really work on problems basically as a hardware partner.
Seeqc is developing a hybrid approach that it believes will make quantum computing useful sooner. The idea is to combine classical computing architectures with quantum computing. It does this through its system-on-a-chip design.
This technology was originally developed at Hypres, a semiconductor electronics developer which spun out Seeqc last year. The M Ventures funding for Seeqc followed a previous $6.8 million seed round. Seeqc raised a subsequent round of $22 million last September in a round led by EQT Ventures.
According to Seeqc CEO John Levy, the companys technology allows it to address some of the fundamental challenges facing quantum systems. Despite rapid advancements in recent years, quantum computers remain too unstable to deliver the high-performance computing needed to justify their costs.
Part of the reason for that is that qubits, the unit of quantum computing power, need to be kept at near-freezing temperatures to process. Scaling then becomes costly and difficult because a system operating with thousands of qubits would be immensely complex to manage, in part because of the massive heating issue.
Levy said Seeqc can address that problem by placing classic microchips over a qubit array to stabilize the environment at cryogenic temperatures while maintaining speed and reducing latency. The company uses a single-flux quantum technology that it has developed and that replaces the microwave pulses being used in other quantum systems. As a result, the company says its platform enables quantum computing at about 1/400 of the cost of current systems in development.
We have taken much of the complexity that youve seen in a quantum computer and weve removed almost all of that by building a set of chips that weve designed, Levy said.
Just as important is a philosophical approach Seeqc is taking. Its not building a general-purpose quantum computer. Instead, it plans to build application-specific ones that are tailored specifically to the problems a client is trying to solve. Because Seeqc has its own chip foundry, it can customize its chips to the needs of application developers as they create different algorithms, Levy said.
In that spirit, Mercks Quantum Computing Task Force is working closely with Seeqc to create viable quantum computers that can be used by its various businesses.
Their technology is a key technology to scale a quantum computer, which is actually much more important because it will make quantum computers bigger and cheaper, Harbach said. And this is, of course, essential for the whole market.
For all this activity, Harbachs view of quantums potential remains sober. He sees nothing on the market that will have any commercial impact, certainly not for Merck. At this point, many of the companys questions remain academic.
What we are basically interested in is how or will the quantum computer hardware ever be scalable to a level that it can tackle problems of realistic size to us, Harbach said. And the same question also goes to the software side. Will there ever be algorithms that can basically mimic these problems on a quantum computer efficiently so that they dont run into noise problems? We are not interested in simulating a molecule right now on a quantum computer. Everything we try to understand is about the timelines: What will be possible and when will it possible.
Harbach has watched the rise in quantum startup funding and various milestone announcements but remains dubious of many of these claims.
They are creating a new market where theres not even the technology ready for it, Harbach said. You have to stay realistic. Theres a lot of money at the moment from governments and VCs. Theres a lot of boost from consultancies because they try to sell the consultancy. And if you talk to experts, its the other way around. They tell you not before 15 years.
The questions Merck asks internally are split into 2 fundamental categories: When will there be a quantum computer that can be more efficient at processing its current quantum models? And when will there be a quantum computer that is so powerful that it opens up new problems and new solutions that the company cannot even imagine today?
Quantum will be a thing, definitely, Harbach said. The only question is when, and Im really, really sure it wont be in the next two years. I wouldnt even say three years. There will be a quantum winter. Winter is coming.
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Selected to Build New Supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore – HPCwire
HOUSTON, April 27, 2021 Hewlett Packard Enterprisetoday announced it has been awarded $40M SGD to build a new supercomputer for the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, the national high-performance computing (HPC) resource center dedicated to supporting science and engineering computing needs for academic, research and industry communities. The new system, which will be 8X faster compared to NSCCs existing pool of HPC resources, will expand and augment ongoing research efforts by enabling tools such as artificial intelligence (AI) and deep machine learning to optimize modeling, simulation and even software simulation for quantum computing. NSCC will use the system to unlock scientific discoveries across medicine, diseases, climate, engineering and more.
The new supercomputer was funded through a SGD200 million investment that was announced by the Singapore government in March 2019 to boost Singapores high-performance computing resources.
Fueling a new supercomputing journey at the National Supercomputing Centre Singapore
The NSCCs new supercomputer will be built and powered using theHPE Cray EX supercomputer, which is an HPC system designed to support next-generation supercomputing, such as Exascale-class systems, that also features a full stack of purpose-built technologies across compute, software, storage and networking to harness insights from vast, complex data more quickly and efficiently. The advanced performance will help tackle compute and data-intensive modeling and simulation needs requiring higher speed and targeted HPC and artificial intelligence capabilities.
The new system will be housed in a new data center designed to increase sustainability and reduce energy consumption. To further support NSCCs mission for a greener data center, the new system will leverage liquid-cooling capabilities made possible through the HPE Cray EX supercomputer to increase energy efficiency and power density by transferring heat generated by the new supercomputer with a liquid-cooled process.
The combination of these advanced technologies will enable the NSCCs existing community of researchers and scientists further their R&D efforts to make breakthroughs in a range of areas, some of which include:
We are inspired by how Singapores community of scientists have leveraged high performance computing to improve ongoing research efforts. We are honored to continue empowering their mission by building them a powerful system using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer that delivers comprehensive, purposely-engineered technologies for demanding research, said Bill Mannel, vice president and general manager, HPE. The new system will deliver a significant boost to R&D, allowing Singapores community of scientists and engineers to make greater contributions that will unlock innovation, economic value, and overall, strengthen the nations position in becoming more digitally-driven.
Supercomputers have enabled the scientific community in Singapore to make significant strides in their research, said Associate Professor Tan Tin Wee, Chief Executive at the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore. The new system will provide the necessary resources to meet the growing supercomputing needs of our researchers, and to enable more of such significant scientific breakthroughs at the national and global level.
The NSCCs supercomputer unlocks new level of scientific discovery with advanced technologies
The HPE Cray EX supercomputer powering NSCCs new supercomputer is a purpose-built system designed specifically to deliver petaflop to exaflop performance with the worlds most energy-efficient footprint. It also includes the HPE Cray EX software stack for software-defined capabilities that allow the NSCCs users to gain the high-performance of a supercomputer, but through the operational experience of a cloud. Additionally, HPE will integrate the following next-generation technologies with the HPE Cray EX supercomputer:
The new system will be operational in early 2022. To learn more about NSCC and Singapores national HPC resources, please visitwww.nscc.sg
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