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Chiplets: Rearchitecting the CPU

By Dick Weisinger

Computer chips have continued to scale up and become more performant by squeezing more and more integrated circuits onto each chip. Moore’s law describes how for 55 years the number of circuits on a chip have doubled roughly every two

Quantum Computing: The Global Race for Computing Supremacy

By Dick Weisinger

The race to build the first viable quantum computer is on, and the race is global. In the US there are tech companies like IBM, Microsoft and Intel. Universities and startups are jumping in too. In October 2019, the Trump

Exascale Computing: HPC Targets AI and Modeling

By Dick Weisinger

How many FLOPs can your computer do? FLOP = Floating Point Operations per Second. As of 2017, the fastest computer was benchmarked at 93 PetaFLOPs or 93×1015 operations per second. Vendors are shooting for ten times that to get into

Simulation: Modeling the World to Understand and Improve It

By Dick Weisinger

Computer simulation has been used for decades to understand and predict complex interactions. As computers have grow increasingly powerful so have the capabilities of simulation. Alex Chadwick, computer scientist from Cambridge University, said that between 1970 and the early 2000s

Supercomputers: Cray Dominates Government Lab Contracts

By Dick Weisinger

Cray Inc., long-time US-based supercomputer vendor, is on a roll this year with securing government contracts for building next-generation supercomputers. In August, Cray won a 600 million contract with the US Department of Energy to build a 1.5+ exaflop system