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Photonic Computing Company Takes Aim at Artificial Intelligence
Feb. 7, 2018
Chip startup Lightmatter has received an infusion of $11 million from investors to help bring the worlds first silicon photonics processor for AI to market. Using technology originally developed at MIT, the company is promising orders of magnitude performance improvements over whats feasible using existing technologies.




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European Commission Looks to Invest a Billion Euros in HPC
Jan. 12, 2018
The European Commission (EC) has announced a financial framework for investing 1 billion in European supercomputers over the next two years. Under this framework, known as the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, the European Union (EU) would contribute around 486 million, while the remainder would be supplied by EU member states and associated countries.


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Whats in Store for HPC in 2018
Jan. 8, 2018
Chris Downing, senior consultant at Red Oak Consulting, takes a look at what's ahead for high performance computing in the coming year. In particular, he focuses on what's in store for some of the major HPC suppliers AMD, Nvidia, Intel, and niche hardware providers as well as the prospects for cloud computing.