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• CIO50 2019: #23 Fiona Rankin, University of Wollongong

  The University of Wollongong (UOW) is undergoing a major digital transformation across multiple areas of the business.

• Dell EMC opens 5 ‘AI experience zones’ across APAC

  Dell EMC, in concert with Intel, has opened five ’AI experience zone’ facilities across Asia Pacific and Japan that aim to showcase the business benefits of artificial intelligence technologies.

• Pawsey to collaborate with Europe's supercomputing infrastructure group PRACE

  Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has inked an agreement with the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (​PRACE​) to pool resources and information that will help research groups globally.

• NCI gets $70m to replace Raijin and return to world top 25

  ​The National Computational Infrastructure​ (NCI) based at The Australian National University will receive a $70 million funding boost to replace its ageing supercomputer, Raijin.

• Money talks, and that's all quantum maker D-Wave has to say

  The quantum computing technology developed by D-Wave gets ongoing scientific debate, but it's also getting money, $28 million last week, bringing its total funding to about $150 million.

• China has the fastest supercomputer, but the US still rules

  China continues to hold the top spot in the Top 500 supercomputer list, but the US still dominates, with 90 per cent of the systems on the list made by US vendors.

• U.S. research lab focuses on building computers of the future

  Computer scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have launched an effort to develop whole new types of computers that will be used 10, 25 or even 50 years from now.

• Researchers mimic human brain to build a better computer

  Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories are working on a computer that can tackle real-world situations in real-time and can run on the same power as a 20-watt light bulb.

• Quantum rewrites the rules of computing

  Quantum computing holds huge promise, and scientists say it could eventually surpass classic supercomputers for tackling enormous calculations, like cryptography and finding planets. But there's debate over whether quantum computers truly exist. Google and NASA are testing one.

• Why the U.S. may lose the race to exascale

  In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers -- exascale -- there is no guarantee the U.S. will finish first.

• Snap, crackle, pop: Electrical troubles shed light on NSA's data center

  The National Security Agency's new data center in Utah was built for a 65 megawatt load, making it one of the world's largest. But the $1.53 billion dollar complex has had a rough start.

• U.S. supercomputers haven't been affected by gov't shutdown -- yet

  The U.S. government shutdown has taken some government Web sites offline, including data.gov. But the nation's most powerful supercomputers continue to operate -- for now, at least.

• Supercomputing needs to deliver 'real-life value,' senator says

  At the Argonne National Lab on Monday, a dedication ceremony was held for the Mira supercomputer, where it was duly noted that it is the world's fifth-fastest system. You cannot mention the world's fifth-fastest system without noting the world's number one system, which is in China.

• As machines learn to think, exascale will be critical to U.S. defense

  Unlike China and Europe, the U.S. has yet to adopt and fund an exascale development program, and concerns about what that means to U.S. security are growing darker.

• What China's supercomputing push means for the U.S.

  China isn't downloading software off the Web to build its systems, it has design teams writing its software, says Argonne's Peter Beckman, who heads the DOE's exascale initiative.