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FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech

December 1st, 2021

Half Moon Bay, CA

2:50 PM

BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER

Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?

Speaker:

Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum

Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell

Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE

Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH

Mare Nostrum un supercomputador en una capilla.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center

www.bsc.es/

045

FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech

December 1st, 2021

Half Moon Bay, CA

2:50 PM

BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER

Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?

Speaker:

Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum

Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell

Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE

Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH

Bruce Damer showing off the Cray 1A supercomputer, inspired by Star Trek

EpicJonTuazon Super Computer Build - Jonathan Tuazon Photography

17/07/2025. Bristol, United Kingdom. Secretary of State Peter Kyle switched on Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful supercomputer housed at the University of Bristol. Picture by Alecsandra Dragoi / DSIT

On June 22, 2023, Argonne National Laboratory, Intel and HPE announced that the installation progress of the Aurora Supercomputer is complete. In this photo, a member of the installation team brings in the last blade on a specialized trolley. (Credit: Argonne National Laboratory)

October 23

I helped Gary and Jonathan shoot Talon, UNT's supercomputer, which also happens to be the 2nd fasted supercomputer in Texas! We shot on a 10.5mm lens, which was really fun. It's weird looking through the viewfinder and seeing your own body.

Other than that it was a relatively uneventful day. Yawn.

17/07/2025. Bristol, United Kingdom. Secretary of State Peter Kyle switched on Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful supercomputer housed at the University of Bristol. Picture by Alecsandra Dragoi / DSIT

supercomputer costs $133 million and will be used to study nuclear weapons

Wee Archie - the mini supercomputer made of Raspbery Pi modules. www.icms.org.uk/activities/why-is-life-so-complicated

Albinos vs. the Laptop. Who wins? Not Albino.

Since grid.org is now finished, I'm now donating spare CPU cycles to a new project called Folding@Home.

It's neato.

045

FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech

December 1st, 2021

Half Moon Bay, CA

2:50 PM

BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER

Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?

Speaker:

Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum

Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell

Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE

Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH

EpicJonTuazon Super Computer Build - Jonathan Tuazon Photography

Floodplain Maps RENCI helped generate using our IBM Blue Gene/L supercomputer.

A segment of DNA. With the glasses on, in 3D, it looked pretty damn good.

Albin har skaffat en elektronisk grej som heter Ipod Touch. Man kan bland annat surfa på internet med den, det är som ett jättestort uppslagsverk.

ECAL / Thibault Brevet

EpicJonTuazon Super Computer Build - Jonathan Tuazon Photography

045

FORTUNE Brainstorm Tech

December 1st, 2021

Half Moon Bay, CA

2:50 PM

BEYOND THE SUPERCOMPUTER

Classical computing has changed the world with multiple revolutions in cloud, AI and Machine learning. But believe it or not, it’s reaching its peak. And so, the promise of Quantum technology is that it has the potential to truly help solve some of our greatest challenges - climate, supply chain shortages and inefficiencies, food insecurity, cyber vulnerabilities, and destabilization of economies. What will it take to really get there and how far are we anyway?

Speaker:

Pete Shadbolt, Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum

Tony Uttley, President, Quantum Solutions, Honeywell

Moderator: Verne Kopytoff, FORTUNE

Photograph by Nick Otto for FORTUNE BRAINSTORM TECH

Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York

Kraken, the NICS XT5 (#8 in the Top500)

The carcass of NERSC's Hopper, the 5th most powerful supercomputer in the world when she was delivered in 2010.

Barcelona, Spain

UAF Fairbanks

Interacting at the after party!

www.icms.org.uk/activities/why-is-life-so-complicated

8 Foresights about future from Ray Kurzweil #Astroid, #Diseases, #RayKurzweil, #Supercomputer, #VirtualReality, #WiFi www.hatici.com/en/8-foresights-future-ray-kurzweil

The machine at the end dispenses free Mars Bars and cans of Coke. The Institute's best-kept secret.

Oh. Wait.

(thanks Mason!)

(from the song by Sufjan Stevens)

This is me trying out new things and failing.

Meh, I've got to start somewhere, right?

I also realized how difficult self portraits are without a tripod.

32-way piece of a 90's supercomputer...

De Cray-1, een supercomputer uit 1976. Dit exemplaar staat in Stockholm, Tekniska Museet.

Labs in Life exhibit at COSI