IBM

IBM today announced new services aimed at education of quantum computing. These include new 5-qubit quantum systems, a feature for scheduling system time, an open-source textbook and a video series.

IBM has open-sourced the POWER ISA and key hardware reference designs, the company announced at the OpenPOWER Summit. It is also joining the Linux Foundation.

Multiple Linux Foundation members committed to promote the use of secure enclaves via the newly formed Confidential Computing Consortium.

Red Hat, now part of IBM, joined the RISC-V Foundation to develop support for the open-source instruction set architecture in its Linux distributions.

After firing over 100,000 employees, IBM is facing discrimination lawsuits accusing the company of targeting older workers to be "trendy."

IBM, Google and Xilinx reportedly helped develop technology used by China's government to spy on 200 million people.

IBM's Director of Research in Tokyo, Norishige Morimoto, announced that the company plans to launch a quantum computer in 3-5 years that will outperform classical supercomputers.

Hewlett Packard Enterpris will acquire the supercomputer maker Cray for $35 per share in cash, or about $1.3 billion in total.

The DOE has been at the forefront of supercomputing for seventy years. To celebrate that legacy, the agency had several displays at its booth at the Supercomputing 2018 tradeshow.