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Virtual MemComputing Machine

Completed TRL 9 (started at 6, targeting 9)

Description

MemComputing’s technology is disrupting the high-performance commercial computing industry by dramatically reducing the time to find solutions to the most complex optimization problems across all industries today. Using a physics-based approach, MemComputing’s novel circuit architecture liberates users from current computational bottlenecks, enabling companies of all sizes to accurately analyze huge amounts of data in minutes or seconds, empowering them to make optimal business decisions quickly. MemComputing’s Software-as-a-Service platform, called the Virtual MemComputing Machine (VMM), is currently being used today by Fortune 500 companies, and is designed to solve the largest and most complex industrial computations associated with optimization, big data analytics, and machine learning. Obtaining optimal solutions in a faster time frame using a fraction of today’s required resources not only results in significant cost savings, but also opens the door for greatly improved operational efficiencies. Studies of the MemComputing platform demonstrate that MemComputing delivers the power expected of Quantum Computers, with its non-Quantum solution. MemComputing boasts 17 peer-reviewed scientific papers, published in prestigious scientific journals, as well as 2 issues patents.

Benefits

NASA relies on supercomputing systems to understand Earth's astrophysical systems and to conduct high-fidelity aerospace engineering analyses. MemComputing targets accelerating the computational workloads of NASA's current and future projects. The economic benefits of achieving optimal solutions to currently intractable problems is tremendous. MemComputing's approach delivers dramatically improved solutions in a fraction of the time while requiring far fewer resources.

MemComputing’s SaaS, the Virtual MemComputing Machine (VMM), is being used by the Fortune 500. It is designed to solve the most complex industrial computations associated with optimization and data analytics. Obtaining optimal solutions in a faster time frame using a fraction of the required resources results in significant cost savings, and opens the door for greatly improved operations.

Details

Technology areaSoftware, Modeling, Simulation, and Information Processing > Ground Computing > High-Performance Data Analytics Platform
ProgramSmall Business Innovation Research/Small Business Tech Transfer (SBIR/STTR)
Lead organizationMemComputing, Inc., San Diego, CA
Start date2021-05-19
End date2021-11-19

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