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February 2025


From insideHPC

VyperCore Launches Compute Accelerator Evaluation Platform

VyperCore Launches Compute Accelerator Evaluation Platform

Cambridge, United Kingdom – 17 February 2025 – VyperCore has launched VyperLab, a cloud-based evaluation platform that the company said allows Lead Partners to explore its hardware accelerator innovation designed to deliver energy…


From insideHPC

Modern Hydrogen and Mesa Solutions Partner on Clean Power for Data Centers

Modern Hydrogen and Mesa Solutions Partner on Clean Power for Data Centers

Houston — Modern Hydrogen, a hydrogen production and carbon management company, and Mesa Solutions, a provider of on-site power generation, announced a partnership to deliver clean power solution for data centers. 


The post Modern…


From Schneier on Security

Atlas of Surveillance

Atlas of Surveillance

The EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US.


From Computational Complexity

Big Breakthrough in the exciting world of sum-free sets!

 Let \([n]\) be the set \(\{1,\ldots,n\}\). (This is standard.)

Let X be a set of integers. \(X\) is sum-free if there is NO  \(x,y,z\in X\) such that \(x+y=z\). (Note that \(x=y\) is allowed.)

Lets try to find a large sum-free…


From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The logic behind syntactic sugar

The logic behind syntactic sugar

Computer Scientists talk about “Syntactic Sugar” when talking about programming languages. But in what way might a program be made sweet? It is all about how necessary a feature of a language is, and the idea and phrase was invented…


From Daniel Lemire's Blog

AVX-512 gotcha: avoid compressing words to memory with AMD Zen 4 processors

AVX-512 gotcha: avoid compressing words to memory with AMD Zen 4 processors

The recent AMD processors (Zen 4) provide extensive support for the powerful AVX-512 instructions. AVX-512 (Advanced Vector Extensions 512) is an extension to the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) introduced by Intel. These…


From insideHPC

Exascale: GE Aerospace Goes Airborne with Frontier and Aurora

Exascale: GE Aerospace Goes Airborne with Frontier and Aurora

Since 2022, GE Aerospace (NYSE: GE) has competed successfully for more than 3 million supercomputing hours under a U.S. Department of Energy peer-reviewed proposal process, incuding time on two of the three American exascale …


From insideHPC

SNIA Announces Regional SDC Denver Event for April 30

SNIA Announces Regional SDC Denver Event for April 30

Santa Clara, CA., February 13, 2025 –SNIA, the Storage Networking Industry Association, has announced its 2nd annual Regional SDC conference, Regional SDC Denver, on Wednesday, April 30. Registration for Regional SDC Denver is…


From insideHPC

Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio for Semiconductor Design

Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio for Semiconductor Design

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 13, 2025 — Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the expansion of its hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio with new HAPS prototyping and ZeBu emulation systems using AMD Versal Premium…


From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid the Care Dog

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid the Care Dog

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center has a pediatric care dog named “Squid.”

Blog moderation policy.


From Schneier on Security

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:

  • I’m speaking at Boskone 62 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, which runs from February 14-16, 2025. My talk is at 4:00 PM ET on the 15th.
  • I’m speaking at the Rossfest…


    From Schneier on Security

    AI and Civil Service Purges

    AI and Civil Service Purges

    Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s chaotic approach to reform is upending government operations. Critical functions have been halted, tens of thousands of federal staffers are being encouraged to resign, and congressional mandatesdisregarded…


    From insideHPC

    JSC Acquires D-Wave Quantum Computer

    JSC Acquires D-Wave Quantum Computer

    PALTO ALTO, Calif. and JÜLICH, Germany — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) announced today that FZJ has purchased a D-Wave quantum computer, becoming…


    From insideHPC

    Rice Univ. Prof. Lydia Kavraki Elected to National Academy of Engineering for Research in Biomedical Robotics

    Rice Univ. Prof. Lydia Kavraki Elected to National Academy of Engineering for Research in Biomedical Robotics

    Rice University computer scientist Lydia Kavraki has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional honors accorded to an engineer, for her work on “developing randomized motion-planning…


    From insideHPC

    Toward AGI: AI Innovation Will Be Driven by Applications, Not LLMs

    Toward AGI: AI Innovation Will Be Driven by Applications, Not LLMs

    DeepSeek’s LLM has caused a stir, but ... companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are aiming higher, their sights are set on artificial general intelligence, for which LLMs will be a component. No matter how fast, powerful, or efficient…


    From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

    Turn Right in Tenejapa

    Turn Right in Tenejapa

    Designing software that is inclusive for global markets is easy. All you have to do is get an AI to translate everything in the interface into multiple languages…or perhaps to do it properly it is harder than that! Not everyone…


    From insideHPC

    HPE Ships Its First NVIDIA Grace Blackwell System

    HPE Ships Its First NVIDIA Grace Blackwell System

    HOUSTON –  FEBRUARY 13, 2025  – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) announced today that it has shipped its first NVIDIA Blackwell family-based solution, the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This rack-scale system by HPE is designed to …


    From Schneier on Security

    DOGE as a National Cyberattack

    DOGE as a National Cyberattack

    In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders…


    From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

    CCC Responds to NSF Request for Comment on Proposed Intellectual Property Options

    CCC Responds to NSF Request for Comment on Proposed Intellectual Property Options

    In December 2024, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a Request for Comments (RFC) seeking public input to inform the adoption of new Intellectual Property (IP) provisions that the agency intends to use in future public…


    From insideHPC

    Applied Digital Closes $375M Financing with SMBC to Support HPC Campus

    Applied Digital Closes $375M Financing with SMBC to Support HPC Campus

    DALLAS, Feb. 12, 2025 — Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD), a builder of digital infrastructure for HPC applications, announced today that the company, through its HPC subsidiary APLD HPC Holdings LLC (“APLDH”), closed…


    From insideHPC

    Quantinuum Quantum Computer Now Operational at RIKEN

    Quantinuum Quantum Computer Now Operational at RIKEN

    TOKYO, Feb. 11, 2025 — Quantinuum and Japan’s RIKEN research institution announced the on-premise installation of Quantinuum’s “Reimei” quantum computer at RIKEN’s Wako campus in Saitama, Japan. RIKEN said it has designed, prepared…


    From insideHPC

    Eaton Invests $340M in Transformer Manufacturing to Power Data Centers

    Eaton Invests $340M in Transformer Manufacturing to Power Data Centers

    CLEVELAND, Feb. 12, 2025 – Intelligent power management company Eaton (NYSE:ETN) is helping address the shortage of transformers and record demand for its solutions across data center, utility, large commercial and industrial…


    From Computational Complexity

    Research Then and Now

    A student asked me if complexity research was easier when I was a student. Interesting question. Let's compare research now versus the late 80's.

    The big advantage today is technology. Just a small sampling below.

    Information:Online…


    From Schneier on Security

    Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets

    Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets

    Here’s a supply-chain attack just waiting to happen. A group of researchers searched for, and then registered, abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for about $400. These buckets contained software libraries that are still used. Presumably…


    From insideHPC

    Why Tier 0 Is a Game-Changer for GPU Storage

    Why Tier 0 Is a Game-Changer for GPU Storage

    In tech, you’re either forging new paths or stuck in traffic. Tier 0 doesn’t just clear the road — it builds the autobahn. It obliterates inefficiencies, crushes bottlenecks, and unleashes the true power of GPUs. The MLPerf1.0…


    From insideHPC

    Quantum: QuEra Completes $230M Financing from Google, SoftBank and Others

    Quantum: QuEra Completes $230M Financing from Google, SoftBank and Others

    Boston – February 11, 2025 – QuEra Computing, a neutral-atom quantum computing, today announced it has successfully completed a financing of more than $230 million. The funds will be used to accelerate the development and production…


    From Schneier on Security

    Trusted Encryption Environments

    Trusted Encryption Environments

    Really good—and detailed—survey of Trusted Encryption Environments (TEEs.)


    From insideHPC

    Laser-Based LightSolver Partners With Ansys on CAE

    Laser-Based LightSolver Partners With Ansys on CAE

    TEL AVIV – February 11, 2025 – LightSolver, inventors of a new laser-based computing paradigm, today announced a partnership with Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS), a provider of engineering simulation software. Following a successful test…


    From insideHPC

    Photonic Reports Quantum Error Correction Advance

    Photonic Reports Quantum Error Correction Advance

    VANCOUVER, BC, February 11, 2025  – Photonic Inc. has introduced a low-overhead family of Quantum Low-Density Parity Check (QLDPC) codes that can efficiently perform both quantum computation and error correction, using materially…


    From insideHPC

    Digihost to Develop HPC and AI-Tier Data Centers

    Digihost to Develop HPC and AI-Tier Data Centers

    MIAMI, Feb. 11, 2025 — Digihost Technology Inc. announced the formation of US Data Centers, Inc. (USDC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company dedicated to development of high-performance computing- and artificial intelligence…

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