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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…
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 EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US.
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.)
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…
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…
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
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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…
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…
The Vanderbilt University Medical Center has a pediatric care dog named “Squid.”
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…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…
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…
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…
Really good—and detailed—survey of Trusted Encryption Environments (TEEs.)
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…
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…
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…