Communications of the ACM
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December 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Realistic 3D Worlds
We experimented with creating retail spaces to create alternative experiences. Rich experience is important.
Generating a Realistic 3D World
By MIT News, December 10, 2021
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…From insideHPC
HPC4Mfg: DOE Awards $2.3M for 8 Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Projects Using HPC
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding of $2.3 million for eight teams who will tap into the U.S. National Laboratories’ high performance computing (HPC) resources designed to help manufacturers streamline processes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Helicopter on Mars
Evan Ackerman talks the remarkable success of the Mars helicopter Perseverance. Nicely done NASA. The idea of a detachable drone shows its power of application, A means of managing opportunistic data gathering in very unordered…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DDos Attack Protection
Useful piece. More at the link.
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Protection from DDoS Attacks – And Why It Is Useless, By Medium.com, December 9, 2021
DDoS is a type of internet…From insideHPC
BMW and AWS Announce Winners of Quantum Computing Challenge at Q2B
BMW Group and Amazon Web Services have announced the winners of the BMW Quantum Computing Challenge with the winners being announced at Q2B 2021, a conference for the application of quantum computing. The BMW Group, in collaboration…
From insideHPC
Katana Graph and Intel Collaborate on Graph Analytics Python Library
AUSTIN, TX – Katana Graph, an AI-powered graph intelligence company, has announced the release of a high-performance graph analytics Python library in collaboration with Intel. Katana Graph has designed an easy-to-use library…
From insideHPC
ORNL’S AAIMS Group Scores 2 Awards
Two different studies produced by the Analytics and AI Methods at Scale (AAIMS) group, which resides within the National Center for Computational Sciences at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Non Fungible Tokens (NFT) Outside the Art Word to Science: LAB Gallery
Connected briefly with Foresight. Below quite interesting, taking NFT's from the art world to other kinds of creation. If NFTs work then they can be used for any kind of creation that is described in a complex way. Interesting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wider View of Smart Contracts
Smarter but also more usefully cooperative too.
Smart Contracts are Here and They’re Getting Smarter
by Thomas Frey | Dec 9, 2021 | Future Trends in Futurist Speaker
In a recent podcast interview, Max Galka, CEO of Elementus.io…From The Eponymous Pickle
Heterogeneous Computing
More by Vint Cerf, previously discussed, cant we get computers to better work together? Communicate better. The ultimate idea of AI is one way. communicating for our needs.
By Vinton G. Cerf in…From insideHPC
Intel Technology Partners Are World Changers
[SPONSORED POST] Intel’s Partner Ecosystem with ISVs, OEMs, standards organizations, channel resellers and others are delivering amazing capabilities and products using Intel technology. Recently updated for Supercomputing ’21…
From insideHPC
Habana Gaudi AI Chip Joins cnvrg.io’s Metacloud Marketplace of AI Infrastructure Solutions
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 8, 2021 — cnvrg.io, an operating system for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) built by data scientists, today announced that Habana’s Gaudi AI Accelerator is available on cnvrg.io…
From insideHPC
IBM Launches IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Center for Hybrid Cloud
ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 8, 2021 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled the IBM Z and Cloud Modernization Center, a digital front door to tools, training, resources and ecosystem partners to help IBM Z clients accelerate the modernization…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Expands ThinkEdge Server Line for Edge AI
Dec. 8, 2021 – RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) announces the expansion of the Lenovo ThinkEdge portfolio with the introduction of the new ThinkEdge SE450…
From Computational Complexity
Defending the Status Quo
When the Wall Street Journal's editorial board and the New York Post endorse your efforts, that should ring warning bells.
Several members of the theory and mathematics community and have written and endorsed an Open Letter on…From The Eponymous Pickle
Communicating Blockchains
Intriguing statement and challenge, following up.
An illustration of fragmented blockchains. How Can We Get Blockchains to Talk to Each Other?
IEEE Spectrum, Edd Gent, December 3, 2021
Stefan Schulte and colleagues at Austria's…From The Eponymous Pickle
Math of Knots and Machine Learning
Big interest in the natural and useful topology of knots
UK AI Helps Untangle the Math of Knots
Nature. Davide Castelvecchi, December 1, 2021
Researchers at U.K.-based artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory DeepMind worked with…From The Eponymous Pickle
Productivity of Wealth
Of interest, via McKinsey:
The rise and rise of the global balance sheet: How productively are we using our wealth?
Net worth has tripled since 2000, but the increase mainly reflects valuation gains in real assets, especially real…From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking for Risk Patterns in Serious Illness
Analyzing Kinds of Risk is important.
AI Program Helps Identify Patients at High Risk of Serious Illness By Tel-Aviv University, December 8, 2021
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed an artificial intelligence program…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: FTC Takes on Nvidia-Arm Deal; Composable HPC –Why, Why Not and How To
In this Arm-flavored episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin Khan of OrionX.net and Doug Black of insideHPC discuss the latest hurdles thrown in front of Nvidia’s attempted acquisition of Arm Ltd., this time from the U.S. Federal
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From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Clusters – Part 2
[SPONSORED POST] This technology guide, “insideHPC Guide to Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) Clusters,” will show how the Silicon Mechanics Miranda CDI Cluster™ reference architecture can be a CDI solution blueprint…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NVIDIA Launches New Mining GPUs
Implications? More general in usage?
Nvidia quietly launches more GPUs for mining, not gaming
By Myles Goldman, December 7, 2021 2:23PM
Nvidia pulled a sneaky one today by rereleasing the RTX 2060, this time with 12GB…From insideHPC
DDN Reports Boost in STAC-M3 High Frequency Trading Benchmark
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Dec. 7, 2021 – HPC-AI data storage and management company DDN today announced what it called “dramatically improved” results in the STAC-M3 benchmark for measuring performance in high frequency trading utilizing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Security and Emerging Technology Seminar Series
On Thursday, December 16th at 4:00 PM ET, the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CEST) will be hosting a lecture “Deconstructing China’s Vision for the Future of Warfare” as a part of their Security and Technology Seminar…
From insideHPC
Weka and HPE Launch Joint Offering for Containerized Workloads
CAMPBELL, Calif., December 7, 2021 –AI data platform company WekaIO (Weka) today announced it has developed a solution with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) for demanding AI and ML workloads, now available on the HPE Ezmeral …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows Defender with Windows 10 (latest version) Test vs Ransomware.
Comments on the use of standard security tools for Ransomware
The PC Security Channel 162K subscribers
Windows Defender with Windows 10 (latest version) Test vs Ransomware.
Contact us for business: https://www.thepcsecuritychannel…From The Eponymous Pickle
Map of Quantum Computing
See below, well done, below was provided by Qiskit.org
Map of Quantum computing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UlxHPIEVqA&t=25s
A good non technical summary of the field of quantum computing. Find out more about Qiskit at…From The Eponymous Pickle
Volcanic Tracking in an Open Air Lab
Been monitoring global volcanic activity for some years. Just loosely involved with monitoring the La Palma volcanic event by looking at tracking data for current understanding and future predictions.
Island Becomes Open…From insideHPC
Meta Picks AWS as Strategic AI Cloud Provider
Amazon Web Services has announced that Meta (formerly Facebook) has deepened its relationship with AWS as a strategic cloud provider, using AWS’s cloud infrastructure to complement its on-premises infrastructure, and will broaden…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Launches Developer Quantum QuickStart at Q2B Conference
BURNABY, BC — Dec. 6, 2021 – D-Wave Systems Inc., a quantum computing systems, software, and services company developing both annealing and gate-model quantum computers, today announced a new quantum acceleration bundle, the …