Communications of the ACM
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December 2024
From insideHPC
Red Hat Signs Agreement with AWS for Virtualization and AI in Hybrid Cloud
RALEIGH, N.C. – Dec. 2, 2024 — Red Hat, Inc., open source solutions provider, today announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale availability of Red Hat open source solutions in AWS…
From insideHPC
Pascal100-Qubit Quantum Computer Shipped to Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Dec. 2, 2024 -- The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany received a 100-qubit quantum computer from neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal in mid-November.
The post Pascal100-QubitHigh…
From insideHPC
Nebius Announces $700M Equity Financing for AI Infrastructure Rollout
Amsterdam, December 2, 2024 – Nebius Group N.V.; NASDAQ:NBIS), an AI infrastructure company, today announced s definitive agreements for a USD 700 million private placement financing from a group of institutional and accredited…
From insideHPC
Tenstorrent Closes $693M+ Series D Round
Dec. 2, 2024, Santa Clara, CA: Tenstorrent said it closed over $693M in its Series D funding round at a pre-money valuation of $2B. Samsung Securities and AFW Partners led the oversubscribed round. In addition to the leads, other…
From The Noisy Channel
Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents
Last week, I had the honor of presenting “Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents” at Search Solutions 2024 with Aritra Mandal.
We introduced the bag-of-documents model as a way to align query and document representations — specifically…From insideHPC
Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
Dec. 2, 2024, SANTA CLARA, CA — Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced that Pat Gelsinger, the company’s CEO since February 2021, has retired from the company after a 40-plus-year career and has stepped down from the…
From Schneier on Security
Details about the iOS Inactivity Reboot Feature
I recently wrote about the new iOS feature that forces an iPhone to reboot after it’s been inactive for a longish period of time.
Here are the technical details, discovered through reverse engineering. The feature triggers after…From Computational Complexity
Conway's Trick for Divisibility. Asking its complexity is an odd question.
(I got this material from a nice article by Arthur Benjamin here.)
Conway suggested the following trick to determine if a number is divisible by each of the following:
2,3,5,7,11,17,19,31
Note that
\( 152=2^3\times 19\)
\(153…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
December Adventure–Write some Code Everyday
Eugene Wallingford let me in on A December Adventure From the website “The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every day in December.”
It’s sort of like an Advent of Code but not as intense…