Communications of the ACM
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February 2020
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI in Energy Management Marketing
Note the use of AI in analysis and forecasting in this space.
BUSINESS WIRE: AI in Energy Management Market Industry - Opportunity Analysis and Growth Forecast to 2024 - ResearchAndMarkets.com
AI in Energy Management Market Industry…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cost of Electricity Affordable, but not Decreasing
Useful details on electric power currently and in the near future. Useful as a baseline for establishing manufacturing costs.
Electricity: It’s Wonderfully Affordable, But it’s No Longer Getting Any Cheaper
The generations-long…
From insideHPC
Eni unveils HPC5 Supercomputer from Dell Technologies
Today Eni dedicated its new HPC5 system, the most powerful industrial supercomputer in the world. "HPC5 by Dell Technologies is made up of 1,820 Dell EMC PowerEdge C4140 servers, each with two Intel Gold 6252 24-core processors…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Papers – 1st International Workshop on Quantum Computing: Circuits Systems Automation and Applications (QC-CSAA)
Drs. Travis Humble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky) have released a call for papers to participate in the upcoming International Workshop on Quantum Computing: Circuits Systems Automation…
From insideHPC
Big Compute 20 Conference Announces Speaker Lineup
Today the Big Compute Conference announced sponsors and speakers for its inaugural event, held February 11-12, 2020 in San Francisco. The two-day conference will feature business leaders and scientists describing how they are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Tries Glass Again
Looking for developers to buy and build business demand. Still think there are narrow useful applications here, as we tested in plant industrial maintenance settings. And that will lead to further consumer interest.
Google…
From insideHPC
BSC Powers Pan-Cancer Project
An international team has completed the most comprehensive study of whole cancer genomes to date, significantly improving our fundamental understanding of cancer and signposting new directions for its diagnosis and treatment.…
From insideHPC
How Ceph powers exciting research with Open Source
"As researchers seek scalable, high performance methods for storing data, Ceph is a powerful technology that needs to be at the top of their list. Ceph is an open-source software-defined storage platform. While it’s not often…
From insideHPC
Deep Learning for Predicting Severe Weather
Researchers from Rice University have introduced a data-driven framework that formulates extreme weather prediction as a pattern recognition problem, employing state-of-the-art deep learning techniques. "In this paper, we show…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skype for Business to be Retired
This had been rumored, now its out, been using Teams now for a year, its nicely done. Unclear how this be done with regards to Business vs 'Home' users.
...Skype for business: OOO
Skype for Business Online is headed for retirement…
From Schneier on Security
A New Clue for the Kryptos Sculpture
Jim Sanborn, who designed the Kryptos sculpture in a CIA courtyard, has released another clue to the still-unsolved part 4. I think he's getting tired of waiting. Did we mention Mr. Sanborn is 74? Holding on to one of the world's…
From insideHPC
Atos completes acquisition of Maven Wave
Today Atos announced the completion of its acquisition of Maven Wave, a U.S.-based cloud and technology consulting firm specialized in delivering digital transformation solutions for large enterprises. With this acquisition,
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Automobiles to Hear
Makes sense to add another sense to the car.
Teaching Tomorrow's Automobiles to Hear
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Christian Colmer in ACM
Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology (IDMT) have developed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wuhan Virus Detected by AI Epidemiologist
Quite interesting revelation. The depth of this discovery still unclear. Recall our work in detecting epidemics and bioterror by retail data.
AI Epidemiologist Sent First Warnings of Wuhan Virus in Wired via CACM By Eric Niiler…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF’s 70th Anniversary Symposium
On May 10, 1950, President Truman signed the National Science Foundation Act, creating the only federal agency charged with funding fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. To begin a yearlong…
From insideHPC
Samsung Launches Flashbolt High Bandwidth 2E Memory
Today Samsung Electronics launched 'Flashbolt,' its third-generation High Bandwidth Memory 2E (HBM2E). The new 16-gigabyte (GB) HBM2E is uniquely suited to maximize HPC systems and help system manufacturers to advance their supercomputers…
From insideHPC
Beyond Discoverability: Metadata to Drive Your Data Management
Terrell Russell from iRODS gave this talk at SC19. "The Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) is open source data management software used by research organizations and government agencies worldwide. iRODS is released
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From The Eponymous Pickle
End of the Blackberry
Blackberries were the first phone we issued to executives. At their request after they saw how they could be used with their own portfolios. And were the first that had the ability to work with mail, and later the use of 'Apps'…
From insideHPC
Arm HPC User Group to Host First Annual Meeting in Portugal
Arm's HPC User Group (A-HUG) is transitioning to a fully-fledged community-led organization to better support the Arm ecosystem. The first annual meeting of the community-lead A-HUG will be held March 12-13 in Porto, Portugal…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung to Announce Smart Speaker
More competition in what I call the assistant world. Bixby powered from Samsung. Beyond just in Korea? Appears include smart home oriented sensors.
Samsung Galaxy Home Mini Smart Speaker Arriving Feb. 12
Eric Hal Schwatrz…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a Reality of Fusion Power
Quite a number of advances in recent years. Excellent overview. With some technology explanation.
5 Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality In IEEE Spectrum
Startups, universities, and major companies are vying to commercialize…
From insideHPC
How NVIDIA Enables Scientific Research for HPC Developers
"Researchers, scientists, and developers are advancing science by accelerating their high performance computing applications on NVIDIA GPUs using specialized libraries, directives, and language-based programming models. From
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From Schneier on Security
Tree Code
Artist Katie Holten has developed a tree code (basically, a font in trees), and New York City is using it to plant secret messages in parks....
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Deep Learning on Supercomputers workshop
The Deep Learning on Supercomputers workshop has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 25 as part of ISC 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The workshop provides a forum for practitioners working on any and all aspects…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Department of Energy Announces $625 Million for New Quantum Centers
The following is a press release from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish two to five multidisciplinary Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers. WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced…
From insideHPC
Tachyum Processor to power 2021 AI/HPC Supercomputer
Today semiconductor company Tachyum announced today that its Prodigy Processor AI/HPC Reference Design will be used in a supercomputer at an unnamed customer site in 2021. According to the company, the Prodigy processor slated…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu to Deploy Arm-based Supercomputer at Nagoya University
Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order for an Arm-based supercomputer system from Nagoya University's Information Technology Center. "For the first time in the world, this system will adopt 2,304 nodes of the Fujitsu…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Iowa Caucus 2020–What Happens When Software Doesn’t Work?
It’s too early to tell exactly what went wrong with the Iowa caucus this year but I suspect it will wind up being a case study in several ways. Political Science will look at it for sure. So, I believe, will computer scienceThe…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Rewriting NWChem for Exascale
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, researchers from the NWChemEx project team describe how they are readying the popular code for Exascale. The NWChemEx team’s most significant success so far has been to scale coupled-cluster…
From insideHPC
DIII-D Researchers Use Machine Learning to Steer Fusion Plasmas
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility achieved a scientific first this month when they used machine learning calculations to automatically prevent fusion plasma disruptions in real time, while simultaneously optimizing…