Communications of the ACM
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May 2023
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Apple Doing in AI?
Interesting, and now it seems that Apple in IOS 7 they appear to be including ChatGPT access to a Language model and even beyond. Being tested. That would be interesting.
What are Apple’s plans for generative AI? Tim Cook…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The absurd cost of finalizers in Go
The Go programming language makes it easy to call C code. Suppose you have the following C functions: char* allocate() { return (char*)malloc(100); } void free_allocated(char *c) { free(c); } Then you can call them from Go as…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Yellow AI for Workflows
New to me, clearly useful idea.
Conversational AI platform Yellow AI announced the release of YellowG, a next-gen conversational artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed specifically for automation technology. Leveraging…From insideHPC
Intersect360 Research: HPC Market Up 8% in 2022 in Return to Pre-Pandemic Growth
SUNNYVALE, CA — May 18, 2022— HPC and hyperscale industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research today said the traditional worldwide high performance computing market totaled $38.1 billion at the end of 2022, a year-over-year increase…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Let a Thousand AIs Bloom
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'Let a Thousand AIs Bloom' By Bennie Mols
Commissioned by CACM Staff May 4, 2023
Data science and philosophy professor David Danks.
"Computer science students don’t need…From Schneier on Security
Security Risks of New .zip and .mov Domains
Researchers are worried about Google’s .zip and .mov domains, because they are confusing. Mistaking a URL for a filename could be a security vulnerability.
From The Eponymous Pickle
TV's War With the Robots Is Already Here
Automation of writing and related entertainment content.
TV's War With the Robots Is Already Here
By The New York Times, May 11, 2023
Striking Writers Guild members picketing.
One of the issues at the heart of the Writers Guild…From insideHPC
DDN Announces QLC SSD Storage for Generative AI, ML, HPC Applications
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – May 18, 2023 – Multi-cloud data management company DDN today announced what the company said is a major breakthrough for its all flash and hybrid storage solutions. DDN’s parallel file system technology,
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From insideHPC
RIKEN and Intel Aim for Zettascale in Joint R&D for HPC, AI and Quantum
May 18, 2023 — RIKEN and Intel Corporation have announced joint R&D in the field of advanced computing technologies, such as AI, HPC and quantum computing. As part of the agreement, RIKEN will also engage with Intel Foundry
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From insideHPC
CIQ Launches Fuzzball, Combining Enterprise Computing and HPC for Performance-Intensive Computing
RENO, Nev. — May 18, 2023 — CIQ, the company behind Rocky Linux, today launched Fuzzball, a tool designed to unify the power of infrastructure optimized for all Performance Intensive Computing (PIC) workloads, such as sophisticated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pixel Smartphones Will Add Bard AI Widget: Report
Putting Bard into the Phone, implications, value?
Google Pixel Smartphones Will Add Bard AI Widget: Report
ERIC HAL SCHWARTZ
Google may turn Bard generative AI chatbot into a widget on Pixel smartphones and tablets, accordingBARD…From insideHPC
SingleStore Launches MongoDB API for AI and Real-Time Analytics on JSON
May 18, 2023, SAN FRANCISCO — SingleStore, maker of a cloud-native database built for real-time applications, today announced the launch of SingleStore Kai for MongoDB, a new API for real-time analytics on JSON (JavaScript Object…
From insideHPC
Micron to Bring EUV Technology for Memory Manufacturing to Japan
HIROSHIMA, Japan, May 17, 2023 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU) announced today it will introduce extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology to Japan, bringing patterning technology to manufacture its next generation of DRAM,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Openai Blog
Just noted this, the Openai Blog: https://openai.com/blog Worth following. ....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Dear Colleague Letter: Clean Energy Technology RAISE or EAGER Proposals
The following is a joint Dear Colleague Letter from eight Assistant Directors at the National Science Foundation – Susan S. Margulies (Directorate for Engineering), Sean L. Jones (Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences)…
From insideHPC
Unlock Industrial Cloud Transformation with Ansys and AWS
With increased global competition and rising customer expectations, industrial engineers are under incredible pressure to lower their expenses while maintaining quality and performance. To overcome these challenges, they are
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From Computational Complexity
Community Guidelines that Ignore History
Last week I got the following email from Blogger:
As you may know, our Community Guidelines (https://blogger.com/go/contentpolicy) describe the boundaries for what we allow-- and don't allow-- on Blogger. Your post titled "Mysteries…From The Eponymous Pickle
3D-Knitted Robots
By Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
May 17, 2023, Part of a woven inchworm-like inspection robot.
The researchers demonstrated different knit robot prototypes, including…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drone Hitching a Ride
New Drone Can Hitch a Ride on a Moving Car Hitchhiker latches on using trajectory tracking and suction cups MICHELLE HAMPSON
A box with a picture of a small teal car in front of a white backdrop, and a drone attached to the…From insideHPC
Cori Supercomputer Bids NERSC and HPC Community Adieu
After nearly seven years of service, thousands of user projects, and tens of billions of compute hours, the Cori supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) will be retired at the end of
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From insideHPC
VAST Data Achieves NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Certification
May 17, 2023 – VAST Data, a data platform company for AI, today announced it is now a certified datastore for NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD, designed to provide organizations with scalable performance for machine learning and deep learning…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Software May Be Eating the World – But Is it Eating HPC?
https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/059@HPCpodcast_HPC-Software_20230516.mp3 In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug kick off what we expect to be a series of looks at HPC software and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peking University Researchers Introduces FastServe:
Level of this advance, revealing it?
By Aneesh Tickoo- May 16, 2023
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05920
Large…From insideHPC
Gigamon Announces Results for Cutting Cloud Power Consumption, Emissions
Santa Clara, California – Gigamon, the leading deep observability company, today shares insights into its ability to enable customers to reduce the power consumption, carbon emissions, and energy costs of cloud, security and
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From insideHPC
Cornelis Networks Appoints David Joseph CFO
WAYNE, Pa., May 17, 2023 — Cornelis Networks, provider of high-performance networking solutions for the data intensive technical computing (HPC and AI) applications and workloads, has named David Joseph chief financial officer…
From insideHPC
Intel and SAP Collaborate on Cloud
ORLANDO, Florida, May 17, 2023 – Intel and SAP SE today announced a strategic collaboration to deliver SAP software landscapes in the cloud. Designed to help customers derive greater scalability, agility and consolidation of
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From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Now Using AI Extensively
> My former employer, where we experimented with AI methods in the 80s .... Franz
P&G turns to AI to create digital manufacturing of the future
Feature, Sep 30, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation,Manufacturing…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sanctionary Humanoid Robot
Teleoperation. Gathering information in complex spaces
Sanctuary’s Humanoid Robot Is for General-Purpose Autonomy Phoenix seeks to embody humanlike intelligence By Evan Ackerman
We’ve been keeping track of Sanctuary AI for quite…From BLOG@CACM
A Turning Point for U.S. AI Policy: Senate Explores Solutions
Preparing for the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CGT at Estee Lauder
How Estée Lauder and Best Buy Use Analytics to Solve for Tomorrow’s Disruption
Anne-Marie Kennedy
Pradipta Saha, executive director of digital supply chain at Estée Lauder, talks supply chains of the future.
What are today’s consumer…