Communications of the ACM
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August 2022
From insideHPC
cPacket Networks Announces Data Center Observability Products
Milpitas, Calif. – August 16, 2022 – cPacket Networks, maker of hybrid-cloud observability solutions, today announces the latest set of products designed for broader connectivity, versatility and observability. This includes
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From insideHPC
TEAMGROUP Claims 1st Heat Dissipating Graphene PCIe 4.0 SSD Label for Cooling Performance
August 16, 2022, Taipei — Memory company TEAMGROUP announced announced MP44L M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD, featuring what it said is a breakthrough cooling technology: the industry’s first SSD label to incorporate graphene copper foil. This…
From insideHPC
Verge.io Unveils Virtualized GPU Computing
ANN ARBOR, Mich.—August 16, 2022 — Verge.io, with a mission to offer a simpler way to virtualize data centers, has added new features to its Verge-OS software designed to give users the performance of GPUs as virtualized, shared…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nanomagnets, Wine and AI
Interesting application with energy implications.
Nanomagnets Can Choose a Wine, Could Quench AI's Thirst for Energy
By National Institute of Standards and Technology. July 22, 2022
Scientists at the U.S. National Institute ofThe…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Artificial Intelligence and CS Education
It;s seems like artificial intelligence has been “10 years away” for the last 40 years. Back in the mini computer days every computer was custom and configurations were designed by people. I worked for a company that believed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Large Language Models and AI Hardware
I thought LLMs were generally available, but perhaps not generally so.
Democratizing LLMs Needs a Revolution in AI Hardware
By TechTalks, August 2, 2022
Andrew Feldman is CEO of Cerebras, a startup that specializes in AI hardware…From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Metaverse: An Interview with Matthew Ball
Matthew Ball, Metaverse Theorist, with a book forthcoming that I will read ... on the Metaverse:
We've never seen a shift this enormous ...
By Janko Roettgers an interview excerpt in Protocol.
The leading metaverse theorist…From The Eponymous Pickle
Self-Taught AI
Like the linking to how the brain works, though brain and AI are still very different.
Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
By Quanta Magazine, August 11, 2022
For a decade now, many of the most impressive artificial…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Will Come to the Rescue of Future Firefighters
Worked on the application of data to firefighting teams in my early days, appreciated this clearly can be further leverage by using AI methods.
AI May Come to the Rescue of Future Firefighters
By NIST News, August 12, 2022
NIST…From The Eponymous Pickle
Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter?
Interesting point .... And consider as AI in general becomes cheap.
Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter By Poul-Henning Kamp
Communications of the ACM, July 2022, Vol. 65 No. 7, Pages 42-44 10.1145/3511661
During his keynoteAs…From insideHPC
Granulate to Launch Free Autonomous Kubernetes Cost Optimization
Tel Aviv August 11, 2022- Granulate, an Intel company, developer of autonomous workload optimization solutions, announced the upcoming launch of a free cost-reduction solution, gMaestro, a workload and pod rightsizing tool for…
From insideHPC
AWS Launches GA of Private 5G — Though it’s 4G for Now
Having previewed its Private 5G offering last November, Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of the managed service designed “to help enterprises set up and scale private mobile networks in their facilities…
From Computational Complexity
A non-controversial question about the Documents Donald Trump had in his house
This is a non-partisan post. In the interest of disclosure I will divulge that I do not think private citizens should have top secret government documents in their house.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Plans more Retail Palm Scanning
Also a space we examined.
Amazon Expands Palm-Scanning Payment Tech to 65 More Whole Foods Locations
By TechCrunch, August 12, 2022
Amazon plans to expand its Amazon One palm-scanner payment technology to more than 65 Whole Foods…From The Eponymous Pickle
Robot Arms to Stock Shelves
Considerable Labor Savings in retail.
Robot Arms Replacing Shelf Stockers in Japan's Stores
Bloomberg
Vlad Savov, Mia Glass, August 9, 2022
FamilyMart Co. will install a fleet of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven robots from Telexistence…From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethereum going to proof of stake?
Ethereum going to proof of stake? Far less carbon emissions.
Ethereum Merge: How Crypto's Carbon Footprint Is About to Shrink
By CNet.July 15, 2022
Whether you own cryptocurrency or not, the Ethereum Merge is a big deal. In the…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Cyber Security and CS Education
Way back in time, cybersecurity was all about controlling access to the computer in the locked room with the raised floor. Well, you had to trust the people you did let in of course. I will not say much about the students I went…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UK Defense Receives first Quantum Computer
UK Moves forward in Defence Quantum Computing
Ministry of Defence acquires government's first quantum computer
In the BBC, By Liv McMahon, Technology team
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has acquired the government's first quantum…From The Eponymous Pickle
European Space Agency Seeks Possibility of SpaceX Launching
In Reuters:
Exclusive: Europe eyes Musk's SpaceX to bridge launch gap left by Russia tensions
By Tim Hepher and Joey Roulette
PARIS, Aug 12 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun preliminary technical discussions…From The Eponymous Pickle
'Retbleed' Speculative Execution Attack
Brought to my attention last week. Notably Cloud aspects.
'Retbleed' Speculative Execution Attack Affects AMD, Intel CPUs
By The Hacker News, July 18, 2022
The most serious attack vector for Retbleed is likely through cloud…From insideHPC
RISC-V Summit China 2022 Announces Agenda
Shanghai, August 12, 2022 – The RISC-V Summit China 2022 (Aug. 24-26) today announced its 2022 agenda, including keynotes, tutorials, and technical presentations in English language and Chinese language editions. This year’s
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Report: Orgs with zero-trust segmentation avoid 5 major cyberattacks annually
Report on Zero Trust Segmentation.
Report: Orgs with zero-trust segmentation avoid 5 major cyberattacks annually in Venturebeat
A new report by Illumio found that organizations leveraging zero-trust segmentation avert five major…From The Noisy Channel
Similarity-Sensitive Diversity
In my work on search engines and recommender systems, I’ve thought a lot about entropy and diversity. I named my first blog, The Noisy Channel, after a seminal idea of Claude Shannon, who introduced entropy to information theory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Workshop on AI Generated Characters
Brought to my attention, interesting look at using Virtual characters. Positive use cases emphasized.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se6eSBT6D1Y
This full-day workshop, organized by the MIT Media Lab with NTT DATA, was dedicated…From insideHPC
HPE Wins $35M HPC DR Deal with Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology
Aug. 11, 2022 — Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has purchased a high performance computing system from HPE in a three-year deal for US$35 million. The new system, intended to improve the resilience of Australia’s weather forecasting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quick Look at AI and Banking
Not too much here, but made me think about the broader problem.
AI Is Transforming How We Bank
By The Information, August 11, 2022
Crypto is far from the only technological innovation causing problems for financial regulators.…From BLOG@CACM
The Continual Re-Creation Of The Key-Value Datastore
The evolution of single machine key-value stores.
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on the Coming Data Driven, Smart Workflow
From McKinsey;
The data-driven enterprise of 2025
Rapidly accelerating technology advances, the recognized value of data, and increasing data literacy are changing what it means to be “data driven.”
By 2025, smart workflows and…From The Eponymous Pickle
Privacy and Robots in the Home
Implications of Amazon's acquisition of iRobot and more:
iRobot CEO Colin Angle on Data Privacy and Robots in the Home In light of Amazon’s recent acquisition, we revisit our 7 September 2017 Q&A with iRobot’s CEO BY EVANEditor…From insideHPC
SDSC’s Peter Rose Wins COVID-19 NIH/NICHD Award
Aug. 9, 2022 — Peter Rose, director of the Structural Bioinformatics Laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego, was recently presented with a team award from the National Institutes of Child Health and
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