Communications of the ACM
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June 2022
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: At the HPC User Forum — A Frontier Visit, the State of Quantum and Supercomputing Center Staffing Woes
In this episode of the @HPCpodcast we focus on the HPC User Forum, run by industry analyst firm Hyperion Research and held last week at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The conference included an opportunity to get…
From insideHPC
Kathryn Kelley Joins CASC as Executive Director
June 30, 2022 — The Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) has announce that Kathryn Kelley has joined CASC as it’s new Executive Director. For more than three decades, CASC has promoted the use of advanced computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining AI Liability
Good overview of the topic and related liability issues, we looked at this in early AI and analytical applications. Now especially applicable in automated vehicles.
We need to change rules and institutions…From The Eponymous Pickle
Soft Robot Made of Magnetic Slime
More small and soft robotics. Healthcare? Note possible use.
Researchers in Hong Kong create 'soft robot' made of magnetic slime
Researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong have created a "soft robot" made of slime containing…From insideHPC
Atos Opens Life Sciences Centre of Excellence for Drug Development and Precision Health in UK
Paris, 30 June, 2022 – Atos, in agreement with the Wellcome Genome Campus in Cambridgeshire, UK, today announced the opening of its global Life Sciences Centre of Excellence. The facility will provide scientists on campus, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kellogg is Splitting into 3 Companies:
Quite unexpected, a major CPG. Can we expect more?
Kellogg is splitting into 3 companies: Here’s what each one will focus on
The cereal giant will become three distinct companies in a deal that is expected to be completed…From The Eponymous Pickle
Studying Very Large Genomic Datasets
Note addressing very large datasets, likely AI applications.
Scientists Develop Algorithms to Study Genomic Data
UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, June 28, 2022
A multi-institutional team of researchers led by the University…From The Eponymous Pickle
NIST Tracks Software for Investigations
Broader than just software related aspects it seems, digital files in any criminal investigation, will this lead to privacy objections?
NIST Update to Software Reference Library Will Aid Criminal Investigations
NIST, June…From The Eponymous Pickle
TikTok a Dangerous Risk?
Following up on this. My guess it would be very hard now to get significant number of folks to delete it.
Is TikTok Seriously Dangerous—Do You Need To Delete It?
Zak Doffman, Contributor, I cover security and surveillance and…From insideHPC
DOE Awards 18M HPC Node Hours to 45 ASCR Projects, Including Access to Perlmutter, Polaris and Frontier
June 29, 2022 – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that 18 million node-hours have been awarded to 45 scientific projects under the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge…
From insideHPC
MLPerf: Latest Results Highlight ‘More Capable ML Training’
Open engineering consortium MLCommons has released new results from MLPerf Training v2.0, which measures how fast various platforms train machine learning models. The organizations said the latest MLPerf Training results “demonstrate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards a Quantum Circuit
Considerable step?
Huge Step Forward in Quantum Computing Announced: The First-Ever Quantum Circuit
By ScienceAlert, June 23, 2022
The final quantum chip contained 10 quantum dots, each made up of a small number of phosphorus atoms…From insideHPC
HPE Launches ProLiant Servers Using Ampere Chips
LAS VEGAS – June 28, 2022 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) said it is the first major server provider to deliver a new line of cloud-native compute solutions using Arm processors from Ampere. The HPE serveers are designed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robotic Lightning Bugs
Small robotics again.
Robotic Lightning Bugs Take Flight
MIT News, Adam Zewe, June 21, 2022
Fireflies inspired researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and China's Ningxia University to build flying, light…From The Eponymous Pickle
Testing Autonomous Trucks for Supply Chain in US
Look for this on US roads during tests. Ultimately a supply chain improvement. How much further will this expand? Safety implications?
Sweden's Einride to Test Autonomous Trucks on U.S. Roads
The Wall Street Journal
LizThe…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Translates Math Problems into Code
Useful Direction.
AI Translates Math Problems into Code to Make Them Easier to Solve
New Scientist, Alex Wilkins, June 6, 2022
Google's Yuhuai Wu and colleagues used the Codex neural network of artificial intelligence (AI) research…From insideHPC
DOE Document Reveals Next-Gen Supercomputing Strategy: A Move to More Modular, Rapid Upgrade Cycles
Less than a month after its Frontier supercomputer broke the exascale performance barrier and was named the no. 1 system in the world, the U.S. Department of Energy has issued an RFI revealing its strategic thinking for its next…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Guided Robotics Sort Recyclables
Previously mentioned, more detail:
AI-GUIDED ROBOTS ARE READY TO SORT YOUR RECYCLABLES in Spectrum IEEE
Computer-vision systems use shapes, colors, and even labels to identify materials at superhuman speeds
The Amp Cortex, a highspeed…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Looking at assembly code with gdb
Most of us write code using higher level languages (Go, C++), but if you want to understand the code that matters to your processor, you need to look at the ‘assembly’ version of your code. Assembly is a just a series of instructions…
From insideHPC
Registration Open for Aug. 2-4 RMACC HPC Symposium
June 28, 2022, BOULDER, CO – Registration is underway for the 12th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium, August 2-4. To register, learn more about the symposium and…
From Computational Complexity
A Gadget for 3-Colorings
Following up on Bill's post earlier this week on counting the number of 3-colorings, Steven Noble emailed us with some updated information. The first proof that counting 3-colorings is #P-complete is in a 1986 paper by Nati Linial…
From insideHPC
TACC Announces Frontera Fellows Cohort for 2022-2023
The Texas Advanced Computer Center (TACC) has welcomed its Frontera Computational Science Fellowship awardees for 2022-2023. The program provides a year-long opportunity for talented graduate students to compute on the Frontera…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking at the Current stats of Remote Work
Good look at US remote work stats.
92 million US workers now have the opportunity to work remotely: survey
58 percent can work from home at least part-time, 35 percent full-time
By Thomas Ricker@Trixxy in theVerge
58 percent of“After…From insideHPC
CGG Launches HPC and Cloud Solutions Business under Former Atos Executive Agnès Boudot
Paris, Jun 28, 2022 — CGG announced today the creation of a new HPC & Cloud Solutions business, under the leadership of former Atos executive Agnès Boudot, who will report to the CEO and joined the company’s executive team on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lego-Like AI Chips
Note integration of sensor elements.
Engineers Build LEGO-Like AI Chip By MIT News,June 21, 2022
An international team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed an artificial intelligence…From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlocking Metaverse, with Games
Thinking Games and more.Whats the best experience?
Unlocking the Metaverse: New Opportunities in Games Infrastructure in Future.com
James Gwertzman
You install that new Parkour game that everyone’s talking about, and instantly…From The Eponymous Pickle
Navigating Inflation
From insideHPC
Red Hat Joins HPE GreenLake Ecosystem
LAS VEGAS – June 27, 2022 – At HPE Discover 2022,, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced its long-time partner, Red Hat is joining the HPE GreenLake ecosystem. The companies will work together to combine new HPE IT…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Complexity of a Knot
Saw this measure come up in addressing complexity.
How Complex Is a Knot? New Proof Reveals Ranking System That Works.
“Ribbon concordance” will let mathematicians compare knots by linking them across four-dimensional space.
Leila…From The Eponymous Pickle
Scrubbing Social Media
Can see this happening. It also means that that hiring companies can enforce their belief in that is right. Especially among those whose beliefs differ strongly. Dangerous.
How Students Are Scrubbing Their Social Media Profiles…