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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Computational Complexity
The letter to recommend John Nash was ``The Best Recomendation Letter Ever''- I do not think so.
There is an article about the letter Richard Duffin wrote for John Nash that helped John Nash get into Princeton: here. The title of the article is The Best Recommendation...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Extinct Species of Vampire Squid Discovered
Paleontologists have discovered a 183-million-year-old species of vampire squid. Prior research suggests that the vampyromorph lived in the shallows off an island...
From insideHPC
NERSC Call for Proposals: Generative AI for Science, April 1 Deadline
NERSC is inviting proposals for projects that will leverage NERSC’s Perlmutter supercomputer to push the state of the art in Generative AI (GenAI) and deep learning...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Dominic Welsh, 1938–2023
My doctoral thesis advisor Geoffrey Grimmett source Dominic Welsh passed away last November 30th. He was my doctoral advisor 1981–86 at Merton College, Oxford University...
From insideHPC
AI Robotics Startup Attracting $675M from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Bezos
Start up robotics company Figure, founded in 2022 and based in Sunnyvale, CA, is in the process of attracting $675 million in venture funding from the likes ofAI...
From insideHPC
Registration for RMACC HPC Symposium Opens March 5
BOULDER, CO – Registration opens March 5th for the 14th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium, setRegistration...
From Schneier on Security
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
NIST has released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Framework: The CSF 2.0, which supports implementation of the National Cybersecurity Strategy, has an expanded...
From insideHPC
IT Survey: Multiple Hurdles for AI Implementation but Funding Is There
Implementation of AI has its own challenges, and according to a new survey, proving the value of AI solutions to businesses might be the biggest one. AccordingIT...
From insideHPC
Synopsys Says it Has First 1.6T Ethernet IP Solution for AI and Hyperscale Chips
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 29, 2023 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today delivered what it said is a dramatic increase in bandwidth and throughput for data-intensive...
From insideHPC
Green Mountain Data Centers to Host HPE AI and HPC in Norway
Norwegian data center company Green Mountain announced it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host high-demand artificial intelligence (AI) andGreen...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Report Released: Future of Pandemic Prevention and Response
CCC held a visioning workshop on the Future of Pandemic Response and Prevention in September 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was organized by the CCC Council’s...
From insideHPC
Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration
Riverlane and Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) today announced their participation in a project led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
From insideHPC
HPC System Analyst Jackie Scoggins Reflects on Her Time at NERSC
As part of cthe 50th anniversary celebrations for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), “In Their Own Words” is a Q&A series featuring...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: Join a Roundtable to Discuss the Next Grand Challenges in Computing
The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Grand Challenges task force is engaging in a new visioning activity to identify the next grand challenges that will shape...
From Computational Complexity
A Quantum State
Illinois' most famous citizen working on a quantum computer The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, unveiled his budget last week including $500 million for quantum...
From insideHPC
SambaNova Says its First with Trillion-Parameter GenAI Model
Feb. 28, 2024 — AI technology company SambaNova Systems said today its Samba-1 is the first 1 trillion (1T) parameter generative AI model. “This past fall, we announced...
From Schneier on Security
A Cyber Insurance Backstop
In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would...
From insideHPC
Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements...
From insideHPC