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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 insideHPC
NERSC Honors 8 Early Career Scientists with Annual HPC Achievement Awards
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) recently announced the recipients of its annual High Performance Computing Achievement Awards,NERSC...
From insideHPC
Atom Computing Unveils 1st-Gen Quantum System; Names New CEO after Closing $15M Series A Round
July 21, 2021 — Berkeley, CA — Atom Computing, a fast-growing quantum computing start-up announces its transition into the next phase of growth after closing $15M...
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Quantum Software Developer Classiq Technologies Forms Advisory Board
Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL — July 20, 2021 — Quantum computing software developer Classiq Technologies announced today that two leading researchers in quantum computingQuantum...
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Energy Secretary Recognizes Los Alamos Project Management for Exascale Class Computer Cooling Project
The team responsible for managing the Exascale Class Computing Cooling Equipment (ECCCE) project at Los Alamos National Laboratory was recognized by the Secretary...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Strategy to Understand Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Below, Ajit Jaokar puts together an Excellent introductory newsletter post (here one of many, join his newsletter for much more) To get all the text and all...
From insideHPC
Double-precision CPUs vs. Single-precision GPUs; HPL vs. HPL-AI Benchmarks; Traditional vs. AI Supercomputers
If you’ve wondered why GPUs are faster than CPUs, in part it’s because they’re asked to do less – or, to be more precise, to be less precise. Next question: OK,...
From Schneier on Security
NSO Group Hacked
NSO Group, the Israeli cyberweapons arms manufacturer behind the Pegasus spyware — used by authoritarian regimes around the world to spy on dissidents, journalists...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paying Older Audience Attention
Brought to my attention, being in the older, more experienced audience myself, struck me as rarely paid attention to. Good first look at this kind of resource...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RiskIQ Joins Microsoft: Good
Risk is ultimately 'the thing'. Both in terms of analyzing how what you do is risky in various contexts. And also in terms of external threats that increase...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Logical Reasoning for ReClor Challenge
We used strictly logical reasoning in our early look at this space. This approach is well worth a look, links to paper and publication below. Technical.Microsoft...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Changes How Ads Track People Around the Internet
Had been reported on some time ago, devil will be in the details as they emerge in context, Google Totally Changing How Ads Track People Around the Internet By...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Miniature Spectrometer for a Smartphone
A description and a number of potential application from Fraunhofer, including but not limited to detecting counterfeit drugs and other products. We performed...
From insideHPC
Honeywell and Cambridge Quantum Claim 3 Milestones
BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 20, 2021 — Honeywell (Nasdaq: HON) and Cambridge Quantum today announced three scientific and technical milestones that they say demonstrate...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Pluses and Minuses of the Unary increment Operator
There has been a conversation on Twitter about the unary increment operator (++) and related (+=, –, etc.). I tend to gloss over these when teaching beginners....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hubble Fixed!
Consider the amount of knowledge and data involved! Great if this comes through. Also to the fact that such hardware and software can be remotely changed. ...
From insideHPC
Duality Quantum Accelerator Accepts 6 into Inaugural Cohort
Duality, the nation’s first accelerator exclusively for quantum companies, has accepted six startups for Cohort 1. Duality is led by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship...
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DOE Awards $3.7M for National Lab HPC Research for Energy Spplications
July 19, 2021 — The US Department of Energy (DOE) recently awarded $3.7 million for high performance computing (HPC) projects that address key challenges in USDOE...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Happened to Watson? Still here.
We were invited early on to work with Watson's prototype. But then it did clearly slow behind its stated expectations. Yet a number of things also came out...
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ALCF Developer Session: Inside the NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPU in ThetaGPU and Perlmutter
On Wednesday, July 28 at 11 am CT, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will present a developer session focused on utilization of the Nvidia Ampere A100 GPU...
From The Eponymous Pickle