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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
HPE Cray EX with AMD CPUs-GPUs to Deliver 552PFLOPS for Finland’s CSC
The HPE-AMD supercomputing tandem has had a bang-out week for systems wins and installations – and it’s only Wednesday. On Monday, Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extending Insight from Neural Networks
Some thoughts about how trained networks can be used to further analyse chemical structure.Opening the Black Box of Neural NetworksPacific Northwest National Laboratory...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driverless in San Francisco
And yet more cars without drivers. A tipping point?GM to Run Driverless Cars in San Francisco Without Human Backups Associated Press, Tom KrisherGeneral...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Wants Your Ideas! Requesting Future Topics for the NSF Convergence Accelerator
The following is an announcement from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The NSF Convergence Accelerator issued a Dear Colleague Letter (NSF-21-012): Request...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SpaceX and Microsoft
Here Comes the Space Cloud. Faster anywhere, even in space. Microsoft, SpaceX Team Up to Bring Cloud Computing to SpaceNextgov. Frank KonkelMicrosoft has partnered...
From insideHPC
SoftIron Appoints Greg Bruno Chief Architect
San Diego – Oct. 21, 2020 – SoftIron Ltd., the leader in task-specific data center solutions, continues on its growth trajectory in both technical and geographic...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Advisory on Chinese Government Hacking
The NSA released an advisory listing the top twenty-five known vulnerabilities currently being exploited by Chinese nation-state attackers. This advisory provides...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hewlett Foundation on Security Cyber Design
Been a long while since I looked at anything by the Hewlett Foundation. Attended their meetings. Now back connected. Visuals are a good thing for communication...
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Expanding AI's Impact with Organizational Learning
I participated in the below study, they make the point that it will be available only for a short time. Here is the start of the document:MIT Sloan: EXPANDINGMost...
From insideHPC
Practical Hardware Design Strategies for Modern HPC Workloads – Part 2
This special research report sponsored by Tyan discusses practical hardware design strategies for modern HPC workloads. As hardware continued to develop, technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sonos Makes a Small Smart Home Move
Not expected, intriguing. Hoping to compete with other players in the space?Sonos speakers can now communicate with GE AppliancesThey can notify you when the oven...
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API Security
Pointed out to me recently. Have not been involved in API security, seems there are useful tips here.Tips To Strengthen API Security By Bill Doerrfeld in DevOps...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Attend the Upcoming Departmental BPC Plan Workshop Starting on October 29
The following is a guest blog from BPCnet.org Resource Portal. The Computing Research Association (CRA) is hosting the third workshop in its series of Departmental...
From insideHPC
Los Alamos Stands up HPE Cray EX for COVID-19 Fight
Los Alamos National Laboratory reported it has completed the installation of “Chicoma,” based on AMD EPYC CPUs and the HPE Cray EX supercomputer architecture. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bletchley Park Contribution Over-Rated?
Am a student of this effort, so this suggestion was surprising.Bletchley Park’s contribution to WW2 'over-rated'By Gordon Corera, Security correspondentCode-breaking...
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A GPU can Brute Force Your Passwords
Faster GPUs are eroding security. Using a password manager, which give you a larger number of characters, and/or a multifactor link up makes much sense. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Focus Music
Amazon Alexa Music has been pushing what they call 'Focus Time Music' With claims for 'perfect sound when you are studying, working, reading or writing '. They...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Ridiculously fast unicode (UTF-8) validation
One of the most common “data type” in programming is the text string. When programmers think of a string, they imagine that they are dealing with a list or an array...
From insideHPC
Atos Wins Northumbrian Water Cloud Computing Transformation project
London, 20 October 2020 – Atos has been awarded a leading role on a new cloud computing initiative to help deliver operational efficiencies and enhance customer...
From The Eponymous Pickle