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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
Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World
The Exascale Era began in spring 2022 when the Top500 list certified that the HPE-AMD Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory had broken through...
From insideHPC
n2 Group Acquires Managed Services Company X-ISS
Oxford, UK – 17 October 2024 – n2 Group, a computing technology investment company, announces the acquisition of high-performance computing (HPC) and AI specialists...
From Computational Complexity
Computing and the Nobels
Herb Simon Herbert Simon while a political scientist in the 1940s at my institution, the Illinois Institute of Technology, developed the theory of bounded rationality...
From Schneier on Security
Cheating at Conkers
The men’s world conkers champion is accused of cheating with a steel chestnut.
From insideHPC
IQM Selected for 2 Quantum Computers for Euro-Q-Exa Hybrid System at LRZ
Munich, 16th October 2024 – The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a purchase agreement with IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a maker of superconducting...
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Women in High Performance Computing and ISC Group Extend Partnership for 2025
Bicester, UK—Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) and ISC Group announced the continuation of their partnership in advance of ISC 2025, scheduled for June...
From insideHPC
Altair Announces Aerospace Collaboration with Motivo
TROY, Mich., October 15, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced a collaboration with Motivo, a product engineering firm focused on translating forward-thinkingAltair...
From insideHPC
Dell AI Factory Offers New Cooling, High Density Compute and AI Storage
Round Rock, TEXAS – October 15, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) introduced integrated rack-scalable systems, server, storage and data management innovations...
From Schneier on Security
More Details on Israel Sabotaging Hezbollah Pagers and Walkie-Talkies
The Washington Post has a long and detailed story about the operation that’s well worth reading (alternate version here). The sales pitch came from a marketing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Table lookups are efficient
When optimizing small functions, I often rely on a table lookup: I replace the actual computation with table of precomputed values. It is often surprisingly efficient...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at SOSS Fusion 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The event will be held on Octoberthis...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Best Practices for Conference Submission and Policy Review Whitepaper Teaser
In July 2024, the Computing Research Association Working Group on Socially Responsible Computing Subcommittee on Best Practices for Conference released a whitepaper...
From Schneier on Security
Perfectl Malware
Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations...
From Computational Complexity
A Trip Down Memory Lane: Desc comp, Constant Round Sorting, Division Breakthrough, Derandomization.
I came across (by accident) the link to all of the BEATCS complexity columns from 1987 to the 2016. See HERE. (If you know a link to a more recent webpage then...
From Schneier on Security
Indian Fishermen Are Catching Less Squid
Fishermen in Tamil Nadu are reporting smaller catches of squid. Blog moderation policy.
From Schneier on Security
More on My AI and Democracy Book
In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are...
From Schneier on Security
IronNet Has Shut Down
After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet...
From insideHPC
HPE Launches ProLiant System Powered by AMD for AI
HOUSTON – October 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 for complex AI model training tasks, poweredHPE...
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Adds AMD-Powered PowerEdge Servers
San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) expanded it generative AI (GenAI) solutions portfolio with Dell AI Factory additions tailored forDell...
From insideHPC