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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
Fall 2021 Jobs Post
We're in the midst of a great transformation in computing, one where data takes center stage and I predict this will start to have a larger effect on hiring indrop...
From The Eponymous Pickle
There is no AI without Data
Right, we agree, there is even much data in our brain generated by contextual experience, no? Read it or learn it. But always consider the context. Reading...
From insideHPC
SiPearl to Incorporate Intel Ponte Vecchio GPUs for European Exascale
SiPearl, designing the microprocessor for European supercomputers, today announced it will incorporate Intel’s forthcoming “Ponte Vecchio” GPU, along with Intel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nobelium Cyberattacks Clouds
Note below, attacks on cloud services. Microsoft comments. Latest Russian Cyberattack Targeting Hundreds of U.S. NetworksReuters, By Susan Heavey. October 25,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Invests in Quantum Machines
More on this move, has to be serious.Qualcomm Ventures Invests in Quantum Machines to Power the Future of Quantum ComputingTEL AVIV, Israel, Oct. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire...
From insideHPC
TACC Adopts Intel oneAPI for Remote Visual Analysis
The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin reports it is using the Intel oneAPI Rendering Toolkit for remote analysis capabilities...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
In C, how do you know if the dynamic allocation succeeded?
In the C programming language, we allocate memory dynamically (on the heap) using the malloc function. You pass malloc a size parameter corresponding to the number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
600 KM Quantum Encryption Transmission
Recently studied a company doing something similar, over considerably less distance. Will this continue to expand? Implications? Quantum-Encrypted Information...
From insideHPC
AWS Announces GA of Habana Labs-powered EC2 DL1 Instances
SEATTLE– Oct. 26, 2021– AWS has announced general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) DL1 instances designed for training machine learning...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
In C++, is empty() faster than comparing the size with zero?
Most C++ programmers rely on “STL” for their data structures. The most popular data structure is probably vector, which is just a dynamic array. The set and the...
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale: Guiding the Construction of Frontier’s Mechanical Systems
In this episode of the Let's Talk Exascale podcast, David Grant, high performance computing engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, talks with the lab's Scott...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NATO Releases first ever Strategy for AI
Was a bit surprised at this, will review. Mentioned are related ethics. Cooperative approaches. Indicates a level of seriousness. Have worked with some NATO...
From insideHPC
Secure Petabyte Transportable Storage for the Rugged Edge
In this sponsored post, Braden Cooper, Product Marketing Manager at One Stop Systems, discusses how OSS uses the latest in NVMe storage technologies and ruggedSecure...
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Partners with University of Oklahoma
Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma (OU) recently executed a memorandum of understanding to officially recognize their partnership in pursuing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court Decisions
An aspect hat we examined for potential changes in court standings on regulations. Well worth following. Risk Assessment Algorithms Can Unfairly Impact Court ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creating and Detecting Manipulated Images
Creating and human detection of manipulated images. Including an excellent explanatory video. Expect this to become increasingly common. Considerable detail...
From insideHPC
Los Alamos Names 3 Athena Engineering Scholars
The Athena Engineering Scholars Program is designed to inspire women to achieve their full potential as future leaders in engineering. The Athena Program is open...
From insideHPC
AMD to Showcase New EPYC and Instinct Data Center Chips at Nov. 8 Virtual Event
AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) will host its Accelerated Data Center premiere on Monday, Nov. 8 at 11 am ET, showcasing the company’s upcoming EPYC CPU processors and Instinct...
From My Biased Coin
How to send a real number using a single bit (and some shared randomness)
In this post, we'll look at the natural problem of how to communicate an estimate of a real value in [0,1], using just 1 bit. The post is based on this paper (by...
From The Eponymous Pickle