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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 The Eponymous Pickle
What makes Quantum Computing so Hard to Understand
Yes, when I first took an advanced physics course I ran into this. Physics is a very strictly well ruled thing, with 'constants' of all sorts. So if you remember...
From Computational Complexity
A Young Person's Game?
When László Babai first announced his graph isomorphism in quasipolynomial time result, I wroteWe think of theory as a young person's game, most of the big breakthroughs...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electromobility and the German Electric Grid
Having recently been reading about models of the US electrical grid, so made me think of how such mobility will be handled. How much more infrastructure? Learnings...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome from the ACM-W Chair
Welcome to a new year of ACM-W activity! This promises to be a year of much transition and change on many fronts.
From insideHPC
2 Univ. of Minnesota Professors Win SC21 Test of Time Award
Oct. 13, 2021 — The annual SC Test of Time Award (ToTA) goes to George Karypis and Vipin Kumar of the University of Minnesota for their paper “Multilevel Algorithms...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Calling a dynamically compiled function from Go
Compiled programming languages are typically much faster than interpreted programming language. Indeed, the compilation step produces “machine code” that is ideally...
From insideHPC
Sandia Researcher Drew Kouri Wins Early-Career Research Grant
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Working to solve a problem, supercomputing researchers may encounter incomplete data or flawed programs. For both issues, Sandia researcherSandia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GoDaddy Wants to Help Small Businesses Compete Using AI
Interesting idea here, will it be effective? GoDaddy wants to help small businesses compete using AI by 7wDataGoDaddy may not spring to mind as a developer of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Psychology of Panic Buying
Good article here. In Fortune. There might be ways to integrate the notion of control in consumer decision making? Never heard it mentioned in this way.The...
From insideHPC
Kinetica Database Now on Azure
October 12, 2021 – Database company Kinetica is now accessible as a service on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, designed to give organizations real-time contextual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Russia Exluded from Ransomware Summit
Is it useful to do this? Hard to say, but I think so, with the carrot being later involvement. Russia excluded from 30-country meeting to fight ransomware andBy...
From insideHPC
NXP Semiconductors Selects AWS for EDA
SEATTLE– Oct. 14, 2021 — Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that NXP Semiconductors N.V. has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider and is migrating...
From insideHPC
Comparing Price-performance of HPE GreenLake for HPC vs. the Public Cloud
[SPONSORED POST] In this article, Max Alt, Distinguished Technologist and Director, Hybrid HPC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. discusses some recent real-world tests...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Electric Materials
Quantum Electric Materials. Seems novel way to apply superconduction. Technical, with link to paper.New nanostructure could be the key to quantum electronics ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DeepMind Makes a Profit
Do we expect a leading edge research lab to make a profit?AI NewsDeepMind sees revenue jump and turns first ever profit By Fin Strathern | October 7, 2021Categories...
From insideHPC
Rambus Launches 5600 MT/s RCD Chip for DDR5 Memory Module Suppliers
SAN JOSE, Oct. 13, 2021 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a chip and silicon IP provider, today announced it is sampling its 5600 MT/s 2nd-generation RCD chip to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apptio and IBM for Enterprise Cloud Transformation
" ... supporting the client journey to the cloud that can help map aligning the optimal portfolio of cloud capabilities ... Apptio and IBM Announce Collaboration...
From The Noisy Channel
Balance Your Search Budget!
Search can be computationally intensive. Indeed, search has been the driving force behind many advances in computational efficiency, from MapReduce for distributed...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Expands GPU System Portfolio for AI, HPC, Cloud Workloads
SAN JOSE, Oct. 12, 2021 — Supermicro has announced new systems based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs and 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with built-in...
From insideHPC