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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
Introducing the Amazon Care Hub
Brought to my attention, a system that works with existing Amazon devices. Part of the Alexa App. No additional cost. Which lets you follow the activities of people...
From insideHPC
At SC20: Fugaku Extends HPC Top500 Lead, Benchmarks 2 ExaFLOPS on HPC-AI; Summit, Sierra Nos. 2 and 3; China at Nos. 4 and 6
The Arm-based Fugaku supercomputer, residing at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan, solidified the lead it seized in June atop the Top500 listAt...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seoul Goes Drone for Delivery
Looks to be a long step forward. with advances getting more autonomous. Drone Taxis, Bags of Rice Take Flight in Downtown SeoulBloomberg By Youkyung LeeAn autonomous...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Researchers unveil massive analysis of online hate & counter-speech
The following was adapted from this Santa Fe blog post. At a recent presentation at the Science Writers 2020 conference, Joshua Garland and Mirta Galesic of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Origami Inspired Grip
Enjoy the inspiration of origami in design and modeling interaction. An origami-inspired robotic fingertip with shape-morphing capabilities by Ingrid Fadelli...
From insideHPC
At SC20: Penguin Computing Unveils HPC, AI & Analytics, Cloud and Data Solutions
Penguin Computing today announces a series of solutions and four technology practices designed to help organizations modernize their enterprises with emerging technologies...
From insideHPC
At SC20: Bright Computing Launches HPC Cluster Manager 9.1
Today, Bright Computing, a specialist in Linux cluster automation and management software for HPC and machine learning, announced the latest version of Bright Cluster...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power Apps for Teams
Like to see this direction, not only as a means to interact, share data and improve collaboration, but Apps that will address particular inefficiencies that already...
From insideHPC
HPC Computational Research at New England Colleges on Display at SC20
Holyoke, MA, Nov. 16, 2020 – Computational research at New England colleges and universities will be on display during SC20, the largest conference in high performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Garage Drop Off Examined Again
Another area we experimented with in the innovation center, and even talked to Amazon about. Thought it had been discarded, but its back. With discussion atAre...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Blockchain e-Voting a Solution to Elections?
Blockchain Voting. In Coindesk. New MIT Paper Roundly Rejects Blockchain Voting as Solution to Election Woes By Benjamin PowersAs media outlets waited to announce...
From Schneier on Security
On Blockchain Voting
Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze: Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? Glad you...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GMail Morphs Again
Been a user of GMail since our megacompany included it as an option in the very beginning. It has continued to morph in ways that were often disturbing and less...
From insideHPC
AMD Says New GPU Surpasses 10TFLOPS for HPC Acceleration
AMD today announced the new Instinct MI100 accelerator, which the company said is the first x86 server GPU to surpass 10 teraflops (FP64) performance. Built onAMD...
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: Fraunhofer’s Dr. Daniel Grünewald Talks GaspiLS, a Scalable Linear Solver Library for the Exascale Age
At Virtual SC20, Dr. Daniel Grünewald of the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany updated us on GaspiLS, a scalable linear solver library that the institute says isAt...
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC: HPE CTO Michael Woodacre Talks Progress toward Exascale and How HPC & AI Work in Tandem to Fight Disease
At Virtual SC20, we caught up with HPE’s Michael Woodacre, HPE Fellow and chief technology officer of HPC & Mission Critical Systems, who updated us on the company...
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: Bright Computing Talks the ‘New Era of HPC,’ Bright Cluster Manager 9.1 and Cluster-as-a-Service
We caught up at Virtual SC20 with two of Bright Computing’s senior execs, CEO Bill Wagner and CTO Martijn de Vries. Bright is a maker of software for deployingAt...
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: Catching up with Penguin Computing’s Expanding HPC Reach
At Virtual SC20, we checked in with Penguin Computing Chief Strategy Officer Matt Jacobs, who is helping guide the company’s rapidly expanding reach, encompassing...
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: How to Build a Supercomputer – Supermicro Showcases 3 LLNL HPC Clusters
At Virtual SC20, we sat down with Mike Scriber, he’s Supermicro’s senior director, server solution management, to talk about three supercomputing clusters the company...
From insideHPC