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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
Oracle White Paper on Financial and Inventory for Retail
Interesting comparison, but do note the author.Oracle White paperUnifying Financials and Inventory for RetailWhy Retail Brands are Moving from QuickBooks to NetSuite...
From insideHPC
European SiPearl Startup Licenses Arm for First-Generation Microprocessor
Today SiPearl, the company that is designing the high-performance, low-power microprocessor for the European exascale supercomputer, has signed a major technological...
From insideHPC
BittWare Introduces New TeraBox FPGA Accelerated Edge Server
Today BittWare introduced their new TeraBox 200DE edge server. The TeraBox series of certified server platforms feature the latest FPGA accelerators enabling customers...
From insideHPC
AMD and Penguin Computing Upgrade Corona Supercomputer to fight COVID-19
Today Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Penguin Computing, and AMD announced an agreement to upgrade the Lab’s unclassified Corona HPC cluster with AMD Instinct...
From insideHPC
New Weka AI framework to accelerate Edge to Core to Cloud Data Pipelines
Today WekaIO introduced Weka AI, a transformative storage solution framework underpinned by the Weka File System (WekaFS) that enables accelerated edge-to-core-to...
From insideHPC
Video: Heterogeneous Computing at the Large Hadron Collider
In this video, Philip Harris from MIT presents: Heterogeneous Computing at the Large Hadron Collider. "Only a small fraction of the 40 million collisions per second...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Its Now Free to Sell on Google
This struck me, A way to more directly compete with Amazon? Implications for that and for retail in general?Its now Free to Sell on GoogleBill Ready on The Google...
From Schneier on Security
Another Story of Bad 1970s Encryption
This one is from the Netherlands. It seems to be clever cryptanalysis rather than a backdoor. The Dutch intelligence service has been able to read encrypted communications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ACM Reports Best Practices for Virtual Conferences
Nicely done, details at the link. Taking a look.ACM Reports Best Practices for Virtual ConferencesHPCwireApril 16, 2020A new report from ACM outlines best practices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
News from the Grocery Supply Chain
Been watching indications in the Grocery and general retail supply chain, so far, except for might be called illogical hoarding, things are going well. Suppliers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Officially Part of China's Tech Strategy
Meaning?Blockchain Now Officially Part of China’s Technology StrategyBy Paddy Baker in CoinDeskAn influential government authority responsible for planning China's...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Next Generation Computer Hardware
Computing technologies have revolutionized the world, from how we grow food to our social interactions. At the core of this revolution is computing hardware, the...
From insideHPC
Update on the HPC AI Advisory Council
In this video, Gilad Shainer from the HPC AI Advisory Council describes how this organization fosters innovation in the high performance computing community. "The...
From insideHPC
Dan Martin from Berkeley Lab takes on new role at Exascale Computing Project
The DOE Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Dan Martin, a computational scientist and group lead for the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group in Berkeley Lab...
From Computational Complexity
The Summer Virtual Conference Season
Both STOC and Complexity have announced they will go virtual for the summer. ICALP moved from Beijing to Stuttgart to online. I expect every major summer conference...
From insideHPC
Time Lapse Video: Building the Attaway Supercomputer at Sandia
In this time lapse video, technicians build the new Attaway supercomputer from Penguin Computing at Sandia National Labs. In November 2019, the Attaway was #94Time...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Protecting Control Systems from Hackers
Was asked to produce a comment on this area, previously mentioned, probably one of the most important aspects of advanced infrastructure.New Approach Could Protect...
From The Noisy Channel
Opportunity Analysis for Search
I’m a big fan of opportunity analysis. I’ve seen far too many organizations underinvest in opportunity analysis and thus waste enormous — and avoidable — effort...
From insideHPC
Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 2
Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing...
From Schneier on Security