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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
HPC System Analyst Jackie Scoggins Reflects on Her Time at NERSC
As part of cthe 50th anniversary celebrations for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), “In Their Own Words” is a Q&A series featuring...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: Join a Roundtable to Discuss the Next Grand Challenges in Computing
The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Grand Challenges task force is engaging in a new visioning activity to identify the next grand challenges that will shape...
From Computational Complexity
A Quantum State
Illinois' most famous citizen working on a quantum computer The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, unveiled his budget last week including $500 million for quantum...
From insideHPC
SambaNova Says its First with Trillion-Parameter GenAI Model
Feb. 28, 2024 — AI technology company SambaNova Systems said today its Samba-1 is the first 1 trillion (1T) parameter generative AI model. “This past fall, we announced...
From Schneier on Security
A Cyber Insurance Backstop
In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would...
From insideHPC
Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements...
From insideHPC
NTT and Red Hat Fuel AI Analysis at the Edge with IOWN Technologies
MWC BARCELONA – February 26, 2024 — As part of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) initiative, NTT Corporation (NTT) and Red Hat, Inc., in collaboration...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Alphabet? What alphabet?
I used to start a talk on internationalization of code with the question “How many letters are in the alphabet?” Once I had several people say “26” I would ask...
From insideHPC
DOE: E4S for Extreme-Scale Science Now Supports Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper GPUs
E4S, the open source Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack for HPC-AI scientific applications, now incorporates AI/ML libraries and expands GPU support to include...
From Schneier on Security
China Surveillance Company Hacked
Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese...
From Yoshua Bengio
Towards a Cautious Scientist AI with Convergent Safety Bounds
What can’t we afford with a future superintelligent AI? Among others, confidently wrong predictions about the harm that some actions could yield. Especially catastrophic...
From insideHPC
TSMC Opens JASM Chip Fab Subsidiary in Japan
KUMAMOTO, Japan, Feb. 24, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) held an opening ceremony for its majority-owned subsidiary Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing...
From insideHPC
Micron Announces Volume Production of HBM3E
BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 26, 2024 — Memory and storage company Micron Technology, Inc. today announced it has begun volume production of its HBM3E (High Bandwidth Memory...
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Launches New ClusterVisor Edition
KANSAS CITY, MO. (Feb. 23, 2024) – ClusterVisor, a HPC cluster management software solution from Advanced Clustering, is now available with a new edition that includes...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Expands Portfolio for 5G
San Jose and Barcelona — February 26, 2024 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a provider for AI, cloud, storage, and 5G/edge solutions, announced an expanded portfolio...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240226: Intel Foundry Bash, Nvidia Earnings and AI Inference, HPC in Space, ISC 2024
A happy Monday of Leap Year Week to you! We offer a rapid run-through of the latest in HPC-AI, including: Intel Foundry bash, Gelsinger talks up the “Systems Foundry...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Software for Justice
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (originally published in 2011) A jury is given misleading information in court by an expert witness. An innocent...
From Schneier on Security
Apple Announces Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms for iMessage
Apple announced PQ3, its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST...
From Computational Complexity
When is it worth the time and effort to verify a proof FORMALLY?
(This post was inspired by Lance's tweet and later post on part of IP=PSPACE being formally verified.) We now have the means to verify that a proof (prob just some...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog