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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
Inverting a Function
With the STOC deadline this last Monday, a number of complexity papers have appeared on arXiV and ECCC. Two caught my eye because they seem to independently prove...
From insideHPC
Accelerating AI Inference for High-throughput Experiments
An upgrade to the ALCF AI Testbed will help accelerate data-intensive experimental research. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) AI Testbed—which...
From Schneier on Security
Leaving Authentication Credentials in Public Code
Seth Godin wrote an article about a surprisingly common vulnerability: programmers leaving authentication credentials and other secrets in publicly accessible software...
From insideHPC
The Future-Proofed Datacenter: DDC Delivers 85kW Air-Cooled Density for AI and HPC Workloads
At DDC, the global leader in scalable datacenter-to-edge solutions, we are taking an innovative approach to building new and retrofitting legacy datacenters. Today...
From insideHPC
Azure VMs with AMD MI300 GPU Accelerators at Microsoft Conference
Nov. 15, 2023 -- Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured AMD products, including the upcoming Instinct MI300X GPU accelerator, EPYCAzure...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: How some companies get it right
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It") How do some companies...
From insideHPC
Panasas PanFS 10 AI/HPC Hybrid Storage Management
Denver, November 13, 2023 – Panasas, a leading data solutions provider for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), today introduced PanFS...
From insideHPC
DarkByte Teams with HPE on AI Cloud
Nov. 14, 2023 — DarkByte will host its AI cloud powered by renewable energy using sources including solar, batteries, hydro, and nanotech – helping to define new...
From Schneier on Security
New SSH Vulnerability
This is interesting: For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH...
From insideHPC
Classiq Announces Quantum Center for Life Sciences with NVIDIA
TEL AVIV, November 13, 2023 — Quantum software pioneer Classiq today unveiled a new industry initiative, the Quantum Computing for Life Sciences & Healthcare Center...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the AI Summit New York on December 6, 2023. The list is maintained on this page...
From insideHPC
Altair Announces Altair HPCWorks 2024
TROY, Mich., Nov. 14, 2023 — Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced significant upgrades to...
From insideHPC
At SC23: Immersive Virtual Reality on Display at Dell Technologies Booth 625, Come and Experience It
When HPC and AI converge remarkable things can result, and one of them is on display on the floor of the SC23 conference here in Denver at the Dell Technologies...
From Schneier on Security
How .tk Became a TLD for Scammers
Sad story of Tokelau, and how its top-level domain “became the unwitting host to the dark underworld by providing a never-ending supply of domain names that could...
From insideHPC
Supercomputer Fugaku Retains First Place in HPCG and Graph500 Rankings
Tokyo, November 14, 2023 — The supercomputer Fugaku, jointly developed by the RIKEN Center for Computational Science and Fujitsu, has retained the top spot forSupercomputer...
From insideHPC
A New Day for the TOP500: Aurora No. 2 at 585 PFlops, 4 New Top 10 Entrants, Frontier Still No. 1
Denver -- Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, along with significant...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Views and Insights on the New TOP500 List
The big news on the Monday of each annual Supercomputing Conference is the release of the new TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. At this...
From insideHPC
AMD-based HPC Systems on TOP500 Grows 39%
SANTA CLARA, Calif., — Nov. 14, 2023 — Today, AMD said its microprocessors now power 140 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list, representing a 39 percent year...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces HGX H200 Systems and Cloud Instances
DENVER—SC23—Nov. 13, 2023—NVIDIA today announced the HGX H200 that is based on the Hopper architecture and features the H200 Tensor Core GPU with advanced memory...
From insideHPC