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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 …
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Europe, Seeking HPC and AI Autonomy, Launches €240M DARE Project
A €240 million project has been launched to promote HPC and AI autonomy in Europe. The Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, Special Agreement 1 (DARE SGA1) project...
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Sandia Names Laura McGill Labs Director
Laura McGill will become Sandia’s 17th Labs director, effective May 1. McGill, who has served as deputy Labs director for Nuclear Deterrence and chief technology...
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GE Vernova and AWS Announce Agreement on Data Center Energy Demand
CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 4, 2025 – GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) and Amazon Web Services today announced a strategic framework agreement (SFA) to electrify and decarbonize...
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HighPoint Announces UBM/VPP Support for PCIe Gen5 and 2nd-Gen Gen4 NVMe Adapter Families
March 6, 2025 — HighPoint Technologies announced the availability of customizable UBM (Universal Backplane Management)/VPP (Virtual Presence and Power) firmware...
From Schneier on Security
The Combined Cipher Machine
Interesting article—with photos!—of the US/UK “Combined Cipher Machine” from WWII.
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Axelera AI Wins up to EuroHPC €61.6M Grant for AI Chiplet Development
March 06, 2024 – Eindhoven, Netherlands: AI hardware maker Axelera AI has unveiled Titania, which the company described as a high-performance, low-power and scalable...
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Ceramic.ai Emerges from Stealth, Reports 2.5x Faster Model Training
SAN FRANCISCO — March 5, 2025 — Ceramic.ai emerged from stealth today with software for foundation model training infrastructure designed to enable enterprisesCeramic...
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SCHEDULE VAST GTC RELEASE FOR 1PM PT ON TUESDAY, MARCH 18
VAST Data and NVIDIA Announce Enterprise-Ready AI Stack via VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA DGX Meet the industry’s first secure full-stack system for real-timeSCHEDULE...
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Fluidstack and Eclairion to Deliver 18K GPU Supercomputer in France
AI cloud platform Fluidstack and Eclairion, a French maker of modular, high-density data centers, have partnered to build what the companies said is Europe’s largest...
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Argonne: ATPESC 2025 Applications Due Today
The deadline to take part in ATPESC, the 13th Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, at Argonne is today. ATPESC will be held from Sunday, July 27...
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VDURA Launches All-Flash NVMe V5000 for AI Factories and GPU Clouds
MILPITAS, CA – March 4, 2025 – VDURA, an AI and high-performance computing data infrastructure company, today announced the launch of its V5000 All-Flash Appliance...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Maja Matarić, Previous CCC Council Member, Elected to the National Academies of Engineering
The National Academies of Engineering (NAE) recently announced their newly elected members list, and among the many distinguished new members is previous CCC Council...
From Computational Complexity
Taking a Stand
On February 20th we got the news from the National Science Foundation Algorithms Foundations Team that long-time NSF program director Tracy Kimbrel, was leaving...
From Schneier on Security
CISA Identifies Five New Vulnerabilities Currently Being Exploited
Of the five, one is a Windows vulnerability, another is a Cisco vulnerability. We don’t have any details about who is exploiting them, or how. News article. Slashdot...
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Spanish Government Announces €67M Investment in Multiverse Computing
The Spanish government announced Tuesday it will make a co-investment of 67 million euros in San Sebastian-based Multiverse Computing, developer of software inspired...
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Penguin Solutions Expands its AI Management Software Platform and Launches AI Service
Milpitas, Calif. – March 4, 2025 – Penguin Solutions, Inc. (Penguin Solutions; Nasdaq: PENG) today announced the expansion of its ICE ClusterWare software platform...
From Schneier on Security
Trojaned AI Tool Leads to Disney Hack
This is a sad story of someone who downloaded a Trojaned AI tool that resulted in hackers taking over his computer and, ultimately, costing him his job.
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TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Advanced Fabs, Packaging, R&D
TSMC today said it will expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. by an additional $100 billion. Building on the company’s ongoing...
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HPC News Bytes 20250303: DOGE and Fears at U.S. Science Agencies, Cat Qubits for AWS Quantum, GPUs vs. ASICs for AI Compute
A happy start to March to you! We offer a quick (8:28) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: DOGE-led government layoffs and funding disruptions...
From The Noisy Channel