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List of Old NSA Training Videos
From Schneier on Security

List of Old NSA Training Videos

The NSA’s “National Cryptographic School Television Catalogue” from 1991 lists about 600 COMSEC and SIGINT training videos. There are a bunch explaining the operations...

Compressing floating-point numbers quickly by converting them to brain floats
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Compressing floating-point numbers quickly by converting them to brain floats

We sometimes have to work a large quantity of floating-point numbers. This volume can be detrimental to performance. Thus we often want to compress these numbers...

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240902: Nvidia and Blackwell Hit Limits, Revved-Up AI Inference and Oncoming Regulations, HPC in Russia
From insideHPC

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240902: Nvidia and Blackwell Hit Limits, Revved-Up AI Inference and Oncoming Regulations, HPC in Russia

Happy Labor Day to you!  From the world of HPC-AI, we offer a rapid (5:57) review of recent news, including: Nvidia and Blackwell push technology's limits, bigHPC...

SQL Injection Attack on Airport Security
From Schneier on Security

SQL Injection Attack on Airport Security

Interesting vulnerability: …a special lane at airport security called Known Crewmember (KCM). KCM is a TSA program that allows pilots and flight attendants toVarious...

From Computational Complexity

Six degrees of separation has been proven. Really?

There is a paper (see here for an article about the paper, the link to the paper itself is later) that claims to PROVE that, on average, the distance (for someMy...

Friday Squid Blogging: Economic Fallout from Falklands Halting Squid Fishing
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Economic Fallout from Falklands Halting Squid Fishing

Details. Blog moderation policy.

NTT: All-Photonics Network Activated between Taiwan and Japan
From insideHPC

NTT: All-Photonics Network Activated between Taiwan and Japan

NTT Corp. and Chunghwa Telecom announced they have activated the first all-photonics network between Taiwan and Japan with approximately 17 msec on an approximately...

CCC Weekly Computing News: NSF and NIH to Hold AI and Menopause Workshop
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Weekly Computing News: NSF and NIH to Hold AI and Menopause Workshop

In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity to attend a workshop centered around Artificial Intelligence (AI) and...

Hallucinating a Post-Search World
From The Noisy Channel

Hallucinating a Post-Search World

When I first heard about 3D printing, I imagined something like a Star Trek replicator that could synthesize arbitrary objects — or at least meals — on demand.generative...

Bounding the probability of harm from an AI to create a guardrail
From Yoshua Bengio

Bounding the probability of harm from an AI to create a guardrail

As we move towards more powerful AI, it becomes urgent to better understand the risks, ideally in a mathematically rigorous and quantifiable way, and use… L’article...

NSF Issues $39M in Quantum Science and Engineering Grants
From insideHPC

NSF Issues $39M in Quantum Science and Engineering Grants

Aug. 29, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $39 million to help grow quantum research activities at U.S. institutions through the NSF Expanding...

Accenture Wins $75M AI Contract with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
From insideHPC

Accenture Wins $75M AI Contract with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 28, 2024 –  Accenture Federal Services has won a $75 million, five-year contract to scale the use of artificial intelligence and modernizeAccenture...

From Computational Complexity

My Quantum Summer

Rendering of PsiQuantum's facility in Chicago I wasn't looking for quantum this summer but it found me. At various events I ran into some of the most recognized...

CCC Council Member Weisong Shi Awarded Two NSF Grants for Autonomous Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Council Member Weisong Shi Awarded Two NSF Grants for Autonomous Research

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that council member Weisong Shi was awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...

CIQ Releases Fuzzball Computing and Data Management Platform for HPC and AI
From insideHPC

CIQ Releases Fuzzball Computing and Data Management Platform for HPC and AI

RENO, Nev. — August 28, 2024 —  Software infrastructure company CIQ today released the Fuzzball computing and data management platform for performance-intensive...

AWS Parallel Computing Service Available for HPC, Scientific Computing
From insideHPC

AWS Parallel Computing Service Available for HPC, Scientific Computing

SEATTLE–Aug. 28, 2024– Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Parallel Computing...

Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference v4.1 Benchmark for Generative AI
From insideHPC

Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference v4.1 Benchmark for Generative AI

Today, MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performanceNvidia...

TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System
From insideHPC

TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System

Aug. 26, 2024 — The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced it has chosen Sabey Data Centers (SDC Austin) as its colocation...

London: Celebrating Science – free event (with @CS4FN) tomorrow (Thur 29th) at Centre of the Cell
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

London: Celebrating Science – free event (with @CS4FN) tomorrow (Thur 29th) at Centre of the Cell

CS4FN is taking part in the Centre of the Cell's "Celebrating Science" family-friendly event in Whitechapel, London tomorrow afternoon 12-4pm (free).

Cerebras Claims  Fastest AI Inference
From insideHPC

Cerebras Claims Fastest AI Inference

AI compute company Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is the fastest AI inference solution. Cerebras Inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3...
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