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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Four Ways Robotics Can Alleviate Long-Term Challenges in the US
The 2024 Robotics Roadmap, released on April 26, states that the United States, once a frontrunner in robotics innovation, now faces a critical juncture as it lags...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240617: Controlling AI, Big Tech Invests in Taiwan, A Step for Specialty AI Chips, Alternative Energy for AI Data Centers, Apple Silicon
A happy summer solstice week to you! The HPC-AI ecosystem produced a raft of news and insights over the past week, here’s a rapid (7:59) review: New paper in Science...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Introduces Hybrid Quantum Solver
PALO ALTO, Calif. – June 17, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) announced today at its Qubits 2024 user conference the launch of a new hybrid quantum solver...
From insideHPC
Qumulo Announces Azure Native Qumulo Benchmark Results
SEATTLE – June 17, 2024 – At-scale data management company Qumulo announced what it said is the industry’s fastest and most cost-effective cloud-native storageQumulo...
From Schneier on Security
Using LLMs to Exploit Vulnerabilities
Interesting research: “Teams of LLM Agents can Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities.” Abstract: LLM agents have become increasingly sophisticated, especially in the...
From Computational Complexity
Should Prover and Verifier have been Pat and Vanna?
LANCE: I had my first Quanta Article published! I explore computation, complexity, randomness and learning and feeling the machine.BILL: Feels to me like a mashup...
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Mary Ann Horton and the invention of email attachments
Edie Schlain Windsor was a senior systems programmer at IBM. There is more to life than computing though. She led the landmark US Supreme Court Case that was a...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Cartoon
Squid humor. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...
From insideHPC
The Growing Interest in On-Prem Quantum Computing
By Yuval Boger, QuEra Computing -- Companies and research institutions are leveraging early-stage quantum computers to experiment and serve as invaluable research...
From insideHPC
NCSA Names Chuck Pavloski Associate Director of Engagement
June 14, 2024 — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has named Chuck Pavloski, Ph.D., its new Associate Director of Engagement. The role was recently...
From insideHPC
DOE CSGF Announces Incoming 2024-25 Class
Ames, Iowa, June 14, 2024 — A record 40 students on the path to achieving doctorates in fields that emphasize use of computing and mathematics are now being welcomed...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m appearing on a panel on Society and Democracy at ACM Collective Intelligence in Boston, Massachusetts...
From Schneier on Security
Demo of AES GCM Misuse Problems
This is really neat demo of the security problems arising from reusing nonces with a symmetric cipher in GCM mode.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Rolling your own fast matrix multiplication: loop order and vectorization
If you must multiply matrices, you should use dedicated libraries. However, we sometimes need to roll our own code. In C++, you can quickly write your own Matrix...
From insideHPC
Quobyte Software-Defined Storage Brings Its HPC and Hyperscaler Heritage to AI Workloads
Quobyte comes from an HPC heritage as well as providing storage solutions for hyperscalers. “We wanted to bring HPC to the enterprise with the software approach...
From insideHPC
Argonne HPC Webinar July 17: Getting Started on Polaris and Nvidia Developer Tools Bootcamp
On Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 11 amf-1 pm Central Time, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold an online webinar to introduce attendees to the Polaris...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Systems and Applications Challenges for the Emerging Bazaar of Accelerators Report Release
The CCC held the Systems and Applications Challenges for the Emerging Bazaar of Accelerators workshop in August of 2023 in Washington, DC. The workshop was organized...
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Algebraic Circuits
Most of my favorite theorems tell us something new about the world of complexity. But let's not forget the greatest technical challenges in our area: proving separations...
From Schneier on Security
AI and the Indian Election
As India concluded the world’s largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions...
From insideHPC