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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
SC23 Prep: HPC Experts on Sessions to See and Trends to Watch Next Week in Denver
SC23 is around the corner, and there’s an aura surrounding this year’s annual conference. With the advent of ChaptGPT, large language models and generative AI,SC23...
From insideHPC
Data Days Brings Department of Energy Labs Together for Discussions on Data Management and More
Data researchers, developers, data managers and program managers from the Department of Energy national laboratories visited Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: Table of Contents
(This is the Table of Contents from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It") Introduction: How...
From Computational Complexity
Othello. Solved.
The perfect game Back in the 1980s, a high school friend and I created Excalibur, a computer othello program that I've posted about before. Even on an OG IBMannounced...
From Schneier on Security
Online Retail Hack
Selling miniature replicas to unsuspecting shoppers: Online marketplaces sell tiny pink cowboy hats. They also sell miniature pencil sharpeners, palm-size kitchen...
From insideHPC
MLPerf Training and HPC Benchmark Show 49X Performance Gains in 5 Years
MLCommons said the results highlight performance gains of up to 2.8X compared to 5 months ago and 49X over the first results five years ago, "reflecting the tremendous...
From insideHPC
DDN Launches Infinia, Software-Defined Storage for Enterprise AI and Cloud
Aimed at cloud platform and large HPC, hyperscale and data center environments, Infinia combines multi-tenancy at scale, containerization and high performance....
From insideHPC
Ayar Labs to Show 4 Tbps Optically-enabled Intel FPGA at SC23
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Nov. 8, 2023 – Ayar Labs, a company developing silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, will showcase its in-package optical I/O solution...
From Schneier on Security
Decoupling for Security
This is an excerpt from a longer paper. You can read the whole thing (complete with sidebars and illustrations) here. Our message is simple: it is possible to get...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Karl Freund Compares and Contrasts the Chips Driving the AI Revolution
Few people can talk in such an engaging way about the chips driving the AI revolution as Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research. He@HPCpodcast...
From insideHPC
Quantum Machines and QuEra Computing Win Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation Award
Tel Aviv and Boston, November 7, 2023 – Quantum Machines, the provider of quantum control solutions that accelerate the development of practical quantum computers...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Generating arrays at compile-time in C++ with lambdas
Suppose that you want to check whether a character in C++ belongs to a fixed set, such as ‘\0’, ‘\x09’, ‘\x0a’,’\x0d’, ‘ ‘, ‘#’, ‘/’, ‘:’, ‘<‘, ‘>’, ‘?’, ‘@’, ‘...
From insideHPC
ThinkParQ and System Fabric Works in Joint Venture
Kaiserslautern, Germany, November 7, 2023, ThinkParQ the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the launch ThinkinQ a new joint venture...
From Schneier on Security
Spaf on the Morris Worm
Gene Spafford wrote an essay reflecting on the Morris Worm of 1988—35 years ago. His lessons from then are still applicable today.
From insideHPC
Optical I/O Takes Center Stage at SC23
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Integration of optical I/O with an FPGA is the tip of the iceberg of a new vision to enable new HPC/AI architectural advances through...
From insideHPC
Gina Tourassi Named Oak Ridge Associate Lab Director for Computing and Computational Sciences
Gina Tourassi has been named associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She replaces...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20231106: UK AI HPC Push, White House EO on AI, Ungaro Speaks, Market Update on HPC-AI
Here’s a dash (5:24) through the latest in HPC-AI, including: new AI UK supercomputers, the White House Executive Order on AI and its national security implications...
From Schneier on Security
Crashing iPhones with a Flipper Zero
The Flipper Zero is an incredibly versatile hacking device. Now it can be used to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/flipper-zero-gadget-that-doses...
From Computational Complexity
In the bad old days we had Punchcards. How did people deal with that?
In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science. I took Honors Calculus I and CS 1. The CS course...
From Schneier on Security