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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
ALCF: Groq AI Online Workshop, Dec. 6-7
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an online workshop to learn about the ALCF’s new GroqRack system on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 6 and 7 from 1:30...
From Schneier on Security
Email Security Flaw Found in the Wild
Google’s Threat Analysis Group announced a zero-day against the Zimbra Collaboration email server that has been used against governments around the world. TAG has...
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TierPoint Selects DDC Cabinet Technology for AI Workloads in High-Density Data Center
San Diego – DDC Cabinet Technology, maker of scalable data center-to-edge solutions that feature patented Dynamic Density Control (DDC) technology, announced the...
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The Future of Research on Social Technologies Visioning Workshop
Earlier this month, the CCC, with support from the Knight Foundation, held a visioning workshop on, “The Future of Research on Social Technologies.” The workshop...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces Ethernet Platform for AI from Dell, HPE, Lenovo
Nov. 20, 2024 — NVIDIA today announced that Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo will be the first to integrate NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking...
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HPC News Bytes 20231120: SC23 Overview – Exascale Update, New AI Chips, Quantum Village, UCIe-PCIe-Ultra Ethernet
In this edition of the HPC News Bytes podcast, Shahin takes us on a rapid (5:04) tour of SC23, analyzing the key developments and new technologies that highlighted...
From insideHPC
EQSIM and RAJA: Enabling Exascale Predictions of Earthquake Effects on Critical Infrastructure
Nearly 120 years ago, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 provided a stark and sobering view of the havoc that can be caused by the sudden and violent movement...
From Computational Complexity
War Games
With the self-destruction of OpenAI well underway, Friday night I watched the movie War Games for the first time since the 80s. Quick synopsis (spoilers): NORAD...
From Schneier on Security
Using Generative AI for Surveillance
Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Unpatched Vulnerabilities in the Squid Caching Proxy
In a rare squid/security post, here’s an article about unpatched vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talkhere...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: How companies build algorithms using experimentation
(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") Wisdom of the crowd...
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Launches Log File Analyzer LogVisor AI
Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced the high performance computing systems integrator’s LogVisor AI during the SC23 conference in Denver. LogVisorAdvanced...
From insideHPC
New Commodity Supercomputing Clusters Deployed at NNSA Labs Claim TOP500 Spots
Three of the newest National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commodity computing clusters recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)...
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LLNL-led SCREAM Team Clinches Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-led effort that performed an unprecedented global climate model simulation on the world’s first exascale supercomputer...
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware Gang Files SEC Complaint
A ransomware gang, annoyed at not being paid, filed an SEC complaint against its victim for not disclosing its security breach within the required four days. This...
From Geeking with Greg
It's easy for social media to fill with astroturf
Most underestimate how easy it is for social media to become dominated by astroturf. It's easy. All you need is a few people creating and controlling multiple accounts...
From insideHPC
DE-CIX and CR8DL Announce Enhanced Data Capabilities Partnership for HPC
New York & Phoenix, November 16, 2023 — Internet exchange operator DE-CIX and CR8DL, a cloud-based high-performance computing company, today announce a research...
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