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Webb Space Telescope Has Profound Data Challenges
From The Eponymous Pickle

Webb Space Telescope Has Profound Data Challenges

Useful example to consider.The Webb Space Telescope's Profound Data ChallengesBy IEEE Spectrum, July 15, 2022The Lagrange points are equilibrium locations where...

Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) Meeting July 21-22
From insideHPC

Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC) Meeting July 21-22

July 21, 2022 — The next meeting of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC), the federal advisory committee for the U.S. Department of Energy...

MemVerge to Host CXL Forum at the Flash Memory Summit Aug. 2
From insideHPC

MemVerge to Host CXL Forum at the Flash Memory Summit Aug. 2

MILPITAS, Calif. – July 21, 2022 – Big memory software company MemVerge will host a full-day forum during the Flash Memory Summit on Tuesday, Aug. 2. The forum,...

BCI Startup Implants First Device in U.S. Patient
From The Eponymous Pickle

BCI Startup Implants First Device in U.S. Patient

Do I recall this having been done elsewhere?  Checking.  Note the many kinds of brain tasks mentioned. Considerable capabilities implies. BCI Startup Implants First...

Car Charging Robot
From The Eponymous Pickle

Car Charging Robot

I have been looking at the supply chain aspects of EV ChargingThis Car Charger Bot Will Also Hold Your Spot Meet Ziggy, the EV charging robotLawrence Ulrich,   IEEE...

The More You Scale, the Less You Pay … No, Really
From insideHPC

The More You Scale, the Less You Pay … No, Really

Ansys Cloud, the managed cloud service provided by Ansys and enabled on Microsoft Azure, recently announced availability of 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD...

From Computational Complexity

What is known about that sequence

 In my last post I wrote:---------------------------Consider the recurrencea_1=1for all n\ge 2, a_n = a_{n-1} + a_{n/2}.For which M does this recurrence have infinitely...

At ISC 2022: Vik Malyala Puts the Spotlight on Supermicro’s AMD-based Servers
From insideHPC

At ISC 2022: Vik Malyala Puts the Spotlight on Supermicro’s AMD-based Servers

In this interview with Supermicro’s Vik Malyala, he discusses the company’s latest editions of its AMD-based server products, the third generation of AMD processors...

How quickly can you convert floats to doubles (and back)?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How quickly can you convert floats to doubles (and back)?

Many programming languages have two binary floating-point types: float (32-bit) and double (64-bit). It reflects the fact that most general-purpose processors supports...

What AI Still Can't Do
From The Eponymous Pickle

What AI Still Can't Do

Thoughtful PieceWhat AI Still Doesn't Know How to Do, By The Wall Street Journal, July 18, 2022A few weeks ago a Google engineer got a lot of attention for a dramatic...

Quantum: Claims Solving 3,854-Variable Optimization Problem in 6 Minutes for BMW
From insideHPC

Quantum: Claims Solving 3,854-Variable Optimization Problem in 6 Minutes for BMW

LEESBURG, Va., July 20, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI) today announced it has solved an optimization problem with over 3,800 variables in six minutes by applying...

Blockchain Storing Genomes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain Storing Genomes

Makes sense,  encoding. Blockchain Can Secure, Store GenomesYaleNews, Bill Hathaway, June 29, 2022The SAMchain technology developed by Yale University scientists...

Simulating  the Voices of the Dead
From The Eponymous Pickle

Simulating the Voices of the Dead

Consider the complexity ... Raising the Voices of the Dead      By Tim Hornyak,   Commissioned by CACM Staff   July 19, 2022Artificial intelligence experts andChanneling...

Do AI Systems Really Have Their Own Secret Language?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Do AI Systems Really Have Their Own Secret Language?

Vocabulary vs Language, implications for IP to be considered. Do AI systems really have their own secret language?   by Aaron J. Snoswell,  in Techexplore ...

The Evolution of HPC Storage: More Choices Yields More Decisions
From insideHPC

The Evolution of HPC Storage: More Choices Yields More Decisions

[SPONSORED CONTENT] The past few years have brought many changes into the HPC storage world, both with technology like non-volatile memory express (NVMe) or persistent...

Will AI Remove Submarine Stealth?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Will AI Remove Submarine Stealth?

Has to be considered, along with many other kinds of stealth and related implications for that.Better detection will make the oceans transparent—and perhaps doom...

DNA Typewriter
From The Eponymous Pickle

DNA Typewriter

Quite interesting. DNA Typewriter Taps Out a Record Inside CellsHoward Hughes Medical Institute News, July 8, 2022Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute...

Freedom To Teach Computer Science Our Way
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Freedom To Teach Computer Science Our Way

Mike Zamansky had another interesting post (CS - it isn't all that) that got me thinking. The last three paragraphs started me going. For exampleAs CS becomes more...

@HPCpodcast: US Pressures ASML on Exports to China; US vs China Exascale; HPC Software
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: US Pressures ASML on Exports to China; US vs China Exascale; HPC Software

Following recent reports that Dutch chip manufacturing equipment maker ASML is under diplomatic pressure from the U.S. to regulate the export of its fabrication...

From Computational Complexity

An open question about a sequence mod M.

In this post n/2 means floor{n/2}Consider the recurrencea_1=1for all n\ge 2, a_n = a_{n-1} + a_{n/2}.For which M does this recurrence have infinitely many n such...
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