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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 …
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Quantum Chip Comparisons and Claims
Supremacy of the Quantum ChipQuantum Chip Takes Microseconds to Do a Task a Supercomputer Would Spend 9,000 Years On By Shelly Fan -June 7, 2022 in the SingularityHub...
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Pure Storage Introduces FlashBlade//S for Unstructured Data and Application Growth
Los Angeles – June 8, 2022 — Today at Pure//Accelerate techfest22, data storage technology and services company Pure Storage announced the FlashBlade//S familyPure...
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NFTs as a Tangled Thought
Good overview.... The Tangled Truth about NFTs and CopyrightIf code is law, countless NFTs are built on buggy code By James Grimmelmann, Yan Ji, and Tyler Kell...
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Manhattan Project for Cyber Needed
Agree to this, will be a tough effort. How much will AI help us, versus helping the threats?U.S. Needs New 'Manhattan Project' to Avoid Cyber Catastrophe By...
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Machine Learning Hallucinates?
Intriguing thought. Helpful explanatory images at the link.A machine-learning method hallucinates its way to better text translation by Lauren Hinkel, Massachusetts...
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@HPCpodcast: On the Scene at ISC 2022 – HPE, AMD Make TOP500 News; Intel Makes News of Its Own
ISC 2022 in Hamburg was notable for a number of reasons – it was not only the first in-person ISC since 2019, it also provided a plethora of major news. This included...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Memory-level parallelism : Intel Ice Lake versus Amazon Graviton 3
One of the most expensive operation in a processor and memory system is a random memory access. If you try to read a value in memory, it can take tens of nanosecond...
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At ISC 2022: Inspur’s Jay Zhang on the Inspur-MEGWARE GPU Cluster at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
In this interview at ISC 2022, we spoke with Jay Zhang, Vice President of Inspur Global Business and CEO of Inspur Europe, about recent company developments and...
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At ISC 2022: AMD Talks TOP500-GREEN500 Double Win, Public Cloud HPC Instances, EPYC and instinct Chip Updates and What’s New for Xilinx FPGAs
At ISC 2022, the AMD booth was a constant beehive of activity – after all, AMD CPUs and GPUs are powering the new no. 1 supercomputer, Frontier, which is also the...
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StorONE: Single Platform Integrates HDDs into NVMe-oF
NEW YORK – June 7, 2022 – Today, StorONE said it is the first company to enable hard disk drive (HDD) connectivity to NVMe-oF infrastructures, “dramatically reducing...
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Quantum Computing Inc. Unveils Software Built to Expand Quantum Processing Power By Up to 20x
LEESBURG, Va., June 07, 2022 — Quantum Computing Inc. today unveiled QAmplify, a suite of quantum software technologies designed to expand the processing powerQuantum...
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UT, Meta Create Digital Humans That Learn Complex Movements
Movements for interaction. UT, Meta Create Digital Humans That Learn Complex MovementsUniversity of Twente (Netherlands), May 23, 2022Researchers at Meta's Artificial...
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Sandia Researcher Ray Tuminaro Named SIAM Fellow
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ computational scientist and applied mathematician Ray Tuminaro has been named a 2022 Fellow of the Society for...
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More on Chip Supply Chain
ACM NEWSCompanies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage By Wired. June 6, 2022McKinsey has tapped into the sense of urgency by creating a team dedicated...
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Eye Biometrics
We experimented with in Retail settings. The Eyes Have It By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 19, 2022One of the things that makes biometrics...
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Very Small, An Insectothopter
Always been interested in very small biomimicy. Here mimicing insects, no longer around, or is it? Meet the CIA’s Insectothopter Sadly, the 1-gram spy craft couldn...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Laws and Laughs
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them—Jack Foster Roy Amara was a researcher and president of the Institute for the Future. Among...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Data structure size and cache-line accesses
On many systems, memory is accessed in fixed blocks called “cache lines”. On Intel systems, the cache line spans 64 bytes. That is, if you access memory at byte...
From insideHPC
ALCF Developer Session June 30: Profiling Deep Learning Applications with NVIDIA Nsight
On Thursday, June 30 from 1-2 pm Centeral Time, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a developer session on performance analysis techniques for deep...
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