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IonQ Aria Coming to Microsoft’s Azure Quantum Platform
From insideHPC

IonQ Aria Coming to Microsoft’s Azure Quantum Platform

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – March 21, 2022 – Quantum computing company IonQ today announced it has signed an agreement with Microsoft to bring IonQ Aria, the company’sIonQ...

Ansys Collaborates with Microsoft on Chips, Simulation and Cloud Computing for HPC
From insideHPC

Ansys Collaborates with Microsoft on Chips, Simulation and Cloud Computing for HPC

PITTSBURGH, March 21, 2022 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today said its customers will have automatic cloud access to new 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V-Cache...

GIGABYTE Announces Servers with AMD EPYC Processors for the Data Center
From insideHPC

GIGABYTE Announces Servers with AMD EPYC Processors for the Data Center

March 21st 2022 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced enterprise products to support the launch...

TYAN Announces Servers with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Chips
From insideHPC

TYAN Announces Servers with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Chips

Newark, Calif. – March 21, 2022 – TYAN,  server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today announced availability...

AMD Announces GA of 3rd Gen AMD EPYCs with 3D V-Cache for Technical Computing
From insideHPC

AMD Announces GA of 3rd Gen AMD EPYCs with 3D V-Cache for Technical Computing

Seeking to continue on its market share eating roll in the data center server chips sector, AMD announced GA of what the company said is the world’s first dataAMD...

Content Similarity
From The Noisy Channel

Content Similarity

Content classification and annotation offer useful approaches for content understanding, recognizing whether a piece of content is about a particular topic or mentions...

From Computational Complexity

Do you want to be the SIGACT NEWS book review editor?

I ran the SIGACT Book Review Column from 1997-2015 (18 years). You can find all of my columns, plus reviews I did for Fred, here.When I handed it off to Fred Green...

Ransomware Helping Putin?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ransomware Helping Putin?

Conti Ransomware Gang Helping Putin?  Become more aware of software as a governmental weapon.  Some indications hints and here. Leaked Ransomware Docs Show Conti...

Microsoft and PeopleLens
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft and PeopleLens

Fascinating direction, and natural for Msoft's work in AR capabilities. Microsoft Research BlogPeopleLens: Using AI to support social interaction between children...

AI Needs to Selectively Forget too
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Needs to Selectively Forget too

We discovered his early on as we had to effectively maintain models. Can AI Learn to Forget?     By Samuel Greengard  in the CACM Communications of the ACM, April...

Amazon Gets more Biometric Capabilities,
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Gets more Biometric Capabilities,

 Interesting, don't consider this as ominous as is being implied here.  Scare quotes alerting you.   If it works to make people safer,  expect this to happen. In...

On 3D Chip Tech:  Stacking Chips
From The Eponymous Pickle

On 3D Chip Tech: Stacking Chips

 Intro to the tech and how it is evolving.3 Ways 3D Chip Tech Is Upending Computing AMD, Graphcore, and Intel show why the industry’s leading edge is going vertical...

Robot Arm Advances for Human Proximity Tasks
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Arm Advances for Human Proximity Tasks

Fraunhofer at the Hannover Messe Preview 2022Safe and powerful robotics for near-human tasksResearch News / March 16, 2022Robots mowing lawns is a form of robotic...

Consider AI Worst Case
From The Eponymous Pickle

Consider AI Worst Case

AI’s 6 Worst-Case Scenarios.  Who needs Terminators when you have precision clickbait and ultra-deepfakes?   By NATASHA BAJEMA in IEEE Expert HOLLYWOOD’S WORST-CASE...

The Brain Rotates Memories
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Brain Rotates Memories

How might we utilize this this? Beyond just tagging memories with a time stamp?The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations  By Jordana Cepelewicz...

Writing out large arrays in Go: binary.Write is inefficient for large arrays
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Writing out large arrays in Go: binary.Write is inefficient for large arrays

Programmers often need to write data structures to disk or to networks. The data structure then needs to be interpreted as a sequence of bytes. Regarding integer...

Truman and Hruby 2022 Fellows at Sandia Explore Their Possibilities
From insideHPC

Truman and Hruby 2022 Fellows at Sandia Explore Their Possibilities

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Postdoctoral researchers who are designated Truman and Hruby fellows experience Sandia National Laboratories differently from their peers. Appointees...

DOE: $50M for Fusion Energy Research Opportunities
From insideHPC

DOE: $50M for Fusion Energy Research Opportunities

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $50 million to support U.S. scientists conducting experimental research in fusion energy science...

Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot Dogs Join NY Fire Department

I recall they were rejected for any  police work, but fighting fires is OK.  It seems the same 'Spot' style systems from Boston Dynamics.   Would like to see the...

Algae as Energy Source
From The Eponymous Pickle

Algae as Energy Source

 Had heard of this some time ago, is it reasonably useful? AI Predicts Algae Potential as Alternative Energy SourceBy AgriLife Today, March 17, 2022Scientists at...
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