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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
Qumulo Launches Recover Q Ransomware Defense
SEATTLE – Sept. 22, 2021 – Qumulo, maker of enterprise file data management across hybrid cloud environments, today unveiled Qumulo Recover Q, a business continuity...
From insideHPC
Why HPE Cray EX Is the Supercomputer of Choice at Leading Weather Centers
For decades, compute resources used for weather forecasting have tracked with advances in state-of-the-art supercomputing. Which is to say that the weather segment...
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Fast do Algorithms Improve?
Could be a way to track where effort should be expended. Matching quality and value of solutions to effort.How Quickly Do Algorithms Improve?MIT News, Rachel...
From Schneier on Security
ROT8000
ROT8000 is the Unicode equivalent of ROT13. What’s clever about it is that normal English looks like Chinese, and not like ciphertext (to a typical Westerner, that...
From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara Tackles Cloud Cost Paradox with New Cloud FinOps Services
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – September 23, 2021 – Hitachi Vantara, the digital infrastructure, data management and analytics, and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi...
From Computational Complexity
Why Conferences?
An undergrad thesis from North Carolina State University tries to tackle the question as to why computer science has used conferences as its main and most prestigious...
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Reports 43% YTD HPC Growth
Calgary, Alberta. September 22, 2021 – Privately held CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable liquid cooling technology for desktop and data centers, today reported 43...
From insideHPC
DOE Funds $17.5M for 3 ORNL-led Quantum Research Projects
September 22, 2021 — Of the $61 million recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy for quantum information science studies, $17.5 million will fund research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversational AI and Healthcare Chatbots
Used Eliza. Still need to see better studies of chatbots in complete and varying contexts. And comparison to having a professional available. And also compared...
From insideHPC
Dihuni OptiReady CognitX DL Servers and Workstations Powered by NVIDIA Ampere Architecture-based GPUs
MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 21, 2021 — Dihuni, an artificial intelligence (AI), data center and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions company, today announced increased adoption...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reservoir Computing from Ohio State
OK, mostly new to me, sounds useful. Following up. Scientists Develop the Next Generation of Reservoir ComputingBy Ohio State University, September 22, 2021Researchers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing a Quantum Computer
in ACM TECHNEWS Implications? Quantum Computer Helps Design Better Quantum Computer By New Scientist, September 22, 2021Researchers at the University of Science...
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MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v1.1 Results
San Francisco – September 22, 2021 – Today, MLCommons, an open engineering consortium, released new results for MLPerf Inference v1.1, the organization’s machine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beware Food and Architecture
In ZDNet: FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting food and agriculture sector ... In addition to the May attack on JBS, the FBI listed dozens of ransomwareBy...
From Schneier on Security
FBI Had the REvil Decryption Key
The Washington Post reports that the FBI had a decryption key for the REvil ransomware, but didn’t pass it along to victims because it would have disrupted an ongoing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Qubits and Quibbles
Khari Douglas will be covering the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) on the CCC blog all week. Stay tuned and check out the HLF blog for more coverage of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: Future of the Office
How well did working at home really accomplish things? What’s the Future of the Office?Wharton’s Peter Cappelli talks about his new book, ‘Future of the Office...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlimited Digital Sensing
Not following this yet, but intriguing suggestion ...Unlimited Digital Sensing Unleashed for Imaging, Audio, Driverless CarsImperial College London (U.K.), Caroline...
From insideHPC
NNSA in $40M Deal for 40PFLOPS of Dell HPC Clusters
Sept. 21, 2001 — The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA’s) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced theNNSA...
From The Eponymous Pickle