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HPE to Build $35M+ NCAR Supercomputer for Extreme Weather Research
From insideHPC

HPE to Build $35M+ NCAR Supercomputer for Extreme Weather Research

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) this morning said it has won a $35+ million contract to build a supercomputer for the National Center for Atmospheric ResearchHPE...

Wal-Mart Leverages IOT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Leverages IOT

Good,  relatively simple applications are talked.Walmart Shows the Way on IoT in Food Retail  in  ProgressiveGrocer  By Thad Rueter - 01/25/2021Walmart uses IoT...

Western Digital and Qumulo Partner on Capacity and Scale for IHME COVID-19 Health Analytics and Vaccine Roll Out
From insideHPC

Western Digital and Qumulo Partner on Capacity and Scale for IHME COVID-19 Health Analytics and Vaccine Roll Out

San Jose, Jan 26, 2021 – Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) announced today that the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), in partnership with Qumulo...

Exascale Computing Project: Researchers Accelerate I/O with Novel Processing Method
From insideHPC

Exascale Computing Project: Researchers Accelerate I/O with Novel Processing Method

January 25, 2021 — Researchers funded by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) have delivered a novel method that addresses overloaded communication processes that...

QCI Launches QikStar Program for Business Adoption of Quantum Computing
From insideHPC

QCI Launches QikStar Program for Business Adoption of Quantum Computing

Leesburg, Va., Jan. 26, 2021 – Quantum Computing Inc. (OTCQB: QUBT) (QCI), which works to bridge the power of classical and quantum computing, today unveiled QikStart...

Alexa Measuring Energy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Measuring Energy

First I had heard of this, lots of interesting measure graphics at the link.Alexa can estimate how much electricity smart home devices consumeBy Patrick Hearn,A...

Making Smart Plugs Smarter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Smart Plugs Smarter

Considering a broader view of 'smart', more like cooperative towards goals.Engineers make smart plugs smarter  by National University of SingaporeSingapore is in...

More Digital Humans Emerging
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Digital Humans Emerging

Recall Microsoft's patent of a particular person, just mentioned here.   Recall too the 'uncanny valley', and other disturbing side-effects.   And the magic can...

Kao Data to Host InstaDeep’s HPC and AI Supercomputer, Expanding R&D Capabilities
From insideHPC

Kao Data to Host InstaDeep’s HPC and AI Supercomputer, Expanding R&D Capabilities

London, January 26, 2021 – Kao Data, developer and operator of advanced, carrier-neutral data centres for high performance colocation, has today announced a new...

10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 2
From insideHPC

10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI – Part 2

In this insideHPC Guide, “10 Questions to Ask When Starting With AI,” our friends over at WEKA offer 10 important questions to ask when starting with AI, specifically...

Computing Turbulence with Competitive AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computing Turbulence with Competitive AI

 We used turbulence analysis in roasting applications. Could have used this as a means to do better predictions in simulations.Intriguing application I had notETH...

Micron Delivers 1α DRAM Technology
From insideHPC

Micron Delivers 1α DRAM Technology

Boise, Idaho, Jan. 26, 2021 – Micron Technology today announced volume shipment of 1α (1-alpha) node DRAM products that the company said is built using advanced...

OEMs Join Nvidia-Certified Program – Systems Pre-tested for AI Workloads
From insideHPC

OEMs Join Nvidia-Certified Program – Systems Pre-tested for AI Workloads

Dell Technologies, GIGABYTE, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Inspur and Supermicro are among 11 systems makers engaged in an Nvidia certification program, announced...

Happy New Year from CISE!
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Happy New Year from CISE!

A Message from CISE Leadership Dear Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Community,  Happy New Year!  2020 certainly brought its share of challenges...

From Computational Complexity

Answers to the Prez Quiz, and some interesting history

I posted a presidential quiz (that is, a quiz about presidents, not a quiz that is so majestic it can be called presidential) on Thursday Jan 21.Here is the link...

12th JLESC Workshop to Be Held Feb. 24-26
From insideHPC

12th JLESC Workshop to Be Held Feb. 24-26

The 12th annual Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC) will be held virtually from Wednesday, Feb. 24 to Friday, Feb. 26. It will bring together researchers...

Patenting a Chat Bot of a Particular Person
From The Eponymous Pickle

Patenting a Chat Bot of a Particular Person

The idea has been suggested before, here with slightly different capabilities.  Interesting depending hw well it could be implemented.   With image and realistic...

Massive Brazilian Data Breach
From Schneier on Security

Massive Brazilian Data Breach

I think this is the largest data breach of all time: 220 million people. (Lots more stories are in Portuguese.)

Camera Based Automated Drone Landing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Camera Based Automated Drone Landing

Seems a simple action, but can be complex in different contexts. Novel Camera-Based System for Automated Landing of Drone on Fixed SpotShibaura Institute of Technology...

LiDAR Space Scanning, Modeling and Enabling
From The Eponymous Pickle

LiDAR Space Scanning, Modeling and Enabling

Some time ago attended a brainstorming session on the use of 'space scanning' to support advertisements and other future AR functionality.   Well the time is now...
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