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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 The Eponymous Pickle
About AI and Call Centers
How much will AI and chatbots replace call centers? Will they ultimately carry on a complete and specific conversation that will solve a service problem most of...
From insideHPC
Video: Evolving Cyberinfrastructure, Democratizing Data, and Scaling AI to Catalyze Research Breakthroughs
Nick Nystrom from the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "The Artificial Intelligence and Big Data group at Pittsburgh...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (May 16th 2020)
Most of our processors, whether in our PCs or mobile phones, are 64-bit processors. In the case of your PC, it has been so for a couple of decades. Unfortunately...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Storage Infrastructure Engineer at NERSC
NERSC is seeking an HPC Storage Infrastructure Engineer for its Storage Systems Group. This group is responsible for architecting, deploying, and supporting the...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Vegan "Squid" Made from Chickpeas
It's beyond Beyond Meat. A Singapore company wants to make vegan "squid" -- and shrimp and crab -- from chickpeas. As usual, you can also use this squid post to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ransomware Solution
Quickly detects unauthorized encryption.Software Developed by SMU Stops Ransomware AttacksSouthern Methodist UniversityMay 13, 2020Engineers at Southern Methodist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning in Retail
Not sure how complete it is, especially with the current state of the business. More what than effetively how. I would do at least some embedded risk analysis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McDonald’s Publishes Playbook for reopening Restaurants
Useful thoughts from a major player. My own observation is that they have done an excellent job with the drive-through and pickup only operation.McDonald’s publishes...
From insideHPC
Video: Nimbus Data Unveils Next-Generation Storage OS and All-Flash Array
Today Nimbus Data announced an all-new solid state storage operating system (Nimbus Data AFX), all-new enterprise support program (Tectonic), and new all-flashVideo...
From insideHPC
Perlmutter Supercomputer to Include more than 6,000 NVIDIA A100 processors
NERSC is among the early adopters of the new NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU processor announced by NVIDIA this week. More than 6,000 of the A100 chips will bePerlmutter...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs come to Oracle Cloud
Oracle is bringing the newly announced NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU to its Oracle Gen 2 Cloud regions. "Oracle is enhancing what NVIDIA GPUs can do in the cloud,...
From insideHPC
AMD Wins Slot in Latest NVIDIA A100 Machine Learning System
Today AMD demonstrated continued momentum in HPC with NVIDIA’s announcement that 2nd Generation AMD EPYC 7742 processors will power their new DGX A100 dedicated...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making the Real World Digital: AR Copy-Paste
Recall having the broad idea being brought up to transfer pieces of a real-world manufacturing plant into a process model. First for demonstration, and laterAR...
From Schneier on Security
On Marcus Hutchins
Long and nuanced story about Marcus Hutchins, the British hacker who wrote most of the Kronos malware and also stopped WannaCry in real time. Well worth reading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Threat Detection
Recorded Future talks about thread detection and response. Recall we tessted some of their methods and wrote about them here in their early days. Worth a look...
From insideHPC
Atos Launches First Supercomputer Equipped with NVIDIA A100 GPU
Today Atos announced its new BullSequana X2415, the first supercomputer in Europe to integrate NVIDIA’s Ampere next-generation graphics processing unit architecture...
From insideHPC
Lenovo to deploy 17 Petaflop supercomputer at KIT in Germany
Today Lenovo announced a contract for a 17 petaflop supercomputer at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. Called HoreKa, the system will come online...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is your School IT Department’s Mission?
My school ran a pair of online awards events yesterday. We had almost 850 people on the day time Zoom meeting and around 500 on the evening one. These are both...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony AI Intelligent Image Sensors
What appears to be a considerable means of creating IOT intelligence based on such chips.Sony Says It Created World’s First Image Sensor With Built-in AIBy Takashi...
From The Eponymous Pickle