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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
Why is Amazon Dominating the Market?
Amazon continues to thrive. What is driving them in retail?These 3 Numbers Explain Why Amazon Is Dominating Everything Right NowAmazon reported earnings on Thursday...
From insideHPC
New FLAIR Protocol to Speed Computer Networks
Computer scientists at the University of Waterloo have found a novel approach that significantly improves the storage efficiency and output speed of computer systems...
From insideHPC
Building a Federated Research Collaborative
In this special guest feature, David Fellinger from the iRODS Consortium writes that the secure federation capabilities of iRODS has changed the way that we think...
From insideHPC
WekaIO picks up steam in the HPC Market
Today WekaIO announced it closed its 2019 fiscal year with record velocity in revenues. The company grew revenue by 600% compared to 2018 with growth fueled byWekaIO...
From insideHPC
Video: Open and High Performance Computing
Hugh Blemings from the OpenPOWER Foundation gave this talk at the Linux.Conf.au conference. "This session will explain the importance of open hardware and software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DNA Based Archival Storage
Seems a strange idea, but its a look at forms of data, like DNA and the needs for computing. A form of biomimicry.$25M Project Will Advance DNA-Based ArchivalGeorgia...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Swarming Defense Drones
Drones by their more flexible nature are creating new options with different kinds of precision, scale and application. Here a Defense example.DARPA is testing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top ACM Technews Articles of 2019
A group I have written for for over a decade, and who I have a member of for much longer. Kept me up to date in many ways. They gather, distribute and expand...
From Schneier on Security
U.S. Department of Interior Grounding All Drones
The Department of Interior is grounding all non-emergency drones due to security concerns: The order comes amid a spate of warnings and bans at multiple government...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Cost of a thread in C++ under Linux
Almost all our computers are made of several processing cores. Thus it can be efficient to “parallelize” expensive processing in a multicore manner. That is, instead...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Aiming to Dupe AntiFraud Systems: Digital Doppelgangers
Quite an interesting discovery. Constructing fake user profiles to facilitate fraud. Goes back to the need for stronger means of constructing foolproof realDark...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Avast Shutters Jumpshot
Followed this because of recent revelations and our look at data as an asset. At one time had been using Avast.Avast shutters data-selling subsidiary amid user...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Future of Work
Some good comments on future of work.Getting Practical About the Future of WorkJanuary 2020 | ArticleBy Bryan Hancock, Kate Lazaroff-Puck, and Scott RutherfordArticle...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Workshop Report- Content Generation for Workforce Training
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the release of a new CCC workshop report called Content Generation for Workforce Training. This...
From insideHPC
ECP Report: Advancing Scientific Productivity through Better Scientific Software
The Exascale Computing Project has published a new report to foster and advance software productivity and sustainability for extreme-scale computational science...
From insideHPC
Argonne to Deploy Cray ClusterStor E1000 Storage System for Exascale
Today HPE announced that ALCF will deploy the new Cray ClusterStor E1000 as its parallel storage solution. The new collaboration supports ALCF’s scientific research...
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. Releases Mukai Quantum Development Platform
Today Quantum Computing Inc. announced its Mukai quantum application development platform. Focused on developing novel quantum applications, the Company is leveraging...
From insideHPC
Podcast: The Trouble with ZFS
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discuss whether ZFS is ever going to meet its potential. "Henry weighs in on the evolution of ZFS and how his opinion of...
From insideHPC
Video: Making Supernovae with Jets
Chelsea Harris from the University of Michigan gave this talk at the CSGF 2019. "I am developing a FLASH hydrodynamics module, SparkJoy, to perform these simulations...
From Schneier on Security