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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 …
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2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Demonstrate Amazing HPC Performance
In this guest article, our friends at Intel discuss how benchmarks show key workloads average 31% better on Intel Xeon Platinum 9282 than AMD EYPC “Rome” 7742.2nd...
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Sawtooth Supercomputer from HPE Comes to Idaho National Lab
A powerful new supercomputer arrived this week at Idaho National Laboratory’s Collaborative Computing Center. The machine has the power to run complex modelingSawtooth...
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Verne Global Offers Sustainable HPC in the Cloud
In this video from SC19, Tate Cantrell from Verne Global describes how the company delivers sustainable HPC in the Cloud. "Verne Global delivers true high performance...
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Fujitsu A64FX Arm Processors come to Cray CS Supercomputers
In this video from SC19, Takeshi Horie from Fujitsu and Steve Scott from Cray describe how the powerful Arm-based A64fx Arm Processor will power the next generation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bosch SoundSee Sensor Predicts Future
Another example of the linking of sensors to predictive decision making.Bosch SoundSee combines deep learning with mobile microphone arrays to identify problems...
From Schneier on Security
Election Machine Insecurity Story
Interesting story of a flawed computer voting machine and a paper ballot available for recount. All ended well, but only because of that paper backup. Vote totals...![[NEW TALK] Automated Testing for Terraform, Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, and More](/system/assets/0001/6457/070714_brikman.small_square.jpg?1476779490&1404742835)
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[NEW TALK] Automated Testing for Terraform, Docker, Packer, Kubernetes, and More
I’m happy to share with you the video and slides from my QCon talk on how to test infrastructure code! This talk is a step-by-step, live-coding class on how to...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Instructions per cycle: AMD Zen 2 versus Intel
The performance of a processor is determined by several factors. For example, processors with a higher frequency tend to do more work per unit of time. PhysicsContinue...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI to Hit the Wall?
Depends on your expectations. If you want 'General, Human AI (AGI)' you could expect some long delays, but there will be advances along the way. We waitedFacebook's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Builds a Better Fingerprint Reader
Interesting out of Qualcomm. The size is noted, need to see it downsized.Qualcomm builds a bigger, better in-screen fingerprint readerNever miss your fingerprint...
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GigaIO and 2CRSi to Develop Integrated Rack Using FabreX PCIe Fabric
Today GigaIO announced a partnership with 2CRSi to develop advanced server solutions for today’s data intensive environments. 2CRSi, a leading producer of high-performance...
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Inspur Showcases HPC & AI Solutions at SC19
In this video from SC19, Vangel Bojaxhi from Inspur describes the company's innovative solutions for HPC & AI. At the show, the company featured a broad array of...
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Moving HPC to the Cloud with Easy8 and Bright Cluster Manager
In this video from SC19, Bill Wagner from Bright Computing announces the latest release of Bright Cluster Manager software for HPC, OpenStack, and Data Science....
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D-Wave Expands Leap API into Amazon Braket
Today D-Wave Systems announced the expansion of the Leap API into Amazon Braket, a new, fully managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) solution that allows scientists,...
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Introducing the oneAPI Software Stack for HPC & AI
With oneAPI, Intel delivers a unified and simplified programming model for application development across heterogenous processing architectures, including CPUs,...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding for Fun and Advent of Code
My friend Mike Zamansky is a big proponent of the Advent of Code – 25 days of coding problems leading up the Christmas. Since I have been thinking I want to write...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain not Bitcoin
Likely approach for approaches that address problems like secure identification and control. US Military’s DARPA Program Hops on the ‘Blockchain Not Bitcoin’ Bandwagon...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Further Value of Demo Data
At first I didn't understand the claim being made here, but after I understood it, remembered we had done sometime similar for a manufacturing application, but...
From Schneier on Security
Becoming a Tech Policy Activist
Carolyn McCarthy gave an excellent TEDx talk about becoming a tech policy activist. It's a powerful call for public-interest technologists....
From The Eponymous Pickle