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Building a Better Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Building a Better Blockchain

Thoughtful piece.These Researchers Are Trying to Build a Better Blockchain in WiredBy Gregory Barber Blockchain tech enables systems where no one is in charge,...

AMD to Power Cray Shasta Supercomputer coming to AWE in the UK
From insideHPC

AMD to Power Cray Shasta Supercomputer coming to AWE in the UK

Today Cray announced that the United Kingdom’s Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) has selected the Cray Shasta supercomputer to support security and defence ofAMD...

Students Encouraged to Enter Math Modeling Challenge for Scholarships
From insideHPC

Students Encouraged to Enter Math Modeling Challenge for Scholarships

Juniors and seniors throughout the United States seeking a transformative high school experience and the chance to win thousands of dollars in scholarships forStudents...

New ImmersionFAQ site to Dispel Misconceptions about Datacenter Immersive Cooling
From insideHPC

New ImmersionFAQ site to Dispel Misconceptions about Datacenter Immersive Cooling

Today GRC and Asperitas launched ImmersionFAQ.com, a new website with FAQs and facts about immersion cooling. “The newly developed vendor agnostic website is aNew...

Xilinx Alveo Accelerators Power Real-Time AI-based Intrusion Detection Service
From insideHPC

Xilinx Alveo Accelerators Power Real-Time AI-based Intrusion Detection Service

Today Xilinx announced that SK Telecom has adopted Xilinx Alveo Datacenter Accelerator cards to power a real-time AI-based physical intrusion and theft detection...

Hardware & Software Platforms for HPC, AI and ML
From insideHPC

Hardware & Software Platforms for HPC, AI and ML

Gunter Roeth from NVIDIA gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "Today, NVIDIA’s tensor core GPU sits at the core of most AI, ML and HPC applications, and NVIDIA...

Defense Innovation Board Final Report on AI Ethics Principles
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Defense Innovation Board Final Report on AI Ethics Principles

Contributions to this post were provided by CCC Chair Mark D. Hill from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and CCC Executive Committee Member Nadya Bliss from...

Listening for Indicators of Failure
From The Eponymous Pickle

Listening for Indicators of Failure

Not an uncommon thing that is done by human engineers responsible for maintenance.  Now proposed to be more autonomous.'Listening' to Engine Blades to Stop Failures...

Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool
From Schneier on Security

Obfuscation as a Privacy Tool

This essay discusses the futility of opting out of surveillance, and suggests data obfuscation as an alternative. We can apply obfuscation in our own lives by using...

Whats a 5G World Look Like
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whats a 5G World Look Like

Useful examples of where the new technology will be relevant:A First Look at What a 5G-Enabled World Looks Like, Courtesy of Samsung and IBM Written by: Steve Canepa...

[Report] Shaping Choices in the Digital World
From Putting People First

[Report] Shaping Choices in the Digital World

Shaping Choices in the Digital World From dark patterns to data protection: the influence of ux/ui design on user empowerment Jean Lessi (Publication Director);...

Navigating via
From The Eponymous Pickle

Navigating via

More work on Robot navigation.   But where do the clues come from?  We already navigate from things like addresses.  But to get there precisely may need more than...

Steve Tuecke from Globus passes away
From insideHPC

Steve Tuecke from Globus passes away

It is with tremendous sadness that we share the news of the death of our dear friend and colleague Steve Tuecke on November 2, 2019. "Steve was also a consummate...

Video: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC
From insideHPC

Video: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC

In this video, Vinay Kumar from Oracle describes how the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure delivers high performance for HPC applications. "Oracle offers on-demand HPC...

Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition
From The Eponymous Pickle

Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition

From what we know how the brain works to artificial neural nets (ANN), which we know are very simplistic neural models, then back to the actual operation of the...

Cognitive Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cognitive Automation

Augmentation is the near term approach here, but I expect augmentation to become more automated over time.    Checking, validation and  Numbers presented here are...

Thermodynamic Computing Workshop Report Released
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Thermodynamic Computing Workshop Report Released

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently released the Thermodynamic Computing workshop report, the output of the CCC’s January 2019 visioning workshop...

PSI Researchers Using Comet Supercomputer for Flu Forecasting Models
From insideHPC

PSI Researchers Using Comet Supercomputer for Flu Forecasting Models

Researchers at Predictive Science, Inc. are using the the Comet Supercomputer at SDSC for Flu Forecasting Models. "These calculations fall under the category of...

Penguin Computing to Showcase HPC Solutions at SC19
From insideHPC

Penguin Computing to Showcase HPC Solutions at SC19

Today Penguin Computing announced plans for showcasing its innovative HPC solutions at SC19 in Denver. After a year of growth, Penguin Computing is bringing innovative...

European Processor Initiative Reaches Important Milestones in First Year
From insideHPC

European Processor Initiative Reaches Important Milestones in First Year

The European Processor Initiative (EPI) has announced the completion of important milestones in its first year. "The first-generation chip family, named Rhea, will...
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