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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 insideHPC
Excelero And Quanta Cloud Technology Streamline High-Performance Cloud Storage
Today Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) and Excelero announced QxStor Excelero NVMesh, a High-Performance Cloud Storage joint solution that delivers the high IOPs performance...
From insideHPC
Powering Datacenters with Earth’s Molten Core: A Practical Guide
Dan Olds from OrionX.net gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "Novel Therm's enhanced Stirling Engine can turn warm water geothermal into megawatts of electricity...
From insideHPC
GCS Centres HLRS, JSC, and LRZ to Exhibit SC19
Meet the three GCS centres, the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), and Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Garching...
From The Eponymous Pickle
NELL and Machine Learning
In a re-examination of 'machine learning', the broader definition that includes but is not restricted to deep learning. I recalled our look the CMU effort called...
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Rolls Towards Cloud Data Intelligence
Our enterprise was and is an SAP user, we worked with them primarily on optimization analytics applications.HANA in the Cloud by Christmas, SAP Says, Alex Woodie...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Benchmarking is Hard: Processors Learn to Predict Branches
A lot of software is an intricate of branches (if–then clauses). For performance reasons, modern processors predict the results of these branches. In my previous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Asks for Home Access for Delivery
Another case, like the one with Amazon of allowing delivery personnel a means to enter the smart home for delivery. Amazon Key. No idea of how that is working...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Mispredicted branches can multiply your running times
Modern processors are superscalar, meaning that they can execute many instructions at once. For example, some processors can retire four or six instructions per...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Daydream VR
Somewhat of a surprise given how Google is so emerging tech. But more of a confirmation of a very niche market? Not enough consumer uptake. We saw an early...
From insideHPC
Mellanox Accelerates NVMe/TCP and RoCE Fabrics to 200Gb/s
Today Mellanox announced acceleration of NVMe/TCP at speeds up to 200Gb/s. The entire portfolio of shipping ConnectX adapters supports NVMe-oF over both TCP and...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Papers for the 7th Annual Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HoTSoS) Symposium
The 7th Annual Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HoTSoS) Symposium recently released a call for papers. This year’s HoTSoS Symposium will be held April 7-8...
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for CHPC National Conference in South Africa
Registration is now open for the CHPC National Conference. The event takes place Dec. 1-5 in Johannesburg, South Africa. "The National Integrated Cyber Infrastructure...
From Schneier on Security
Cracking the Passwords of Early Internet Pioneers
Lots of them weren't very good: BSD co-inventor Dennis Ritchie, for instance, used "dmac" (his middle name was MacAlistair); Stephen R. Bourne, creator of the Bourne...
From insideHPC
Sandia Research Project turns Big Data into real-time, actionable intelligence
Researchers at Sandia National Labs are leading a project to deliver actionable information from streaming data to decision makers. While social media, cameras,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook AI Releases Searchable Code Snippets
Seems a useful thing, what Facebook has put on the web to support AI efforts is impressive. See more at the Facebook.ai site. Also note the claimed validation...
From insideHPC
Podcast: The Turing Machine is Sequential, so how about a Parallel Machine?
The @RadioFreeHPC team is joined by the folks at MemComputing, a San Diego startup that’s built a new parallel foundation for computing. It calls it the universal...
From insideHPC
Accelerating Research and Enterprise Solutions by Bridging HPC and AI
Venkatesh Kannan from ICHEC gave this talk at the UK HPC Conference. "The presentation will highlight the need to address the symbiotic relationship between HPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ticketing with a Blockchain
Interesting example of a kind of smart contract embedded in the blockchain to enforce agreements regards how tickets can be used. So this means when a ticket...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Smart TV is (and has been) Watching You
Almost obvious, its one reason that smart TVs are relatively cheap. My TV seems to do an update every time I switch services. A massive download? After 1 AM...
From The Eponymous Pickle