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Traverse Supercomputer to accelerate fusion research at Princeton
From insideHPC

Traverse Supercomputer to accelerate fusion research at Princeton

Princeton’s High-Performance Computing Research Center recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for Traverse, it’s newest supercomputer. Traverse is a 1.4 petaflop...

Visualizing and Simulating Atomic Structures with CUDA
From insideHPC

Visualizing and Simulating Atomic Structures with CUDA

In this video, John Stone from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign discusses the role of CUDA and GPUs in processing large datasets to visualize and simulate...

Podcast: Advancing Scientific Research with HPC
From insideHPC

Podcast: Advancing Scientific Research with HPC

In this podcast, Dana Chang from Atipa Technologies joins Conversations in the Cloud to discuss Atipa’s Polaris High Performance Computing and Visualization (HPCV)...

Bright Computing Powers Deep Learning at University of North Dakota
From insideHPC

Bright Computing Powers Deep Learning at University of North Dakota

The University of North Dakota is using Bright Computing software to unify its newly designed clustered infrastructure, giving them more versatility, access toBright...

Video: What Can HPC on AWS Do?
From insideHPC

Video: What Can HPC on AWS Do?

Ian Colle from Amazon gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "AWS provides the most elastic and scalable cloud infrastructure to run your HPC applications. WithVideo...

Learning More Efficient Allocation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning More Efficient Allocation

Consider other possibilities for real time efficiencyArtificial intelligence could help data centers run far more efficientlyMIT system “learns” how to optimally...

New Unpatchable iPhone Exploit Allows Jailbreaking
From Schneier on Security

New Unpatchable iPhone Exploit Allows Jailbreaking

A new iOS exploit allows jailbreaking of pretty much all version of the iPhone. This is a huge deal for Apple, but at least it doesn't allow someone to remotely...

Podcast: Quantum Supremacy? Yes and No!
From insideHPC

Podcast: Quantum Supremacy? Yes and No!

In this podcast, the RadioFreeHPC team discusses the Google/NASA paper, titled “Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor”, that was published...

The price of  a MacBook Air worldwide
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The price of a MacBook Air worldwide

Apple sells identical laptops worldwide. There might be small differences with respect to power adaptors and so forth, but the laptops are the same internally.Continue...

Volkswagen and AWS Web Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

Volkswagen and AWS Web Services

Back to how much we can share, remove silos, and get data efficiently to various kinds of analytical engines.Volkswagen Group’s landmark project with Amazon Web...

Report: Mellanox ConnectX Ethernet NICs Outperforming Competition
From insideHPC

Report: Mellanox ConnectX Ethernet NICs Outperforming Competition

Today Mellanox announced that laboratory tests by The Tolly Group prove its ConnectX 25GE Ethernet adapter significantly outperforms the Broadcom NetXtreme E series...

Normal Looking Smart Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Normal Looking Smart Glasses

Perhaps one of the biggest problems with smart glasses, their appearance. This Indigogo project introduces Norm Glasses, which addresses that problem.  With the...

New Intel Xeon W and X-Series Processors Accelerate Workstation AI
From insideHPC

New Intel Xeon W and X-Series Processors Accelerate Workstation AI

Today Intel unveiled its latest lineup of Intel Xeon W and X-series processors, which puts new classes of computing performance and AI acceleration into the hands...

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 16 – Interview with Melanie Mitchell Part 2
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 16 – Interview with Melanie Mitchell Part 2

A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. This is part 2 of Khari Douglas’ interview with Melanie...

Supercomputing Structures of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
From insideHPC

Supercomputing Structures of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Researchers using the Titan supercomputer at ORNL have created the most accurate 3D model yet of an intrinsically disordered protein, revealing the ensemble ofSupercomputing...

From Computational Complexity

What comes first theory or practice? Its Complicated!

Having majored in pure math I had the impression that usually the theory comes first and then someone works out something to work in practice. While this is true...

Edward Snowden's Memoirs
From Schneier on Security

Edward Snowden's Memoirs

Ed Snowden has published a book of his memoirs: Permanent Record. I have not read it yet, but I want to point you all towards two pieces of writing about the book...

Should Companies have to Pay for your Data?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Should Companies have to Pay for your Data?

Some work is going on to figure this out.    But will we get all the freebees we have come to expect?Should companies have to pay you to use your personal data?...

AI is not An Excuse
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI is not An Excuse

Internet founder Vint Cerf does a good job putting out a cautious view on the current use of AI.  In theory good research, development and value should never be...

Mini Tutorial on Probability
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mini Tutorial on Probability

A nicely done mini tutorial, very clearly done,  essential stuff.  The intro to the book and Bayesian also very useful.How to Develop an Intuition for Joint, Marginal...
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