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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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NVIDIA TensorRT 6 Breaks 10 millisecond barrier for BERT-Large
Today, NVIDIA released TensorRT 6, which includes new capabilities that dramatically accelerate conversational AI applications, speech recognition, 3D image segmentation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reminder: Talk Today: Mixed integer Programming and Machine Learning
Highly recommended! We used Mixed Integer Programming optimization methods for many years in the enterprise. Especially for complex combinatorial decision making...
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Dell EMC step up with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors
Dell EMC has launched new Ready Solutions for HPC with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors, offer improved performance for workloads such as computational fluid dynamics...
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Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory comes to Oracle Exadata X8M
Today Oracle announced that it is incorporating the high performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory into its next-generation Oracle Exadata X8M...
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Gadi — Australia’s Newest Supercomputer
Allan Williams from NCI gave this talk at the Perth HPC Conference. "With 3,200 nodes, Gadi will power some of Australia’s most crucial research, seeking to solve...
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Health Data for Personal Use
Just heard this podcast, was on my reading list, regarding https://Doc.AI an interesting model about using health data. Some good thoughts in the podcast. ...
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In China: Smile to Pay
Seeming to be expanding in China. Payment here, but to what degree also product recognition and tallying?Smile-to-Pay: Chinese Shoppers Turn to Facial Payment...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: "Tools and Weapons"
"Tools and Weapons" by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne is a look at some important computing issues through a Microsoft lens. It is a pretty revealing look as the...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Separating Words: Decoding a Paper
A clever trick on combining automata John Robson has worked on various problems including what is still the best result on separating words—the topic we discussed...
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Computing Power and a Quest for Intelligence
Interesting piece in MIT news today on their work with IBM and Google to receive a supercomputer, and get Google Cloud Credits, and the implications of how these...
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Including Smart Sensors in Building Design
Pointing to new studies about smart building architectural design.Using smart sensor technology in building design in TechXplore by San Diego State University...
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CCC Workshop Report Released: Identifying Research Challenges in Post Quantum Cryptography Migration and Cryptographic Agility
David Ott (VMware Research) and Chris Peikert (University of Michigan) provided contributions to this post. On January 31-February 1, 2019, the Computing Community...
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Podcast: Extreme Power and Cooling Efficiency at DownUnder Geosolutions
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at an interesting presentation on Power and Cooling by Stuart Midgley from DownUnder Geosolutions. Their 250 Petaflop...
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Call for Submissions: ISC 2020 Contributed Program
ISC 2020 has issued it Call for Submissions for its Contributed Program. The conference takes place June 21-25, 2020, in Frankfurt, Germany and will be attended...
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ExaNeSt Project Successfully Builds Prototype for Exascale
In this video, researchers describe the results from the ExaNeSt project. "The prototype is now successfully built, demonstrating energy efficiency in a High-Performance...
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Video: The SX Aurora TSUBASA (Vector Engine)
Deepak Pathania from NEC gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The NEC Vector Engine Processor was developed using 16 nm FinFET process technology for extremeVideo...
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Exposure in a Supply Chain
Interesting examination of a massive supply chain and its exposure to threats. Seems any complex supply chain should have this done, and repeated as contextsHere...
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AI Reproduce-ability Crisis
Science requires enough information to reproduce a result that is claimed. But does not mean that a result cannot be consistently useful even if not formallyreproducability...
From Computational Complexity
this paper from 2015 cracks Diffie-Hellman. What to tell the students?
I am teaching cryptography this semester for the second time (I taught it in Fall 2019) and will soon tell the students about the paper from 2015: Imperfect Forward...
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