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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
Interview: Knowledgebase is power for nuclear reactor developers
AI technologies are being used to help develop Next-gen nuclear energy systems that could help reduce our dependency on fossil fuels. In this special guest feature...
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Federal Agencies Tap New Data Streaming Solution from PSSC Labs
Federal agencies are leveraging the new CyberRax Data Flow Pipeline from PSSC Labs to achieve their goals. The CyberRax DataFlow Pipeline platform is designed in...
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A Performance Comparison of Different MPI Implementations on an ARM HPC System
Nicholas Brown from EPCC gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "In this talk I will describe work we have done in exploring the performance properties of MVAPICH...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reality of Data Privacy
Long known that this is a difficult problem. Here a considerable piece on the subject:Is Data Privacy Real? Don’t Bet on ItAug 23, 2019 North America in Knowledge...
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Department of Energy awards Fermilab $3.5 million for quantum science
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded researchers at its Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory more than $3.5 million to boost research in the fast-emerging...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Software Architecture to Watch
Notable piece by O'Reilly on expanding and emergent software architecture methods:The topics to watch in software architectureMicroservices, serverless, AI, ML,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Recruiting Spies
As might be expected, as a vast public collection of detailed HR data, with the ability to follow through with extended communication, it could be used to recruit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Astonishes
Free at the link, a short non-technical article in the latest Communications of the ACM, which describes how machine learning is taking over computing. And how...
From Schneier on Security
The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security
The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Yet that's...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Body Sensors Use Gathered Power
Another example of the use of body gathered power.Sticker sensor monitors your body using wireless powerIt wouldn't interfere with your behavior.Jon Fingas, @jonfingas...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI, Humanity and Civilization
A future look at AI. I think too pessimistic, but suggests some cautions about how we will need to utilize it. Augmentation rather than autonomy may be the best...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inability to Reproduce Results: A Crisis
Its the scientific method. I have seen many examples where you could not recreate the context involved, but the results were accepted as proof, because theyAn...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mining Scientific Applications by Analogies
This could also be done inside a company to look at publications like technical reports, and then also linking those to external publications as well. Driven...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DAML: Contract Language of Distributed Ledgers
Quite an interesting piece on contract languages and 'Smart Contracts". A recent proposal made me look deeper into this idea, especially as it might connect to...
From insideHPC
QC Ware and SLAC to develop Chemistry Applications for Quantum Computing
Today quantum startup QC Ware announced that the company been awarded a U.S. Department of Energy grant to use quantum computing to better understand complex material...
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Podcast: Cray Pulls an Exascale Hat Trick
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC looks at Cray's series of big wins for DOE Exascale systems. "Guess who's having a great year? Think Aurora, Frontier, and El...
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Overview of the MVAPICH Project and Future Roadmap
DK Panda gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "This talk will provide an overview of the MVAPICH project (past, present, and future). Future roadmap and features...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speeding Up Learning Inference by 2X
New methods, technical:New Technique Speeds Up Deep-Learning Inference on TensorFlow by 2xby Anthony Alford in InfoQResearchers at North Carolina State University...
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NVIDIA to Accelerate Machine Learning on VMware Cloud
Today NVIDIA and VMware announced plans to deliver accelerated GPU services for VMware Cloud on AWS to power modern enterprise applications, including AI, machine...
From Schneier on Security