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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Our Trip To Monte Carlo
Why does randomness help? Kathryn Farley is my dear wife. She and I are currently on a cruise through the Mediterranean. Our trip started in Barcelona and is stopping...
From insideHPC
ANSYS Cloud HPC Increases Simulation throughput for Hundreds of Organizations
Engineers are unlocking increased compute capacity to achieve advancements in 5G, autonomous systems, electric vehicles, and other global megatrends thanks to ANSYS...
From insideHPC
Intel Talks at Hot Chips gear up for “AI Everywhere”
Today at Hot Chips 2019, Intel revealed new details of upcoming high-performance AI accelerators: Intel Nervana neural network processors, with the NNP-T for training...
From insideHPC
Singularity Enterprise to Accelerate Adoption of Containers with Cryptographically Verifiable Trust
Today Sylabs announced that Singularity Enterprise is now generally available as a self-hosted offering, making it faster and easier for businesses to adopt containerization...
From insideHPC
OpenHPC: Community Building Blocks for HPC Systems
Karl Schultz from the Oden Institute gave this talk at HPCKP'19. "Formed initially in November 2015 and formalized as a Linux Foundation project in June 2016, OpenHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Risk Aware Traffic Engineering
Analysis and use risk measures a favorite approach of mine. Risk-aware always a good idea. Especially considering architectures.Using Wall Street secrets to reduce...
From Schneier on Security
Surveillance as a Condition for Humanitarian Aid
Excellent op-ed on the growing trend to tie humanitarian aid to surveillance. Despite the best intentions, the decision to deploy technology like biometrics is...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Your Voice Reveals
And of course you may be revealing things you want to keep private. As this kind of pattern recognition advances we will see more of that.What Your Voice Reveals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Twins Grow Up
"Digital Twins Grow Up," by Samuel @samthewriter Greengard, says that digital twins, or exact #virtual representations of physical objects and #systems, are revolutionizing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magnetic Precise Drug Delivery
Seems a very good advance. Do we know the exact implications of precise delivery of pharma? Practical issues?A new way to deliver drugs with pinpoint targeting...
From insideHPC
Cerebras Systems Unveils the Industry’s First Trillion Transistor Chip for AI
Today AI startup Cerebras Systems unveiled the largest chip ever built. "The Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine (WSE) is the largest chip ever built. 56x larger than any...
From insideHPC
UPMEM Puts CPUs Inside Memory to Allow Apps to Run 20 Times Faster
Today UPMEM announced a Processing-in-Memory (PIM) acceleration solution that allows big data and AI applications to run 20 times faster and with 10 times lessUPMEM...
From insideHPC
Video: Unboxing the NVIDIA DGX-1 Supercomputer at Georgia Tech
In this video, Oded Green from NVIDIA unboxes a DGX-1 supercomputer at the College of Computing Data Center at Georgia Tech. "And while the DGX-1 arriving at Georgia...
From insideHPC
Simulating Shock Turbulence Interactions on Stampede II
In this special guest feature, Jorge Salazar from TACC writes that Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputers to better understand shock turbulence interactions...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stop and Shop has Robots in the Aisle
How they are being used is still unclear, but this could get customers used to the idea of robots in the aisle. Pictures of the bots show an attempt to be humorous...
From Schneier on Security
Influence Operations Kill Chain
Influence operations are elusive to define. The Rand Corp.'s definition is as good as any: "the collection of tactical information about an adversary as well as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Home Sensors for Alexa
A good look, many from Samsung. Not enough in the way of collaborative capabilities and skills for these. I want to see more collaboration, predictive AI and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Motivation and Goodwill
Intriguing motivation augmentation via goodwill? How universally and continuously does this work with other goals?New Tool Shows Goodwill May Trump Profit as Work...
From insideHPC
Micron Starts Volume Production of 1z Nanometer DRAM Process Node
Today Micron Technology announced advancements in DRAM scaling, making Micron the first memory company to begin mass production of 16Gb DDR4 products using 1z nm...
From The Eponymous Pickle