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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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SDSC Awarded NSF Grant for Triton Stratus
The National Science Foundation has awarded SDSC a two-year grant worth almost $400,000 to deploy a new system called Triton Stratus. "Triton Stratus will provide...
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Video: Supercomputing Sediment Transport in Estuaries
In this video, Salme Cook from the University of New Hampshire describes how she is using NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer to model estuaries. One of the big challenges...
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Podcast: Is Cloud too expensive for HPC?
Is Cloud too expensive for HPC? Enquiring minds want to know, as does the HPC community whose single-minded obsession with maximum price-performance is notorious...
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Video: HPC at CASC
In this video, researchers describes activities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC). Director Jeffrey Hittinger...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon to Retrain Third of Workforce
Internal retraining makes much sense given the cost of acquisition and HR. Amazon to Retrain a Third of Its U.S. WorkforceThe Wall Street JournalChip CutterAmazon...
From Schneier on Security
ACLU on the GCHQ Backdoor Proposal
Back in January, two senior GCHQ officials proposed a specific backdoor for communications systems. It was universally derided as unworkable -- by me, as well....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Too Little Time and Too Many People
Four years ago I was at a two day informal gathering of teachers. As much as I really enjoy conferences like CSTA, SIGCSE, ISTE and others there was some real magic...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Enhanced Editing of Sports Coverage
Watched some of the recent Wimbledon, and IBM frequently pointed out that Watson was choosing and editing and delivering the film clips based on measures like human...
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DARPA and Zero Knowledge Proofs
Does make sense that this kind of capability would be generally useful. A key kind of cybersecurity.Generating zero-knowledge proofs for defense capabilities ...
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Definition of a Smart Contract
Good, non technical view of the smart contract, more details at the link: Definition of a Smart ContractWhat's a smart contract (and how does it work)? By Lucas...
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Supercomputing Heat Transfer between 2D Electronic Components
Researchers are using XSEDE supercomputing resources in the search for new materials for power-efficient electronics. "Using a combination of calculations on XSEDE...
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Call for Papers – 2nd Annual International Workshop on Quantum Computing for Sustainable Computing
Drs. Travis Humble (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Himanshu Thapliyal (University of Kentucky) have released a call for papers in order to participate in the...
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Why PASC19 is a great show for the International Science Community
In this video from PASC19 in Zurich, Mike Heroux from Sandia National Labs shares the reasons he attends the conference every year. As a multi-disciplinary show...
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CRAG Adopts Pure Storage for Agricultural Genomics
The Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) in Spain has announced plans to deploy Pure Storage solutions to improve its high performance computingCRAG...
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Bill Kramer to Lead Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
William Kramer has been selected as the next director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. "It’s our great fortune to recruit Bill, who is known and honored...
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Fujitsu to Deploy Gadi Supercomputer at NCI in Australia
Today Fujitsu announced a contract to upgrade the Australia's fastest supercomputer at NCI. Called "Gadi," the new supercomputer will replace the NCI's currentFujitsu...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Digital Transformations Webinar
Upcoming Webinar by colleague Tony Saldhana, expert on this topic, has just published a book on the topic. I will be attending and report on the talk, more information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple to Buy Most of Intel's 5G Modem Business
An interesting move, an attempt to make Apple emerge in 5G? Compete with Qualcomm.Apple’s spending $1 billion to buy most of Intel’s 5G modem businessApple iPhone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
We See Shapes, DL Sees Textures
Interesting observation here, what are its ultimate implications for AI?Where We See Shapes, AI Sees Textures in QuantaMagazineTo researchers’ surprise, deep learning...
From Schneier on Security