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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 ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating the Evolution of ACM-W Scholarships: Empowering Women in Computing
Project team: Collaborators: ACM-W scholarships have been instrumental in providing crucial support for women in computer science and related fields, enabling...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor?
In about 10 years, Apple has multiplied by 19 the number of transistors in its mobile processors. It corresponds roughly to a steady rate of improvement of 34%Continue...
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Paul Messina and the Journey to Exascale
From the early days of supercomputing through the success of exascale supercomputing, few HPC luminaries have played as important and integral leadership role in...
From insideHPC
Exascale Day 2023: The Exascale Computing Era Is Here.
With the delivery of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) first exascale system, Frontier, in 2022, and the upcoming deployment of Aurora and El Capitan systems...
From insideHPC
D-Wave Quantum: QPU Improves Cellphone Network Transmission
PALO ALTO, Calif., BURNABY, B.C. — October 18, 2023 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today launched a new open-source demonstration highlighting how its Advantage...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The More You Know The More You Expect
One thing that happens when you know who to write computer code is that you know how hard or easy some things are. If you’re even the least OCD some things that...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: Mark as spam, the long fight to keep emails and texts useful
(This is an excerpt from my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more.) The first email on the internet was sent in 1971. Back then, the internet...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Members Publish White Paper on Algorithmic Robustness
CCC Council Members David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Brian LaMacchia (Farcaster Consulting Group, LLC), Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas Austin)...
From insideHPC
Argonne Deploys New Groq System to ALCF AI Testbed, Providing AI Accelerator Access to Researchers Globally
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and LEMONT, IL, October 17, 2023 — Groq, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions company, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne...
From insideHPC
Building a Capable Computing Ecosystem for Exascale and Beyond
The exascale computing era is here. With the delivery of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) first exascale system, Frontier, in 2022, and the upcoming deployment...
From insideHPC
Exascale Drives Industry Innovation for a Better Future
“Exascale is a massive accelerator for technology, productivity, engineering, and science.” Outside the high-performance computing (HPC) community, “exascale” may...
From insideHPC
ALPINE/zfp Addresses Analysis, Visualization and Data Reduction Needs for Exascale Science Applications
With the advent of the exascale supercomputing era, computational scientists can run simulations at higher resolutions, add more detailed physical phenomena, increase...
From insideHPC
Flare Gas Data Center Company Crusoe Picks HPE for Green GenAI
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced its HPE Cray supercomputers were selected by Crusoe, a builder of modular data centers, to power new cloud...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Fairness and Sampling
A talk by Sruthi Gorantla while visiting Georgia Tech Sruthi Gorantla is a fourth-year PhD candidate in computer science at the Indian Institute of Science and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Randomness in programming (with Go code)
Computer software is typically deterministic on paper: if you run twice the same program with the same inputs, you should get the same outputs. In practice, the...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces 2024 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge, Pre-proposals Due Nov. 13
Oct. 16, 2023 — The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is an allocation program for projects of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE), with an emphasis...
From insideHPC
Two Columbia Univ. Researchers Awarded John von Neumann Theory Prize
BALTIMORE, Oct. 16, 2023 – The 2023 John von Neumann Theory Prize, awarded by INFORMS, is bestowed to Christos H. Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis for their...
From insideHPC
DOE Selects JLab to Be High Performance Data Facility Lead
Oct. 16, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of the High Performance Data Facility (HPDF) hub, which will create a new scientific...
From insideHPC
Texas Tech HPC Center Chooses CIQ for HPC Infrastructure
RENO, Nev.—October 16, 2023—CIQ, the company building software infrastructure for enterprises running performance-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise...
From Geeking with Greg