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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
Consumer GPUs Power 2 Petaflop Deep Learning Cluster at ASTRON
Today ClusterVision announced the successful deployment of a new high performance computing GPU cluster system for the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go Opening to Public
Don't plan to get to this anytime soon, but continue to follow automatic sensing and payment systems in detail here. Would like to better understand the behavioral...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Challenges for AI Redesigning Healthcare
Six Challenges To Tackle Before Artificial Intelligence Redesigns Healthcare in Medical FuturistThe potential of artificial intelligence for making healthcare better...
From insideHPC
Building a GPU-enabled and Performance-portable Global Cloud-resolving Atmospheric Model
Richard Loft from NCAR gave this talk at the NVIDIA booth at SC17. "The objectives of NCAR's exploration of accelerator architectures for high performance computing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Microbenchmarking is hard: virtual machine edition
To better understand software performance, we often use small controlled experiments called microbenchmarks. In an earlier post, I remarked that it is hard to reason...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Uncertainty
Much of this is well known in the data visualization space, but like to see it in one place. Should be taught this way. Uncertainty should always be includedVisualizing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lifeguards, Dogs and Light
About models and the need to create transparency through understandable models. With yet another tip of the hat to Phyicist Richard Feynman. To Save Drowning...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robomart Brings an Autonomous Store to You
Unlikely I think except for narrow markets. Interesting follow though.Will retailers go on the road with self-driving mobile stores? by Matthew Stern in Retailwire...
From insideHPC
Let’s Talk Exascale Podcast looks at the GAMESS Project for Computational Chemistry
In this episode of Let’s Talk Exascale, Mike Bernhardt from ECP discusses the GAMESS project with Mark Gordon from Ames Laboratory. Gordon is the principal investigator...
From insideHPC
Apply Now for 2018 International HPC Summer School
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the ninth International HPC...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Te Papa Colossal Squid Exhibition Is Being Renovated
The New Zealand home of the colossal squid exhibit is behind renovated. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Tech Altering Business Organization
Interesting claim, though don't quite agree yet. The tech is still valuable procedural and operational augmentation, and not structural change. Can see itAI...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (January 19th, 2018)
The Raspberry Pi 3, a $15-dollar computer that I use for various fun projects, is 15 times more powerful than the Cray-1 supercomputer, but it is 130,000 timesContinue...
From insideHPC
NASA Goddard Boosts Discover Supercomputer to 5 Petaflops
CSRA Inc. has acquired another compute expansion under its High Performance Computing contract with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. "This HPC expansion brings...
From insideHPC
Podcast: What’s Intel up to with Blockchain?
In this Chip Chat podcast, Mike Reed, Director of the Blockchain Program Office at Intel, joins us to discuss Intel’s blockchain journey and how Intel technologies...
From insideHPC
New HPC for Energy White Paper looks at Exascale Architectures for Greener Combustion Systems
The use of new Exascale architectures and the corresponding advances in codes to fully exploit new chip capabilities will help address challenges for combustion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu China's Alexa
More on the elusive indications of what Baidu is up to.China Has Its Own Alexa, But It’s No Mere Knockoff in FastcompanyUnlike Amazon and Google, Baidu’s DuerOS...
From insideHPC
Accelerated Computing: The Path Forward
Ian Buck from NVIDIA gave this talk at SC17 in Denver. “Supercomputing has swept rapidly from the far edges of science to the heart of our everyday lives. And propelling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Salesforce
For AI Style applications you must connect with experts in the domain area. Here is an example of doing that,IBM expands AI partnership with Salesforce By...
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