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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
Video: The Legion Programming Model
"Developed by Stanford University, Legion is a data-centric programming model for writing high-performance applications for distributed heterogeneous architectures...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Show Checkout Line Length
Adding line lengths to maps of stores. Saw a similar approach done at a Kroger, but just for their store. The data will be crowd sourced, which can lead to incorrect...
From insideHPC
WekaIO Partners with HPE to Develop All-Flash Storage for HPC and AI
Today WekaIO announced a partnership with HPE to deliver integrated flash-based parallel file system capabilities that can significantly accelerate compute-intensive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Economics
Been looking at the 'One Belt, One Road Initiative'. Earlier we had looked at modeling retail demand in Chinese markets using agent simulation modeling, as itWill...
From insideHPC
HPC Connects: The Search for Elusive Proteins that perform Gene Editing
In this video from the SC17 HPC Connects series, David Paez-Espino from the Joint Genome Institute describes how researchers are using supercomputing to searchHPC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Launches Conversational OS
Ultimately it will be system that can natural converse with us that will be AI. Not just systems that can recognize language, but systems that can carry on anBaidu...
From insideHPC
Toshiba to Demo NVMe Over Fabrics at SC17
Today Toshiba Memory America announced plans to demonstrate High Performance Computing NVM Express over Fabrics at SC17 in Denver. "NVMe-oF brings direct-connect...
From insideHPC
Gidel Launches Acceleration Boards Based on Intel Stratix 10 FPGAs
Today Gidel launched their Proc10S family of high performance, scalable compute acceleration boards. The devices are based on the Stratix 10 FPGA, which was released...
From Schneier on Security
New Research in Invisible Inks
It's a lot more chemistry than I understand: Invisible inks based on "smart" fluorescent materials have been shining brightly (if only you could see them) in the...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking a Fingerprint Biometric
Embedded in this story about infidelity and a mid-flight altercation, there's an interesting security tidbit: The woman had unlocked her husband's phone using his...
From insideHPC
Japanese HPC Cloud Startup XTREME Design Raises $2.75M
Today Japanese HPC Cloud Startup XTREME Design announced the completion of a $2.75M financing agreement in Series-A round funding led by World Innovation Lab (WiL)...
From Computational Complexity
Advice for the Advisor
A soon-to-be professor asked me recently if I could share some ideas on on how to advise students. I started to write some notes only to realize that I had already...
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of Machine Intelligence
Well done piece, with useful charting out of the state of intelligence. Below just a brief excerpt:The current state of machine intelligence 3.0Watching the appeal...
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems AHx10 Heat Exchanger Delivers Rack Level Cooling without Facility Water
Today CoolIT Systems unveiled their new AHx10 Heat Exchange Module. This latest member of the CoolIT lineup is a rack mounted Liquid-to- Air heat exchanger that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
AlphaX Decision Sciences
Brought to my attention, Advanced Analytics for Oil Companies.About AlphaX: AlphaX Decision Sciences, LLC is incorporated in Delaware with offices in Houston,...
From insideHPC
DDN Powers Radio Astronomy at Pawsey Centre in Australia
Today DDN announced that Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia has deployed a pair of DDN GRIDScaler parallel file system appliances to help deliver...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Risky Things
Risk increases as things exist in external environments, as does the IOT.The Internet of Risky Things - What to do about IOT Sceurity? By Peter Liss in Linkedin...
From insideHPC
All about Baselining: RedLine Explains HPC Performance Methodology
In HPC we talk a lot about performance, and vendors are constantly striving to increase the performance of their components, but who out there is making sure that...
From insideHPC
Building Fast Data Compression Code with Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) 2018
Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is a highly optimized, production-ready, library for lossless data compression/decompression targeting image...
From My Biased Coin