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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
Call for Sessions: Open Fabrics Workshop 2017 in Austin
The OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017 has issued their Call for Sessions. The event will take place March 27-31, 2017 in Austin, Texas. "An ongoing collaboration...
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How Researchers Will Benefit from Canada’s National Data Cyberinfrastructure
"Individual institutions or organizations will have opportunities to deploy storage locally and can federate their local repository into the national system,” says...
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Cobham Opera Simulation Software Moves Tokamak Closer to Fusion Energy
The Cobham Technical Services Opera software is helping Tokamak Energy to reduce the very high costs associated with prototyping a new fusion power plant concept...
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HPE Apollo 6500 for Deep Learning
"With up to eight high performance NVIDIA GPUs designed for maximum transfer bandwidth, the HPE Apollo 6500 is purpose-built for HPC and deep learning applications...
From Computational Complexity
A students unusual proof might be a better proof
I asked a student to show that between any two rationals is a rational. She did the following: if x < y are rational then take δ << y-x and rational and use...
From XRDS
Tending To Infinity
What kind of thoughts does the word ‘infinity’ evoke in your mind? Do you visualize a never-ending expanse that stretches in all directions? Or maybe a straight...
From Phys.org Technology News
Expectation versus reality in the acceptance of self-driving cars
As interest in the development of automated cars increases, public and media attention has focused on the speculative benefit of having an abundance of in-vehicle...
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Increasing the Efficiency of Storage Systems
Have you ever wondered why your HPC installation is not performing as you had envisioned ? You ran small simulations. You spec’d out the CPU speed, the network...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Smart Speakers Need a Screen?
The rash of smart speakers and voice drive smart home control systems continues. But using them with advanced features, like recipe systems, or searches that...
From Schneier on Security
International Phone Fraud Tactics
This article outlines two different types of international phone fraud. The first can happen when you call an expensive country like Cuba: My phone call never actually...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Don’t assume that safety comes for free: a Swift case study
Most modern languages try to be “safer” by checking runtime values in the hope of producing more secure and less buggy software. Sadly, it makes it harder to reason...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go Tests Effort-less Buying
In the isle, without checkouts. But tracking I am sure. So this can detect aspects of movement and context that take us to purchase. What are the patternsBlueEyes...
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Supercomputing Drug Discovery to Combat Heart Disease
Using a unique computational approach to rapidly sample proteins in their natural state of gyrating, bobbing, and weaving, a research team from UC San Diego and...
From Schneier on Security
Voynich Manuscript Facsimile Published
Yale University Press has published a facsimile of the Voynich Manuscript. The manuscript is also available online....
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Reviews the SC16 Student Cluster Competition Configurations & Results
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results from SC16 Student Cluster Competition. "This year, the advent of clusters with the new Nvidia Tesla...
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NVIDIA Launches Deep Learning Teaching Kit for University Professors
"With demand for graduates with AI skills booming, we’ve released the NVIDIA Deep Learning Teaching Kit to help educators give their students hands on experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standardizing Predictive Influence Measures
Determining influence is a very frequent need for analytics in business. It can often guide us towards data collection. It is often a prelude to further analysis...
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NIH Powers Biowulf Cluster with Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand
Today Mellanox announced that NIH, the U.S. National Institute of Health’s Center for Information Technology, has selected Mellanox 100G EDR InfiniBand solutions...
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Kx Streaming Analytics Crunches 1.2 Billion NYC Taxi Data Points using Intel Xeon Phi
"The complexity and high costs of architecting and maintaining streaming analytics solutions often make it difficult to get new projects off the ground. That’sKx...
From The Eponymous Pickle