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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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Thomas Edison's lab door key, lightbulbs up for auction
Thomas Edison's door key to the 19th century lab in New Jersey where he invented the phonograph goes up for auction this weekend, along with lightbulbs he perfected...
From insideHPC
Cray Sets New Supercomputing Record with HLRS and Ansys
ANSYS, HLRS and Cray have pushed the boundaries of supercomputing by achieving a new supercomputing milestone by scaling ANSYS software to 172,032 cores on theCray...
From insideHPC
Submissions for ISC 2017 Research Papers Due December 16
Submissions for ISC 2017 Research Paper Sessions are now being accepted through December 16, 2016. The deadline has been extended to accommodate current submissions...
From insideHPC
Video: Behind the Machine at HPE
How is Hewlett Packard Enterprise reinventing the fundamental architecture on which all computers have been built for the past 60 years? In this video, HPC describes...
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: EuroPar 2017 in Santiago de Compostela
The Euro-Par 2017 conference has issued its Call for Papers. The conference takes place Aug. 28 – Sept. 1, 2017 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Euro-Par is the...
From insideHPC
HIP and CAFFE Porting and Profiling with AMD’s ROCm
In this video from SC16, Ben Sander from AMD presents: HIP and CAFFE Porting and Profiling with AMD's ROCm. "We are excited to present ROCm, the first open-source...
From Schneier on Security
Auditing Elections for Signs of Hacking
Excellent essay pointing out that election security is a national security issue, and that we need to perform random ballot audits on every future election: The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Map of What's Connected to the Internet
I remember when the Internet predecessor was just connected to the Pentagon, defense contractors and some bases. In Gizmodo: " .... This map was made on August...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Tutorials
Of interest. Good tutorial demonstration of the application of Watson to 'automated' analytics that I am investigating further. This or something like it, may...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Research Data Exchange (RDE) Adds More Data Environments for Download!
The Research Data Exchange (RDE) is a web-based data resource provided by the USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program. It collects, manages, and...
From insideHPC
RAID Inc. Steps up with ZFS on Lustre at SC16
In this video from SC16, Brad Merchant from RAID Inc. describes the company's new Lustre ZFS Building Block. "RAID Inc. offers a suite of building block product...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asia's AI Agenda
My recent interaction with the Asian components of this have left me impressed. The below is an abstract with links to the complete report. And beyond to link...
From insideHPC
DDN IME Burst Buffer Exceeds 1 TB/s for Japan’s Fastest Supercomputer
"Storage performance has been one of the biggest challenges in developing supercomputers. To meet the demands for storage performance, IME was introduced to the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digimarc
My former colleague and leader, Andy Walter, is now on the board of Digimarc, a company we talked to for advanced digital watermarking ideas. More on Digimarc...
From insideHPC
Best Threads Per Core with Intel Xeon Phi
"When designing an application that contains many threads and less cores than threads, it is important to understand what is the optimal number of threads thatBest...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Education Week School/District Pledge
Does your school believe in Computer Science for All? Take the @CSforAll #CSEdWeekpledge to show your support and be included in announcement! Our economy isCSforAll...
From insideHPC
Silicon Mechanics: HPC Built for You at SC16
In this video from SC16, Silicon Mechanics CTO Daniel Chow describes how the company brings value and performance to its HPC customers. "When looking for a leading...
From Schneier on Security
Analyzing WeChat
Citizen Lab has analyzed how censorship works in the Chinese chat app WeChat: Key Findings: Keyword filtering on WeChat is only enabled for users with accounts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Echo to Business Data Queries
Does get back to when is a voice interaction with your data most useful? An added human channel to data. Another means to deliver business intelligence beyond...
From insideHPC