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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 Participation: Women in IT Networking at SC16
"The Women in IT Networking at SC (WINS) program was developed as a means for addressing the prevalent gender gap that exists in Information Technology particularly...
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Building Bridges to the Future
"The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center recently added Bridges to its lineup of world-class supercomputers. Bridges is designed for uniquely flexible, interoperating...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Helping Drones Fly Indoors
From Augmented Pixels, a ompany I have had some conversations with, with a touch of space modeling? Another Tango?
From Schneier on Security
Another Side-Channel Attack on PC Encryption
New paper: "Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs," by Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer. They recover keys acoustically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Ads and the Retail Consumer
Some early comments in RetailWire with discussion about Watson Ads by retail oriented tech practitioners. See my previous link on this, will be closely watching...
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SGI Sets New SPEC OMP World Record with Intel Xeon E7 V4
Over at SGI, Gabriel Broner writes that the company's big memory SGI UV 300 and SGI UV 30EX servers are now available with the Intel Xeon processor E7-8800 v4 and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Trusting Robots
IEEE Special report on the topic of trusting robotics, or really any form of semi autonomous systems ..." .... In the not-so-distant future, we will begin entrusting...
From insideHPC
IDC to Host a Pair of Special Events at ISC 2016
IDC will hold a pair of simultaneous events on Tuesday, June 21 at 7:30am - 10:00am at ISC 2016 in Frankfurt. "IDC cordially invites you and other HPC community...
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Bright Cluster Manager Comes to GPUltima from One Stop Systems
Today One Stop Systems announced that its the GPUltima product line now employs Bright Computing's HPC Cluster Manager software. Bright Computing is a providerBright...
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See What’s New from Intel at ISC 2016
New HPC products and technologies. Compelling demos. Insights from top Intel HPC architects. More than 60 presentations from Intel and industry experts. Additional...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using Buzz Analytics
In McKinsey: By capturing and analyzing social-media conversations, companies can improve their offerings and margins.
From insideHPC
Dell Builds 1 Petaflop Lengau Supercomputer for CHPC in South Africa
"Dell is proud to collaborate with South Africa’s CSIR on the delivery of the fastest HPC system in Africa. The Lengau system will provide access and open doors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Superstore of the Future
A look at a Wal-mart Superstore of the future. Slide show of mostly redesigns. Not too unexpected regarding technology involved. Apparently largely as a response...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
U.S. Tech Policy Update – June 2016
CONGRESS Tuesday, June 7, 2016 House Floor: H.R. 4904, MEGABYTE (Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies) Act of 2016 U.S. House...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Securing a Quantum Key
Quantum Keys secure from quantum breaking methods? Out of U of Waterloo ...." ... Researchers at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University ofQKD...
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With the Help of Dijkstra’s Law, Intel’s Mark Seager is Changing the Scientific Method
Our in-depth series on Intel architects continues with this profile of Mark Seager, a key driver in the company's mission to achieve Exascale performance on real...
From XRDS
Diving into IBM’s Quantum Experience through your Browser
People tend to stay away when they hear the word “Quantum Computing”. The word itself gives the feeling that it targets scientists or physics researchers, but not...
From insideHPC
Video: Adoption Trends for Solid State in Big Data Sites
Bret Weber from DDN presented this talk at the 2016 MSST Conference. "SSDs and all flash arrays are being marketed as a panacea. This may be true if you’re a small...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good Livestream
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC), White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence...
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