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Procter&Gamble Bets on a BeautySphere Metaverse
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter&Gamble Bets on a BeautySphere Metaverse

My long-ago employer.  We played with early capabilities like the metaverse then, but not strongly consumer facing ones.   Much of that experiment was recordedProcter...

ISC 2022: HPC Experts Share Thoughts on Making the Most of Next Week’s Conference
From insideHPC

ISC 2022: HPC Experts Share Thoughts on Making the Most of Next Week’s Conference

ISC 2022, one of the biggest HPC confabs of the year, will be an in-person event (along with virtual streming) for the first time since 2019. Getting the most of...

LLNL and Amazon Web Services Team on Standardized HPC Software Stack
From insideHPC

LLNL and Amazon Web Services Team on Standardized HPC Software Stack

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a memorandum of understanding to define the role of leadership-class high...

Fundamental Energy Transitions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fundamental Energy Transitions

But could take more or less based on the fundamental breakthroughs required.Fundamental Energy Transitions Can Take a Century Electricity’s benefits were obvious...

Azure Adopts AMD Instinct MI200 GPU for Large-Scale AI Training
From insideHPC

Azure Adopts AMD Instinct MI200 GPU for Large-Scale AI Training

SANTA CLARA, Calif. May 26, 2022 — Microsoft has announced the use of AMD Instinct MI200 GPU accelerators for large-scale AI training workloads. Microsoft alsoAzure...

Ransomware and Government
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ransomware and Government

Was afraid of this ...The Government's Still Mostly in the Dark on RansomwareBy The Washington Post, May 24, 2022Senate Homeland Security Committee Chair Gary Peters...

D-Wave.  Real Value with Quantum Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

D-Wave. Real Value with Quantum Computing

Just mentioned here. Much more at the link ....Launch Your Quantum Journey Today:  D-WaveOur customers are building quantum applications for problems as diverse...

AMD in $1.9B Acquisition of Data Center Solutions Company Pensando
From insideHPC

AMD in $1.9B Acquisition of Data Center Solutions Company Pensando

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 26, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Pensando Systems in a transaction valued at approximately...

Analysis of Retail Trends
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analysis of Retail Trends

 AN ANALYSIS OF THE YEAR'S BIGGEST TRENDS TO-DATE USING LOCATION DATA40 MINUTE SESSION  (I Plan to Attend)  from RetailwireWed, Jun 15 – 12:00 noon EDT/ 9 am PDT...

Computer Scientists Help Build a Wooden Dome Made from Waste
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computer Scientists Help Build a Wooden Dome Made from Waste

Multiple challenging uses of computing to address a complex problem. Computer Scientists Help Build a Wooden Dome Made Solely from WasteETH Zurich (Switzerland)...

Countermeasure Against Wireless Surveillance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Countermeasure Against Wireless Surveillance

 Appears very usefulCountermeasure Against Wireless Surveillance  By Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), May 25, 2022The intelligent reflecting surface IRShieldResearchers...

Pros And Cons of AI In Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pros And Cons of AI In Manufacturing

 Good general overview here.Pros and Cons of AI in ManufacturingManojKumar847 May 25, 2022 at 3:47 am  in DataScienceThe fourth industrial revolution has been a...

@HPCpodcast: Satoshi Matsuoka on the TOP500, Fugaku and Arm, Quantum and Winning Japan’s Purple Ribbon Medal of Honor
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: Satoshi Matsuoka on the TOP500, Fugaku and Arm, Quantum and Winning Japan’s Purple Ribbon Medal of Honor

A leading figure in the HPC community, Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, director of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) and professor of computer science@HPCpodcast...

Parsing JSON faster with Intel AVX-512
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Parsing JSON faster with Intel AVX-512

Many recent Intel processors benefit from a new family of instructions called AVX-512. These instructions operate over wide registers (up to 512 bits) and follow...

DOE Announces $40M for Research Training for Underrepresented Groups in STEM and Climate Science
From insideHPC

DOE Announces $40M for Research Training for Underrepresented Groups in STEM and Climate Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $40 million to provide research opportunities to historically underrepresented groups in STEM and diversifyDOE...

HPE and Cerebras to Install AI Supercomputer at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre
From insideHPC

HPE and Cerebras to Install AI Supercomputer at Leibniz Supercomputing Centre

The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Cerebras Systems, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), today announced the joint development of a system designed to accelerate...

When is Q-Day Coming?
From The Eponymous Pickle

When is Q-Day Coming?

Brought to my attention.   Note mention of DWave Annealing, recall we connected to  them.  Could this mean the ability to break most encryption?  Breaking manyQ...

Pwn2Own Work Explained
From The Eponymous Pickle

Pwn2Own Work Explained

Worth knowing about Celebrating 15 Years of Pwn2Own  (video at link)Join Erin Sindelar, Mike Gibson, Brian Gorenc, and Dustin Childs as they discuss Pwn2Own's 15th...

Vertical Thinking Broke Bottleneck in Powering High-Performance Computers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Vertical Thinking Broke Bottleneck in Powering High-Performance Computers

Vertical Thinking Broke Bottleneck in Powering High-Performance ComputersPrinceton University, May 2, 2022  In Princeton EngineeringA team of researchers from Princeton...

Dandelion Energy
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dandelion Energy

More interesting energy solutions of note.  Note connection to drones.  Practical uses? Battery-Free Devices Float on the Wind like Dandelion SeedsUniversity of...
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