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Linkedin Guide for Startups
From The Eponymous Pickle

Linkedin Guide for Startups

Looks to be a good new guide from Linkedin: Franz, introducing our guide for startup founders. At LinkedIn, we know that when leading the growth of a startup, founders...

Quantum Computers Get Smarter at Simulating Chemistry
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Computers Get Smarter at Simulating Chemistry

Useful direction, having worked in a chem lab, would be useful to have an idea of what you will get. Quantum Computers Get Smarter at Simulating ChemistryIEEE Spectrum...

Q-CTRL Launches Black Opal Pro on World Quantum Day
From insideHPC

Q-CTRL Launches Black Opal Pro on World Quantum Day

LOS ANGELES, April 14, 2022 – Q-CTRL, a developer of quantum technologies through quantum control infrastructure software, today released Black Opal Pro, an updated...

Nike and Technical Innovation Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nike and Technical Innovation Center

Like the fact that logistics innovation will be included.  As we did with our innovation center. Nike steps up its game with a new Tech Innovation centerApr 13,...

Nominations Open for PRACE €20 000 HPC Excellence Award
From insideHPC

Nominations Open for PRACE €20 000 HPC Excellence Award

April 13, 2022 — The newly created PRACE HPC Excellence Award recognizes an outstanding individual or team for ground-breaking research that leads to significant...

MANTA Launches Release 36 of its Data Lineage Platform
From insideHPC

MANTA Launches Release 36 of its Data Lineage Platform

April 13, 2022 — ТАMPA, Fla.– Data lineage platform MANTA today announced the launch of Release 36 of its data lineage platform. New features are designed to give...

ALCF to Hold Polaris HPC Developer Session Online April 27
From insideHPC

ALCF to Hold Polaris HPC Developer Session Online April 27

On Wednesday, April 27, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will offer an overview of the ALCF’s latest high performance compute system for its user community...

HPC Leader and U. of Wyoming President Edward Seidel to Give RMACC Keynote
From insideHPC

HPC Leader and U. of Wyoming President Edward Seidel to Give RMACC Keynote

BOULDER, CO – University of Wyoming President Edward Seidel has been selected to Keynote the 12th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC)HPC...

Innovative, Practical Applications of the Metaverse: Podcast and Transcript
From The Eponymous Pickle

Innovative, Practical Applications of the Metaverse: Podcast and Transcript

 Good overview,   Note it points to past pieces. Innovative and Practical Applications of the MetaverseMarch 29, 2022 | Podcast  with Richard Ward, Mina Alaghband...

Floats have 15-digit accuracy in their normal range
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Floats have 15-digit accuracy in their normal range

In programming languages like JavaScript or Python, numbers are typically represented using 64-bit IEEE number types (binary64). For these numbers, we have 15 digits...

PSC’s Neocortex HPC Upgrades to Cerebras CS-2 AI Systems
From insideHPC

PSC’s Neocortex HPC Upgrades to Cerebras CS-2 AI Systems

The Neocortex high-performance AI computer at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) has been upgraded with two new Cerebras CS-2 systems powered by the second...

Plants Talking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Plants Talking

 Am a long-time amateur botanist, and heard of such things long ago, thought little of it, but the science is still evolving.    Here an excerpt of work underway...

Russia Said to be Jamming GPS Signals
From The Eponymous Pickle

Russia Said to be Jamming GPS Signals

More about uses of digital at war.Russia is jamming GPS satellite signals in Ukraine, US Space Force says   By Elizabeth Howell published,   about 21 hours ago'Ukraine...

A Sample Legal Chatbot
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Sample Legal Chatbot

Clive Spenser sends this along,  a demonstration chatbot set up for legal rules.  Worth a look to see what can be done using logical rules.  Worth a look.  Forhttps...

What Counts as Malware?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Counts as Malware?

 Tricky perhaps, maybe just what should not be there.  What counts as ‘malware’? AWS clarifies its  Definition           By Kyle Alspach Amazon Web Services had...

Last Mile Education Fund–Making a Big Difference
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Last Mile Education Fund–Making a Big Difference

We often underestimate the difference that small things can make. When I was in high school all I could afford was a cheap plastic slide rule (no calculators back...

Are Chatbots Just an Illusion?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Are Chatbots Just an Illusion?

Good test and challenge of current 'best' performing AI, with comments. The AI Illusion – STATE-OF-THE-ART CHATBOTS AREN’T WHAT THEY SEEMGPT-3 is very much like...

Facial Recognition, Video Analytics, Geospatial and Other AI Techniques Aiding Ukraine’s Investigations of Russian War Crimes
From insideHPC

Facial Recognition, Video Analytics, Geospatial and Other AI Techniques Aiding Ukraine’s Investigations of Russian War Crimes

When war crimes are committed on a large enough scale, there’s too much evidence for retreating armies that committed them to hide. The Nazis left evidence of the...

Bechtel Announces Engineering and Construction Services for Semiconductor, Data Center Sectors
From insideHPC

Bechtel Announces Engineering and Construction Services for Semiconductor, Data Center Sectors

RESTON, Va., April 12, 2022 — Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, construction, and project management, today announced the formation of its new Manufacturing...

HPC4EI to Release Spring Solicitation Funding Opportunity
From insideHPC

HPC4EI to Release Spring Solicitation Funding Opportunity

April 12, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation Initiative (HPC4EI) announced today it will issue a spring 2022...
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