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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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Clacc – Open Source OpenACC Compiler and Source Code Translation Project
By Rob Farber, contributing writer for the Exascale Computing Project Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project...
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Sandia’s Open-access Quantum Computer Is Operational, Available to Scientists
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Department of Energy open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public. Scientists from Indiana University recently became...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accountable Algorithms, Use and Misuse
Useful nontechnical piece, some good thoughtful graphics. Yes a clear and increasing issue that needs to be regulated. But it is not true that such systems and...
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Los Alamos Teams with Fungible for Processing Offloading to Network and Storage for Complex Simulations
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) and Fungible Inc., a data-centric computing company, today announced a collaboration...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contact Tracking Failing
I have read in other places it is not only a failure in the US. Is it merely a measure of trust? Having enough people buy into the capability, without clearContact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Makes a TV Stick
Interesting choice. To control and tailor some of the ads and resulting data? Certainly a possibility. Walmart is making an Android TV stick under its Onn ...
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10 Research Projects Granted Access to Pawsey Centre for Extreme Scale Readiness Program
Perth, Australia – March 16, 2021 – Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, the Tier1 supercomputing research facility located in Perth, Western Australia, is establishing...
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Lenovo Launches Edge-to-Cloud Solutions with AMD EPYC 7003 CPUs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – March 16, 2021 – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) Data Center Group (DCG) announced ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile hyperconverged...
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Immersion Cooling Data Center Provider Asperitas Names Andy Young CTO
Amsterdam – March 16, 2021 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas has promoted Andy Young to CTO. He previously was director of research and development and after...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Stefanie Tompkins Appointed 23rd DARPA Director
The Biden administration today appointed Stefanie Tompkins to run the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its 23rd Director. DARPA is a $3.5 billion...
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Nominations Open for ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowships for Diversity in Data and Computational Science
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (ACM SIGHPC) has created the Computational and Data Science Fellowships...
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Live Streaming by Retailers
Getting attention on the Web via immediate and continuous retail content. Removing our attention from the Pandemic. How long can we take it? Livestreaming...
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TYAN Offers AMD EPYC 7003 Processor Powered Systems
Newark, Calif. – March 15, 2021 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today introduced AMD EPYC...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scanning License Plates
The capability is well know, but the ability to save and 'mine' large libraries of the data makes some concerned. License-Plate Scans Aid Crime-Solving But Spur...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating Technology Leaders – Women in Robotics
Wednesday, March 31st at 3:00 PM ET/12:00 PM PT, a panel discussion featuring Laura Stelzner(Principal Robotics Software Engineer, RIOS Corporation), Sarah Gibson...
From Schneier on Security
Illegal Content and the Blockchain
Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Theory Modeling Vaccine Rollout
Excerpt, Found Game Theory to be useful, as the article suggests, when you are modeling problems that include potentially competing and cooperative players. How...
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GIGABYTE Launches 1st Wave of Servers for AMD EPYC 7003 Series Processors
Taipei, Taiwan, March 16th 2021 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced over 40 servers and server...
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Unveils Portfolio of AMD EPYC-based Solutions
HOUSTON – March 15, 2021 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced what the company said is record-breaking performance on a wide range of demanding...
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