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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 Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Dominic Welsh, 1938–2023
My doctoral thesis advisor Geoffrey Grimmett source Dominic Welsh passed away last November 30th. He was my doctoral advisor 1981–86 at Merton College, Oxford University...
From insideHPC
AI Robotics Startup Attracting $675M from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, Bezos
Start up robotics company Figure, founded in 2022 and based in Sunnyvale, CA, is in the process of attracting $675 million in venture funding from the likes ofAI...
From insideHPC
Registration for RMACC HPC Symposium Opens March 5
BOULDER, CO – Registration opens March 5th for the 14th annual Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium’s (RMACC) High Performance Computing Symposium, setRegistration...
From Schneier on Security
NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
NIST has released version 2.0 of the Cybersecurity Framework: The CSF 2.0, which supports implementation of the National Cybersecurity Strategy, has an expanded...
From insideHPC
IT Survey: Multiple Hurdles for AI Implementation but Funding Is There
Implementation of AI has its own challenges, and according to a new survey, proving the value of AI solutions to businesses might be the biggest one. AccordingIT...
From insideHPC
Synopsys Says it Has First 1.6T Ethernet IP Solution for AI and Hyperscale Chips
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 29, 2023 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today delivered what it said is a dramatic increase in bandwidth and throughput for data-intensive...
From insideHPC
Green Mountain Data Centers to Host HPE AI and HPC in Norway
Norwegian data center company Green Mountain announced it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host high-demand artificial intelligence (AI) andGreen...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Report Released: Future of Pandemic Prevention and Response
CCC held a visioning workshop on the Future of Pandemic Response and Prevention in September 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was organized by the CCC Council’s...
From insideHPC
Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration
Riverlane and Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) today announced their participation in a project led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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HPC System Analyst Jackie Scoggins Reflects on Her Time at NERSC
As part of cthe 50th anniversary celebrations for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), “In Their Own Words” is a Q&A series featuring...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: Join a Roundtable to Discuss the Next Grand Challenges in Computing
The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Grand Challenges task force is engaging in a new visioning activity to identify the next grand challenges that will shape...
From Computational Complexity
A Quantum State
Illinois' most famous citizen working on a quantum computer The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, unveiled his budget last week including $500 million for quantum...
From insideHPC
SambaNova Says its First with Trillion-Parameter GenAI Model
Feb. 28, 2024 — AI technology company SambaNova Systems said today its Samba-1 is the first 1 trillion (1T) parameter generative AI model. “This past fall, we announced...
From Schneier on Security
A Cyber Insurance Backstop
In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would...
From insideHPC
Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements...
From insideHPC
NTT and Red Hat Fuel AI Analysis at the Edge with IOWN Technologies
MWC BARCELONA – February 26, 2024 — As part of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) initiative, NTT Corporation (NTT) and Red Hat, Inc., in collaboration...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Alphabet? What alphabet?
I used to start a talk on internationalization of code with the question “How many letters are in the alphabet?” Once I had several people say “26” I would ask...
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DOE: E4S for Extreme-Scale Science Now Supports Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper GPUs
E4S, the open source Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack for HPC-AI scientific applications, now incorporates AI/ML libraries and expands GPU support to include...
From Schneier on Security