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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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New Commodity Supercomputing Clusters Deployed at NNSA Labs Claim TOP500 Spots
Three of the newest National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commodity computing clusters recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)...
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LLNL-led SCREAM Team Clinches Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-led effort that performed an unprecedented global climate model simulation on the world’s first exascale supercomputer...
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware Gang Files SEC Complaint
A ransomware gang, annoyed at not being paid, filed an SEC complaint against its victim for not disclosing its security breach within the required four days. This...
From Geeking with Greg
It's easy for social media to fill with astroturf
Most underestimate how easy it is for social media to become dominated by astroturf. It's easy. All you need is a few people creating and controlling multiple accounts...
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DE-CIX and CR8DL Announce Enhanced Data Capabilities Partnership for HPC
New York & Phoenix, November 16, 2023 — Internet exchange operator DE-CIX and CR8DL, a cloud-based high-performance computing company, today announce a research...
From Computational Complexity
Inverting a Function
With the STOC deadline this last Monday, a number of complexity papers have appeared on arXiV and ECCC. Two caught my eye because they seem to independently prove...
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Accelerating AI Inference for High-throughput Experiments
An upgrade to the ALCF AI Testbed will help accelerate data-intensive experimental research. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) AI Testbed—which...
From Schneier on Security
Leaving Authentication Credentials in Public Code
Seth Godin wrote an article about a surprisingly common vulnerability: programmers leaving authentication credentials and other secrets in publicly accessible software...
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The Future-Proofed Datacenter: DDC Delivers 85kW Air-Cooled Density for AI and HPC Workloads
At DDC, the global leader in scalable datacenter-to-edge solutions, we are taking an innovative approach to building new and retrofitting legacy datacenters. Today...
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Azure VMs with AMD MI300 GPU Accelerators at Microsoft Conference
Nov. 15, 2023 -- Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured AMD products, including the upcoming Instinct MI300X GPU accelerator, EPYCAzure...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: How some companies get it right
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It") How do some companies...
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Panasas PanFS 10 AI/HPC Hybrid Storage Management
Denver, November 13, 2023 – Panasas, a leading data solutions provider for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), today introduced PanFS...
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DarkByte Teams with HPE on AI Cloud
Nov. 14, 2023 — DarkByte will host its AI cloud powered by renewable energy using sources including solar, batteries, hydro, and nanotech – helping to define new...
From Schneier on Security
New SSH Vulnerability
This is interesting: For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH...
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Classiq Announces Quantum Center for Life Sciences with NVIDIA
TEL AVIV, November 13, 2023 — Quantum software pioneer Classiq today unveiled a new industry initiative, the Quantum Computing for Life Sciences & Healthcare Center...
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at the AI Summit New York on December 6, 2023. The list is maintained on this page...
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Altair Announces Altair HPCWorks 2024
TROY, Mich., Nov. 14, 2023 — Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced significant upgrades to...
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At SC23: Immersive Virtual Reality on Display at Dell Technologies Booth 625, Come and Experience It
When HPC and AI converge remarkable things can result, and one of them is on display on the floor of the SC23 conference here in Denver at the Dell Technologies...
From Schneier on Security
How .tk Became a TLD for Scammers
Sad story of Tokelau, and how its top-level domain “became the unwitting host to the dark underworld by providing a never-ending supply of domain names that could...
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