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Online Retail Hack
From Schneier on Security

Online Retail Hack

Selling miniature replicas to unsuspecting shoppers: Online marketplaces sell tiny pink cowboy hats. They also sell miniature pencil sharpeners, palm-size kitchen...

MLPerf Training and HPC Benchmark Show 49X Performance Gains in 5 Years
From insideHPC

MLPerf Training and HPC Benchmark Show 49X Performance Gains in 5 Years

MLCommons said the results highlight performance gains of up to 2.8X compared to 5 months ago and 49X over the first results five years ago, "reflecting the tremendous...

DDN Launches Infinia, Software-Defined Storage for Enterprise AI and Cloud
From insideHPC

DDN Launches Infinia, Software-Defined Storage for Enterprise AI and Cloud

Aimed at cloud platform and large HPC, hyperscale and data center environments,  Infinia combines multi-tenancy at scale, containerization and high performance....

Ayar Labs to Show 4 Tbps Optically-enabled Intel FPGA at SC23
From insideHPC

Ayar Labs to Show 4 Tbps Optically-enabled Intel FPGA at SC23

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Nov. 8, 2023 – Ayar Labs, a company developing silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, will showcase its in-package optical I/O solution...

Decoupling for Security
From Schneier on Security

Decoupling for Security

This is an excerpt from a longer paper. You can read the whole thing (complete with sidebars and illustrations) here. Our message is simple: it is possible to get...

@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Karl Freund Compares and Contrasts the Chips Driving the AI Revolution
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Karl Freund Compares and Contrasts the Chips Driving the AI Revolution

Few people can talk in such an engaging way about the chips driving the AI revolution as Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research. He@HPCpodcast...

Quantum Machines and QuEra Computing Win Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation Award
From insideHPC

Quantum Machines and QuEra Computing Win Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation Award

Tel Aviv and Boston, November 7, 2023 – Quantum Machines,  the provider of quantum control solutions that accelerate the development of practical quantum computers...

Generating arrays at compile-time in C++ with lambdas
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Generating arrays at compile-time in C++ with lambdas

Suppose that you want to check whether a character in C++ belongs to a fixed set, such as ‘\0’, ‘\x09’, ‘\x0a’,’\x0d’, ‘ ‘, ‘#’, ‘/’, ‘:’, ‘<‘, ‘>’, ‘?’, ‘@’, ‘...

ThinkParQ and System Fabric Works in Joint Venture
From insideHPC

ThinkParQ and System Fabric Works in Joint Venture

Kaiserslautern, Germany, November 7, 2023,  ThinkParQ the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the launch ThinkinQ a new joint venture...

Spaf on the Morris Worm
From Schneier on Security

Spaf on the Morris Worm

Gene Spafford wrote an essay reflecting on the Morris Worm of 1988—35 years ago. His lessons from then are still applicable today.

Optical I/O Takes Center Stage at SC23
From insideHPC

Optical I/O Takes Center Stage at SC23

[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Integration of optical I/O with an FPGA is the tip of the iceberg of a new vision to enable new HPC/AI architectural advances through...

Gina Tourassi Named Oak Ridge Associate Lab Director for Computing and Computational Sciences
From insideHPC

Gina Tourassi Named Oak Ridge Associate Lab Director for Computing and Computational Sciences

Gina Tourassi has been named associate laboratory director for Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate (CCSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She replaces...

HPC News Bytes 20231106: UK AI HPC Push, White House EO on AI, Ungaro Speaks, Market Update on HPC-AI
From insideHPC

HPC News Bytes 20231106: UK AI HPC Push, White House EO on AI, Ungaro Speaks, Market Update on HPC-AI

Here’s a dash (5:24) through the latest in HPC-AI, including: new AI UK supercomputers, the White House Executive Order on AI and its national security implications...

Crashing iPhones with a Flipper Zero
From Schneier on Security

Crashing iPhones with a Flipper Zero

The Flipper Zero is an incredibly versatile hacking device. Now it can be used to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/flipper-zero-gadget-that-doses...

From Computational Complexity

In the bad old days we had Punchcards. How did people deal with that?

In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science.  I took Honors Calculus I and CS 1. The CS course...

Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Dancing Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Eating Dancing Squid

It’s not actually alive, but it twitches in response to soy sauce. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that...

@HPCpodcast: Pete Ungaro Sounds Off on the State of HPC-AI
From insideHPC

@HPCpodcast: Pete Ungaro Sounds Off on the State of HPC-AI

In this episode, the second in our “Industry View” series (see our conversation with Alain Andreoli), we are delighted to speak with Pete Ungaro, long-time luminary...

New York Increases Cybersecurity Rules for Financial Companies
From Schneier on Security

New York Increases Cybersecurity Rules for Financial Companies

Another example of a large and influential state doing things the federal government won’t: Boards of directors, or other senior committees, are charged with overseeing...

atNorth Joins Finnish Data Center Association
From insideHPC

atNorth Joins Finnish Data Center Association

Reykjavik, Iceland – November 2, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, today announcedatNorth...

Researchers in Japan Announce Room-Termperature Quantum Advance
From insideHPC

Researchers in Japan Announce Room-Termperature Quantum Advance

Tokyo, November 2, 2023 — In a study published in Volume 20, Issue 4 of the journal Physical Review Applied on 16 October 2023, a team of researchers from Japan...
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