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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 ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Introducing Stories From Our First Student Chapter Buddies!
ACM-W has started a new campaign. The aim of this campaign is to encourage all ACM-W chapters to partner with other ACM-W chapters to become a Buddy for collaborative...
From insideHPC
KAUST and Cerebras Named Gordon Bell Award Finalist
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and THUWAL, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 20, 2023 — Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and AI chip developer Cerebras...
From insideHPC
Air Force Research Lab Adds 12PFLOPS Penguin HPC System
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has announced the installation of a supercomputer built by Penguin Systems, named the Raider. The system delivers about...
From insideHPC
University of Maryland and IonQ Open Quantum Computing Research
COLLEGE PARK, MD – September 19, 2023 – The University of Maryland (UMD) today announced the opening of the National Quantum Laboratory (QLab), a quantum research...
From Schneier on Security
On the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage
In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage: Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings...
From insideHPC
Anyscale Teams With NVIDIA on LLM Performance
SAN FRANCISCO – Ray Summit – Sept. 18, 2023 – Anyscale, the AI infrastructure company built by the creators of the Ray open-source unified framework for scalable...
From insideHPC
TYAN Adopts New AMD EPYC 8004 Series Chips for Cloud and Edge Server Deployments
Newark, Calif. – September 18, 2023 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a subsidiary of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, announced availability...
From insideHPC
Linux Foundation: Unified Acceleration Foundation Formed for Open Accelerated Compute and Cross-Platform Performance
BILBAO, SPAIN – September 19, 2023 – Today, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation, a cross-industry group focused...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST to Standardize Encryption Algorithms That Can Resist Attack by Quantum Computers
Last year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set out to create four new algorithms capable of withstanding an attack by quantum computers...
From insideHPC
NSF Invests $72.5M in New Materials Design
Sept. 18, 2023 — A $72.5 million investment from the U.S. National Science Foundation will drive the development of advanced materials needed to address major societal...
From insideHPC
Sylabs Announces SingularityCE 4.0
Reno, NV – (September 19, 2023) – Sylabs, a provider of tools and services for performance-intensive container technology, today announced the release of SingularityCE...
From insideHPC
Astera Labs Says Its CXL Memory Controller Boosts Server Memory Bandwidth by 50%
Astera Labs today said its Leo Memory Connectivity Platform is the industry’s first Compute Express Link (CXL) memory controller that increases server memory bandwidth...
From insideHPC
SambaNova: New AI Chip Runs 5 Trillion Parameter Models
Specialty AI chip maker SambaNova Systems today announced the SN40L processor, which the company said will power SambaNova’s full stack large language model (LLM)...
From Schneier on Security
Detecting AI-Generated Text
There are no reliable ways to distinguish text written by a human from text written by an large language model. OpenAI writes: Do AI detectors work? In short,...
From Putting People First
Why do consumers purchase bottled water?
Fast Company published today an excerpt of the new book Unbottled by Daniel Jaffee in which he highlights the five factors why consumers purchase bottled water,...
From insideHPC
CIQ Bundles OpenRadioss and ParaView on Rocky Linux 9.1 for Computation of Shapes
LAS VEGAS, September 18, 2023 — CIQ announced today at Oracle CloudWorld that it has made a software stack for high-performance computation of shapes availableCIQ...
From insideHPC
Livermore Lab Researchers Win 3 R&D 100 Awards
The award winners include a software suite that helps apply deep learning techniques to science and data challenges in cancer research; software that helps better...
From insideHPC
Building a Capable Computing Ecosystem for Exascale
With ECP, working together was a prerequisite for participation. “From the beginning, the teams had this so-called ‘shared fate,’” says Siegel. When incorporating...
From insideHPC
Vertiv Increases Manufacturing Capacity for Chilled Water Solutions
Piove di Sacco, Italy, September 18, 2023 –Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a provider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, unveiled an upgraded testing roomVertiv...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP