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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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Questions Keeping Me Awake Tonight
It’s about 2:45 AM as I start this post. Why am I writing at this hour? Well, it’s because some things are keeping my mind from shutting down and maybe by writing...
From insideHPC
TSMC Joint Venture Breaks Ground on Dresden Fab
DRESDEN, Germany, August 20, 2024— ESMC – a joint venture between TSMC, Robert Bosch GmbH, Infineon Technologies AG and NXP Semiconductors N.V. – today held aTSMC...
From insideHPC
DDN Wins Tier-1 Performance Data Platform Certification for Nvidia Partner Network Cloud Partners
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Aug. 20, 2024 – Data intelligence platform company DDN today announced it has been certified as a tier-one performance data solution for NVIDIA...
From insideHPC
NTT Demonstrates Optical Fiber Monitoring Technology for All-Photonics Network
TOKYO – August 20, 2024 – NTT Corporation (NTT) has developed technology to visualize the state of end-to-end fiber-optic links without using measuring equipment...
From insideHPC
Aug. 21 Argonne Webinar on chipStar: a HIP implementation for Aurora Exascale
Aug. 20, 2024 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a webinar tomorrow from 11 am to noon Central Time covering chipStar, a HIP implementation for...
From insideHPC
Diraq Says It Drives 2-Qubit Gate Accuracy in CMOS above 99%
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – AUGUST 20, 2024 – Quantum computing company Diraq announced it has demonstrated consistent and repeatable operation with above 99 percent fidelity...
From insideHPC
Female-led Swiss Start-up Apheros Secures $1.85M for Data Center Cooling Systems
Zurich – August 19, 2024: Deep tech startup Apheros is today announcing a $1.85m funding round the company will use to introduce its metal foam technologyfor data...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: A Look into the CAR Lab with Founder Weisong Shi
CCC spoke with one of its council members, Weisong Shi about his passion for autonomous research which led him to start the Connected and Autonomous Research (CAR)...
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Wireless Bicycle Shifters
This is yet another insecure Internet-of-things story, this one about wireless gear shifters for bicycles. These gear shifters are used in big-money professional...
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240819: Adding AI-Centric Servers, Post Quantum Cryptography, Liberal Arts Profs Look at Exascale
Good August day to you! Here's a quick (5:43) review of recent goings on in the world of HPC-AI, including: AI-centric servers from non-traditional HPC suppliers...
From insideHPC
Upping the AI Ante: AMD to Acquire Data Center Server Company ZT Systems for $5B
In a vertical integration move, AMD today announced an agreement to acquire data center and hyperscale systems supplier ZT Systems for nearly $5 billion. The acquisition...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Michela Taufer Speaks at 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to announce that council member Michela Taufer was a keynote speaker at the 53 International Conference on Parallel...
From insideHPC
Fabric Cryptography Raises $33M for Cryptography Chip
August 19, 2024: Silicon Valley hardware startup Fabric Cryptography announced a $33 million Series A funding round to build computing chips, software and cryptographic...
From Schneier on Security
The State of Ransomware
Palo Alto Networks published its semi-annual report on ransomware. From the Executive Summary: Unit 42 monitors ransomware and extortion leak sites closely to...
From Computational Complexity
Request open problems in honor of Luca Trevisan
Request for Open Problems In Memory of Luca TrevisanLuca Trevisan passed away on June 19, 2024 at the age of 52, of cancer.I am putting together an open problems...
From insideHPC
2 English Professors Win NSF Grant to Open Aurora Exascale Black Box
English professors at Clemson University and Portland State University have been awarded a six-figure research grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Faster random integer generation with batching
We often generate random integers. Quite often these numbers must be within an interval: e.g., an integer between 0 and 100. One application is a random shuffle...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blog: The Market for Squid Oil Is Growing
How did I not know before now that there was a market for squid oil? The squid oil market has experienced robust growth in recent years, expanding from $4.56 billion...
From insideHPC
SandboxAQ Adds Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Dr. Lawrence H. Summers to Board
Aug. 16, 2024 — AI and quantum technology company SandboxAQ announced that Dr. Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, has joined SandboxAQ’s...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog