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TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System
From insideHPC

TACC Selects Sabey Data Centers as Colo for Horizon HPC System

Aug. 26, 2024 — The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin announced it has chosen Sabey Data Centers (SDC Austin) as its colocation...

London: Celebrating Science – free event (with @CS4FN) tomorrow (Thur 29th) at Centre of the Cell
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

London: Celebrating Science – free event (with @CS4FN) tomorrow (Thur 29th) at Centre of the Cell

CS4FN is taking part in the Centre of the Cell's "Celebrating Science" family-friendly event in Whitechapel, London tomorrow afternoon 12-4pm (free).

Cerebras Claims  Fastest AI Inference
From insideHPC

Cerebras Claims Fastest AI Inference

AI compute company Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is the fastest AI inference solution. Cerebras Inference delivers 1,800 tokens per second for Llama3...

CCC Q&A: Weisong Shi Educates Researchers on Vehicle Computing in New Book
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Q&A: Weisong Shi Educates Researchers on Vehicle Computing in New Book

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is proud to announce the publishing of Weisong Shi’s book on Vehicle Computing. We spoke with him to discuss the process...

Welcome to the New ACM-W Co-Chairs!
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Welcome to the New ACM-W Co-Chairs!

We are delighted to welcome Bushra Anjum and Rukiye Altin, two exceptional women, as our Co-Chair(s) of ACM-W. Both women, no strangers to ACM-W, bring a wealth...

Highlights from the 2024 ACM-W Global Executive Committee Meeting in Madrid
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Highlights from the 2024 ACM-W Global Executive Committee Meeting in Madrid

The ACM-W Global Executive Committee held this year’s annual meeting from June 26-28, 2024, in Madrid, Spain. The committee members representing our diverse regions...

“I Can Figure This Out”: Bushra Anjum in Rendering History
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

“I Can Figure This Out”: Bushra Anjum in Rendering History

The newly released book Rendering History: The Women of ACM-W by Gloria Townsend is a powerful tribute to the pioneering women who have shaped the landscape of...

The Present and Future of TV Surveillance
From Schneier on Security

The Present and Future of TV Surveillance

Ars Technica has a good article on what’s happening in the world of television surveillance. More than even I realized.

From Computational Complexity

Whats worse for a company: being hacked or having technical difficulties? I would have thought being hacked but...

At the Trump-Musk interview:1) There were technical difficulties which caused it to start late and have some other problems.2) Musk and (I think) Trump claimedhere...

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240826: Hot Chips, NM Senate Race and LANL, Underground Nuclear Power for AI, AMD Buys ZT Systems
From insideHPC

HPC News Bytes Podcast 20240826: Hot Chips, NM Senate Race and LANL, Underground Nuclear Power for AI, AMD Buys ZT Systems

A good August morning to you! Shahin and Doug offer a quick (5:32) round-up of HPC-AI news: Hot Chips 2024, LANL power needs enters NM Senate race, undergroundHPC...

Parsing tiny and very large floating-point values: a programming-language comparison
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Parsing tiny and very large floating-point values: a programming-language comparison

Most programming languages support floating-point numbers. You typically have the ability to turn a string into a floating-point number. E.g., “3.1416” could be...

Red Hat Announces Availability of OpenStack Services on OpenShift
From insideHPC

Red Hat Announces Availability of OpenStack Services on OpenShift

RALEIGH, N.C. – August 26, 2024 — Open source software company Red Hat today announced the availability of Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift, the next release...

ALCF In-Person HPC Workshop, Oct. 29-31
From insideHPC

ALCF In-Person HPC Workshop, Oct. 29-31

The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an in-person hands-on HPC workshop from Tuesday, Oct. 29 to Thursday, Oct. 31, at the TCS Conference CenterALCF...

Global Internet Community Encouraged to Submit Event Proposals for UA Day 2025
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group

Global Internet Community Encouraged to Submit Event Proposals for UA Day 2025

Event proposals are now being accepted for the third annual Universal Acceptance (UA) Day, to be held on or around 28 March 2025 (between 1 March and 30 May 2025)...

US Federal Court Rules Against Geofence Warrants
From Schneier on Security

US Federal Court Rules Against Geofence Warrants

This is a big deal. A US Appeals Court ruled that geofence warrants—these are general warrants demanding information about all people within a geographical boundary...

Bank holiday fun: website whimsy, and try your hand at making 3D pictures
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Bank holiday fun: website whimsy, and try your hand at making 3D pictures

Happy Summer bank holiday from CS4FN!

ACM Inaugurates the Luiz André Barroso Award
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

ACM Inaugurates the Luiz André Barroso Award

It has been almost a year since computer scientist Luiz André Barroso passed away. On September 16, 2023, he left a huge legacy behind. Barroso was a distinguished...

Friday Squid Blogging: Self-Healing Materials from Squid Teeth
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Self-Healing Materials from Squid Teeth

Making self-healing materials based on the teeth in squid suckers. Blog moderation policy.

CCC Weekly Computing News: NCSA Gives Students Opportunities to Learn About Machine and Deep Learning
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Weekly Computing News: NCSA Gives Students Opportunities to Learn About Machine and Deep Learning

In this installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students across the country to work on cutting-edge...

Take a Selfie Using a NY Surveillance Camera
From Schneier on Security

Take a Selfie Using a NY Surveillance Camera

This site will let you take a selfie with a New York City traffic surveillance camera.
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