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Optical I/O: Celestial AI Acquires Rockley Photonics Portfolio
From insideHPC

Optical I/O: Celestial AI Acquires Rockley Photonics Portfolio

SANTA CLARA, Calif. – October 23, 2024 – Photonic fabric company Celestial AI today announced the acquisition of silicon photonics intellectual property from Rockley...

No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer
From Schneier on Security

No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer

The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.” No, it’s not true. This debunking saved me the trouble of writing...

ACM-W Rising Star Award 2024-25: Nominations open!
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

ACM-W Rising Star Award 2024-25: Nominations open!

With the ACM-W Rising Star Award, ACM-W recognizes women whose early-career research has made a significant impact in the field of computing. The award is a tribute...

A message from the ACM-W Global Co-Chair, Bushra Anjum
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

A message from the ACM-W Global Co-Chair, Bushra Anjum

Being appointed as the Global Co-Chair of ACM-W is not only an honor but also carries a deep sense of responsibility. I have been a part of the academic and professional...

IBM Introduces Granite 3.0 AI Models
From insideHPC

IBM Introduces Granite 3.0 AI Models

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2024 — Today, at IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced the release of what it said is its most advanced family of AI models, Granite 3.0. The company...

Nominations Open for 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award
From insideHPC

Nominations Open for 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award

HAMBURG, Germany, October 21, 2024 – The ISC Conference announced that nominations are open for the 2025 ISC Jack Dongarra Early Career Award. The confeerene encourages...

HPC News Bytes 20241021: Exascale Day Shift, Quantum in China, the Great Grace Hopper, Awards and Conferences
From insideHPC

HPC News Bytes 20241021: Exascale Day Shift, Quantum in China, the Great Grace Hopper, Awards and Conferences

A happy peak foliage (for some) day to you! Here’s a quick (5:44) jaunt through recent news in the world of HPC-AI, including: a shift in Exascale Day focus, did...

Oriole Networks Raises $22M for Photonics to Cut LLM Energy Use
From insideHPC

Oriole Networks Raises $22M for Photonics to Cut LLM Energy Use

London, 21st October: Oriole Networks – a company using light to train Large Language Models with low energy consumption – has raised an additional $22 millionOriole...

AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program
From Schneier on Security

AI and the SEC Whistleblower Program

Tax farming is the practice of licensing tax collection to private contractors. Used heavily in ancient Rome, it’s largely fallen out of practice because of the...

Claude Shannon: Inventing for the fun of it
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

Claude Shannon: Inventing for the fun of it

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. Claude Shannon, inventor of the rocket powered Frisbee, gasoline powered pogo stick, a calculator that worked using...

From Computational Complexity

Contrast an Episode of Columbo with the recent Nobel Prizes

 I quote Lance's blog post (here) about Computing and the Nobelsa) On Wednesday October 9th half of the Chemistry Nobel was awarded to computer scientists Demis...

The logic of Queens
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

The logic of Queens

by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Queens is a fairly simple kind of logic puzzle found for example on LinkedIn as a way to draw you back to the site...

NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award

The NCWIT Aspirations in Computing High School Award is an amazing program for young women THe students I have had who earned these awards have found it very useful...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scarf
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Scarf

Cute squid scarf. Blog moderation policy.

Opportunity to Respond to NITRD RFI on a National Plan for Cyber-Physical Systems Resilience
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Opportunity to Respond to NITRD RFI on a National Plan for Cyber-Physical Systems Resilience

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) would like to encourage you to consider responding to the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development...

Justice Department Indicts Tech CEO for Falsifying Security Certifications
From Schneier on Security

Justice Department Indicts Tech CEO for Falsifying Security Certifications

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the CEO of a still unnamed company has been indicted for creating a fake auditing company to falsify security certifications...

Hyperion/HPC User Forum: 2 Weeks Left to Apply for Innovation Excellence Award
From insideHPC

Hyperion/HPC User Forum: 2 Weeks Left to Apply for Innovation Excellence Award

The HPC Innovation Excellence Awards recognize noteworthy achievements by users of high-performance computing (HPC).  The 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Award winners...

Intersect360 Research: HPC-AI Leadership Organization Adds 6 Advisory Committee Members
From insideHPC

Intersect360 Research: HPC-AI Leadership Organization Adds 6 Advisory Committee Members

SUNNYVALE, CA—Oct. 10, 2024— HPC and AI industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research has announced the addition of six new Advisory Committee Members to the HPC-AI...

How fast can you parse a CSV file in C#?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How fast can you parse a CSV file in C#?

We often store large datasets using comma-separated-value (CSV) files. The format is simple enough, each line of a text file is made of several values separated...

Breaking the ICE at Livermore: ICECap to Use Exascale Fusion Simulations for Digital Design
From insideHPC

Breaking the ICE at Livermore: ICECap to Use Exascale Fusion Simulations for Digital Design

A groundbreaking multidisciplinary team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers is combining the power of exascale computing with AI, advanced workflows...
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