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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 …
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Laser-Based Startup LightSolver Wins €12.5M from European Innovation Council
TEL AVIV, Israel – August 6, 2024 – LightSolver, maker of a laser-based computing paradigm, today announced that it has been selected for the European Innovation...
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Vectra AI Expands XDR Platform to Monitor Attack Exposure
SAN JOSE, August 6, 2024 – Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the expansion of its Vectra AI Platform...
From Schneier on Security
A Better Investigatory Board for Cyber Incidents
When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and...
From insideHPC
NIH Funds $3.15M for Anton HPC at PSC
Aug. 5, 2024 — The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center announced today that a third-generation Anton supercomputer (Anton 3), developed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES)...
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AI Inference Chip Startup Groq Raises $640M
Amid the gloom of the technology industry meltdown on Wall Street, AI inference chip startup Groq announced today it has secured a $640 million Series D round at...
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HPC News Bytes 20240805: Intel Woes, Blackwell Delay, Energy Efficient Programming Languages, Exascale Software Kicks In
A good August morning to you! Here's a rapid (6:52) run though of recent news from the roiling world of HPC-AI, including: Intel's financial results and other woes...
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Microchip Introduces PCIe Gen 5 SSD Controllers
CHANDLER, Ariz., August 5, 2024 — Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has released the Flashtec NVMe 5016 Solid State Drive (SSD) controller. The 16-channel, PCIe...
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EPICURE Offers Support for EU HPC End Users
Aug. 5, 2024 — The EPICURE project is a European-led initiative that seeks to provide support services (Level 2 and Level 3) to EuroHPC supercomputers’ users with...
From insideHPC
QuEra Survey Says Quantum Is Developing Faster than Expected
Boston, 7th August 2024 – New research from neutral atom quantum compuing company QuEra Computing says that over half of quantum academics, scientists, and professionals...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member Chad Jenkins Receives 2024 Richard Tapia Achievement Award
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is excited to announce that former council member Chad Jenkins has been awarded the 2024 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award...
From Schneier on Security
New Patent Application for Car-to-Car Surveillance
Ford has a new patent application for a system where cars monitor each other’s speeds, and then report then to some central authority. Slashdot thread.
From Computational Complexity
Determing which math problems are hard is a hard problem
I was wondering what the hardest math problems were, and how to define it. So I googled Hardest Math ProblemsThe first hit is here. The 10 problems given there...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting ASCII strings to lower case at crazy speeds with AVX-512
AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5, as well as server-side recent Intel processors, support an advanced set of instructions called AVX-512. They are powerful SIMD (Single Instruction...
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HPC4EI Workshop to Be Held Aug. 20-22 at Livermore
In collaboration with U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Treating Squid Parasites
A newly discovered parasite that attacks squid eggs has been treated. Blog moderation policy.
From insideHPC
Chip Sector under Fire: DOJ Probes Nvidia, Big Intel Layoff
It’s been a roiling week for Big Tech, both on Wall Street and at the U.S. Department of Justice, with share prices in the chip sector taking major hits and, now...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: HPCWire Inaugural 35 Legends List Features Council Member Bill Gropp
To celebrate its 35th anniversary, HPCwire has introduced a new annual recognition called the HPCwire 35 Legends. This initiative honors 35 influential figures...
From The Noisy Channel
How to be a Search Consultant
If you have thought about hiring a search consultant or working as one, you may have asked yourself what exactly search consultants do. This post offers an opinionated...
From Schneier on Security