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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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NSF Issues $39M in Quantum Science and Engineering Grants
Aug. 29, 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $39 million to help grow quantum research activities at U.S. institutions through the NSF Expanding...
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Accenture Wins $75M AI Contract with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 28, 2024 – Accenture Federal Services has won a $75 million, five-year contract to scale the use of artificial intelligence and modernizeAccenture...
From Computational Complexity
My Quantum Summer
Rendering of PsiQuantum's facility in Chicago I wasn't looking for quantum this summer but it found me. At various events I ran into some of the most recognized...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Weisong Shi Awarded Two NSF Grants for Autonomous Research
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share that council member Weisong Shi was awarded two grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to...
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CIQ Releases Fuzzball Computing and Data Management Platform for HPC and AI
RENO, Nev. — August 28, 2024 — Software infrastructure company CIQ today released the Fuzzball computing and data management platform for performance-intensive...
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AWS Parallel Computing Service Available for HPC, Scientific Computing
SEATTLE–Aug. 28, 2024– Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the general availability of AWS Parallel Computing...
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Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference v4.1 Benchmark for Generative AI
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performanceNvidia...
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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...
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).
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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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...
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