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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 Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: The Complete List
Now in one place all of my sixty favorite theorems from the six decades of computational complexity (1965-2024).2015-2024 Graph Isomorphism (Babai) Sensitivity...
From Schneier on Security
AI and the 2024 Elections
It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go...
From insideHPC
At SC24: Hammerspace on Making Data Accessible, Globally Shared and Silo-Free
At SC24, we caught up with Floyd Christofferson, Vice President of Product Marketing at data management platform vendor Hammerspace, a company at the headwaters...
From insideHPC
MLCommons Launches LLM Safety Benchmark
Dec. 4, 2024 — MLCommons today released AILuminate, a safety test for large language models. The v1.0 benchmark – which provides a series of safety grades for the...
From insideHPC
AWS Announces EC2 UltraCluster and GA of Trainium2 Instances
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon...
From insideHPC
Hammerspace Announces Contributions to the Linux Kernel for Enterprise and HPC-AI Storage
SAN MATEO, Calif. – December 3, 2024 – Hammerspace announced contributions to the Linux kernel designed to transform standard Linux servers into platforms for enterprise...
From insideHPC
CXL Consortium Releases 3.2 Specification
Dec. 3, 2024 – Beaverton, Ore. – The CXL Consortium, an industry standard body focused on coherent connectivity, announces the release of its Compute Express Link...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Deeper Dive into the Expertise of Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing Organizers
The upcoming Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing workshop seeks to bring together a diverse group of researchers to discuss the challenges and...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to our new ACM-W Website Manager!
Bethany Ahluwalia has become our new ACM-W Website Manager, effective December 2024. We thank Chandra Burnham for her immense support during the search and transition...
From insideHPC
At SC24: Valvoline Global Revs up HPC-AI Liquid Cooling with Debut in Atlanta
Valvoline Global has taken its engine cooling and lubrication heritage going back more than a century and announced at SC24 its HPC-AI liquid cooling debut. InAt...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces Research, Technology and Economic Security Framework
Dec. 2, 20224 — For applicants and recipients of Department of Energy (DOE) financial assistance and loan funding, a newly published “Research Technology and Economic...
From insideHPC
Red Hat Signs Agreement with AWS for Virtualization and AI in Hybrid Cloud
RALEIGH, N.C. – Dec. 2, 2024 — Red Hat, Inc., open source solutions provider, today announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
From insideHPC
Pascal100-Qubit Quantum Computer Shipped to Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Dec. 2, 2024 -- The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany received a 100-qubit quantum computer from neutral atom quantum computing...
From insideHPC
Nebius Announces $700M Equity Financing for AI Infrastructure Rollout
Amsterdam, December 2, 2024 – Nebius Group N.V.; NASDAQ:NBIS), an AI infrastructure company, today announced s definitive agreements for a USD 700 million private...
From insideHPC
Tenstorrent Closes $693M+ Series D Round
Dec. 2, 2024, Santa Clara, CA: Tenstorrent said it closed over $693M in its Series D funding round at a pre-money valuation of $2B. Samsung Securities and AFW Partners...
From The Noisy Channel
Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents
Last week, I had the honor of presenting “Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents” at Search Solutions 2024 with Aritra Mandal.We introduced the bag-of-documentshow...
From insideHPC
Intel Announces Retirement of CEO Pat Gelsinger
Dec. 2, 2024, SANTA CLARA, CA — Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced that Pat Gelsinger, the company’s CEO since February 2021, has retired from the...
From Schneier on Security
Details about the iOS Inactivity Reboot Feature
I recently wrote about the new iOS feature that forces an iPhone to reboot after it’s been inactive for a longish period of time. Here are the technical details...
From Computational Complexity
Conway's Trick for Divisibility. Asking its complexity is an odd question.
(I got this material from a nice article by Arthur Benjamin here.) Conway suggested the following trick to determine if a number is divisible by each of the following...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson