Communications of the ACM
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March 2019
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea: Viewport-Adaptive Navigable 360-Degree Video Delivery
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Jacob Chakareski from the University of Alabama. Jacob published the “Viewport-adaptive Navigable 360-Degree Video Delivery” paper with Xavier Corbillon (IMT Atlantique), Alisa Devlic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligent Display Scans Your Face
Is this invasive? Saw something like this years ago, but with no implication of seeing who it was. Advertising based on iris movement and facial analysis to extract demographic information. Iris scanning is known to be imprecise…
From insideHPC
UberCloud Publishes Compendium Of CFD Case Studies
If you are considering moving some of your HPC workload to the Cloud, nothing leads the way like a good set of case studies in your scientific domain. To this end, our good friends at the UberCloud have published their Compendium…
From insideHPC
ISC 2019 Keynote to focus on Algorithms of Life
Today the ISC 2019 conference announced that their keynote will be delivered by Professor Ivo Sbalzarini, who will speak to an audience of 3500 attendees about the pivotal role high performance computing plays in the field of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nulogy Case Study
Brought to my attention, aspects of the case study are of interest. At this time no pieces in this blog are sponsored. I do from time time get items that are of particular interest and I pass them along.
In SupplychainBrain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Celebrates Bach Birthday with AI
Nicely done, with a basic description about how current AI systems work. And some creative and playful Bach arrangements as well! All at the link.
Google writes:
Today we celebrate world renowned German composer and musician…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Nets need to Learn to Forget
We were exposed to this and related issues when we first worked with neural methods. This is a big dealfor all kinds of learning interactions.
Neural Networks Are Learning What to Remember and What to Forget
MIT Technology Review…
From insideHPC
OSS Introduces World’s First PCIe Gen 4 Backplane at GTC
Today One Stop Systems introduced the world’s first PCIe Gen 4 backplane. "Delivering the high performance required by edge applications necessitates PCIe interconnectivity traveling on the fast data highway between high-speed…
From insideHPC
European Commission Funds 10 Centers of Excellence for HPC
The European Commission has approved a multi-million funding program for developing applications in High Performance Computing. The funds will be used to help build HPC Centers of Excellence in 10 member countries. From computing…
From insideHPC
Characteristics of Remote Persistent Memory – Performance, Capacity, or Locality?
Paul Grun from Cray gave this talk at the OpenFabrics Workshop in Austin. "Persistent Memory exhibits several interesting characteristics including persistence, capacity and others. These (sometimes)competing characteristics
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From Schneier on Security
First Look Media Shutting Down Access to Snowden NSA Archives
The Daily Beast is reporting that First Look Media -- home of The Intercept and Glenn Greenwald -- is shutting down access to the Snowden archives. The Intercept was the home for Greenwald's subset of Snowden's NSA documents…
From Computational Complexity
Back at Dagstuhl
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| Participants and Their Research Interests |
This week I'm in Germany for the Dagstuhl workshop on Computational Complexity of Discrete Problems well timed for Georgia Tech spring break. No Bill, so no typecast, no family…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Private Label: Skincare
Another interesting attempt at private label. Marketing? How will consumers react?
Amazon creates its own skincare line called Belei
Don't expect to see Amazon's name plastered over it, though. .... "
By Jon Fingas, in Engadget…
From Schneier on Security
Zipcar Disruption
This isn't a security story, but it easily could have been. Last Saturday, Zipcar had a system outage: "an outage experienced by a third party telecommunications vendor disrupted connections between the company's vehicles and…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
ARM and Intel have different performance characteristics: a case study in random number generation
In my previous post, I reviewed a new fast random number generator called wyhash. I commented that I expected it to do well on x64 processors (Intel and AMD), but not so well on ARM processors. Let us review again wyhash: uint64_t…
From insideHPC
TACC to power HSM Archives with Quantum Corp Tape Libraries
Today Quantum Corp. announced the Texas Advanced Computing Center has selected Quantum StorNext as their archive file system, with a Quantum Scalar i6000 tape library providing dedicated Hierarchical Storage Management. "Our
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From insideHPC
New Inspur AI Server Supports Eight NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs
Today Inspur announced that their new NF5488M5 high-density AI server supports eight NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs in a 4U form factor. "The rapid development of AI keeps increasing the requirements for computing performance
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From insideHPC
Podcast: How Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration is Simplifying HPC & AI
In this Intel on Ai Podcast, Dr. David Ellison from Lenovo describes the Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration (LiCO). "Dr. Ellison explains how LiCO accelerates artificial intelligence training and traditional high performance…
From insideHPC
Pure Storage Unveils NVIDIA-Powered Ai Solutions
"The all-new hyperscale configuration of AI-Ready Infrastructure (AIRI) from Pure Storage is designed to deliver supercomputing capabilities for enterprises that pioneer real-world AI initiatives and have grown beyond the capabilities…
From insideHPC
Accelerating TensorFlow with RDMA for High-Performance Deep Learning
Xiaoyi Lu from Ohio State University gave this talk at the 2019 OpenFabrics Workshop in Austin. "Google's TensorFlow is one of the most popular Deep Learning (DL) frameworks. We propose a unified way of achieving high performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAS Invests Big in AI
Another indication that the AI surge may not wither. SAS knows its analytics, we used them extensively, and it is investing heavily in AI tech. Much different than in the last emergence of the idea. Gets back to the definition…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Enhances Voice, Audio with AI
Intriguing move. How will it change the Assistant space, with voice control. An SoC is a System on a chip. See more about Qualcomm's example of an SoC: SnapDragon. Will provide more AI power to the Voice and computer 'edge'…
From Schneier on Security
An Argument that Cybersecurity Is Basically Okay
Andrew Odlyzko's new essay is worth reading -- "Cybersecurity is not very important": Abstract: There is a rising tide of security breaches. There is an even faster rising tide of hysteria over the ostensible reason for these…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Overdue Debate?
More thoughts on mind, machines, and humanity. Is it a debate or a inevitable journey? I was Inspired by the Stanford HAI effort, which seems to be chipping away at just the tiniest pieces of this. Should we first look
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jason Brownlee Reviews Stanford CNN Course
Thoughtful piece on a seminal course. Useful if you are considering taking a deeper dive.
Stanford Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition Course (Review) by Jason Brownlee
The Stanford course on deep learning for…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
[email protected] – Sustainably Feeding Ten Billion People
How can we feed the world’s population – projected to reach ten billion people by 2050 – in a sustainable way that preserves the health of individuals, communities, and the environment? How can computer science be utilized to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulators for Virtual Learning
Simulation as a means of generating test data.
Nvidia’s new simulator brings virtual learning to autonomous vehicle developers By Bruce Brown
Nvidia’s Drive Constellation autonomous vehicle simulation system is ready for manufacturers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Private Label
Amazon has not bee very successful in this space in the past, but there is evidence that are now pushing harder and more carefully.
Amazon and Private Label
In CustomerThink, By: Bryan Pearson
The Jolly Green Giant, Tony the Tiger…
From insideHPC
Lenovo HPC Clusters come to the Nimbix Cloud
Today HPC cloud provider Nimbix announced a new strategic partnership with Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG). "Lenovo DCG and Nimbix have teamed up to deliver flexible, powerful solutions based on Lenovo HPC clusters and the Nimbix…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The fastest conventional random number generator that can pass Big Crush?
In software, we sometimes want to generate (pseudo-)random numbers. The general strategy is to have a state (e.g., a 64-bit integer) and modify it each time we want a new random number. From this state, we can derive a “random…