Communications of the ACM
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June 2022
From insideHPC
At ISC 2022: Inspur’s Jay Zhang on the Inspur-MEGWARE GPU Cluster at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
In this interview at ISC 2022, we spoke with Jay Zhang, Vice President of Inspur Global Business and CEO of Inspur Europe, about recent company developments and its joint development with European HPC solutions provider MEGWARE…
From insideHPC
At ISC 2022: AMD Talks TOP500-GREEN500 Double Win, Public Cloud HPC Instances, EPYC and instinct Chip Updates and What’s New for Xilinx FPGAs
At ISC 2022, the AMD booth was a constant beehive of activity – after all, AMD CPUs and GPUs are powering the new no. 1 supercomputer, Frontier, which is also the first HPC system to be exascale-certified. In this interview, …
From insideHPC
StorONE: Single Platform Integrates HDDs into NVMe-oF
NEW YORK – June 7, 2022 – Today, StorONE said it is the first company to enable hard disk drive (HDD) connectivity to NVMe-oF infrastructures, “dramatically reducing the cost of an NVMe solution by 10X or more,” according to …
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. Unveils Software Built to Expand Quantum Processing Power By Up to 20x
LEESBURG, Va., June 07, 2022 — Quantum Computing Inc. today unveiled QAmplify, a suite of quantum software technologies designed to expand the processing power of current quantum computers by up to 20x. QAmplify is intended to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UT, Meta Create Digital Humans That Learn Complex Movements
Movements for interaction.
UT, Meta Create Digital Humans That Learn Complex Movements
University of Twente (Netherlands), May 23, 2022
Researchers at Meta's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Laboratory and at the University…From insideHPC
Sandia Researcher Ray Tuminaro Named SIAM Fellow
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ computational scientist and applied mathematician Ray Tuminaro has been named a 2022 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for “contributions in iterative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Chip Supply Chain
ACM NEWS
Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage By Wired. June 6, 2022
McKinsey has tapped into the sense of urgency by creating a team dedicated to sourcing chips for the companies it consults for. Wiseman…From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Biometrics
We experimented with in Retail settings.
The Eyes Have It By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 19, 2022
One of the things that makes biometrics so powerful is that it links humans and machines in a natural way…From The Eponymous Pickle
Very Small, An Insectothopter
Always been interested in very small biomimicy. Here mimicing insects, no longer around, or is it?
Meet the CIA’s Insectothopter Sadly, the 1-gram spy craft couldn’t withstand a gentle breeze, but later dragonfly-inspired UAVs…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Laws and Laughs
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them—Jack Foster Roy Amara was a researcher and president of the Institute for the Future. Among things he is known for is coining Amara’s law on the effect of technology…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Data structure size and cache-line accesses
On many systems, memory is accessed in fixed blocks called “cache lines”. On Intel systems, the cache line spans 64 bytes. That is, if you access memory at byte address 64, 65… up to 127… it is all on the same cache line. The…
From insideHPC
ALCF Developer Session June 30: Profiling Deep Learning Applications with NVIDIA Nsight
On Thursday, June 30 from 1-2 pm Centeral Time, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a developer session on performance analysis techniques for deep learning applications using the NVIDIA Nsight Systems profiling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Sentinel Speaks to Suspicious Activiity.
Brought to my attention. Using voice to interact with detected suspicious activity. AI enabled.
California Security Surveillance Company curbs crime through AI, real-time human intervention, CEO says ... California-based security…From The Eponymous Pickle
PC and GPU Shipments Declined in Q1 2022
General slowdown or specific to device market?
PC and GPU Shipments Declined in Q1 2022 By Josh Norem on June 2, 2022 in ExtremeTech
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its Q1 2022 analysis of the global PC and GPU market,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Guaranteed Smart Home Privacy?
Well tested in open contexts?
Peekaboo! A System to Guarantee Smart Home Privacy
Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Daniel Tkacik, May 31, 2022
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Security…From insideHPC
Inspur Information and MEGWARE Build GPU Cluster for Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Stuttgart, Germany — Inspur information, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, and MEGWARE, a high-performance computing (HPC) solutions provider in Europe, combined efforts for the scientific research capabilities of the …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf Invents a Company
Good process thoughts on digital, below only an excerpt, full at the link.
Digital Synergy, By Vinton G. Cerf
Communications of the ACM, June 2022, Vol. 65 No. 6, Page 9 10.1145/3534934
Google Vice President …From insideHPC
Final Aurora Learning Paths Training Module to Be Held June 8
This Aurora Learning Paths training series continues on Wednesday, June 8, 1:30-3:30 Central Time, with a module focused on using Data Parallel Python to advance code development for the ALCF’s upcoming Aurora system. The session…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advanced Quantum Computer Made Available To The Public For First Time
Mentioned here previously, more detail accessible here
Advanced Quantum Computer Made Available To The Public For First Time By Admin On Jun 5, 2022 in Govirall
A computer capable of quantum supremacy — proving supremacy over…From Putting People First
[Book] Everyday Automation
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The first book to take an interdisciplinary and international approach to understanding how our everyday lives are being affected by automated decision-making.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Intelligent Crypto Thesis
Don't understand this as yet, but reaching out.
Opinion Essay
AI and machine learning will usher in new forms of digital assets from intelligent NFTs to self-determining DeFi protocols. This essay is part of CoinDesk's 'Big…From The Eponymous Pickle
Turning Towards the Super-earths
What will we see?
Astronomers Prepare to Turn Webb Telescope Toward Nearby Super-Earths By Ryan Whitwam on May 31, 2022 at 6:15 am
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been in space for about six months, which is just a…From Putting People First
[Book] Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future
Emerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis, through the prism of emerging technologies.
From Putting People First
[Book] Design Ethnography
This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and ethical research design, practice and engagement.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eavesdropping on the Brain
New directions on understanding the brain and how it operates
Eavesdropping on the Brain with 10,000 Electrodes
Exponential growth comes to neural implants
BARUN DUTTA 28 MAY 2022 in Spectrum IEEE
IMAGINE A PORTABLE computer…From insideHPC
NVIDIA InfiniBand Adaptive Routing Technology
In this white paper, "NVIDIA InfiniBand Adaptive Routing Technology,"we’ll look at how adaptive routing from NVIDIA plays such an important role, eliminating congestion and increasing data center performance. High-performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multi-Tasking Wearable Continuously Monitors Glucose, Alcohol, Lactate
New kinds of Health monitors
ACM TECHNEWS
Multi-Tasking Wearable Continuously Monitors Glucose, Alcohol, Lactate
By UC San Diego News Center, May 13, 2022
The device, about the size of a stack of six quarters, is applied to the skin…From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing in War
New uses for 3D Printing continue to surprise me
Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives They churn out bandages and periscopes for fighters on the frontlines manufactured and supplied a number of 3D-printed products…From The Eponymous Pickle
Controlling Computers with the Mind
Another long time look at computer mind control
The Man Who Controls Computers With His Mind
By The New York Times, May 16, 2022
Only a few dozen people on the planet have had neural interfaces embedded in their cortical tissueOn…From The Eponymous Pickle
Asimov Institute
I was reminded of this group:
Asimov Institute Artificial Creativity & Constraint
We are a non-profit AI research inst: itute that explores the relation between deep learning and creativity. The Asimov Institute publishes…