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Search vs. Browse
One of the oldest distinctions in information access is between searching and browsing. Does a user initiate an information-seeking…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The More You Know The More You Expect
One thing that happens when you know who to write computer code is that you know how hard or easy some things are. If you’re even the least OCD some things that...
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: Mark as spam, the long fight to keep emails and texts useful
(This is an excerpt from my book. Please let me know if you like it and want more.) The first email on the internet was sent in 1971. Back then, the internet...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Members Publish White Paper on Algorithmic Robustness
CCC Council Members David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Brian LaMacchia (Farcaster Consulting Group, LLC), Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas Austin)...
From insideHPC
Argonne Deploys New Groq System to ALCF AI Testbed, Providing AI Accelerator Access to Researchers Globally
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and LEMONT, IL, October 17, 2023 — Groq, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions company, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne...
From insideHPC
Building a Capable Computing Ecosystem for Exascale and Beyond
The exascale computing era is here. With the delivery of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) first exascale system, Frontier, in 2022, and the upcoming deployment...
From insideHPC
Exascale Drives Industry Innovation for a Better Future
“Exascale is a massive accelerator for technology, productivity, engineering, and science.” Outside the high-performance computing (HPC) community, “exascale” may...
From insideHPC
ALPINE/zfp Addresses Analysis, Visualization and Data Reduction Needs for Exascale Science Applications
With the advent of the exascale supercomputing era, computational scientists can run simulations at higher resolutions, add more detailed physical phenomena, increase...
From insideHPC
Flare Gas Data Center Company Crusoe Picks HPE for Green GenAI
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced its HPE Cray supercomputers were selected by Crusoe, a builder of modular data centers, to power new cloud...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Fairness and Sampling
A talk by Sruthi Gorantla while visiting Georgia Tech Sruthi Gorantla is a fourth-year PhD candidate in computer science at the Indian Institute of Science and...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Randomness in programming (with Go code)
Computer software is typically deterministic on paper: if you run twice the same program with the same inputs, you should get the same outputs. In practice, the...
From insideHPC
DOE Announces 2024 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge, Pre-proposals Due Nov. 13
Oct. 16, 2023 — The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) is an allocation program for projects of interest to the Department of Energy (DOE), with an emphasis...
From insideHPC
Two Columbia Univ. Researchers Awarded John von Neumann Theory Prize
BALTIMORE, Oct. 16, 2023 – The 2023 John von Neumann Theory Prize, awarded by INFORMS, is bestowed to Christos H. Papadimitriou and Mihalis Yannakakis for their...
From insideHPC
DOE Selects JLab to Be High Performance Data Facility Lead
Oct. 16, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of the High Performance Data Facility (HPDF) hub, which will create a new scientific...
From insideHPC
Texas Tech HPC Center Chooses CIQ for HPC Infrastructure
RENO, Nev.—October 16, 2023—CIQ, the company building software infrastructure for enterprises running performance-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise...
From Geeking with Greg
Cory Doctorow on enshittification
Another good piece by Cory on enshittification, with details about Facebook, some on how A/B testing optimizes for enshittification, and updated with how Musk's...
From insideHPC
Phison Introduces Signal Conditioner IC Products, Expands PCIe 5.0 Ecosystem
SAN JOSE – October 16, 2023 – Phison Electronics (8299 TT), a NAND controllers and storage company, announced that the company has expanded its portfolio of PCIe...
From Schneier on Security
Coin Flips Are Biased
Experimental result: Many people have flipped coins but few have stopped to ponder the statistical and physical intricacies of the process. In a preregistered study...
From insideHPC
Federated GPU Infrastructure for AI Workflows
[Sponsored Guest Article] With the explosion of use cases such as Generative AI and ML Ops driving tremendous demand for the most advanced GPUs and accelerated...
From Computational Complexity
Paper is a tech-free way to preserve writing. Is there a tech-free way to preserve sound (e.g., music)
I blogged about ACM going mostly paper-free, and had some PROS and CONS about paper-free, in this blog here. One of my many astute readers named Abigail pointed...
From insideHPC