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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
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...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | October 17, 2023 at 07:39 PM
(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...Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | October 17, 2023 at 03:37 PM
CCC Council Members David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Brian LaMacchia (Farcaster Consulting Group, LLC), Ufuk Topcu (University of Texas Austin)...Haley Griffin From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | October 17, 2023 at 01:30 PM
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...staff From insideHPC | October 17, 2023 at 12:30 PM
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...staff From insideHPC | October 17, 2023 at 12:27 PM
“Exascale is a massive accelerator for technology, productivity, engineering, and science.” Outside the high-performance computing (HPC) community, “exascale” may...staff From insideHPC | October 17, 2023 at 12:26 PM
With the advent of the exascale supercomputing era, computational scientists can run simulations at higher resolutions, add more detailed physical phenomena, increase...staff From insideHPC | October 17, 2023 at 12:20 PM
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...staff From insideHPC | October 17, 2023 at 09:00 AM
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...RJLipton+KWRegan From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP | October 16, 2023 at 09:52 PM
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...Daniel Lemire From Daniel Lemire's Blog | October 16, 2023 at 08:15 PM
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...staff From insideHPC | October 16, 2023 at 03:47 PM
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...staff From insideHPC | October 16, 2023 at 03:20 PM
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...staff From insideHPC | October 16, 2023 at 02:30 PM
RENO, Nev.—October 16, 2023—CIQ, the company building software infrastructure for enterprises running performance-intensive workloads atop the Rocky Linux enterprise...staff From insideHPC | October 16, 2023 at 02:07 PM
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...Greg Linden From Geeking with Greg | October 16, 2023 at 10:35 AM
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...Doug Black From insideHPC | October 16, 2023 at 09:00 AM
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...Bruce Schneier From Schneier on Security | October 16, 2023 at 07:06 AM
[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...staff From insideHPC | October 16, 2023 at 06:00 AM
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...gasarch From Computational Complexity | October 15, 2023 at 09:34 PM
Scandiano, RE (Italy), October 12, 2023 – E4 Computer Engineering announced a partnership with NVIDIA for the Italian launch of NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip, the...staff From insideHPC | October 15, 2023 at 02:35 PM