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A US Data Protection Agency
The United States is one of the few democracies without some formal data protection agency, and we need one. Senator Gillibrand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wuhan Virus Detected by AI Epidemiologist
Quite interesting revelation. The depth of this discovery still unclear. Recall our work in detecting epidemics and bioterror by retail data.AI Epidemiologist...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF’s 70th Anniversary Symposium
On May 10, 1950, President Truman signed the National Science Foundation Act, creating the only federal agency charged with funding fundamental research and education...
From insideHPC
Samsung Launches Flashbolt High Bandwidth 2E Memory
Today Samsung Electronics launched 'Flashbolt,' its third-generation High Bandwidth Memory 2E (HBM2E). The new 16-gigabyte (GB) HBM2E is uniquely suited to maximize...
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Beyond Discoverability: Metadata to Drive Your Data Management
Terrell Russell from iRODS gave this talk at SC19. "The Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) is open source data management software used by research organizations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of the Blackberry
Blackberries were the first phone we issued to executives. At their request after they saw how they could be used with their own portfolios. And were the first...
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Arm HPC User Group to Host First Annual Meeting in Portugal
Arm's HPC User Group (A-HUG) is transitioning to a fully-fledged community-led organization to better support the Arm ecosystem. The first annual meeting of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung to Announce Smart Speaker
More competition in what I call the assistant world. Bixby powered from Samsung. Beyond just in Korea? Appears include smart home oriented sensors. Samsung...
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Towards a Reality of Fusion Power
Quite a number of advances in recent years. Excellent overview. With some technology explanation.5 Big Ideas for Making Fusion Power a Reality In IEEE Spectrum...
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How NVIDIA Enables Scientific Research for HPC Developers
"Researchers, scientists, and developers are advancing science by accelerating their high performance computing applications on NVIDIA GPUs using specialized libraries...
From Schneier on Security
Tree Code
Artist Katie Holten has developed a tree code (basically, a font in trees), and New York City is using it to plant secret messages in parks....
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Deep Learning on Supercomputers workshop
The Deep Learning on Supercomputers workshop has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 25 as part of ISC 2020 in Frankfurt, Germany. "The workshop...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Department of Energy Announces $625 Million for New Quantum Centers
The following is a press release from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to establish two to five multidisciplinary Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research...
From insideHPC
Tachyum Processor to power 2021 AI/HPC Supercomputer
Today semiconductor company Tachyum announced today that its Prodigy Processor AI/HPC Reference Design will be used in a supercomputer at an unnamed customer site...
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Fujitsu to Deploy Arm-based Supercomputer at Nagoya University
Today Fujitsu announced that it has received an order for an Arm-based supercomputer system from Nagoya University's Information Technology Center. "For the first...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Iowa Caucus 2020–What Happens When Software Doesn’t Work?
It’s too early to tell exactly what went wrong with the Iowa caucus this year but I suspect it will wind up being a case study in several ways. Political Science...
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Podcast: Rewriting NWChem for Exascale
In this Let’s Talk Exascale podcast, researchers from the NWChemEx project team describe how they are readying the popular code for Exascale. The NWChemEx team’s...
From insideHPC
DIII-D Researchers Use Machine Learning to Steer Fusion Plasmas
Researchers at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility achieved a scientific first this month when they used machine learning calculations to automatically preventDIII...
From insideHPC
Efficient Model Selection for Deep Neural Networks on Massively Parallel Processing Databases
Frank McQuillan from Pivotal gave this talk at FOSDEM 2020. "In this session we will present an efficient way to train many deep learning model configurations at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Upgrades Debate AI Tool to Better Derive Evidence
Intriguing approach to mining information to support a goal directed conversation. A key aspect to making conversational systems more powerful. Note also the...
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