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Exascale Computing Project Releases Milestone Report
The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has published a milestone report that summarizes the status of…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (March 14th 2020)
Mothers, but not fathers, possess gender-related implicit biases about emotion expression in children. Chinese researchers used to be offered cash rewards for publishing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Firms Seek to Head off Bans on Facial Recognition
Don't expect foreign uses to be banned.Tech Firms Seek to Head Off Bans on Facial RecognitionThe Wall Street JournalBy Ryan TracyMarch 8, 2020Technology companies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Speak Math, not Code
Makes sense to understand the math and its implications. I would add that the logic involved in implementation is often ignored by the mathematicians involved....
From insideHPC
Qumulo Offers Free Cloud Software to help Fight the COVID-19 Outbreak
Today Qumulo announced it is offering its cloud-native file software, for free, to public and private sector medical and healthcare research organizations thatQumulo...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Linux System Administrator at UC Riverside
UC Riverside is seeking a Linux System Administrator in our Job of the Week. "UC Riverside's research computing infrastructure is provided by a central HPC facility...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Value of the FuzzBench
A means to support debugging code and thus searching for code vulnerabilities. We used it the early days. Google uses it and recently published some public capabilities...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Report on Squid Markets
This report costs $2,000. (Please don't buy it for me.) As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 0
Well it happened. Like so many schools and school districts, Bishop Guertin has decided to close the building because of COVID-19. I say closing the building because...
From insideHPC
Schrödinger Taps Google Cloud HPC Solution to Bolster Drug Discovery
Schrödinger has entered into a three-year agreement with Google Cloud to substantially increase the speed and capacity of its physics-based computational platform...
From insideHPC
SQream teams with StorONE for High Performance Data Analytics
Today StorONE announced a joint solution with SQream that provides users with high-performance massive data analytics. "SQream is a data analytics engine, which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hack the Pentagon was Very Successful
As a former Pentagon DOD employee who worked security issues, this is both surprising and impressive. Much more at the link on success of the effort. Hack theHackerone...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fraunhofer and IBM with Quantum in Europe
Notably bringing in the IBM Q quantum computer for exploration.Milestone for quantum computing research and development in EuropeIBM and Fraunhofer bring Quantum...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Longer Form Translation for Assistants
Have mentioned some experimentation with real time longer form translation, as it can exist within the framework of voice driven assistants. Impressive so far....
From insideHPC
MEEP Project to support European technology in Exascale Supercomputers
Today the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) launched the MareNostrum Experimental Exascale Platform (MEEP). The new project will support EuroHPC in its effort...
From insideHPC
SDSC Announces Comprehensive Data Sharing Resource
SDSC has announced the launch of HPC Share, a data sharing resource that will enable users of the Center’s high-performance computing resources to easily transfer...
From insideHPC
Pangea III: A Seismic Shift in Total’s Computing Platform
Diego Klahr from Total gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "Oil and Gas industry is continuously challenged to increase its hydrocarbon productionPangea...
From Schneier on Security
The EARN-IT Act
Prepare for another attack on encryption in the U.S. The EARN-IT Act purports to be about protecting children from predation, but it's really about forcing the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Epidemics and Other Complex, Dynamic and Dangerous Events.
And several decades ago, we also examined these data and methods, also aimed at epidemics, that aimed at doing this and bioterror as well. We did not have all...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Group Testing For The Coronavirus
Plus other mathematical ideas that may be helping History of Econ. Thought src Robert Dorfman was a professor of political economy at Harvard University, who helped...
From The Eponymous Pickle