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More on the use and interaction of quantum computing with current needs, like secure cryptography. Is likely to increasingly become an important issue. Note the offer of a Quantum Risk Assessment.
From PRNewswire via Cision:…
It's always nice when I can combine squid and security: Multiple versions of the Squid web proxy cache server built with Basic Authentication features are currently vulnerable to code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks…
Another example of new ways to add power sources. I recall piezoelectric methods being suggested as gained from customers walking across a floor. Harvesting electric power. Too low power in that case, it turned out. But…
Much in the press this week. Looks to be of real value based on the description. Unclear here if this is voice driven and other specifics. Note it is communicating its activities, will be checking on that. Note also the previous…
Alexa Dev announces a way to create skill flow for games, stories. When I saw this I thought, could this also be used to develop skills based on business process flow? Thinking that. Your thoughts? If I think so I will make…
The good folks at Basement Supercomputing have published a white paper comparing one of the company's on-prem Limulus personal HPC appliance to Amazon EC2 Cloud instances. The economics are quite interesting. "In this careful…
Quantum Computing holds tremendous promise, but it could also put today's cryptographic-based security systems at risk. Enter IBM, who just announced plans to provide quantum-safe cryptography services on the IBM public cloud…
Robert Harrison from Brookhaven gave this talk at the MVAPICH User Group. "MADNESS, TESSE/EPEXA, and MolSSI are three quite different large and long-lived projects that provide different perspectives and driving needs for the…
Mentioned I was looking at the blockchain IOTA sometime back, was just pointed to this analysis that I had missed: Has pointers to much more:
Analysis of IOTA By Marvin Neuefeind in Medium
One of the most popular coins, which…
Quite a considerable look at how future has been predicted, why were they so accurate? what sources can we look at today? As a futurist myself, always seeking sources. Read it:
Futurology: How a group of visionaries predicted…
Another indication of IBM working strongly in this space. Had not heard this particular kind of application before. And also new to the hospitality space.
Travelport, IBM Collaborate on Blockchain for Hotel Commissions
Travelport…
There was a DefCon talk by someone with the vanity plate "NULL." The California system assigned him every ticket with no license plate: $12,000. Although the initial $12,000-worth of fines were removed, the private company that…
Where you would expect it, but the results are still less than perfect. And where it is mostly likely to be spoofed for direct fraud.
Facial Recognition Making Its Way in Banking By AI Trends Staff
Facial recognition technology…
A number of good inspirational examples. Needs more tech details, but still useful.
Remarkable Applications of Data Science
Posted by Sudhanshu Ahuja in DSC
We are living in a time of slow yet steady insurgence of data science…
In this Conversations in the Cloud podcast, Lee Carter from Bright Computing offers comprehensive software for deploying, managing, and monitoring clustered infrastructure, in the data center or the cloud. "Looking forward, Lee…
Leaders in the area of machine learning and AI talk goals and workflow:
On-Demand Webinar
Enterprises understand that driving business outcomes with machine learning and AI will soon become a critical driver for success. Yet, many…
A recent report from Hyperion Research indicate that as much as 10 percent of HPC workloads are already in cloud and that 70 percent of HPC centers are running some jobs in public clouds. Are these numbers indicative of what
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A largely non-technical view of what Quantum Computing will mean. Our own minor investigations looked at how very complex combinatorial problems (problems with many, many solutions) that might then be solved with these methods…
Quite worthwhile piece in the 'smart contract' blockchain space, in Financial industry, examining:
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Databases
Download PDF version of this article PDF August 19, 2019
Volume 17, issue 3
Case Study
DAML: The Contract…
In this special guest feature, Calista Redmond writes that the European Processor Initiative is designing an HPC accelerator based on RISC-V. "The accelerator will be designed for high throughput and power efficiency within the…
Google talks about its approaches to a more private, yet financially sustainable Web.
Building a more private web By Justin Schuh Director, Chrome Engineering
Published Aug 22, 2019
Privacy is paramount to us, in everything
Technology…
Recall hearing about this approach in training we took. Making it easier to connect key data to analytics. Shape constraint languages.
Graph Database ‘Shapes’ Data By George Leopold in Datanami
A semantic graph database
Franz…
The following post was contributed by CCC Director, Ann Schwartz Drobnis. The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordination Office (NCO), on behalf of Federal agencies and the…
A new HPE supercomputer at NASA’s Ames Research Center will run modeling and simulation workloads for lunar landings. The 3.69 Petaflop "Aitken" system is a custom-designed supercomputer will support modeling and simulations
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Christian Kniep gave this talk at HPCKP'19. "This talk will dissect the convergence by refreshing the audiences’ memory on what containerization is about, segueing into why AI/ML workloads are leading to fully fledged HPC applications…
The CSTA 2020 Call for Proposals is out and as usual it has me thinking. Two questions come to mind. One is, what can/should I propose to present? The other question is what do I want to learn? I think I have been to everyI…
From Ideaconnection, offer of sale or licensing of a US patent:
Crowd-sourced Autonomous Vehicle Training
Definitions: When driving, human drivers encounter non-events (expected events like traffic lights turning red) as well
Events…
From DefCon: At the Defcon hacker conference today, security researcher Truman Kain debuted what he calls the Surveillance Detection Scout. The DIY computer fits into the middle console of a Tesla Model S or Model 3, plugs into…
Over the summer Vicki Davis interviewed me for her Ten Minute Podcast. Vicki and I have been friends for a number of years and it is always a pleasure to talk with her. We talked about a number of things including Project-based…
Today Xilinx announced the expansion of its 16 nanometer (nm) Virtex UltraScale+ family to now include the world’s largest FPGA — the Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P. With 35 billion transistors, the VU19P provides the highest logic…
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