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    September 2023


    From insideHPC

    NTT Research Scientific Teams Name 9 New Hires

    NTT Research Scientific Teams Name 9 New Hires

    Sunnyvale, Calif. – Sept. 26, 2023 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that it has named Timothée Leleu as Senior Research Scientist and a Group Head in the Physics & Informatics (PHI) Lab. It …

    staff | September 28, 2023 at 03:38 PM

    From insideHPC

    IonQ Announces $25.5M Quantum Deal with U.S. Air Force Research Lab

    IonQ Announces $25.5M Quantum Deal with U.S. Air Force Research Lab

    Quantum computing company IonQ announced an expanded relationship with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to deploy two barium-based trapped ion quantum computing systems for quantum networking research and application development…

    staff | September 28, 2023 at 02:33 PM

    From insideHPC

    Atropos Health in Clinical Development Agreement with Janssen R&D

    Atropos Health in Clinical Development Agreement with Janssen R&D

    PALO ALTO, CA – September 27, 2023 – Data-driven healthcare company Atropos Health announced an agreement with Janssen Research & Development, LLC (Janssen), a Johnson & Johnson company, aimed at helping accelerate clinical development…

    staff | September 28, 2023 at 01:40 PM

    From insideHPC

    Dec. 11 Nomination Deadline for DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellows

    Dec. 11 Nomination Deadline for DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellows

    Sept. 28, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is accepting nominations from the DOE national laboratories for the department’s Distinguished Scientist Fellows Program. The deadline is 5 pm Eastern, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023…

    staff | September 28, 2023 at 01:29 PM

    From Computational Complexity

    Half-Exponential No More

    I've mentioned Kannan's proof that \(\Sigma_2^p\) does not have \(n^2\) size-circuits before. A similar proof shows that \(\Sigma_2^E = \mathrm{NTIME}^\mathrm{NP}(2^{O(n)})\) does not have polynomial-size circuits in general.…

    Lance Fortnow | September 28, 2023 at 11:29 AM

    From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

    2023 NAE Meeting

    With a memorial to William Wulf Anita Jones will be attending the next 2023 National Academy of Engineering’s annual meeting in Washington DC. Kathryn and I will travel there this weekend. Here is a photo of her winning the Philip…

    KWRegan | September 27, 2023 at 11:58 PM

    From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

    AFOSR Hosting a Webinar on AI for Humanity

    AFOSR Hosting a Webinar on AI for Humanity

    On October 31st, 2023 from 2-3:30 PM ET the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is hosting a webinar AI for Humanity. Led by AFOSR program officer for the Science of Information, Computation, Learning, and Fusion,…

    Maddy Hunter | September 27, 2023 at 04:54 PM

    From insideHPC

    Argonne Preps Aurora for Exascale Simulations of Nuclear Reactors

    Argonne Preps Aurora for Exascale Simulations of Nuclear Reactors

    Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are preparing to use Aurora, the laboratory’s upcoming exascale supercomputer, to delve into the inner mechanics of a variety of nuclear reactor models. These simulations promise an …

    staff | September 27, 2023 at 03:22 PM

    From insideHPC

    LESSENGERS in Volume Production of 800G Active Optical Cables and Transceivers for AI/ML Clusters

    LESSENGERS in Volume Production of 800G Active Optical Cables and Transceivers for AI/ML Clusters

    SEOUL / GLASGOW – September 27, 2023 — LESSENGERS Inc., a provider of optical components based on its patented “direct optical wiring” (DOW) technology, today announced that its new 800G transceiver product (800G OSFP SR8), will…

    staff | September 27, 2023 at 02:40 PM

    From insideHPC

    DOE Funds $30M for Research to Accelerate Scientific Advances at National Labs

    DOE Funds $30M for Research to Accelerate Scientific Advances at National Labs

    Sept. 27, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $30 million in funding for three projects to increase scientific productivity and discoveries across DOE light source, neutron source, and high-performance…

    staff | September 27, 2023 at 02:23 PM

    From insideHPC

    IonQ Announces Rack-Mounted Quantum Systems for Data Center Environments

    IonQ Announces Rack-Mounted Quantum Systems for Data Center Environments

    COLLEGE PARK, Md., Sept. 27, 2023 — Quantum computing company IonQ today unveiled the Forte Enterprise and Tempo, rack-mounted systems the company said are can be integrated within existing data center infrastructures, enabling…

    staff | September 27, 2023 at 02:00 PM

    From Schneier on Security

    Critical Vulnerability in libwebp Library

    Critical Vulnerability in libwebp Library

    Both Apple and Google have recently reported critical vulnerabilities in their systems—iOS and Chrome, respectively—that are ultimately the result of the same vulnerability in the libwebp library:

    On Thursday, researchers from…

    Bruce Schneier | September 27, 2023 at 07:08 AM

    From Apophenia

    The Screens are the Symptom.

    The Screens are the Symptom.

    I decided to re-read Fahrenheit 451 with my eldest this last week. I don’t think that I have read this classic Bradbury text since high school. What I had remembered about the book was that it described a world in which books…

    zephoria | September 26, 2023 at 07:13 PM

    From insideHPC

    HPC User Forum 2023: How AI is Overturning the Legal Industry

    HPC User Forum 2023: How AI is Overturning the Legal Industry

    HPC workloads“Lawyers who use AI will replace lawyers who don’t.” That was the coda of a presentation given at the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson by Arizona State University law professor Gary Marchant, a graduate of Harvard Law School and…

    staff | September 26, 2023 at 03:59 PM

    From insideHPC

    NVIDIA-Powered CoreWeave and VAST Data Partner on Public Cloud for GenAI, HPC

    NVIDIA-Powered CoreWeave and VAST Data Partner on Public Cloud for GenAI, HPC

    Sept. 26, 2023 — VAST Data and CoreWeave today announced a partnership to build an NVIDIA GPU-powered computing cloud for generative AI, high performance computing and visual effects workloads. Startup CoreWeave is a GPU cloud…

    staff | September 26, 2023 at 01:49 PM

    From Schneier on Security

    Signal Will Leave the UK Rather Than Add a Backdoor

    Signal Will Leave the UK Rather Than Add a Backdoor

    Totally expected, but still good to hear:

    Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, Meredith Whittaker, the president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the nonprofit Signal messaging app, reaffirmed that Signal would leave…

    Bruce Schneier | September 26, 2023 at 07:15 AM

    From insideHPC

    Quantum Computing Integrator ParTec AG Raises €5M

    Quantum Computing Integrator ParTec AG Raises €5M

    Munich — Modular supercomputing company ParTec AG has announced that as a result of its years of work in the field of quantum computing, it is positioning itself as a complete integrator of quantum computers. ParTec offers a …

    staff | September 25, 2023 at 05:38 PM

    From insideHPC

    MIT: Qubit Architecture Achieves Progress on Quantum Error Correction

    MIT: Qubit Architecture Achieves Progress on Quantum Error Correction

    MIT researchers report they have demonstrated a novel superconducting qubit architecture that can perform operations between qubits with greater accuracy, addressing a roadblock to commercial use of quantum computers: error …

    staff | September 25, 2023 at 04:50 PM

    From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

    Kick-off to the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum

    Kick-off to the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum

        Today marks the first official day of the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Heidelberg, Germany. The Computing Community Consortium has attended and covered the HLF conference every year since 2018, with the exception of…

    Catherine Gill | September 25, 2023 at 04:23 PM

    From insideHPC

    Exascale Early Adopter Series Webinar Sept. 27: Optimizing SYCL Workloads on Aurora and Sunspot

    Exascale Early Adopter Series Webinar Sept. 27: Optimizing SYCL Workloads on Aurora and Sunspot

    On Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 11 am Central Time, Varsha Madananth, an applications engineer at Intel, will lead an online webinar on optimizing SYCL workloads for PVC on the Aurora exascale system and the Sunspot testbed system.…

    staff | September 25, 2023 at 03:52 PM

    From Putting People First

    Using psychology to bolster cybersecurity

    Using psychology to bolster cybersecurity

    In an article for Communications of the ACM, David Geer explains how the U.S. Defense Department uses cyberpsychology to get into the minds of attackers to better understand how they think and act.

    Experientia | September 23, 2023 at 01:22 PM

    From Daniel Lemire's Blog

    Parsing integers quickly with AVX-512

    Parsing integers quickly with AVX-512

    If I give a programmer a string such as "9223372036854775808" and I ask them to convert it to an integer, they might do the following in C++: std::string s = .... uint64_t val; auto [ptr, ec] = std::from_chars(s.data(), s.data…

    Daniel Lemire | September 22, 2023 at 05:50 PM

    From Schneier on Security

    Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species

    Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species

    An ancient squid:

    New research on fossils has revealed that a vampire-like ancient squid haunted Earth’s oceans 165 million years ago. The study, published in June edition of the journal Papers in Palaeontology, says the creature…

    Bruce Schneier | September 22, 2023 at 05:09 PM

    From insideHPC

    Large Language Models: The Power and the Mystery

    Large Language Models: The Power and the Mystery

    Large language models fit the classic model of a red-hot technology in an early stage of commercial viability: there’s more talk about it than knowledge, and FOMO – the fear that your competitors are implementing it at your peril…

    Doug Black | September 22, 2023 at 09:41 AM

    From insideHPC

    PINQ² to Operate IBM Quantum System One in Quebec

    PINQ² to Operate IBM Quantum System One in Quebec

    Bromont, Quebec, September 22, 2023 – The Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation of Quebec (PINQ²), a non-profit organization (NPO) founded by the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Energy of Quebec (MEIE – ministère de…

    Doug Black | September 22, 2023 at 09:30 AM

    From insideHPC

    Kao Data Appoints David Bloom Chairman

    Kao Data Appoints David Bloom Chairman

    London, September 21st, 2023 – Kao Data, the specialist developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has appointed David Bloom, one of the company’s founding investors and Partner…

    staff | September 21, 2023 at 02:47 PM

    From insideHPC

    Sandia Labs Researchers Win 6 R&D 100 Awards

    Sandia Labs Researchers Win 6 R&D 100 Awards

    Sandia researchers took home six R&D 100 Awards, one joint with Los Alamos National Laboratory, and one special award for 2023 in the annual international technical competition that includes researchers from universities, corporations…

    staff | September 21, 2023 at 02:05 PM

    From Schneier on Security

    New Revelations from the Snowden Documents

    New Revelations from the Snowden Documents

    Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few more tidbits.

    Kind of amazing that that all happened ten years…

    Bruce Schneier | September 21, 2023 at 07:03 AM

    From insideHPC

    Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe Develop Quantum ML Method for Disaster Routing

    Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe Develop Quantum ML Method for Disaster Routing

    St. Gallen, Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, September 21, 2023 – Quantum computing company Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU), a center for advanced research in intelligent systems, collaborated to develop…

    Doug Black | September 21, 2023 at 03:01 AM

    From insideHPC

    DOD Announces $238M CHIPS and Science Act Awards for Microelectronics Hubs

    DOD Announces $238M CHIPS and Science Act Awards for Microelectronics Hubs

    Washington, DC, Sept. 20, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Defense today announced the award of $238 million in CHIPS and Science Act funding for eight Microelectronics Commons regional innovation hubs. This is the largest award…

    staff | September 20, 2023 at 05:18 PM
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