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Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat
From insideHPC

Sandia Rolls out Custom Instance of ChatGPT — SandiaAI Chat

In May 2024, Sandia National Laboratories began providing its employees with a large language model chatbot, called SandiaAI Chat, which the lab said is the first...

MOSTLY AI Releases Open Source Toolkit for Synthetic Data Creation 
From insideHPC

MOSTLY AI Releases Open Source Toolkit for Synthetic Data Creation 

4 February 2025, Vienna – Austrian synthetic data startup MOSTLY AI announces the release of the world’s first industry-grade open source toolkit for producingMOSTLY...

IQM, Riverlane and Zurich Instruments to Launch Quantum Error Correction Platform
From insideHPC

IQM, Riverlane and Zurich Instruments to Launch Quantum Error Correction Platform

Cambridge, UK; Espoo, Finland; Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 6, 2025 – IQM Quantum Computers, Riverlane, and Zurich Instruments have announced the launch of the SurgeonQ...

A puzzle, spies … and a beheading
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)

A puzzle, spies … and a beheading

A puzzle about secrets Ayo wants to send her friends Guang and Elham who live together secret messages that only the person she sends the message to can read. She...

AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
From Schneier on Security

AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic

Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer...

Supermicro Launches Rack-Scale Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell
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Supermicro Launches Rack-Scale Systems with NVIDIA Blackwell

San Jose, Calif. – February 5, 2025 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI) announced full availability of its AI data center Building Block Solutions  accelerated by...

On Generative AI Security
From Schneier on Security

On Generative AI Security

Microsoft’s AI Red Team just published “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in...

With Accelerator SOC, South Korean Institute Says Country on Track to Become 5th HPC Manufacturer
From insideHPC

With Accelerator SOC, South Korean Institute Says Country on Track to Become 5th HPC Manufacturer

The ETRI said that after its commercialization, this technology "will be a game-changer for Korea to become the world’s fifth nation to manufacture supercomputers...

Trane Expands Thermal Management with Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling
From insideHPC

Trane Expands Thermal Management with Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling

DAVIDSON, N.C., Feb. 4, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), a global climate company, announced the expansion of its thermal management systems. ATrane...

Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election
From Schneier on Security

Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election

Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known...

HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LLNL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers
From insideHPC

HPC News Bytes 20250203: DeepSeek Lessons, Intel Reroutes GPU Roadmap, LLNL and OpenAI for National Security, Nuclear Reactors for Google Data Centers

The HPC-AI world was upended last week by DeepSeek AI benchmark numbers, as the dust settles we offer commentary on what it may, at this stage, mean: Five lessons...

EuroHPC JU Acquires €8.5M Qilimanjaro Quantum Annealer to be at Barcelona Supercomputing Center
From insideHPC

EuroHPC JU Acquires €8.5M Qilimanjaro Quantum Annealer to be at Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Feb. 1, 2025 — The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a procurement contract with Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech for MareNostrum...

Women in HPC and Alces Flight Announce Move the Needle Project Results
From insideHPC

Women in HPC and Alces Flight Announce Move the Needle Project Results

Feb. 3, 2025 — The team at Alces Flight, a UK-based company specializing in high performance computing and volunteers from Women in HPC announced the final report...

Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware
From Schneier on Security

Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware

This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members. The journalists and other civil society members were...

Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security
From insideHPC

Los Alamos and OpenAI Partner on National Security

Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered a partnership with OpenAI to install its latest o-series models — which the lab said are capable of expert reasoningLos...

Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference
From insideHPC

Cerebras Reports Fastest DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B Inference

Cerebras Systems today announced what it said is record-breaking performance for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B inference, achieving more than 1,500 tokens per second...

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Brains

Interesting. Blog moderation policy.

Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors
From insideHPC

Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids...

From Computational Complexity

The Situation at the NSF

The National Science Foundation is one of the agencies most affected by the various executive orders issued by the Trump administration. As a critical funder of...

To Bot or Not to Bot: It Depends on the Question
From The Noisy Channel

To Bot or Not to Bot: It Depends on the Question

I was one of Quora’s earliest users. I earned Top Writer status for several years and even made some money through their Knowledge Prizes. Although I stopped contributing...
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