The Russian invasion of Ukraine may involve a heavy measure of cyberwar, a new and shrouded form of espionage and sabotage with potentially devastating impacts. Here we offer a special edition of the @HPCpodcast to discuss the role of “geopolitical cyberwar” — nation-state cyber strategies driven by combinations of HPC and AI, and the relative sophistication of the Russians vs. the U.S. and western Europe. Our guest: Richard Stiennon (his Google Books profile), he is a cyber security industry analyst and author who was formerly of Gartner’s IT Security Research Practice and a Forbes columnist. Stiennon told us he is surprised
@HPCpodcast Special Edition: HPC/AI-Powered Geopolitcal Cyberwar and Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
February 28, 2022 by
Woman in Data Science Worldwide Conference to Be Held March 7
February 24, 2022 by
Women in Data Science will hold its conference on Monday, March 7, 2022, a technical conference featuring outstanding women doing exceptional work in data science and related fields, in a variety of domains. For more information about the conference, refer to our website: widsconference.org The WiDS Worldwide conference is a hybrid event, taking place in-person at […]
@HPCpodcast: The 9 – Wait, the 10 – Key Drivers of the Tech-Driven World to Come
February 17, 2022 by
The world is increasingly tech-dominated, but what are the major tech drivers? In this episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin Khan and Doug Black propose a framework for understanding where tech — most of it HPC-AI related tech — is taking us over the next 10 to 20 years. It’s a framework covering most aspects of our work and personal lives, the sources of efficiency, competitiveness and innovation in the global economy to come , and how we’ll address the big problems for which the world craves solutions.
Toshiba, JPMorgan Chase, Ciena Announce Quantum-secure Network for Blockchain
February 17, 2022 by
Feb. 17, 2022 — JPMorgan Chase, Toshiba and networking systems company Ciena announced today they have demonstrated a viable quantum key distribution (QKD) network for metropolitan areas that is resistant to quantum computing attacks and capable of supporting 800 Gbps data rates. “The research team demonstrated the ability of the newly developed QKD network to […]
Google Cloud Chooses 3rd Gen AMD EPYC for HPC, EDA, CFD Workloads
February 10, 2022 by
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — February 10, 2022 — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced that AMD EPYC processors will power the new C2D virtual machine offering from Google Cloud, bringing customers strong performance and compute power for high-performance (HPC) memory-bound workloads in areas like electronic design automation (EDA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). This announcement continues […]
NVIDIA Announces Release 1.1 of AI Enterprise Suite
January 19, 2022 by
NVIDIA has announced release 1.1 of its AI Enterprise software suite. It includes production support for containerized AI with the NVIDIA software on VMware vSphere with Tanzu, previously available only on a trial basis. NVIDIA said the update allows enterprises to run accelerated AI workloads on vSphere running in both Kubernetes containers and virtual machines, with […]
Harnessing Data In Motion
January 10, 2022 by
[SPONSORED POST] This whitepaper from Cloudera and sponsored by Carahsoft describes how Cloudera DataFlow supports government data movement and processing. A simple, flexible, open-ended solution is required to streamline access to both structured and unstructured data from sources from the edge and across the enterprise so agencies can use their legacy and modernized systems to take advantage of the new insights available.
Lenovo Winterstock22: Festival of Solutions
January 6, 2022 by
[SPONSORED POST] Lenovo is gearing up for Winterstock22, our premier virtual event for all things HPC & AI. On the heels of retaining our position as the #1 Supercomputer provider on the TOP500, we’re kicking off a new year of faster, cooler, scalable and sustainable innovations. From January 24-27, 2022, we’ll take you through all the trending topics and latest solutions.
WEKA Announces New Venture Funding
January 4, 2022 by
CAMPBELL, Calif., — January 4, 2022 — WEKA, maker of a data platform for AI, today announced that Hitachi Ventures led its recent round raising $73 million in funding, which brings the total amount raised to $140 million. Other investors participating in this round were strategic investors, including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NVIDIA, Micron, and Cisco, […]
Dell Technologies Interview: How the Anvil Cluster Supports Purdue and NSF XSEDE Researchers – Including Non-Traditional HPC Users
December 23, 2021 by
In this interview conducted on behalf of Dell Technologies, insideHPC spoke with Carol Song, who leads the Scientific Solutions Group at Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing and is a senior research scientist for Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) Research Computing. Song is the principal investigator (PI) and project director for Purdue’s Anvil supercomputing cluster, built in partnership with Dell.
