Kaggle is an incredible resource for all data scientists. I advise my Intro to Data Science students at UCLA to take advantage of Kaggle by first completing the venerable Titanic Getting Started Prediction Challenge, and then moving on to active challenges. Kaggle is a great way to gain valuable experience with data science and machine learning. Now, there are two excellent books to lead you through the Kaggle process. The Kaggle Book by Konrad Banachewicz and Luca Massaron published in 2022, and The Kaggle Workbook by the same authors published in 2023, both from UK-based Packt Publishing, are excellent learning resources.
Video Highlights: Yann LeCun and Andrew Ng: “AI Doomers” and Why the 6-month AI Pause is a Bad Idea
April 10, 2023 by
In this Video Highlights feature, two respected industry luminaries, Andrew Ng and Yann LeCun, they discuss the proposal of a 6-month moratorium on generative AI. The discussion offers reasonable perspectives for how generative AI has turned the world on edge.
Conventional Wisdom Watch: Matsuoka & Co. Take on 12 Myths of HPC
January 11, 2023 by
A group of HPC thinkers, including the estimable Satoshi Matsuoka of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science in Japan, have come together to challenge common lines of thought they say have become, to varying degrees, accepted wisdom in HPC. In a paper entitled “Myths and Legends of High-Performance Computing” appearing this week on the Arvix […]
SC22: CXL3.0, the Future of HPC Interconnects and Frontier vs. Fugaku
December 1, 2022 by
HPC luminary Jack Dongarra’s fascinating comments at SC22 on the low efficiency of leadership-class supercomputers highlighted by the latest High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) benchmark results will, I believe, influence the next generation of supercomputer architectures to optimize for sparse matrix computations. The upcoming technology that will help address this problem is CXL. Next generation architectures will use CXL3.0 switches to connect processing nodes, pooled memory and I/O resources into very large, coherent fabrics within a rack, and use Ethernet between racks. I call this a “Petalith” architecture (explanation below), and I think CXL will play a significant and growing role in shaping this emerging development in the high performance interconnect space.
The $500mm+ Debacle at Zillow Offers – What Went Wrong with the AI Models?
December 13, 2021 by
In this contributed article, Anupam Datta, Co-Founder, President, and Chief Scientist of TruEra, discusses Zillow and what went wrong with the AI models. For AI and ML models to perform for profitable outcomes, especially for high stakes models like Zillow’s, it is crucial to have serious AI governance supported by tools for monitoring and debugging, which includes having qualified humans-in-the-loop to adjust to major market shifts that can arise during unexpected events.
How Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing HPC Simulations
August 12, 2021 by
Physics-based simulations, that staple of traditional HPC, may be evolving toward an emerging, AI-based technique that could radically accelerate simulation runs while cutting costs. Called “surrogate machine learning models,” the topic was a focal point in a keynote on Tuesday at the International Conference on Parallel Processing by Argonne National Lab’s Rick Stevens. Stevens, ANL’s […]
The Amazing Applications of Graph Neural Networks
June 26, 2021 by
In this contributed article, editorial consultant Jelani Harper points out that a generous portion of enterprise data is Euclidian and readily vectorized. However, there’s a wealth of non-Euclidian, multidimensionality data serving as the catalyst for astounding machine learning use cases.
IBM Doubles Down on 1000+-Qubit Quantum in 2023
May 14, 2021 by
As expectation-setting goes in the technology industry, this is bold. At IBM’s annual Think conference, a senior systems executive reiterated the company’s intent to deliver a 1,121-qubit IBM Quantum Condor processor by 2023. In a video interview with theCUBE, technology publication SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, IBM GM of systems strategy and development for enterprise security, […]
Report: Security Firm Says HPC Clusters under Attack: ‘Level of Sophistication Rarely Seen in Linux Malware’
February 1, 2021 by
This is an updated version of a story first publised on Feb. 1. UK technology industry publication PCR published a story today stating that an international data security firm, ESET, has reported the identification of a malware called Kobalos that targets supercomputing clusters. They also said they have been working with security experts at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research and other organizations on stemming attacks. “Among other targets was a large Asian ISP, a North American endpoint security vendor as well as several privately held servers,” PCR reported.
Reading the Intel Tea Leaves: Pat Gelsinger’s HPC Paradox
January 21, 2021 by
As he takes charge of Intel, CEO Pat Gelsinger faces a paradox: his new company is both troubled and a revenue geyser; if Intel is to continue its historical growth rates, he’ll need the skills of a corporate turnaround artist. These contradictions surely apply to Intel’s position in HPC/AI/data center server processors, where the company […]
