SAN FRANSCISCO, Nov. 9, 2022 — At the Big Compute 2022 Virtual Event, Rescale, maker of solutions for high performance computing built for the cloud to accelerate engineering innovation, today announced it is teaming with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA AI platform into Rescale’s HPC-as-a-Service offering. The integration is designed to advance computational engineering simulation with AI […]
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Sentient AI? Google Suspends Engineer over Claims the LaMDA Chatbot Is a Person with Rights
June 13, 2022 by
It’s often said AI is overhyped, but even so, some claims can get you in trouble. That’s the irony of a situation Google finds itself in. The company has suspended one its software engineers who claimed its natural language processing chatbot, LaMDA, is “sentient.” There are several surprising elements here. One is the commentary from the Google engineer that LaMDA is a person with rights. Another is the astonishing dialogue he reported to have had with LaMDA. Take for example the insights LaMDA rattled off on “Les Miserables”: Lemoine: Okay, what about “Les Miserables”? Have you read that one? LaMDA: Yes, I have read Les Misérables. I really enjoyed it.
Lemoine: What are some of your favorite themes in the book? LaMDA: I liked the themes of justice and injustice, of compassion, and God, redemption and self-sacrifice….
Sandia Labs Takes 7 R&D 100 Awards and 2 Specialty Honors
December 2, 2021 by
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Competing in an international pool of universities, corporations and government labs, inventions from Sandia National Laboratories captured seven R&D 100 Awards (one in conjunction with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory) this year, as well as two special awards for green technology and corporate responsibility. Independent panels of judges selected projects to represent the […]
David Bader Selected for 2021 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award
September 23, 2021 by
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 22 September 2021 – The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) has named David Bader as the recipient of the 2021 Sidney Fernbach Award. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data Science, and inaugural Director of the Institute for Data Science, at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Established in […]
Univ. of Michigan Researchers Using TACC Frontera HPC for Space Weather Forecasting
August 11, 2021 by
“There are only two natural disasters that could impact the entire U.S.,” according to Gabor Toth, professor of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering at the University of Michigan. “One is a pandemic and the other is an extreme space weather event.” We’re currently seeing the effects of the first in real-time. The last major space […]
EPA Awards ENERGY STAR Certification to Stream Data Centers’ Chicago I Facility
May 13, 2021 by
Dallas — May 13, 2021 — Stream Data Centers, a turnkey, powered shell and build-to-suit data center company, has announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized the company’s Chicago I data center with a 2021 Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR certificate of achievement. This certification highlights the facility’s sustainable design, which helps to limit […]
Samsung: First HKMG-Based 512GB DDR5 Memory Targets Bandwidth-Intensive Applications
March 24, 2021 by
Samsung today announced it has expanded its DDR5 DRAM memory portfolio with what the company said is the first 512GB DDR5 module based on High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process technology, designed to support next-gen computing systems, supercomputers and large-scale data centers “Delivering more than twice the performance of DDR4 at up to 7,200 megabits per second […]
Quantum Corp. Says ActiveScale Meets Consistency Requirements for Amazon S3 Compatibility
December 11, 2020 by
San Jose — Dec. 10, 2020 — Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced that its ActiveScale object storage platform automatically complies with the new strong consistency requirements for compatibility with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) applications. To claim AWS S3 compliance following the recent S3 update, object storage systems must ensure strong consistency. Strong consistency refers to the availability of data […]
NCMAS 2021 Call for Australia Supercomputer Access Open Until Oct. 26
September 23, 2020 by
The call for time on Australia’s largest supercomputers opens today and will remain open until 26 October 2020. The National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) is the allocation scheme for access to Australian national supercomputing facilities for meritorious research. The NCMAS provides access, based on research and computational merit, for researchers at Australian universities and […]
Altair CTO Interview: PBS Professional Gets a Major Upgrade
September 3, 2020 by
Altair® PBS Professional® is the industry-leading workload manager that’s been an HPC workhorse for decades, enabling efficient job scheduling, management, monitoring, and reporting with reliable scaling from small clusters to the world’s biggest data centers. Altair CTO Sam Mahalingam shared details about some of the new features in a Q&A session.
