The New York TimesChips from U.S. companies Intel and Nvidia power a Chinese supercomputing facility that monitors people in a region known for government suppression, raising issues about the technology sector's responsibility. The Urumqi Cloud Computing Center watches the population of Xinjiang using Intel and Nvidia chips sold to Sugon, the company backing the center, to sort the collected data. Local officials in 2017 said the center would support a Chinese police surveillance project […]

ZDNetComputer industry consortium MLPerf has launched a series of test results for high-performance computing systems running machine learning tasks, designed to quantify a deep learning network's training time on the world's most powerful computers. The tests measure how many minutes the supercomputers take to train the network until it becomes proficient in the CosmoFlow and DeepCAM tasks. The supercomputer tasks count wall time to achieve accuracy, where less, rather than more, is better. […]

Rochester Institute of TechnologyRochester Institute of Technology (RIT) researchers have developed a prototype programmable switch that shortens Internet Protocol (IP) lookup time and upgrades router performance dramatically. The RIT team used a novel longest prefix matching algorithm (CuVPP) which employs packet batch processing and cache locality for both instructions and data by exploiting Vector Packet Processing (VPP). The switch also taps a cuckoo filter in the cache as a fast […]

The Wall Street JournalKitchen appliance designers and manufacturers increasingly rely on technological advances, using cameras, sensors, artificial intelligence, and novel materials to modernize the kitchen. Appliance maker Miele's G7000 dishwashers are equipped with sensors that prompt owners' smartphones to reorder detergent when running low, while rival Bosch's dishwashers are made with a Zeolite mineral compound that helps plastic items dry more efficiently. Bosch also has integrated […]

Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) used multi-material three-dimensional (3D) printing to produce tailored gradient refractive index (GRIN) glass optics. The LLNL team controlled the ratio of two distinct glass-forming pastes (inks) combined inline via the direct ink writing method of 3D printing. Tailoring the GRIN enables the replacement of a curved optic with a flat surface, which could lower […]