Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Cloud Computing
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HPC In An AI World
We need a moonshot that rebuilds our core computing infrastructure based on 21st century ideas, not just variants of those from the past century. It will not be for timid, the nostalgic, or the underfunded. Bold ideas and new approaches never are.
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A Call to HPC Action
The U.S. lacks a coherent strategy for developing future high-performance computing systems, ones critical for national security, economic growth, and scientific discovery.
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Meditations on AI: History, Hype, Myth, Reality, and Futures
What made generative AI possible? What are its capabilities and limitations? How will it shape our future?
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Computing Futures: Technical, Economic, and Geopolitical Challenges Ahead
Semiconductors have become more than just an economic engine; they are now critical to any country’s national security and global aspirations.
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American Competitiveness: IT and HPC Futures – Follow the Money and the Talent
The price of innovation keeps rising, the talent is following the money, and many of the traditional players – companies and countries – are struggling to keep up.
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Big Bata, Big Challenges, Big Opportunities, and the Reification of Consilience
As with any new approach, the combination of big data and machine learning brings both great opportunities and equally grave risks. Let us reason together.