#grace-hopper — Public Fediverse posts
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The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be.
-- Grace Hopper⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Optimism #OrthogonalThinking #Pessimism
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The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be.
-- Grace Hopper⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Optimism #OrthogonalThinking #Pessimism
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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
-- Grace Hopper⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Measurement #Experts
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
-- Grace Hopper⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Measurement #Experts
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #NewMexico
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Spaßiger Fakt für heute Abend: Das Wort "Bug" in der Programmierung geht auf 1947 zurück, als Grace Hopper eine echte Motte aus einem Relais des Harvard Mark II zog. 🦟
Seither kämpfen wir alle gegen Bugs – nur dass unsere meistens nicht mit einer Pinzette zu entfernen sind. 😅
#OpenSource #Programmierung #TechHistory #GraceHopper #Coding
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Spaßiger Fakt für heute Abend: Das Wort "Bug" in der Programmierung geht auf 1947 zurück, als Grace Hopper eine echte Motte aus einem Relais des Harvard Mark II zog. 🦟
Seither kämpfen wir alle gegen Bugs – nur dass unsere meistens nicht mit einer Pinzette zu entfernen sind. 😅
#OpenSource #Programmierung #TechHistory #GraceHopper #Coding
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“Quantum computation is … nothing less than a distinctly new way of harnessing nature”*…
As the tools in the world around us change, the world– and we– change with them. The onslaught of AI is the change that seems to be grabbing most of our mindshare these days… and with reason. But there are, of course, other changes (in biotech, in materials science, et al.) that are also going to be hugely impactful.
Today, a look at the computing technology stalking up behind AI: quantum computing. As enthusiasts like David Deutsch (author of the quote above) argue, it can have tremendous benefits, perhaps especially in our ability to model (and thus better understand) our reality.
But quantum computing will, if/when it arrives, also present huge challenges to us as individuals and as societies– perhaps most prominently in its threat to the ways in which we protect our systems and our information: We’ve felt pretty safe for decades, secure in the knowledge that we could lose passwords to phising or hacks, but that it would take the “classical” computers we have 1 billion years to break today’s RSA-2048 encryption. A quantum computer could crack it in as little as a hundred seconds.
The technology has been “somewhere on the horizon” for 30 years… so not something that has seemed urgent to confront. But progress has accelerated; a recent Google paper reports on a programming and architectural breakthrough that greatly reduces the computing resources necessary to break classical cryptography… putting the prospect of “Q-Day” (the point at which quantum computers become powerful enough to break standard encryption methods (RSA, ECC), endangering global digital security) much closer, which would put everything from crypto-wallets to our e-banking accounts at risk.
Charlie Wood brings us up to speed…
Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook the world.
Shor worked out a way for quantum computers to swiftly solve a couple of math problems that classical computers could complete only after many billions of years. Those two math problems happened to be the ones that secured the then-emerging digital world. The trustworthiness of nearly every website, inbox, and bank account rests on the assumption that these two problems are impossible to solve. Shor’s algorithm proved that assumption wrong.
For 30 years, Shor’s algorithm has been a security threat in theory only. Physicists initially estimated that they would need a colossal quantum machine with billions of qubits — the elements used in quantum calculations — to run it. That estimate has come down drastically over the years, falling recently to a million qubits. But it has still always sat comfortably beyond the modest capabilities of existing quantum computers, which typically have just hundreds of qubits.
However, two different groups of researchers have just announced advances that notably reduce the gap between theoretical estimates and real machines. A star-studded team of quantum physicists at the California Institute of Technology went public with a design for a quantum computer that could break encryption with only tens of thousands of qubits and said that it had formed a company to build the machine. And researchers at Google announced that they had developed an implementation of Shor’s algorithm that is ten times as efficient as the best previous method.
Neither company has the hardware to break encryption today. But the results underscore what some quantum physicists had already come to suspect: that powerful quantum computers may be years away, rather than decades. “If you care about privacy or you have secrets, then you better start looking for alternatives,” said Nikolas Breuckmann, a mathematical physicist at the University of Bristol, who did not work on either of the papers.
While the new results may provide a jolt for the policymakers and corporations that guard our digital infrastructure, they also signal the rapid progress that physicists have made toward building machines that will let them more thoroughly explore the quantum world.
“We’re going to actually do this,” said Dolev Bluvstein, a Caltech physicist and CEO of the new company, Oratomic…
[Wood unpacks the history of the development of the technology and explores the challenges that remain; he concludes…]
… If any group succeeds at building a quantum computer that can realize Shor’s algorithm, it will mark the end an era — specifically, the “Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum” era, as Preskill dubbed the pre-error-correction period in a 2018 paper. Each researcher has a vision for what to pursue first with a machine in the new “fault-tolerant” era.
[Robert] Huang said he would start by running Shor’s algorithm, just to prove that the device works. After that, he said he would try to use it to speed up machine learning — an application to be detailed in coming work.
Most of the architects building quantum computers, whether at Oratomic or other startups, are physicists at heart. They’re interested in physics, not cryptography. Specifically, they’re interested in all the things a computer fluent in the language of quantum mechanics could teach them about the quantum realm, such as what sort of materials might become superconductors even at warm temperatures. Preskill, for his part, would like to simulate the quantum nature of space-time.
The Caltech group knows it has years of work ahead before any of its dreams have a chance of coming true. But the researchers can’t wait to get started. “Pick a cooler life quest than building the world’s first quantum computer with your friends!” said a jubilant Bluvstein, reached by phone shortly before their paper went live, before rushing off to celebrate…
Eminently worth reading in full: “New Advances Bring the Era of Quantum Computers Closer Than Ever,” from @walkingthedot.bsky.social in @quantamagazine.bsky.social.
* David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality
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As we prepare, we might take a moment to appreciate just how vastly and deeply the legacy systems challenged by quantum computing run, recalling that on this date in 1959 Mary Hawes, a computer scientist for the Burroughs Corporation held a meeting of computers users, manufacturers, and academics at the University of Pennsylvania aimed at creating a common business oriented programming language. At the meeting, representative Grace Hopper suggested that they ask the Department of Defense to fund the effort to create such a language. Also attending was Charles Phillips who was director of the Data System Research Staff at the DoD and was excited by the possibility of a common language streamlining their operations. He agreed to sponsor the creation of such a language. This was the genesis of what would eventually become the COBOL language.
To this day COBOL is still the most common programming language used in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments, primarily on mainframe systems, with around 200 billion lines of code still in production use… all of which are in question and/or at risk in a world of quantum computing.
#COBOL #computerSecurity #computers #computing #crypto #cryptocurrency #culture #GraceHopper #history #MaryHawes #quantum #quantumComputing #Science #security #Technology -
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Vamos lembrar dela!
Grace Hopper (1906–1992) foi pioneira da computação. Matemática e oficial da Marinha dos EUA, participou da criação do primeiro compilador e contribuiu para a linguagem COBOL, usada em sistemas empresariais. Seu trabalho abriu caminhos para gerações de profissionais da tecnologia.#GraceHopper #MulheresNaComputacao #WomenInComputing #HistoriaDaComputacao #Tecnologia #DivulgacaoCientifica #EADUNIG #eadunig #cienciadacomputacao #analise #gti
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Comic strip sur le bug de Grace Hopper
#repk #repkrepzone #illustration #comics #BD #ChinaInk #SF #HarvardMarkI #GraceHopper #bug #butterfly #Art #dessin #ComicStrip
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It is much easier to apologize than to get permission.
-- Grace Hopper (commenting on surviving in a bureaucracy)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Action #Bureaucracy #Permission
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It is much easier to apologize than to get permission.
-- Grace Hopper (commenting on surviving in a bureaucracy)⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Action #Bureaucracy #Permission
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You manage things, you lead people.
-- Grace Hopper⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Leadership
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
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You manage things, you lead people.
-- Grace Hopper⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Leadership
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #NativeAmerican #Utah
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#OnThisDay in 1992, #GraceHopper, American #computerscientist and US Navy #admiral who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging’, died at 85.
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The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
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The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."
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[Перевод] Сборка высокопроизводительного AI-десктопа
Запуск крупных языковых моделей локально всегда был игрой в компромиссы. Вы либо тратите более $10 000 на GPU потребительского уровня, которые едва справляются с моделями на 70 миллиардов параметров, либо мечтаете о корпоративном оборудовании, которое вам никогда не по карману. Платформа Grace-Hopper — архитектура суперчипов Nvidia, объединяющая CPU и GPU на одном кристалле, — представляет собой именно ту инфраструктуру для ИИ, о которой мечтает сообщество LocalLlama, причём системы обычно стоят более $100 000 и доступны исключительно дата-центрам и исследовательским учреждениям. Поэтому, когда я наткнулся на систему Grace-Hopper, продаваемую за 10 тысяч евро на Reddit, моей первой мыслью было «откровенный развод». Второй мыслью было «интересно, а согласится ли он на 7,5 тысячи евро?». Это история о том, как я приобрёл корпоративное ИИ-оборудование, разработанное для жидкостного охлаждения в серверных стойках, которое было переделано на воздушное охлаждение, затем я снова перевёл его на водяное охлаждение, пережил несколько "почти катастроф" (включая работу с GPU, сообщающим, что у него температура в 16 миллионов градусов) и в итоге получил настольную систему, способную запускать модели с 235 миллиардами параметров дома. Это повествование о сомнительных решениях, творческом решении проблем и о том, что происходит, когда вы пытаетесь превратить серверное оборудование в повседневную рабочую станцию. Если вам когда-либо было интересно, что требуется для запуска действительно крупных моделей локально, или если вы просто пришли посмотреть, как кто-то разбирает оборудование стоимостью $80 000, вооружившись лишь надеждой и изопропиловым спиртом, вы попали по адресу.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/976438/
#dyi #GraceHopper #Nvidia_GraceHopper_Superchip #Nvidia_Grace_CPU #Nvidia_Hopper_H100_Tensor_Core_GPU #шаловливые_ручки
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Today's Grace Hopper's 119th birthday!
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Happy birthday to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, born on this day in 1906! A pioneer of computer science, she helped create COBOL, popularized the term “debugging,” and shaped modern programming. Here's to the woman who helped code the future. #GraceHopper #STEM #WomenInStem
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Happy birthday to Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, born on this day in 1906! A pioneer of computer science, she helped create COBOL, popularized the term “debugging,” and shaped modern programming. Here's to the woman who helped code the future. #GraceHopper #STEM #WomenInStem
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#Norway's most powerful #supercomputer will use waste heat to raise #salmon
#HPE-built system mixes #Nvidia's #GraceHopper superchips with #AMD Turin #CPU to maximize #HPC potential
Built by HPE for Norway's national scientific computing division #Sigma2, and located in an underground datacenter within Lefdal Mines, Olivia combines 504 of AMD's Turin CPUs and 304 of Nvidia's Grace Hopper Superchips with 5.3PB of HPE Lustre storage connected via HPE's 200Gbps Slingshot 11
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#Norway's most powerful #supercomputer will use waste heat to raise #salmon
#HPE-built system mixes #Nvidia's #GraceHopper superchips with #AMD Turin #CPU to maximize #HPC potential
Built by HPE for Norway's national scientific computing division #Sigma2, and located in an underground datacenter within Lefdal Mines, Olivia combines 504 of AMD's Turin CPUs and 304 of Nvidia's Grace Hopper Superchips with 5.3PB of HPE Lustre storage connected via HPE's 200Gbps Slingshot 11
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Avui m'ha agradat recordar a #gracehopper
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'"
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Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
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Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.
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The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be.
-- Grace Hopper⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Optimism #OrthogonalThinking #Pessimism
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The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be.
-- Grace Hopper⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GraceHopper #Optimism #OrthogonalThinking #Pessimism
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If you haven’t watched it yet, take some today “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hopper at NSA in 1982
#history #graceHopper #nsa #security https://infosec.exchange/@littlealex/115162215245843849
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If you haven’t watched it yet, take some today “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People" presented by Capt. Grace Hopper at NSA in 1982
#history #graceHopper #nsa #security https://infosec.exchange/@littlealex/115162215245843849
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#Europe’s #Jupiter #supercomputer hits #exascale threshold at inauguration
The long-awaited Jupiter system was officially inaugurated on Friday at the Jülich Supercomputing Center near Köln (Cologne) in #Germany, and has surpassed the exascale threshold of one quintillion (10¹⁸) operations per second. It comprises roughly 6000 compute nodes, each featuring four of #Nvidia's #GH200 #GraceHopper superchips, built by #Eviden the compute division of #Atos Group.
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#Europe’s #Jupiter #supercomputer hits #exascale threshold at inauguration
The long-awaited Jupiter system was officially inaugurated on Friday at the Jülich Supercomputing Center near Köln (Cologne) in #Germany, and has surpassed the exascale threshold of one quintillion (10¹⁸) operations per second. It comprises roughly 6000 compute nodes, each featuring four of #Nvidia's #GH200 #GraceHopper superchips, built by #Eviden the compute division of #Atos Group.
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A talk by #GraceHopper, a #programming #pioneer, lost forever due to the disappearance of all compatible #players.
#Tragedy!
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Una charla de #GraceHopper, una #pionera de la #programación, perdida para siempre por haber desaparecido todos los #reproductores #compatibles
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