Supercomputing Around the World: A look at the Top500 as of 11/2020
With the release of the Nov 2020 Top500 list of supercomputers, it is time again to have a look at the distribution of supercomputers worldwide. Notable new entries…
With the release of the Nov 2020 Top500 list of supercomputers, it is time again to have a look at the distribution of supercomputers worldwide. Notable new entries…
In a recent arXiv paper , analysis suggests that unequal access to computing capabilities may shift who and where AI is being innovated. […] we present systematic evidence…
In anticipation of potential negative consequences when employing artificial intelligence (AI) the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) published a technical report offering a policy-oriented description of the…
The US General Services Administration has published new rules about ethical data use.
Google’s new text-to-speech system they claim is good enough that they will require an ethical review of customers before allowing them to use it. With the scale they…
“Its mission is to develop a principled approach to the analysis of the ever-larger, more complex, and potentially biased data sets that play an increasingly important role in…
Without any claims for completeness, this video from 2017 provides a dense overview of the relationships, the growing number of fields, as well as high-level intuitions to many…
A March 2020 episode of the 99% Invisible podcast interviews Andrew Blum about his book The Weather Machine. In the interview they discuss the connection between weather forecasting…
Note: Due to COVID-19 the BoF program was significantly reduced and the BoF on Ethics in HPC did not take place.
This follow-up to the broadly attended SC19 BoF will expand the conversation related to ethical considerations in the field of HPC. We will continue and expand the discussion including various aspects of ethics, focusing on the role of HPC. This will include ethical behavior, societal norms to foster a pathway to ethically aligned design of HPC solutions and autonomous/intelligent systems that do not intentionally perpetuate global inequality. By furthering this dialogue, we can work to ensure the HPC community is advancing its commitment to technology for the benefit of all of humanity.