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Cyborg cicadas play Pachelbel’s Canon

Hacker News

For instance, in 2015, Texas A&M scientists found that implanting electrodes into a cockroach's ganglion (the neuron cluster that controls its front legs) was remarkably effective at successfully steering the roaches 60 percent of the time. The idea was to use them as hybrid robots for search-and-rescue applications.

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Building Meta’s GenAI Infrastructure

Hacker News

Marking a major investment in Meta’s AI future, we are announcing two 24k GPU clusters. We use this cluster design for Llama 3 training. We built these clusters on top of Grand Teton , OpenRack , and PyTorch and continue to push open innovation across the industry. The other cluster features an NVIDIA Quantum2 InfiniBand fabric.

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The history of Kubernetes

IBM Journey to AI blog

Borg’s large-scale cluster management system essentially acts as a central brain for running containerized workloads across its data centers. Omega took the Borg ecosystem further, providing a flexible, scalable scheduling solution for large-scale computer clusters. Control plane nodes , which control the cluster.

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Announcing the ICDAR 2023 Competition on Hierarchical Text Detection and Recognition

Google Research AI blog

In this competition, we invite researchers from around the world to build systems that can produce hierarchical annotations of text in images using words clustered into lines and paragraphs. Middle: Illustration of line clustering. Right: Illustration paragraph clustering. Samples from the HierText dataset.

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Top 6 Kubernetes use cases

IBM Journey to AI blog

Nodes run the pods and are usually grouped in a Kubernetes cluster, abstracting the underlying physical hardware resources. In 2015, Google donated Kubernetes as a seed technology to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) (link resides outside ibm.com), the open-source, vendor-neutral hub of cloud-native computing.

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For nearly two decades, IBM Consulting has helped power SingHealth’s digital transformation

IBM Journey to AI blog

This partnership allows the public healthcare cluster to remain agile and navigate ongoing changes in compliance and technology. It also standardised policies on compensation and benefits, performance reviews and career development throughout the healthcare cluster.

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Fast and cost-effective LLaMA 2 fine-tuning with AWS Trainium

AWS Machine Learning Blog

Our high-level training procedure is as follows: for our training environment, we use a multi-instance cluster managed by the SLURM system for distributed training and scheduling under the NeMo framework. From 2015–2018, he worked as a program director at the US NSF in charge of its big data program. Youngsuk Park is a Sr.

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