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Oct 23, 2022

Elon Musk Reveals Secret DOJO Computer at Tesla Ai Day

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Elon Musk Reveals Secret DOJO Computer at Tesla AI Day.
#teslanews #teslaai #elonmusk.

During AI Day, the Tesla CEO was the first person to confirm the existence of the ‘Dojo’ program: “We do have a major program at Tesla which we don’t have enough time to talk about today called ” Dojo”. That’s a super powerful training computer. The goal of Dojo will be to be able to take in vast amounts of data and train at a video level and do massive unsupervised training of vast amounts of video with the Dojo program – or Dojo computer.”
In June 2020, Elon Musk tweeted, “Dojo, our training supercomputer, will be able to process vast amounts of video training data & efficiently run hyperspace arrays with an enormous number of parameters, plenty of memory & ultra-high bandwidth between cores.

Oct 14, 2022

Neuroscientist leads unprecedented research to map billions of brain cells

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, neuroscience, supercomputing

Circa 2018 face_with_colon_three


Since the time of Hippocrates and Herophilus, scientists have placed the location of the mind, emotions and intelligence in the brain. For centuries, this theory was explored through anatomical dissection, as the early neuroscientists named and proposed functions for the various sections of this unusual organ. It wasn’t until the late 19th century that Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal developed the methods to look deeper into the brain, using a silver stain to detect the long, stringy cells now known as neurons and their connections, called synapses.

Today, neuroanatomy involves the most powerful microscopes and computers on the planet. Viewing synapses, which are only nanometers in length, requires an electron microscope imaging a slice of brain thousands of times thinner than a sheet of paper. To map an entire human brain would require 300,000 of these images, and even reconstructing a small three-dimensional brain region from these snapshots requires roughly the same supercomputing power it takes to run an astronomy simulation of the universe.

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Oct 8, 2022

A 1973 MIT Supercomputer Predicted the End of the World by 2040

Posted by in categories: supercomputing, sustainability

However, in 1973, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology predicted the end of our civilization with the help of one of the most powerful supercomputers of that time.

In 1973, experts developed a computer program at MIT to model global sustainability. Instead, it predicted that by 2040 our civilization would end.

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Oct 6, 2022

Supercomputer simulations reveal how the Sun accelerates charged particles

Posted by in categories: particle physics, satellites, supercomputing

Research could help protect satellites and astronauts from the solar wind.

Oct 4, 2022

Supercomputer Simulations Just Gave Us a New Explanation for How the Moon Was Created

Posted by in categories: space, supercomputing

Scientists have used a supercomputer to simulate the dramatic creation of Earth’s Moon following a collision with the Mars-sized body Theia.

Oct 3, 2022

Meet Amasia: Earth’s next supercontinent will form in the next 200–300 million years

Posted by in category: supercomputing

Now, researchers at the Earth Dynamics Research Group and the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at New Curtin University have used a supercomputer to forecast what could be the likely effect of the movement of the giant tectonic plates.

The formation of continents

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Oct 2, 2022

Michel Colombier — Colossus: The Forbin Project OST (1970) (bootleg)

Posted by in categories: government, military, nuclear weapons, robotics/AI, supercomputing

Once the first artificial super intelligence is created it will help us recursively improve ourselves and then the post human millennium will begin.


Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.

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Oct 1, 2022

Tesla unveils new Dojo supercomputer so powerful it tripped the power grid

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing, transportation

Tesla has unveiled its latest version of its Dojo supercomputer and it’s apparently so powerful that it tripped the power grid in Palo Alto.

Dojo is Tesla’s own custom supercomputer platform built from the ground up for AI machine learning and more specifically for video training using the video data coming from its fleet of vehicles.

The automaker already has a large NVIDIA GPU-based supercomputer that is one of the most powerful in the world, but the new Dojo custom-built computer is using chips and an entire infrastructure designed by Tesla.

Sep 30, 2022

Pacific Ocean set to make way for world’s next supercontinent

Posted by in category: supercomputing

New Curtin University-led research has found that the world’s next supercontinent, Amasia, will most likely form when the Pacific Ocean closes in 200 to 300 million years.

Published in National Science Review, the research team used a supercomputer to simulate how a forms and found that because the Earth has been cooling for billions of years, the thickness and strength of the plates under the oceans reduce with time, making it difficult for the next supercontinent to assemble by closing the “young” oceans, such as the Atlantic or Indian oceans.

Lead author Dr. Chuan Huang, from Curtin’s Earth Dynamics Research Group and the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the new findings were significant and provided insights into what would happen to Earth in the next 200 million years.

Sep 29, 2022

When Supercomputers Meet Beer Pong

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

My head is currently swirling and whirling with a cacophony of conceptions. This maelstrom of meditations was triggered by NVIDIA’s recent announcement of their Jetson Orin Nano system-on-modules that deliver up to 80x the performance over the prior generation, which is, in their own words, “setting a new standard for entry-level edge AI and robotics.”

One of my contemplations centers on their use of the “entry level” qualifier in this context. When I was coming up, this bodacious beauty would have qualified as the biggest, baddest supercomputer on the planet.

I’m being serious. In 1975, which was the year I entered university, Cray Research announced their Cray-1 Supercomputer. Conceived by Seymore Cray, this was the first computer to successfully implement a vector processing architecture.

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