☁️ Wolfram Compute Services: Scalable Cloud Supercomputing
An ambitious step toward democratizing high-performance symbolic computing for scientists and engineers through seamless cloud integration.
Stephen Wolfram introduces a platform that allows users to distribute Wolfram Language computations across the cloud using tools like RemoteBatchSubmit. The service automates scaling, dependency management, and integration with notebooks and enterprise deployments—bringing supercomputing power directly into the Wolfram ecosystem.
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⚙️ ARM’s Barrel Shifter: Hidden Performance Tricks
A fascinating dive into how microarchitectural design choices affect compiler optimizations and instruction efficiency—essential reading for low-level performance enthusiasts.
Matt Godbolt explores how ARM CPUs use the barrel shifter to embed bit-shift operations directly into arithmetic instructions, producing compact and efficient assembly code. The analysis compares ARM’s design elegance with x86 and includes compiler-generated examples for various constants.
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💡 What Is Modal? A Vision for Sustainable Open Source
A thoughtful manifesto redefining open source as a coordinated, design-driven, and sustainable movement rather than a loose collection of isolated efforts.
The Modal Collective presents itself as a new alliance of open-source developers and designers tackling structural challenges in the free software world. Their ‘Modal OS’ concept aims for cohesive, user-friendly, and sustainable open infrastructure, with projects like Reflection leading the charge in local-first and community-driven development.
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⚡ AI Energy Score v2: Measuring the True Cost of Reasoning
A pivotal step toward transparency and sustainability in AI—turning energy usage into a measurable and accountable design factor.
Hugging Face unveils AI Energy Score v2, a refreshed leaderboard assessing the energy efficiency of AI models, now expanded to include reasoning tasks. The accompanying open-source benchmarking suite provides standardized evaluation tools, exposing how reasoning models can consume up to hundreds of times more power than simpler ones.
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