Communications of the ACM
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October 2015
From insideHPC
ExaHyPE Project to Develop Exascale Software for Geophysics and Astrophysics
A new EU research project called "ExaHyPE" is developing open-source software for exascale-class supercomputers. As an international project coordinated at TUM in Munich, ExaHyPE ("An Exascale Hyperbolic PDE Engine") seeks to…
From insideHPC
DDN Reports Growing Momentum Leading into SC15
Today DDN announced the highest bookings quarter in the company’s history with double-digit year-over-year growth.
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From insideHPC
Justin Rattner to Keynote SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop
Today the SC15 Energy Efficient HPC Workshop announced that parallel supercomputing pioneer Justin Rattner will deliver the keynote address at their event in Austin on Monday, November 16th, 2015. Formerly head of Intel Labs,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Fulfillment Networks
I am a long time supply chain designer and engineer. So it was interesting to see how one of the biggest retailers on earth addresses the problem. In RetailingToday. Fulfillment here, not the same thing as a manufacturer's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IT Trends and Service Management
Presenter for the ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly Speaker Series was Professor Jerry Luftman, Founder & Managing Director of the Global Institute for IT Management. We will continue discussions from his earlier presentationSlides…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selection of IOT Books
A list of good Internet of Things books. Admit I have not read any of these. Books on technology can be useful and interesting, but by their nature are always out of date. I generally find resources on the Web more useful.
From Schneier on Security
The Doxing Trend
If the director of the CIA can't keep his e-mail secure, what hope do the rest of us have -- for our e-mail or any of our digital information? None, and that's why the companies that we entrust with our digital lives need to…
From insideHPC
Submissions Open for ISC 2016 in Frankfurt
Submissions are now open for the ISC 2016 conference including workshops, tutorials, birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions, research papers, research posters, and the student volunteer program. The event takes place June 19-23 in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Expands Click and Collect
Another option for the consumer. I assume then that the creative and engaging aspects of shopping will have to be placed in the device? Kroger customers who don’t have time to do their own shopping have another option.At its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Buying Weather Co. Digital and Data Assets
We watched the early use of weather data by Wal-Mart. Now a major player thinks this data source can provide key context to many decisions. In the WSJ: " .... IBM Nearing Acquisition of Weather Co.’s Digital and Data Assets…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Elevator Models
Some of the earliest modeling work we did was with elevator like conveyance systems .... Where we used data from real elevator operations. But the results seem never to have been useful enough. For some interesting reasons…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Neural Networks and Deep Learning is a free online book. The book will teach you about: Neural networks, a beautiful biologically-inspired programming paradigm which enables a computer to learn from observational data Deep learning…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Governance and Analytics
Data and governance manager speaks about analytics. " ... Ritika Gunnar, VP of information integration and governance for IBM’s $30 billion analytics business, said that her focus within the division isn’t nearly as complicated…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIH “Frontiers in Science” Webinar- Data-level Metrics
The Office of the Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has launched a new “Frontiers in Science” webinar series. This series brings ideas at the forefront of data science to the…
From insideHPC
Seagate HPC User Group Returns to SC15 in Austin
Seagate will hosts its annual HPC User Group at SC15 on Monday, Nov 16 from 4:00pm – 7:00pm at the JW Marriott in Austin. "You don’t want to miss what our speakers have to say – it could change the way you do things (not to mention…
From insideHPC
EoCoE Center of Excellence Using HPC to Accelerate Transition to Low Carbon Energy
In HPC news from CEA in France this week, the EoCoE (Oriented Energy Center of Excellence) project officially launched earlier this month. Pronounced "Echo," the EoCoE has a mission to create a new, long lasting and sustainable…
From insideHPC
It’s Here: The Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin
At insideHPC, are very pleased to publish the Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC15 in Austin. We designed this Guide to be an in-flight magazine custom tailored for your journey to SC15 — the world’s largest gathering of high performance…
From Schneier on Security
The Need for Transparency in Surveillance
In Data and Goliath, I talk about the need for transparency, oversight, and accountability as the mechanism to allow surveillance when it is necessary, while preserving our security against excessive surveillance and surveillance…
From insideHPC
Rogue Wave Software CodeDynamics Expands the Reach of Multithreaded Debugging
Today Rogue Wave Software announced CodeDynamics, the next generation of dynamic analysis for data-intensive commercial applications. CodeDynamics expands the reach of multithreaded debugging from high performance computing environment…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Powers World’s First 100G End-to-End Cloud at Monash University
Today Mellanox announced that Monash University in Australia has selected the company's CloudX platform based on Mellanox’s Spectrum SN2700 Open Ethernet™ switches, ConnectX-4 NICs and Mellanox’s LinkX cables to provide the network…
From insideHPC
CEA in France Selects Scality for HPC Storage
Today Scality announced that company's software-based storage for has been selected by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) to power its HPC storage needs. Scality and CEA will work together to advance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Health Kiosks
Did much study of the kiosk idea, but now we have our own personal smart-phone kiosks. The standalone kiosk can add additional marketing experience in physical spaces. What has been done to compare the results? Wal-Mart…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Industrial Data Lakes
Doing some explorations of work in Industry for dealing with large quantities of data, supporting key operational decisions. Work by GE, much more at this link: A New Approach to Industrial DataThe Industrial Data Lake provides…
From insideHPC
Meet Apollo – Revolutionizing HPC and the Supercomputer
It’s a different kind of computing world out there. The demand for more compute performance for applications used by engineering, risk modeling, or life sciences is relentless. So, how are you keeping up with modern HPC demands…
From XRDS
Exploring Virtual Reality – Are We There Yet?
Virtual reality is the next hot technology. The Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that allows you to see 3D worlds, is almost ready for consumers and developers are racing to come up with novel uses for it. Most of ……
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Bets on Big Data
From IBM Insight meetings underway today. More engagement between our rapidly increasing data resources and Cognitive/Watson. Video of talk and more:" ... IBM said it was going to make a big bet on something that would change…
From Schneier on Security
Ravens Can Identify Cheaters
Ravens have been shown to identify and remember cheaters among their unkindness....
From insideHPC
RCE Podcast on the Conduit Model for Hierarchical Scientific Data
In this RCE podcast, Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres discuss Conduit with Cyrus Harriston from LLNL. Conduit is an open source project from Lawrence Livermore that provides an intuitive model for describing hierarchical scientific…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Crazily fast hashing with carry-less multiplications
We all know the regular multiplication that we learn in school. To multiply a number by 3, you can multiply a number by two and add it with itself. Programmers write: a * 3 = a + (a
From insideHPC
Interview: Penguin Computing Lands Biggest Open Compute Contract Ever for HPC
The Open Compute Project got a major endorsement in the HPC space news of NNSA's pending deployment of Tundra clusters from Penguin Computing. To learn more, we caught up with Dan Dowling, Penguin's VP of Engineering Services…