Communications of the ACM
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November 2015
From insideHPC
Benchmarks, Schmenchmarks: Big Iron Data and the November 2015 TOP500
In this special guest feature, Peter ffoulkes from OrionX offers his insights on the latest TOP500 listing of the world's fastest supercomputers. "Most importantly increasing the number of petascale-capable resources available…
From insideHPC
LANL Looks to Aeon Computing for Lustre
Today Aeon Computing announced that the company will provide two Lustre file systems to enhance LANL’s technical and supercomputing capabilities in support of its national security mission. Each of the two Lustre file systems…
From Schneier on Security
Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI?
There's pretty strong evidence that the team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who canceled their scheduled 2015 Black Hat talk deanonymized Tor users for the FBI. Details are in this Vice story and this Wired story…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Levels of Sophistication
A little dated, from 2011. But I thought of interest. In the DSC:" .... In a research report on analytics by MIT and IBM (Kiron, et al. 2011), three progressive levels of analytical sophistication for organizations are defined…
From insideHPC
IBM and Xilinx Team to Accelerate Datacenter Applications
Today IBM and Xilinx announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to enable higher performance and energy-efficient data center applications through Xilinx FPGA-enabled workload acceleration on IBM POWER-based systems. IBM …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 November 2015
Last week was loaded with interesting things flowing from blogs, twitter, Facebook and email. When I first put this post together I realized it was so long that no one would read it all. I decided I would break it up into sections…
From insideHPC
New OpenPOWER Technologies to Break Big Data Speed Barriers
Today IBM and a set of fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members unveiled new technologies, collaborations and developer resources to enable clients to analyze data more deeply and with incredible speed. The new offerings center on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of Traditional Marketing
In Knowledge@Wharton:" ... There’s been talk for some time that traditional marketing is dead. But now that 70% of consumers trust brand recommendations from friends, and only 10% trust advertising, it’s clear that social media…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching Machines to Understand us
Facebook's work in AI and Deep Learning. Largely nontechnical article in Technology Review:Teaching Machines to Understand UsA reincarnation of one of the oldest ideas in artificial intelligence could finally make it possible…
From BLOG@CACM
SC Turns Reproducibility Challenges Into Opportunities
The annual SC conference is instituting new practices over the next five years that will help establish SC as the "gold standard" for computational science practice, as measured by the ability of a researcher to reproduce published…
From BLOG@CACM
A Call to Action For Higher Education to Make AP CS Principles Work
The new Advanced Placement exam in CS Principles will be offered in May 2017. It's time to figure out what colleges and universities are going to do about it.
From insideHPC
Video: Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Team Up with Scalable System Framework at SC15
In this video from SC15, Intel's Barry Davis and and Scott Misage from Hewlett Packard Enterprise describe how their two company's are driving HPC innovation with the Intel Scalable System Framework and Intel Omni-Path interconnect…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hands on Look at Hololens
Was impressed by an early look at Hololens and the potential integration with Windows, especialy for prototype building, but disappointed that its availability has been delayed. Here a Siliconangle view of Hololens.
From insideHPC
SC Perennials Keep Coming Back
SC15 will the 28th supercomputing event in the conference series, a long tradition that brings some 10,000 HPC professionals to Austin this week. While many of us regulars have attended for years, there is a hearty group of 18…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Success of Pixar
In Innovation Excellence: Piece on the success of Pixar. Intriguing view about how a company can produce value through innovation." ... Yet in his memoir, Creativity, Inc., Pixar founder Ed Catmull writes that “early on, all…
From insideHPC
PGI and NNSA to Open Source Fortran Compiler
Today the NNSA and its three national labs announced they have reached an agreement with Nvidia’s PGI software to create an open-source Fortran compiler designed for integration with the widely used LLVM compiler infrastructure…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Executive Coaching for Academics
David E Goldberg and ThreeJoyIt's called "3 Reasons for The Coming Revolution in Executive Coaching For Academics" and it discusses how changes in universities and colleges are accelerating the use of coaches for more and more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf on the Internet of Things
In the CACM: Cites existence of chaotic protocols rather than standards." ... A number of significant challenges face the continuing development of the Internet of Things (IoT), according to Google chief Internet evangelist…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Readying for Space Storms
Early in my data career I modeled solar behavior and activity. The problem continues to be better defined. And it is being addressed.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fail at Scale
In CACM: Reliability and the science of graceful failure. Abstract, full article requires registration.
From insideHPC
NUMECA CFD Moves to the Cloud with UberCloud Containers
Today NUMECA announced that its complete suite of CFD software powered by UberCloud application software containers are now available as a service in any cloud.
Until recently it was my firm belief that cloud computing for engineering…From The Eponymous Pickle
More Google Micro Moments
Continue to be interested in how tasks are done as part of a larger job. How about Mid task corrections? ThinkWithGoogle writes: " ... 91% of Smartphone users will turn to their phones for ideas in the middle of a task .…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reputation is Our Most Important Asset
Have been involve in several investigations lately that have born this out. K@W article that discusses the elements of reputation. A personal exploration here that provides some good tips for the modern, more often many step…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Applications Specialist at Brown University
Brown University in Rhode Island is seeking an HPC Applications Specialist in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: HPC Applications Specialist at Brown University appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
New ORNL Paper: Survey on Asymmetric Multicore Processors
ORNL researcher Sparsh Mittal has authored a new paper entitled “A Survey Of Techniques for Architecting and Managing Asymmetric Multicore Processors.” Now accepted for ACM Computing Surveys 2015, the document reviews nearly …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cross Screen Addressability
Often talked about in the industry, now here.AT&T Tests Cross-Screen Addressable AdsMarketers Can Reach Same Consumer on TV and Mobile DevicesThrough a partnership with Opera Mediaworks, AT&T's system lets marketers run an ad…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Your Brain Making Decisions
In Knowledge@Wharton: Brains on decision making, how do they influence what we do and how we do it. See also the recent videos by David Eagleman in tag below." ... Platt’s latest research looks at the confluence of factors…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fishing Championship
It's an annual event in Hvar, Croatia....
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on the NYT's VR
More details of the apparent success of this test. Also about some of the production differences required for producing VR content. How do you get advertisers to try this? When is it appropriate and engaging? Beyond just…
From Schneier on Security
Amazon Chooses Data and Goliath as a Best Book of 2015
Amazon chose Data and Goliath as one of its Best Books of 2015, in both the nonfiction and business categories....