Communications of the ACM
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November 2016
From insideHPC
Local’s Guide to Food & Entertainment at SC16 in Salt Lake City
SC16 returns to Salt Lake City this year. And while SLC is known for its gorgeous views of the mountains, what our readers may not know is that Salt Lake City is full of Hip, yes hip restaurants, cafes, bars, and things to see…
From insideHPC
Our Top Recommendation for a Great Dinner at SC16 in Salt Lake City
With SC16 coming to Salt Lake City, we asked the local's for their top pick for a great dinner place. The winner was Copper Onion. "The restaurant located on busy Broadway (and steps from the convention center) in downtown SLC…
From insideHPC
Preparing Developers for Tomorrow’s Systems
In this special guest feature, Bill Mannel from Hewlett Packard Enterprise writes that upcoming Intel HPC Developer Conference in Salt Lake City is a great opportunity to learn about code modernization for the next generation…
From ACM on Huffington Post
Internet Voting: Not Ready For Prime Time
By Barbara Simons, Former President Association for Computing Machinery (ACM); Jeremy Epstein, Vice Chair of ACM US Public
From insideHPC
FlyElephant Collaborates with HPC-HUB for High Performance in the Cloud
Today FlyElephant announced a collaboration with HPC HUB, a developer of complex software and hardware solutions in high performance computing. Now entering its second year, FlyElephant is a platform for data scientists, engineers…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Open Source Application Development Portal (OSADP) Adds More Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Applications for Download
The Open Source Application Development Portal (OSADP) is a web-based portal that provides access to and supports the collaboration, development, and use of open-source ITS-related applications. The OSADP has added a number of…
From insideHPC
BIOS IT Collaborates vScaler for HPC in the Cloud
Today BIOS IT announced plans for their exhibit at SC16 in Salt Lake City. BIOS IT is will be showcasing the latest HPC solutions and services, including their converged cloud platform in partnership with vScaler Ltd. "vScaler…
From insideHPC
ExaFLOW Funds CFD Research for Exascale
The ExaFLOW project has announced 3.3 Million Euros of funding for a group of eight organizations to take Europe’s CFD community one step closer to performing simulations in exascale environments.
The post ExaFLOW Funds CFDinsideHPC…
From Putting People First
[Book] Anthropologies and Futures
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Anthropologies and Futures: Researching Emerging and Uncertain Worlds Editor(s): Juan Francisco Salazar, Sarah Pink, Andrew Irving, Johannes Sjöberg Bloomsbury Academic May 2017, 288 pages Anthropology has a critical, practical…
From insideHPC
CycleCloud V6 spins up HPC Clusters in the Cloud
"CycleCloud has made an impact on a host of use cases - from our recently announced NASA Sub-Saharan carbon-emissions project to needs in the financial sector, manufacturing and life sciences. CycleCloud has saved countless hours…
From insideHPC
DDN Announces Multi-Level Security Lustre Solution for HPC
“We have taken a flexible and adaptive approach to multi-level security that combines recent community advances with DDN-developed Lustre features to deliver full Lustre isolation, while minimizing the performance impact of the…
From insideHPC
Slidecast: Silicon Mechanics – An Open-Technology Solutions Integrator
In this slidecast, Silicon Mechanics CTO Daniel Chow describes how the company brings value and performance to its HPC customers. “Are you searching for a solutions integrator that will provide you more than cookie cutter solutions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Citation as a Computational Problem
Citation management ... with useful hints to maintenance of knowledge.
" .... Most information is now published in complex, structured, evolving
datasets or databases. There is increasing demand that this digital information
should…
From Schneier on Security
Lessons From the Dyn DDoS Attack
A week ago Friday, someone took down numerous popular websites in a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the domain name provider Dyn. DDoS attacks are neither new nor sophisticated. The attacker sends…
From Putting People First
[Book] Woo, Wow, and Win: Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight
Woo, Wow, and Win: Service Design, Strategy, and the Art of Customer Delight by Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O’Connell Harper Business November 2016, 336 pages In this pioneering guide, two business authorities introduce the…
From Putting People First
Customer delight through service design
The service sector needs to break away from old manufacturing-oriented habits and build great consumer experiences into every facet of its business model, write Thomas A. Stewart and Patricia O’Connell in strategy+business. Experiences…
From The Eponymous Pickle
TEDx Talk on Personalization of Learning Assistance at Scale.
TEDx talk on Design & Intelligence Lab's Jill Watson Experiment on Personalization of Learning assistance at scale.
Ashok is sharing how he believes he can use artificial intelligence to scale personalized learning. He used AI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as the New Electricity
In Inc.
VIDEO • IDEA LAB
Andrew Ng: Why Artificial Intelligence Is the New Electricity
Andrew Ng, chief scientist at the Chinese web services company Baidu, explains to Inc. reporter Salvador Rodriguez why breakthroughs in machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Machines Explain Themselves
Do we accept the reasoning of a 'black box'? I recall our own use of neural networks, and the inability to cheek the underlying reasoning. What does it mean to have a system explain itself?
Making computers explain themselves…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Corporate Transformation
Transformation with a capital T
By Michael Bucy, Stephen Hall, and Doug Yakola
"....Transformation is perhaps the most overused term in business. Often, companies apply it loosely—too loosely—to any form of change, however minor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benchmarking Brain Emulating Chips
Impressive results. Early results, still awaiting complete systems using these methods.
IBM shows how fast its brain-like chip can learn
IBM benchmarks the deep-learning capabilities of its TrueNorth brain-like chip and concludes…
From Schneier on Security
Firefox Removing Battery Status API
Firefox is removing the battery status API, citing privacy concerns. Here's the paper that described those concerns: Abstract. We highlight privacy risks associated with the HTML5 Battery Status API. We put special focus on its…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
South Big Data Hub Smart and Connected Cities Community Call
The South Big Data Hub will have their third Smart and Connected Cities Community Call on Friday, November 11th from Noon-1:30 PM ET. The South Hub community calls are a place for members of the Hub to share their research and…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Framed in the past
We can’t predict the future. However, I still read futurologists like Calum Chace, Alvin Toffler, Bruce Sterling, Vernor Vinge, Joël de Rosnay and so forth. A good futurologist won’t even attempt to predict the future for real…
From Phys.org Technology News
Print newspapers are dead? Not after historic elections
Print newspapers may be disappearing like the home telephone, but not after Election Day.
From insideHPC
OpenACC Gains Momentum in 2016
The OpenACC standards group today announced several major milestones including the addition of new member, the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, the adoption of OpenACC by several major HPC applications, the addition of…
From insideHPC
iRODS Consortium Plans Busy Week at SC16
Attendees of SC16 who are interested in open source data management will have plenty of opportunities to learn about the integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) and the new iRODS 4.2, which will be released just in time
…
From insideHPC
The 2016 Beowulf Bash Interview: The Story Behind “Beosnark”
The Beowulf Bash returns to Salt Lake City on Monday, Nov 14. As the one part you don't want to miss, the Bash starts at 9pm, right after the SC16 opening gala. "Since its inception the Bash has been consistent about two things…
From insideHPC
DoD Modernization Program to Acquire Cray XC40
Today Cray announced the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has awarded the Company with a $26 million supercomputer contract for a Cray XC40 supercomputer and three Cray Sonexion storage…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Does the Day-by-Day SC16 Preview Show
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ancillary events around SC16 in Salt Lake City. With a full week in store, this could be the best conference yet. After our event roundup, they share their predictions for…