Communications of the ACM
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November 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Small Business: A Visual View
Matt Zdun of Siegmedia sends along a comment, and a link to a supporting visual on how AI can helps small business. Referring to my piece commenting on the HBR article on AI and Small Business:
Hi Franz,
I appreciated an HBR
Since…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant will Play You the News
Interesting next step ..... though every aggregation of news from multiple sources has a pre existing narrative driven bias. Learned or scripted in some way. And if we disagree with the aggregation, or algorithm how do…
From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manager 9.0 Extends On-premise Clusters to the Public Cloud and Edge
Today Bright Computing announced the latest version of their Bright Cluster Manager software for HPC, OpenStack, and Data Science. “Our development team has been hard at work implementing a host of features designed to better…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Launches Freight and Payment Blockchain Network
Walmart continues work in the space. Here again covering tracking, payment processing and dispute analysis. Good example to track further. More at the link.
Walmart launches ‘world’s largest’ blockchain-based freight-and-payment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Avoiding Statistical Traps
In KDNuggets. One of the first things that practitioners in analytic spaces should study and understand. I will also add that these should always be demonstrated at scale. We typically had examples with realistic scale…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Japan uses Cinnamon for Work-Life Balance
An examination of Google Launch Pad use by entrepreneurs in Japan. Have not looked at it as yet, worth an examination.
AI is bringing back balance to Japanese workers
By Michael Seiler
Content Lead, Google Launchpad
The “Japanese…
From insideHPC
AMD Delivers Best-in-Class HPC Performance at SC19
Today at SC19, AMD announced a set of new customer wins and new platforms supporting AMD EPYC processors and Radeon Instinct accelerators, as well as the release of ROCm 3.0 development environment. "HPC organizations are continuing…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Introduces New Solutions to Advance HPC and AI Innovation
At SC19 this week, Dell Technologies is introducing several new solutions, reference architectures and portfolio advancements all designed to simplify and accelerate customers’ HPC and AI efforts. "There’s a lot of value in the…
From insideHPC
TMGcore Unveils Immersion-cooled OTTO Data Center Platform at SC19
Today TMG unveiled OTTO, a completely automated, self-contained, two-phase liquid immersion-cooled data center platform that features a closed loop system, uses zero water and is a tenth of the size of a traditional data center…
From insideHPC
Video: NVIDIA Magnum IO Moves Big Data Faster than Previously Possible
Today NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA Magnum IO, a suite of software to help data scientists and AI and high performance computing researchers process massive amounts of data in minutes, rather than hours. "Optimized to eliminate storage…
From The Noisy Channel
Measuring Search Effectiveness
Delivering effective search starts with defining how to measure effectiveness.
The information retrieval community has been evaluating search for decades. Established measures include precision (fraction of returned results that…From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Breaks Down the TOP500
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC teams looks at the newly released TOP500 list. "We talk about the changes in this version of the list (100 new systems, but none in the top 24), how the major countries stack up against each…
From insideHPC
Lenovo and Intel to Bring High-End HPC Capabilities to more users with Project Everyscale
In this video, Trish Damkroger from Intel and Scott Tease from Lenovo describe their collaboration on Project Everyscale. "With Project Everyscale, our goal is to democratize exascale technologies and bring leading Xeon scalable…
From insideHPC
Bright Cluster Manager now Free for Clusters up to 8 Nodes
Today Bright Computing announced the launch of “Easy8” - a program designed to put their award-winning Bright Cluster Manager software in the hands of every organization working with high-performance Linux clusters. Easy8 offers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger to Farm in Store
Still early, but should make an interesting and appealing display, as shown in the article. I wonder about the labor need and cost for doing that effectively.
Kroger Brings Farming to Its Stores in Push to Get Greener (and …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Need to Understand Human Behavior Better for Car Autonomy
The word 'psychoanalyze' may be overstating it, but we need to know humans likely behavior in specific and often complex context. As we now drive we do that all the time. Can autonomous vehicles do it as well? With the…
From insideHPC
Prototype of Fugaku Supercomputer reaches Number One on Green500
Today Fujitsu announced that a prototype of the Fugaku supercomputer being jointly developed by the two parties took No.1 in the Green500, a global ranking based on the energy efficiency of supercomputers. With Fugaku, we succeeded…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Blue Sky Conference Track at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2019
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently sponsored a Blue Sky Ideas Conference Track at the 27th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 5- November 8, 2019 in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots as Army Assistants
Robots following orders. We know this is still hard, and depends much upon the nature of an order. Its good that many consumers are getting used to the idea of talking to smart speakers, and getting used to the implications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Reasoning at Tricky Intersections
An example of the inherent complexity of driving scenarios and work being done to address them
Better Autonomous 'Reasoning' at Tricky Intersections
MIT News
By Rob Matheson
November 4, 2019
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)…
From insideHPC
Aspen Systems to boost performance of NASA NCCS Discover Supercomputer
Today Aspen Systems announced that NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD has increased the computational power to their primary computing platform the Discover supercomputer…
From insideHPC
Lenovo and Intel team up for Harvard Supercomputer and New Exascale Visionary Council
Today Lenovo announced the deployment of Cannon, Harvard University’s first liquid-Cooled supercomputer. Developed in cooperation with Intel, the new system's advanced supercomputing infrastructure will enable discoveries into…
From insideHPC
HPE Tackles AI Ops R&D for Energy Efficiency, Sustainability and Resiliency in Data Centers
Today HPE announced an AI Ops R&D collaboration with NREL to develop AI and Machine Learning technologies to automate and improve operational efficiency, including resiliency and energy usage, in data centers for the exascale…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Look at the Smart Speaker Market
Been asked to look at how 'smart speakers' and Assistant market is evolving. And how changes in tech will influence. Useful stats below. Still lots of entry-level sales. Notable other results: Relatively little buying isno…
From insideHPC
Dr. Eng Lim Goh on Swarm Learning and Steering HPC Simulation with AI
In this fireside chat from SC19, Dr. Eng Lim Goh from HPE describes how the convergence of HPC and AI is changing the way scientists and engineers do their simulations. He also cites a case study of “Swarm Learning” where hospitals…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaming in Autonomous Vehicles
Further distraction, but if you 'solve' the safety of autonomy, and people are no long in control, then why not. The term 'driver' starts to lose its definition, all passengers could become participants. And if we choose
Researchers…
From insideHPC
World’s Fastest Supercomputers Look Familiar on November TOP500 List
Today marked the release of the 54th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. In summary, the top of the list remains largely unchanged. In fact, the top 10 systems are unchanged from the previous list…
From insideHPC
Cloud Adoption for HPC: Trends and Opportunities
This whitepaper is an insideHPC Special Research Report sponsored by Univa: Cloud Adoption for HPC: Trends and Opportunities. Today many organizations solve their most difficult computational challenges by creating their own
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Consider the 'Last Mile' of Analytics
The term is usually used just for supply chain applications, but I like the broadening view here. To describe key operations needed to complete a process for value. Links to a number of articles that cover several areas.
Resources…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Driving School for Computers
Image recognition and adjustment to goals. Interesting process included.
Driving School for Computers
Ruhr-University Bochum
By Meike Drießen
Researchers at Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB)'s Neural Computation Institute in Germany
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