Communications of the ACM
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February 2009
From insideHPC
Report from the UPCRC Illinois
Clay Breshears was at the 12 Feb UPCRC Illinois Summit meeting earlier this month, and writes about it on Intel’s blogs This was a progress report of various research projects that are going on with faculty and students at the…
From insideHPC
TotalView
My post about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program yesterday didn’t gather any response from from the giant of Redmond, but it did get TotalView’s attention. They sent me info about their student program In many cases, engineering…
From insideHPC
Reg opens for PRACE symposium in
Full of Euro love this morning…just a quick note that registration is now open for the upcoming DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership…
From insideHPC
AMD updates on
Got an email from AMD late last night letting me know that AMD would be providing an update on Istanbul today, this follows news earlier this week that AMD is getting revved up to start shipping, possibly earlier than expected…
From insideHPC
EuroPVM/MPI
For my pals across the Atlantic, and those on this side with passports and itchy travel accounts, EuroPVM/MPI 2009 just announced its call for papers. In case you aren’t familiar PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) and MPI (Message…
From insideHPC
Cray uses strong balance sheet buy back drowning
Now, this is the kind of news that you only get from insideHPC. I was trolling the SEC filings for our HPC companies, as I am wont to do, when I came upon Cray’s most recent filing, form SC TO-I. Ah, good old SC TO-I. So what…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Coupons on the Rise
Good Financial Times Piece, mentions P&G, Kimberly Clark. It is inevitable that we see more of this kind of play. One example, Ecrio's Mobeam system.
From insideHPC
SDSC Completes Major Storage
The San Diego Supercomputing Center has announced that they have completed a major upgrade to their archival storage system.
From Wild WebMink
Responding to Canada
It seems the Government Open Source Tipping Point (GOSTiP, as all government things need an acronym) is proceeding apace as national government after national government learns from the pioneers and dips a toe into the waters…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ken Karakotsios on Simulation
Ken Karakotsios, creator of the game Simlife, now has a blog devoted to simulation. Great start. Instructive. See also my post on his company DecisionPower. See also more about his cellular automata based IPhone application…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sands Research Challenges NM Analysis
Have now followed this neuromarketing analysis work from Sands Research for three years: Sands Research Challenges Instant Analysis .... Impressive overall work, although I always wonder about what controls are in place for…
From insideHPC
Sun matching grant program for
This from Marc Hamilton’s blog Just in time to help school’s balance their budgets, Sun’s 2009 Matching Grant Program for Education is here. So no matter if you are trying to build a world class supercomputer to simulate unpredictable…
From insideHPC
LNXI Veteran Forms HPC
Linux Networx veteran Nate Fuhriman has formed a new cluster computing professional services firm aimed at providing installation, monitoring and tuning services for small and medium cluster sized systems.
From insideHPC
Microsoft not sparking any HPC
I just saw a tweet about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program DreamSpark is simple, it’s all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collective Intelligence in Action
Reading Satnam Alag's Collective Intelligence in Action. Good, technical, probably not a read but rather a deep browse. See the book's site for more. Some similarities to Toby Segaran's book: Programming Collective Intelligence…
From Wild WebMink
UK Government Endorses Open Source and ODF
Late today (UK time), the British Government issued a bold new strategy for use of open source software - and open standards - in Great Britain. In Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use, the government's Minister for Digital…
From insideHPC
LUG2009
Sun, yesterday, announced details for the Seventh Annual Lustre User Group meeting.
From insideHPC
Sun HPC Consortium
Sun has announced they will hold another Sun HPC Consortium event this summer in Europe.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Innovation
A book about automating innovation just brought to my attention ... not available until April 15. I guess I would be more interested in an automated capability to evaluate inventions effectively. Have investigated geneticThe…
From insideHPC
Interactive Supercomputing Lands New VP of
Interactive Supercomputing, purveyors of Star-P, has announced that Kevin Shea has joined the company as the new VP of Engineering.
From insideHPC
SGI Wins Six of Seven for
SGI has just announced that they have been awarded six of seven designated systems as a part of the Department of Defense’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program [HPCMP] Technology Insertion 2009 [TI-09].
From insideHPC
HPC for the big
Last week Fortune Magazine published a profile on how Kenworth is using rented cycles in a server farm to put CFD to use getting your kibbles and bit cross country Most people don’t spend much time thinking about mudflaps - those…
From Wild WebMink
Hear Me Speak - Free
In the unlikely circumstance that you are longing to hear me speak about the adoption-led market and the emerging new business reality it is driving, and on the assumption you can get to New York on Wednesday March 18, you'll…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fairshare Tracks Quotes
I have been running a beta called Fairshare for a month. I submitted the name of this blog and about a month later started getting reports about how the content of this blog was being quoted, used and remixed. The report includes…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Canadian government is cutting science funding
This article summarizes the results of the current funding cuts in research. It almost feels like Bush moved up North. Dozens of millions are being cut. My previous employer, the National Research Council
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Unfunny Corporate Life
Colleague Sammy Haroon comments on a recent Economist article about how corporate life and culture may adapt in 2009. And further, can we expect an engaged workforce?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to fund research properly
Research is an industry. Unlike other industries, it is often almost entirely bound to government funding. Because research takes a long time to bear fruit, people (not equipment) should be the primary concern of decision makers…
From Putting People First
Why enterprise software is so shockingly bad
Programmer Michael Nygard thinks that the quality about some software that inspires love in their users, is totally devoid in enterprise software. “The best you can ever say about enterprise software is when it doesn’t get in…
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research: a key to strategy
Ken Anderson, a senior researcher and anthropologist at Intel, wrote a short article for the Harvard Business Review on the importance of corporate ethnography: “Corporate ethnography isn
From insideHPC
Staying connected to SC, year
insideHPC’s buddy Rich Brueckner from Sun’s HPC Watercooler is heading up the use of what the kids are calling “social media” tools for SC09 this year, and he’s doing a great job. I wanted to point out all of the new ways that…