Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2009
From insideHPC
Analyst speculates rumored IBM/Sun deal could eliminate 10,000
From Forbes today comes a thought experiment exploring what might happen if the IBM/Sun deal actually happens The outlook: This could be a particularly messy merger. Given IBM and Sun’s similar mix of servers, storage and software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog now on the ACM Site
This blog, among a number of others, is now featured on the re-designed Communications of the ACM site. I have been a member of the ACM since grad school and this is the first time I have contributed directly. In the past…
From insideHPC
SiCortex Announces Record
The folks over at SiCortex today announced record growth in Q1 of 2009, to the tune of 100%.
From Putting People First
Intel/GE healthcare alliance underlines strategic value of ethnographic research
If you ever need a solid case on why ethnographic research can provide strategic value to companies, yesterday’s announcement of the $250 million Intel/GE healthcare alliance provides you with a great one. Intel has for years…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Couponing
From Retailwire, a good discussion on online couponing. Nothing very surprising, but a good overview of issues.
From insideHPC
Harvard named next CUDA center of
Harvard joins Taiwan U, U of Utah, and UIUC as the company’s latest CUDA Center of Excellence NVIDIA Corporation, inventor of the GPU, today announced that Harvard University has been recognized as a CUDA Center of Excellence…
From insideHPC
Terabit Ethernet on the
Article at Network World this week on developments on the terabit Ethernet front Looking down the LAN road, the Terabit Ethernet milestone is very much in sight. While 3.2Tbps and 6.4Tbps speeds were demonstrated in test environments…
From Springenwerk Blog
Ruby Deutsche Bank CSV Converter
I've recently signed up with FreeAgentCentral. It's a really great service, but it didn't like Deutsche Bank's CSV files. That's why I wrote a converter. Check it out on Github.
From insideHPC
New version of Berkeley Lab Checkpoint Restart
Found at HPCwire A combustion researcher may run a huge simulation of a laboratory-scale flame experiment on a supercomputer to better understand the turbulence-chemistry interactions that affect fuel efficiency. But if the system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free IPhone App Course
Stanford University has released a free 10 week course on developing IPhone applications. Based on a Stanford course, online participants see all content, but do not get course credit.
From insideHPC
Google unveils its super secret server design, DC and batteries built
Thanks to Twitter user Yeraze (of Vizworld.com fame) for passing this c|net article on to insideHPC World HQ. On Wednesday Google took the wraps off its custom servers for their first public viewing. Of course, we know that Google…
From insideHPC
SC09 Tech Program submissions deadline
From SC09’s web site SC09, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, which opens November 14th in Portland, Oregon, is the HPC community’s premiere opportunity to immerse yourself…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gestural Interfaces
A good piece on gestural interfaces and some of their recent developments and applications. I have used everything from paper tape to light pens to the foot-mouse. Was a very early mouse user. Impressed by suggestions by the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fail Fast
Via Steve King. Good article: The Importance of Failed Innovation. The comments also make some good points. I will add that it is also about managing your failure and learning from each one. Its too easy to try to forget failure…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, Engineering Mentoring
If you know an organization or an individual who is doing outstanding work mentoring underrepresented students in computing, you might want to nominate them for this important and prestigious award.
The Presidential Awards for…From Wild WebMink
Thursday's Link Roundup on April 2nd
The ACTA Timeline (or Everything You Need To Know About ACTA But Your Government Won't Tell You) This legislation appears to be the work of bureaucrats without an awareness of popular culture or review by the citizens of theFree…
From insideHPC
AMD comments on
HPCwire’s Michael Feldman posted a feature yesterday on AMD’s response to Intel’s latest chip I spoke with John Fruehe, AMD’s worldwide business development manager, to get his take on how Nehalem will challenge AMD’s Opteron…
From insideHPC
Computing research that changed the world symposium slides
A quickie from the CCC blog Slides from all speakers at the remarkable March 25th Library of Congress symposium
From insideHPC
NCSA researcher to edit special issue of IEEE
News from NCSA this week NCSA researcher Volodymyr Kindratenko and colleagues David Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology) and David Kaeli (Northeastern University) will guest edit a special issue of the journal IEEE Transactions…
From insideHPC
Fixstars Announces GPU Software
Fixstars Corp, proprietors of Cell/BE software and services, have announced a new software service based on NVIDIA CUDA GPU technology.
From insideHPC
Open MPI team announces iPhone, BlackBerry apps, support for Twitter, and EnergyStar
The Open MPI team made a splash in the HPC press yesterday (01 April) with a far-reaching announcement that has us looking for ways to buy Open MPI stock The Open MPI Team, representing a consortium of bailed-out banks, car manufacturers…
From insideHPC
InsideTrack: Penguin CEO on the SGI/Rackable
After the announcement yesterday we started rifling through our Rolodexes here at insideHPC HQ looking for industry comment. Predictably, most of the folks we got in touch with were at public companies and loathe to talk on the…
From insideHPC
Star-P now
This week Interactive Supercomputing announced that its Star-P product is now certifiable…er, certified (couldn’t resist) Star-P lets scientists, analysts and engineers easily create parallel applications using familiar desktop…
From insideHPC
10th Russian Top50
The 10th annual Russian Top50 list was released on Tuesday. You can find the list here, but unless you can read Russian it won’t do you much good. Happily, though, they emailed the announcement to me in English. Here are some…
From CERIAS Blog
Symposium Transcript: Complexity vs. Security
Dr. Ronald W. Ritchey, Booz, Allen, Hamilton Transcribed and edited by Jacques Thomas. The speaker was introduced by Joel Rasmus. Dr. Ron Ritchey and Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), the company he works for, have had a relationship…
From insideHPC
India
Cray announced today that the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Calcutta, India has selected their Cray CT5 supercomputer as the next compute platform for its Theory Division.
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID - Enabled Loyalty Program
An interesting example of using RFID tags to enable a loyalty program. Touchless systems are by their nature more convenient than scans.RFID-enabled in-store marketing goes straight to the TOPTOP Food and Drug, a WashingtonAccelitec…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Library of Congress symposium slides are up!
Slides from all speakers at the remarkable March 25th Library of Congress symposium “Computing Research that Changed the World:
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New AccessIT Web Design & Development Curriculum
The University of Washington and a team of high school web design teachers have put together some free curriculum that is well organized, up to date, and full of resources. The curriculum is called AccessIT Web Design & Development…
From insideHPC
SGI, Rackable, and the stalking
SGI sent out a letter to its support customers, which you can read here, that supplies a little more detail and a magic phrase that led to some interesting insight into their process with this bankruptcy. Here is the relevant…