Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2009
From insideHPC
IBM announces productization of stream computing
IBM has been briefing pieces of
From insideHPC
Britain establishes green IT
The British Computer Society is establishing a certificate program in green IT. From an article at Enterprise IT Planet: The British Computer Society is seeking to change that, at least in Great Britain, through the establishment…
From insideHPC
Green IT
Enterprise IT Planet has posted their weekly roundup of all things green. I’ve picked out a couple of items that may be of interest to you HPC readers out there
Forrester Research predicts the Green IT service market will grow…From insideHPC
SiCortex Closes on Latest Funding
SiCortex has closed on its latest round of funding.
From insideHPC
NITRD Act passes
Sorry guys, somehow I missed this when it happened on Tuesday. Melissa Norr at the CRA’s policy blog didn’t, however, and neither did Dan Reed. The CRA’s post contains the text of a letter they sent to the hill endorsing the…
From insideHPC
Cray Appoints New Principal
Cray has announced the appointment of a new principal engineer within the office of the CTO.
From insideHPC
PSC and Darkstrand Join
Darkstrand, today, announced a collaboration agreement with Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center enabling corporations connected to the Darkstrand network to collaborate with PSC high performance computing projects, thus leading…
From BLOG@CACM
Only the Developed World Lacks Women in Computing
The developing world has lots of women in computing. Great talks at this week's NCWIT meeting explain why the difference.
From BLOG@CACM
Media Computation: For Creativity and Surprises
The Media Computation approach to introductory computing is mostly used for creative expression, but it can also lead to some surprises.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hiding Things in Plain Sight
The invisibility cloak idea is an interesting physics concept that bends light around an object and thus making it effectively 'invisible'. Well known in fiction of course. A new variant of the idea described in Technology Review…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Bonfire of the Economic Models?
Why did most academic economists fail to see the sharp downturn coming? In Knowledge@Wharton: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis?. This presents an overview of what modelers considered when trying to understand…
From The Noisy Channel
Reprising the Enterprise Search Summit
‘Tis the season of search conferences, at least for me, and I spent the last couple of days attending the Enterprise Search Summit in New York. I enjoyed it immensely–it’s one of the better networking events in the industry.…
From The Noisy Channel
Reprising the Enterprise Search Summit
‘Tis the season of search conferences, at least for me, and I spent the last couple of days attending the Enterprise Search Summit in New York. I enjoyed it immensely–it’s one of the better networking events in the industry.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter, Coke Most Innovative
Consumer Goods Technology reports that BusinessWeek includes Procter & Gamble and Coke to be among the 50 most innovative companies. Proud to have been a small part of that work.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NITRD Bill Amended to Increase Emphasis on Computer Science Education
Today the House passed by voice vote H.R. 2020, which is a bill to amend the High Performance Computing Act. Part of this law establishes the National Information Technology Research and Development Program, or NITRD. NITRD…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hubble Tech Live
Bit out of the normal realm of my posts, but my astrophysics background makes it a requirement, have followed Hubble space telescope for many years. Followable now on NASA TV. Still amazing stuff.
From Putting People First
Us Now
Watch this excellent 1 hour documentary film about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet. “In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is staring intently into his computer screen. He is picking the team…
From Putting People First
Everybody
Further on my earlier theme of “we are all hackers now“, here is a long feature on user-generated devices by Fumitada Takahashi and Phil Keys in the Nikkei Electronics Asia magazine (Japan). “User-Generated Devices (UGD), allowing…
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Claims Development of World
Fujitsu has claimed that is has developed the world’s fastest processor.
From insideHPC
Panasas announces research-focused storage
Yesterday storage vendor Panasas announced a new pricing lineup on storage products aimed at university research organizations The new Panasas Research Solutions combine the recently announced Panasas ActiveStor storage platforms…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-13
Good move. I hope we don't have to have a blow-up like this for every bit of data we need for open government. And …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storefrontbacktalk Launches Research Site
StorefrontBacktalk has launched a retail technology research site called: StorefrontBackgroundHave always enjoyed Evan Schuman's blog on retail topics, and have learned much from it. He is now addressing a common problem ofMore…
From insideHPC
Super Micro Announces GPU
Super Micro has announced a new line of GPU server systems.
From insideHPC
Cray Eyeing New HQ in St.
According to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Tribune, Cray might be on their way to moving the corporate headquarters to downtown St. Paul.
From insideHPC
Intel puts $12M in new visual computing research
Intel announced yesterday that it will invest $12M US in a new computing research center in Europe Intel Corporation is investing $12 million to create a new research center that will explore advanced graphics and visual computing…
From insideHPC
SiCortex used in designs for more energy efficient
HPC vendor SiCortex is talking about one of their customers, researchers and faculty at the Royal Military College of Canada, who are using their gear to design more fuel efficient airplanes The aviation and shipping industries…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and the NYSE Superfast Network
You may have noticed I have been exploring Netezza of late, the data warehousing appliance innovator. Here is an interesting case study that includes them:Case study: NYSE readies 800Gbps super fast network ... Topics: Network…
From The Noisy Channel
Is Google Diving Head First Into HCIR?
I’ve been at the Enterprise Search Summit all day, so I didn’t have the chance to pore through the buzz about Google’s Searchology announcements. But I did see a snippet that struck me as very unusual language for Google: Our…
From The Noisy Channel
Is Google Diving Head First Into HCIR?
I’ve been at the Enterprise Search Summit all day, so I didn’t have the chance to pore through the buzz about Google’s Searchology announcements. But I did see a snippet that struck me as very unusual language for Google: Our…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Computer Society Home Page
I mentioned that the CACM has a launched a new home page, to which I am contributing. I see that the IEEE Computer Society now also has a new main page. Has a news feed and podcasts, but no blogs. IEEE seems to be doing more…