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Today Seagate Technology announced that Sugon will incorporate Seagate’s latest 4TB Enterprise Performance 3.5 HDD into its new TC4600T line of server products. "Seagate is committed to developing innovative products that enable…
ARL in Aberdeen is seeking a Network Engineer for HPC in our Job of the Week.
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Code Monster from Crunchzilla is now open source, free to use and modify. Code Monster is a tutorial that has been used by hundreds of thousands of children around the world to learn a little about programming. It's a seriesTranslations…
More takes on the idea of 'Small Data' proposed by my former collaborator Martin Lindstrom in his recent book. Another way to look at this is as an 'inductive' approach, where you are selectively looking for especially valuable…
I see that the Economist has started a new magazine. The 1843 Magazine, which has a technology component, which I have started to follow. Will pass along links as appropriate. No depth, well written, euro bias, sometimes interesting…
This post was a collaboration with Nadia Polikarpova and Shachar Itzhaky, done while we were supposed to be collaborating on other things.A younger student in the group where I did my PhD is going to his first conference next…
I was reminded that Bob Johansen, former colleague, also at the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and frequent consultant to us, writes at Berrett Koehler Publishers, is in the process of writing a new book. " ... I’m writingLeaders…
Goya is facing a $5 million lawsuit; the plaintiff is claiming its canned octopus is really squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
A pair of Gizmodo stories have prompted journalists to ask questions about Facebook’s power to manipulate political opinion in an already heated election year. If the claims are accurate, Facebook contractors have depressed some…
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In an effort to accelerate research with international partners, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) is upgrading its 100G optical-transport network with bandwidth-on-demand solutions from Ciena.…
The O'Reilly Newsletter is on bots .... nicely done descriptions, mostly non-technical. Worth it as an introductory read, or passing on to executives with links to more detail. Also see my tab links to Bots, which cover a…
Bo Ewald from D-Wave Systems presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Tucson. “D-Wave continues to advance the state-of-the-art of quantum computing at a rapid pace, with a number of impressive application results, and the…
On Wednesday, I gave a talk at an event called Ignite that brought together government and business folks to talk innovation. There were four lightning talks of about 5 minutes each, and mine was on computer science education…
Today Flow Science announced that it will hold its 2016 FLOW-3D Americas Users Conference in Chicago, IL on September 22 at the Warwick Allerton. Anyone interested in the FLOW-3D product suite are invited to attend the conference…
Global efforts to bring about crucial improvements in supercomputing efficiency and energy usage were placed center stage this week as the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) welcomed users and vendors …
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the news highlights for the week leading up to Friday the 13th of May, 2016. Highlights include a 25 Petaflop Fujitsu supercomputer coming to Japan, an OpenPOWER Summit coming…
In CWorld: I recall a statement like this before, and have also seen evidence of this when examining peaks in web analytics. The volume still amazes me. It must be very easy to do, and have real incentive. You do need to…
Technical piece on the topic. have not seen this approach used directly:" ... Probabilistic programming allows for automatic Bayesian inference on user-defined probabilistic models. Recent advances in Markov chain Monte Carlo…
Students at a medical college in Thailand have been caught using spy cameras linked to smartwatches to cheat during exams. They used wireless spycams in eyeglasses to capture exam questions, transmit them to associates elsewhere…
Lawfare is turning out to be the go-to blog for policy wonks about various government debates on cybersecurity. There are two good posts this week on the Going Dark debate. The first is from those of us who wrote the "Keys Under…
In Mediapost: Beacons Determine Best Time To Send Ads, ID When Shopper 'Due' For Store Visit by Chuck Martin Beacons were always good at being able to trigger a message or ad based on a consumer’s location, but now they’reAnd…
Some good thoughts on making it work.The business of ThingsDeveloping a workable business model for the consumer IoT isn’t just important—it’s urgent.By Alasdair Allan May 12, 2016Alasdair Allan will talk more about the Internet…
Earlier this week I attended the CCC workshop Computing Research: Addressing National Priorities and Societal Needs (video). The workshop covered a large collection of topics, highlighting challenges of big data, privacy, security…
Sensor fitted phone coming? Rumors that this will be announced at IO meetings next week. It was often mentioned as a means to navigate inside physical retail. Or for advanced real estate interaction? Will this ultimatelySee…
Disney makes objects smart using RFID tags. In the Verge. Gets back to an old question, where should the smarts be? Simple tagging can place the smarts involved in the network, a hub, or in the cloud.
Applications to attend SC16 as a Student Volunteer are due Wednesday, June 1. "As part of the Students@SC program, Student Volunteers play a key role in supporting the overall conference and conference attendees. Undergraduate…
In this special guest feature, Lance Farrell writes that, in this era of global air travel, NSF-funded researchers are using supercomputers to equip policy makers with the evidence needed to make fast, accurate choices in the…
Today Western Digital announced it has completed the acquisition of SanDisk Corporation. The addition of SanDisk makes Western Digital Corporation a comprehensive storage solutions provider with global reach, and an extensive…
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Shailesh M Shenoy from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York discusses the challenges faced by large medical research organizations in the face of ever…