Communications of the ACM
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June 2018
From insideHPC
Asetek Liquid Cooling comes to Latest Intel Compute Modules at ISC18
Today Asetek announced plans to showcase its latest liquid cooling technology integrated in Intel Compute Modules at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. "Asetek is excited with this next step in the ongoing collaboration with Intel,” said…
From insideHPC
Quantum to Showcase End-to-End HPC Storage at ISC 2018
Today Quantum Corp. announced plans to showcase end-to-end storage capabilities for large-scale HPC environments at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. "As storage requirements for sensor generated data, scientific research and advanced supercomputing…
From insideHPC
Oracle Cloud steps up to HPC Workloads at ISC 2018
Over at the Oracle Blog, Karan Batta writes that the company is working to make the Oracle Cloud one of the the best platforms for HPC workloads. "We designed our cloud with HPC as one of the core use-cases, and this influenced…
From insideHPC
Supermicro, Red Hat, and Solarflare Set World Record STAC Performance
Today Supermicro announced a new world record for lowest latency on the well-known STAC-N1 benchmark. "This benchmark was performed on a pair of Supermicro SYS-1029UX-LL1-S16 servers, each with dual 8-core Intel Xeon Scalable…
From insideHPC
Implementing PCIe Gen 4 Expansion
After a long run for PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3, Gen 4 is fast becoming the latest de facto standard for general purpose I/O of the modern computer system. "The ability to run PCIe over cable at full performance with complete software…
From insideHPC
Seeking Nominations for the IEEE Awards at SC18
Nominations are solicited for the Seymour Cray, Sidney Fernbach & Ken Kennedy Awards presented at SC18 in Dallas. Nominations are due July 1, 2018.
The post Seeking Nominations for the IEEE Awards at SC18 appeared first on insideHPC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Crosswork IP network
New to me, apparently a new kind of architecture.
Laying the Foundations for Innovation
By Philippe Bralet in the Cisco Blog
Cisco Crosswork provides the holistic real-time insight needed to transform your network operations
Service…
From Schneier on Security
Algeria Shut Down the Internet to Prevent Students from Cheating on Exams
Algeria shut the Internet down nationwide to prevent high-school students from cheating on their exams. The solution in New South Wales, Australia was to ban smartphones....
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Roadmap Reports for Devices and Systems
Am a long time member of IEEE, a wealth of useful information. Often reference their publications here. The newest set of such publications.
IEEE Releases the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS)
PISCATAWAY,…
From Apophenia
The Messy Fourth Estate
(This post was originally posted on Medium.) For the second time in a week, my phone buzzed with a New York Times alert, notifying me that another celebrity had died by suicide. My heart sank. I tuned into the Crisis Text Line…
From insideHPC
XTREME-D Debuts Revolutionary IaaS for Accessing HPC in the Cloud via Gateway Appliance
Today HPC cloud company XTREME-D announced a prototype version of XTREME-Stargate, a solution that combines Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and an HPC gateway appliance to deliver a new way to access and manage high performance…
From insideHPC
New HPE Pointnext Capabilities to Accelerate Memory-Driven Computing
Today HPE announced the launch of an incubation practice with specialized skills for solving big data problems through Memory-Driven Computing. " Our vision for Memory-Driven Computing is to enable customers to capture, keep
…
From insideHPC
Technology Predictions for ISC 2018
In this special guest post, Dr. Rosemary Francis looks forward to the ISC 2018 conference, which starts next week in Frankfurt, Germany. "We recently saw the launch of Summit, the first 200 petaflop system – who will unveil the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft to Acquire Bonsai AI
Had previously looked at this, and looks good on the surface of it. Will take a closer look.
Microsoft to acquire machine learning startup Bonsai, fueling AI efforts By Taylor Soper in Geekwire
Microsoft is adding more firepower…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain from Berkeley
After teaching an on-campus course about cryptocurrencies, UC Berkeley is planning to launch a two-part, online course aimed at educating students around to globe about cryptocurrencies and business-scale blockchain networks.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China increases Biometric Public Transport Scanning
If does seem that while we fret about the possible misuses of tracking data from such passive biometric scanning, other countries are seeing the efficiency value. Note the cautious CYA phrase below 'Perhaps too high tech'.
China…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems to Showcase Liquid Cooling Technology at ISC 2018
Today CoolIT Systems announced plans to showcase the company's energy efficient liquid cooling solutions at ISC 2018. "As new advancements in HPC and AI continue to push computational boundaries, data center operators are realizing…
From insideHPC
BOXX Special Edition Workstation Breaks 5.0GHz Clock Speed Barrier
BOXX Technologies has announced "the world’s fastest workstation" featuring a professionally overclocked Intel Core i7-8086K Limited Edition processor capable of reaching 5.0GHz across all six of its cores. In commemoration of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Death of Supply Chain Management
The death of? No, but lots of new augmentations popping up.
The Death of Supply Chain Management in 7WData
The supply chain is the heart of a company’s operations. To make the best decisions, managers need access to real-time data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Willingness to Pay vs Like What You Buy
This often took a place in research we did.
Why Willingness to Pay Doesn’t Mean Consumers Like What They Buy in Knowledge@Wharton
Marketers have long relied on willingness to pay as a way to gauge consumer preference for a product…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Powered by Water Jets
Clever idea for firefighting, other in water contexts.
Firefighting Robot Snake Flies on Jets of Water
Using steerable jets of water like rockets, this robot snake can fly into burning buildings to extinguish fires ... By Evan…
From insideHPC
Optimized HPC-AI cloud with OpenStack acceleration service and composable hardware
Shuquan Huang from 99Cloud gave this talk at the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. "In this session, we will introduce OpenStack Acceleration Service – Cyborg, which provides a management framework for accelerator devices (e.g.
…
From insideHPC
Excelero and Mellanox Boost Ceph Performance in OpenStack Cloud
OpenStack cloud provider Teuto.net has reported exceptional performance with low-latency block storage using deployed Excelero's NVMesh Server SAN along with Mellanox SN2100 switches. As more customers need storage suitable for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GE Intelligent Systems and Wise.io
Standards make sense iif you plan to replicate new technologies.
GE’s intelligent systems: Creating an AI, machine learning standard
By Kylie Anderson in SiliconAngle
The business potential in artificial intelligence technologies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retailers Shortchanging National Brands
We spent much time and effort examining private retail label versus retail brands. Was just in a Kroger today and scanned some categories we had worked with, and the evolution of changes wwas stunning.
Are retailers short-changing…
From insideHPC
Exploring Dell EMC Networking for vSan
This is the second entry in an insideHPC guide series that explores networking with Dell EMC ready nodes. Read on to learn more about Dell EMC networking for vSan.
The post Exploring Dell EMC Networking for vSan appeared first…
From insideHPC
Video: Speed Your Code with Intel Parallel Studio XE
"Modern processors perform their best with parallel code that's both vectorized and threaded, which can run more than 100 times faster more than serial code. So how can you accomplish this more easily through parallel programming…
From Schneier on Security
Perverse Vulnerability from Interaction between 2-Factor Authentication and iOS AutoFill
Apple is rolling out an iOS security usability feature called Security code AutoFill. The basic idea is that the OS scans incoming SMS messages for security codes and suggests them in AutoFill, so that people can use them without…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Its All About Training Data
Was impressed by Figure Eight (formerly Crowdflower). They get at the crux of the matter. You have to have the right data.
" ... A machine learning algorithm isn't worth much without great training data to power it.
At Figure…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Builds Bots for Productivity
Microsoft looks to bots to make employees more productive. Recall their now long ago work with the 'Clippy' bot.
Microsoft is continuing its quest to try to make workers more productive via a variety of bots, including SwitchBot…