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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From insideHPC
Addison Snell remembers
Addison Snell, now of Tabor Research, but once of SGI, remembers his time at SGI and offers his view of what went wrong: Do you know what the saddest part is of...
From insideHPC
Mathematica
My latest features are up at HPCwire. In “Mathematica takes on parallelism” I discuss last November’s announcement of Mathematica 7, and how it bakes parallelism...
From insideHPC
Yahoo! brings in four universities into cloud research
The Yahoo! M45 project (also part of the Open Cirrus cloud effort funded by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel and hosted at facilities around the world) just took a pretty...
From Wild WebMink
The "yes I was on the web over Easter" link selection
Statebook Excellent visualisation of what the government will do with all the data that's being gathered for various reasons. It's not the individual feeds that...
From insideHPC
IBM stream computing prototype achieves big performance boost for TD
In March of last year I began writing about an IBM research effort to develop a new hardware and software architecture for ingesting and analysing large scale streams...
From insideHPC
Mentoring workshop for students seeking careers in high performance
NCSA is announcing a mentoring workshop to be held alongside their upcoming accelerator symposium A FREE mentoring workshop for undergraduate and graduate students...
From insideHPC
There is a right way, and a wrong way, to
Dan Reed reposted an essay on his blog that recently appeared at the CACM blog in which he talks about the shortcuts (my word, not his) we took to get to petascale...
From insideHPC
Nehalem memory cheat
Doug at ClusterMonkey pointed us to a Nehalem memory cheat sheet put together for Dell’s technology wiki by Jeff Layton. The writeup looks like a pretty complete...
From Putting People First
Thinking about the future of news
The current paradigm of creating of serious news stories — through newspapers and big media — is under threat. Here is a haul of background on the matter (from...
From insideHPC
WRF Goes Version
The WRF development team [through the WRF mailing list] has announced the release of the Weather Research Forecast code version 3.1.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration Curves
Interesting piece that looks at the implications of collaboration. In the enterprise this is an increasing issue, especially when people are only distantly connected...
From insideHPC
NCAR-Wyoming: Full Steam
After nearly a year’s delay, the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s proposed supercomputing facility project in Cheyenne, Wyoming is moving forward.
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something...
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something...
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something...
From Apophenia
Does money equal time? (Regarding proposed NSF funding of qualitative research)
Following a conference about qualitative methods, the National Science Foundation issued a report that provided "general guidance for developing qualitative research...
From Apophenia
discussion of "impact" at the CHI conference
Yesterday, I attended the CHI conference (an ACM conference for those studying and working in the area of human-computer interaction). I had the privilege of speaking...
From Wild WebMink
Lump of Links for April 11
The JRE Class White List - Google App Engine Whether you agree with Sun policing it or not, Java compatibility has served us all very well for over a decade. That...
From The Eponymous Pickle