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Google Cardboard VR is Gone
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Cardboard VR is Gone

I used to recommend these in classes.   Still have some around, somewhere ....  Too bad.  Downward trend in VR signaled?   Google stops selling its Cardboard VR...

Intel Achieves AWS High Performance Computing Competency Status
From insideHPC

Intel Achieves AWS High Performance Computing Competency Status

Intel has announced it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that Intel has demonstrated...

Publix Pandemic Sales Increase
From The Eponymous Pickle

Publix Pandemic Sales Increase

 Interesting numbers, starting with increased sales.   A kind of behavioral measure of interest.  Much more at the link.Publix Super Markets: For the full fiscal...

Pure Storage and Equinix Collaborate to Deliver ‘Physical Infrastructure at Software Speed’
From insideHPC

Pure Storage and Equinix Collaborate to Deliver ‘Physical Infrastructure at Software Speed’

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — March 3, 2021 — Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), which delivers storage as a service in a multi-cloud world, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq:Pure...

Great Innovative Idea – Smartmedia: Adapting Streamed Content to Fit Location and Context
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Great Innovative Idea – Smartmedia: Adapting Streamed Content to Fit Location and Context

The following Great Innovative Idea is from Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs-Research), David Gibbon (AT&T Labs-Research), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research), Valerie...

Retrain Your Model, Update the Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retrain Your Model, Update the Data

Such an obvious thing, but often forgotten. I make a point to include such updating instructions in everything I delivered.   No data, except from physics, is static...

Ungaro Departs: New Leadership Blood as HPE and Dell Drive for No. 1 in HPC
From insideHPC

Ungaro Departs: New Leadership Blood as HPE and Dell Drive for No. 1 in HPC

HPE and Dell, engaged in a neck-and-neck struggle for superiority in HPC servers, also are engaged in a reshuffling of their HPC leadership teams that may reflect...

A Security Problem with Common PLCs
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Security Problem with Common PLCs

We worked actively with PLCs, 'Programmable Logic Controllers' in the enterprise.    Small, dedicated computers used to control industrial process.  They reliably...

Detecting Earthquakes and Waves
From The Eponymous Pickle

Detecting Earthquakes and Waves

A favorite topic, detecting pattern.  Its a big part of our intelligence.   Here using new kinds of sensor data. Google Uses Underwater Fiber-Optic Cable to Detect...

Rescale’s 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report Reveals Major Cloud Adoption Trends in Research and Science
From insideHPC

Rescale’s 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report Reveals Major Cloud Adoption Trends in Research and Science

SAN FRANCISCO, March 02, 2021 — Rescale, a hybrid HPC cloud platform enabling intelligent computing for digital R&D, today published its inaugural State of Cloud...

EIB Provides $9.1M to AI Software Company Cortical.io
From insideHPC

EIB Provides $9.1M to AI Software Company Cortical.io

San Francisco – March 3, 2021 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing $9.1 million to Cortical.io AG, an Austrian software company with offices in San...

WIkibon Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

WIkibon Research

Brought back to my attention and of interest. Wikibon 2021 Research FocusThe Wikibon 2021 research focus is based on a community-based approach to deliver in-depth...

Spending in a Solarwinds and COVID Context
From The Eponymous Pickle

Spending in a Solarwinds and COVID Context

Interesting to see the specific implications of security and supply chain contexts. Breaking Analysis: How the SolarWinds Hack & COVID are Changing CISO Spending...

TripleBlind raises $8.2 million Encrypted Data Science Platform
From The Eponymous Pickle

TripleBlind raises $8.2 million Encrypted Data Science Platform

 Most interesting Application here, note interaction of compliance.TripleBlind raises $8.2 million for its Encrypted Data Science platformKyle Wiggers  @Kyle_L_Wiggers...

Purdue Engineers Developing Switch for Quantum Internet
From insideHPC

Purdue Engineers Developing Switch for Quantum Internet

 Purdue University says engineers there have made progress on a new switch designed to enable a quantum internet supporting powerful quantum computers of the future...

Towards Decentralized Finance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Towards Decentralized Finance

Notable look at where this might be going.  Getting some reading that it is being much more broadly applied than expected.   But there remains some strongly based...

CCC Council Member Melanie E. Moses Article in Nautilus: How to Fix the Vaccine Rollout
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Council Member Melanie E. Moses Article in Nautilus: How to Fix the Vaccine Rollout

Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico and External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute...

Core Scientific Achieves AWS HPC Competency Status
From insideHPC

Core Scientific Achieves AWS HPC Competency Status

BELLEVUE, Wash., March 1, 2021 — Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for artificial intelligence and blockchain that is led by CEO...

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Picks WekaIO Data Platform for Drug Discovery
From insideHPC

Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Picks WekaIO Data Platform for Drug Discovery

CAMPBELL, Calif., March 2, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), maker of fastest-growing data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning, life sciences research and...

Getting More Quantitative Analysis Modeling and Backtesting by Fixing Your Storage
From insideHPC

Getting More Quantitative Analysis Modeling and Backtesting by Fixing Your Storage

HPC storage is under strain to deliver fast, shared dataset access for backtesting quantitative trading strategies. One solution is Panasas’ ActiveStor Ultra –Getting...
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