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Podcast: Supercomputers Battle Coronavirus
From insideHPC

Podcast: Supercomputers Battle Coronavirus

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how supercomputers are being used to battle the coronavirus. "We discuss how the supercomputing community hasPodcast...

Video: State of ARM-based HPC
From insideHPC

Video: State of ARM-based HPC

In this video, Paul Isaacs from Linaro presents: State of ARM-based HPC. "This talk provides an overview of applications and infrastructure services successfully...

New Multimodel Alexa Design for Devs
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Multimodel Alexa Design for Devs

New efforts from Amazon on toolkits to improve skills.  Technical.Design Engaging Multimodal Experiences with Our New Alexa Design System Toolkits for APLAnna Van...

IBM's Sterling Supply Chain Business Network
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM's Sterling Supply Chain Business Network

IBM reports on a new supply chain effort:Build a smarter supply chain for tomorrowDigital business and globalization continuously disrupt today’s business. Customers...

Microsoft Buys Corp.com
From Schneier on Security

Microsoft Buys Corp.com

A few months ago, Brian Krebs told the story of the domain corp.com, and how it is basically a security nightmare: At issue is a problem known as "namespace collision...

[Paper] The Imaginary Crisis
From Putting People First

[Paper] The Imaginary Crisis

As the Covid-19 crisis hopefully comes slowly under control, we ought to attend to a very different kind of crisis, and one which is scarcely visible: the deteriorating...

Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Decontaminating N95 Masks
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Decontaminating N95 Masks

Contributions to this post were provided by former CCC Council Member Kevin Fu from the University of Michigan.  The COVID-19 pandemic has caused staggering resource...

Data Preparation is the Most Important Thing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Preparation is the Most Important Thing

A very good O'Reilly piece, not very technical.  Essential thoughts.The unreasonable importance of data preparationYour models are only as good as your data.By ...

Cobol: Its Still Here
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cobol: Its Still Here

Surprised to see this,  but should not be.   Its still around in many forms.New Jersey Needs Volunteers Who Know COBOL, a 60-Year-Old Programming LanguageCNBCBy...

APAC HPC-AI Competition Expands to Address COVID-19
From insideHPC

APAC HPC-AI Competition Expands to Address COVID-19

The HPC-AI Advisory Council and the National Supercomputing Centre in Singapore announced today that they have joined the global fight against COVID-19 by expanding...

HPE Financial Services Offers $2 billion in Financing and New Programs to Help Customers and Partners Weather COVID-19
From insideHPC

HPE Financial Services Offers $2 billion in Financing and New Programs to Help Customers and Partners Weather COVID-19

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced today that HPE Financial Services (HPEFS) is designating more than $2 billion in financing specifically to help customers with...

Video: What Does it Take to Reach 2 Exaflops?
From insideHPC

Video: What Does it Take to Reach 2 Exaflops?

In this video, Addison Snell from Intersect360 Research moderates a panel discussion on the El Capitan supercomputer. With a peak performance of over 2 Exaflops...

When Are We Going Back To (bricks and mortar) School?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

When Are We Going Back To (bricks and mortar) School?

That’s the question my students asked the most yesterday. We’re in our fourth week of remote emergency teaching and I think it is starting to wear on most of us...

ISC 2020 Conference Converting to Virtual Event Due to Pandemic
From insideHPC

ISC 2020 Conference Converting to Virtual Event Due to Pandemic

The ISC 2020 Conference in Frankfurt has been cancelled due to the global pandemic and instead will be broadcast as a virtual event. "It is with a heavy heart we...

Imagining the world after coronavirus, part 3
From Putting People First

Imagining the world after coronavirus, part 3

Third edition of features and articles on what may lie ahead. Four in English, three in Italian.

Fingerprint Cloning?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fingerprint Cloning?

I recall  this came up when we set up our innovation labs.    Retails suggested it was much discussed at the time.  It was ultimately discounted because it wasFingerprint...

NVIDIA Becomes a Shareholder in DFKI AI Research Center in Germany
From insideHPC

NVIDIA Becomes a Shareholder in DFKI AI Research Center in Germany

Today NVIDIA announced that that company has become a shareholder in DFKI, one of world’s largest research centers dedicated to AI. "We want to provide infrastructure...

RSA-250 Factored
From Schneier on Security

RSA-250 Factored

RSA-250 has been factored. This computation was performed with the Number Field Sieve algorithm, using the open-source CADO-NFS software. The total computation...

Can UX be done online? Yes AND No
From Putting People First

Can UX be done online? Yes AND No

Frank Spillers of Experience Dynamics reviews key UX activities and deliverables to assess online strategies for maintaining your UX process quality when online...

Wal-Mart Automates Supplier Negotiations
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Automates Supplier Negotiations

Procurement and related supplier contracts and negotiations addressed with AI type methods:Walmart automates supplier negotiationsBy Dan Berthiaume - 03/26/2020...
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