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NEC Exiting Japan-Backed Supercomputer
From insideHPC

NEC Exiting Japan-Backed Supercomputer

NEC Corp announced today that it will withdraw from a Japanese government-backed supercomputer project.

The Future is Mobile
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Future is Mobile

Excellent piece in Communities Dominate Brands on The 8 C's of Cellphones. The 8 C's the different dimensions of mobile and how they have evolved. ' ... the industry...

Your Brain on Architecture
From The Eponymous Pickle

Your Brain on Architecture

In Fast Company. Or really its about constructing a space. A genius loci or spirit-of-the-place that influences us. Yes, it is different when one walks downAcademy...

EU fines Intel
From insideHPC

EU fines Intel

There is a lot of conversation about this, and most of it isn’t directly HPC related, so I don’t want to spend a lot of time on this decision but it seems like...

IBM announces productization of stream computing
From insideHPC

IBM announces productization of stream computing

IBM has been briefing pieces of

Britain establishes green IT
From insideHPC

Britain establishes green IT

The British Computer Society is establishing a certificate program in green IT. From an article at Enterprise IT Planet: The British Computer Society is seeking...

Green IT
From insideHPC

Green IT

Enterprise IT Planet has posted their weekly roundup of all things green. I’ve picked out a couple of items that may be of interest to you HPC readers out there...

SiCortex Closes on Latest Funding
From insideHPC

SiCortex Closes on Latest Funding

SiCortex has closed on its latest round of funding.

NITRD Act passes
From insideHPC

NITRD Act passes

Sorry guys, somehow I missed this when it happened on Tuesday. Melissa Norr at the CRA’s policy blog didn’t, however, and neither did Dan Reed. The CRA’s post contains...

Cray Appoints New Principal
From insideHPC

Cray Appoints New Principal

Cray has announced the appointment of a new principal engineer within the office of the CTO.

PSC and Darkstrand Join
From insideHPC

PSC and Darkstrand Join

Darkstrand, today, announced a collaboration agreement with Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center enabling corporations connected to the Darkstrand network to collaborate...

Hiding Things in Plain Sight
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hiding Things in Plain Sight

The invisibility cloak idea is an interesting physics concept that bends light around an object and thus making it effectively 'invisible'. Well known in fiction...

A Bonfire of the Economic Models?
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Bonfire of the Economic Models?

Why did most academic economists fail to see the sharp downturn coming? In Knowledge@Wharton: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis?. This presents...

Reprising the Enterprise Search Summit
From The Noisy Channel

Reprising the Enterprise Search Summit

‘Tis the season of search conferences, at least for me, and I spent the last couple of days attending the Enterprise Search Summit in New York. I enjoyed it immensely–it’s...

Reprising the Enterprise Search Summit
From The Noisy Channel

Reprising the Enterprise Search Summit

‘Tis the season of search conferences, at least for me, and I spent the last couple of days attending the Enterprise Search Summit in New York. I enjoyed it immensely–it’s...

Procter, Coke Most Innovative
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter, Coke Most Innovative

Consumer Goods Technology reports that BusinessWeek includes Procter & Gamble and Coke to be among the 50 most innovative companies. Proud to have been a small...

NITRD Bill Amended to Increase Emphasis on Computer Science Education
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

NITRD Bill Amended to Increase Emphasis on Computer Science Education

Today the House passed by voice vote H.R. 2020, which is a bill to amend the High Performance Computing Act. Part of this law establishes the National Information...

Hubble Tech Live
From The Eponymous Pickle

Hubble Tech Live

Bit out of the normal realm of my posts, but my astrophysics background makes it a requirement, have followed Hubble space telescope for many years. Followable....

Us Now
From Putting People First

Us Now

Watch this excellent 1 hour documentary film about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet. “In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is...

Everybody
From Putting People First

Everybody

Further on my earlier theme of “we are all hackers now“, here is a long feature on user-generated devices by Fumitada Takahashi and Phil Keys in the Nikkei Electronics...
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