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Morphological Neuromarketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Morphological Neuromarketing

In today's New York Times, an interesting case study on a Neuromarketing method used by US snack goods manufacturer Frito-Lay, which used the morphology (structure...

Why It is Time To Get Political
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Why It is Time To Get Political

In the last year, CSTA has put s great deal of effort into developing a strong advocacy arm for CSTA and there are times when I wonder if this is a good use of....

Dealing with Reliability
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dealing with Reliability

Can you rely on services like Gmail? Or the Web? Sobering thoughts.

Report from the UPCRC Illinois
From insideHPC

Report from the UPCRC Illinois

Clay Breshears was at the 12 Feb UPCRC Illinois Summit meeting earlier this month, and writes about it on Intel’s blogs This was a progress report of various research...

TotalView
From insideHPC

TotalView

My post about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program yesterday didn’t gather any response from from the giant of Redmond, but it did get TotalView’s attention. They sent...

Reg opens for PRACE symposium in
From insideHPC

Reg opens for PRACE symposium in

Full of Euro love this morning…just a quick note that registration is now open for the upcoming DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure...

AMD updates on
From insideHPC

AMD updates on

Got an email from AMD late last night letting me know that AMD would be providing an update on Istanbul today, this follows news earlier this week that AMD is getting...

EuroPVM/MPI
From insideHPC

EuroPVM/MPI

For my pals across the Atlantic, and those on this side with passports and itchy travel accounts, EuroPVM/MPI 2009 just announced its call for papers. In case you...

Cray uses strong balance sheet buy back drowning
From insideHPC

Cray uses strong balance sheet buy back drowning

Now, this is the kind of news that you only get from insideHPC. I was trolling the SEC filings for our HPC companies, as I am wont to do, when I came upon Cray’s...

Digital Coupons on the Rise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Coupons on the Rise

Good Financial Times Piece, mentions P&G, Kimberly Clark. It is inevitable that we see more of this kind of play. One example, Ecrio's Mobeam system.

SDSC Completes Major Storage
From insideHPC

SDSC Completes Major Storage

The San Diego Supercomputing Center has announced that they have completed a major upgrade to their archival storage system.

Responding to Canada
From Wild WebMink

Responding to Canada

It seems the Government Open Source Tipping Point (GOSTiP, as all government things need an acronym) is proceeding apace as national government after national government...

Ken Karakotsios on Simulation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ken Karakotsios on Simulation

Ken Karakotsios, creator of the game Simlife, now has a blog devoted to simulation. Great start. Instructive. See also my post on his company DecisionPower.IPhone...

Sands Research Challenges NM Analysis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Sands Research Challenges NM Analysis

Have now followed this neuromarketing analysis work from Sands Research for three years: Sands Research Challenges Instant Analysis .... Impressive overall work...

Sun matching grant program for
From insideHPC

Sun matching grant program for

This from Marc Hamilton’s blog Just in time to help school’s balance their budgets, Sun’s 2009 Matching Grant Program for Education is here. So no matter if you...

LNXI Veteran Forms HPC
From insideHPC

LNXI Veteran Forms HPC

Linux Networx veteran Nate Fuhriman has formed a new cluster computing professional services firm aimed at providing installation, monitoring and tuning services...

Microsoft not sparking any HPC
From insideHPC

Microsoft not sparking any HPC

I just saw a tweet about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program DreamSpark is simple, it’s all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools...

Collective Intelligence in Action
From The Eponymous Pickle

Collective Intelligence in Action

Reading Satnam Alag's Collective Intelligence in Action. Good, technical, probably not a read but rather a deep browse. See the book's site for more. Some similarities...

UK Government Endorses Open Source and ODF
From Wild WebMink

UK Government Endorses Open Source and ODF

Late today (UK time), the British Government issued a bold new strategy for use of open source software - and open standards - in Great Britain. In Open Source,...

LUG2009
From insideHPC

LUG2009

Sun, yesterday, announced details for the Seventh Annual Lustre User Group meeting.
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