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MMM, Search!
From The Noisy Channel

MMM, Search!

This morning, I had the pleasure of being hosted by Grant Ingersoll to talk about search with his team at the Wikimedia Foundation.Wikipedia is an indispensable...

Podcast: Trish Damkroger on HPC’s Role the fight against COVID-19
From insideHPC

Podcast: Trish Damkroger on HPC’s Role the fight against COVID-19

In this Chip Chat podcast, Trish Damkroger from Intel describes HPC’s relevance in today’s society, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. "The podcast...

Kronos Group Releases OpenCL 3.0
From insideHPC

Kronos Group Releases OpenCL 3.0

Today, the Khronoss Group consortium released the OpenCL 3.0 Provisional Specifications. OpenCL 3.0 realigns the OpenCL roadmap to enable developer-requested functionality...

Hyperion Research Forecasts Widespread Covid-19 Disruption to HPC Market
From insideHPC

Hyperion Research Forecasts Widespread Covid-19 Disruption to HPC Market

Today Hyperion Research released its updated analysis of the potential impact areas of the covid-19 pandemic on the HPC market based on recent discussions withHyperion...

NVIDIA Completes Acquisition of Mellanox
From insideHPC

NVIDIA Completes Acquisition of Mellanox

NVIDIA today announced the completion of its acquisition of Mellanox for a transaction value of $7 billion. “With Mellanox, the new NVIDIA has end-to-end technologies...

Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 3
From insideHPC

Special Report: Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 3

Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing...

Critical Role of Human Performance in Software
From The Eponymous Pickle

Critical Role of Human Performance in Software

Software is ultimately a collaboration between people and machines.  People still need to be adaptive in critical systems.     Which needs to lead to better designing...

How to Fight Bias in ML Based Experiences
From The Eponymous Pickle

How to Fight Bias in ML Based Experiences

Forrester piece with interesting interview and links:How To Fight Bias In ML-Based Experiences  By Andrew Hogan in Forrester BlogRecently, I interviewed Carol Smith...

P&G Innovate Cooperation Model
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Innovate Cooperation Model

Look at CPG innovation for e-commerce.  Looking for this.P&G innovate cooperation model in e-commerce livestreamBEIJING and HANGZHOU, China, April 26, 2020 /PRNewswire...

Organs on a Chip
From The Eponymous Pickle

Organs on a Chip

Had seem examples of this some years ago, to what degree has it been predictively accurate?Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseasesA new approachAnne...

Automatic Instacart Bots
From Schneier on Security

Automatic Instacart Bots

Instacart is taking legal action against bots that automatically place orders: Before it closed, to use Cartdash users first selected what items they want from...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Time For Some Jokes

Can we still smile? [ Hardy and Littlewood] John Littlewood lived through the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, yet he appears not to have remarked on it in print. Nor can...

Sampling efficiently from groups
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Sampling efficiently from groups

Suppose that you have to sample a student at random in a school. However, you cannot go into a classroom and just pick a student. All you are allowed to do is to...

Agile HPC with VMware Cloud Foundation & UberCloud
From insideHPC

Agile HPC with VMware Cloud Foundation & UberCloud

Thomas Francis from the UberCloud and Mohan Potheri from VMware gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "In this solution we combine the capabilities ofAgile...

Virus vs CPG
From The Eponymous Pickle

Virus vs CPG

IRI report of particular interest:IRI continues to monitor COVID-19 and its impacts on the CPG retail industry.Where consumers could afford to pantry-stock, they...

Blockchain and Public Health Solutions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Blockchain and Public Health Solutions

How does blockchain technology link with public health data and aid in the future solution of current and future public health care problems like pandemics?  ABlockchain...

Arizona State University becomes Dell Technologies HPC & AI Center of Excellence
From insideHPC

Arizona State University becomes Dell Technologies HPC & AI Center of Excellence

Arizona State University has added to its international reputation for innovation, being named a Dell Technologies HPC and AI Center of Excellence. This recognition...

IBM Using Contract Tracing App with Employees in India
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Using Contract Tracing App with Employees in India

The general idea seems to be expanding, with resulting data.  Systems to date are voluntary.  Some details at link about use, data, privacy implications.IBM testing...

Wal-Mart Helps Neighbors in Community
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Helps Neighbors in Community

An example of a grocery retailer aiming at improved local community regarding services tailored to current emergencies.Walmart launches ‘Neighbors Helping Neighbors...

Podcast: Honeywell Traps, Zaps Ions for Science
From insideHPC

Podcast: Honeywell Traps, Zaps Ions for Science

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Honeywell’s Trapped Ion Quantum computing initiative. Quantum computing initiative. "Shahin gives us a good overview...
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