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Job of the Week: NRL Research Scientist at SAIC
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: NRL Research Scientist at SAIC

SAIC in Monterey, California is seeking an NRL Research Scientist in our Job of the Week. "SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex...

Quantum Bull
From The Eponymous Pickle

Quantum Bull

So is Quantum her already, or are we in the midst of a hype storm?    Check out the links below and explore.   A number of technical big players are participating...

Radio Free HPC Recaps SC19
From insideHPC

Radio Free HPC Recaps SC19

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back the “State Fair for Nerds” that was SC19. "At this year’s conference, we not only learned the latest discoveries...

Friday Squid Blogging: Color-Changing Properties of the Opalescent Inshore Squid
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Color-Changing Properties of the Opalescent Inshore Squid

Interesting stuff. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines...

On Event Meshes
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Event Meshes

Interesting look at the concept, a way to add some structure around events of importance, an element addressing the context of events.Why Event Meshes Should Be...

University of Siegen Doubles Down on Bright Computing for HPC Management
From insideHPC

University of Siegen Doubles Down on Bright Computing for HPC Management

Bright Computing recently announced that the University of Siegen has expanded its use of the company's HPC system management software to address the increasingly...

SC19 Cluster Competition: Students Pack LINs and HPCG’s
From insideHPC

SC19 Cluster Competition: Students Pack LINs and HPCG’s

In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX.net continues his series of stories on the SC19 Student Cluster Competition. Held as part of the Students@SC...

Why HPC is no longer just for government labs and academic institutions
From insideHPC

Why HPC is no longer just for government labs and academic institutions

In this special guest feature, Trish Damkroger from Intel writes that only HPC can handle the pending wave of Big Data coming to datacenters from Smart Cities.Why...

Julia Computing and NVIDIA Bring Julia GPU Acceleration to Arm
From insideHPC

Julia Computing and NVIDIA Bring Julia GPU Acceleration to Arm

Julia Computing and NVIDIA have brought Julia to NVIDIA’s new line of GPU-accelerated Arm servers. The Julia programming language is now available as a pre-packaged...

EFF on the Mechanics of Corporate Surveillance
From Schneier on Security

EFF on the Mechanics of Corporate Surveillance

EFF has published a comprehensible and very readable "deep dive" into the technologies of corporate surveillance, both on the Internet and off. Well worth reading...

Kroger, Walgreens in Purchasing Alliance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger, Walgreens in Purchasing Alliance

Combining against Amazon's dip into pharma?Kroger and Walgreens are in a purchasing alliance and seeking more partners   by George Anderson in RetailwireThe Kroger...

Predicting Lightning: Where/When
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Lightning: Where/When

Skeptical.   If we are talking about predicting the likelihood of lighting in an area an hour before it hits, thats done already in weather predictive maps.   Using...

Are 64-bit random identifiers free from collision?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Are 64-bit random identifiers free from collision?

It is common in software system to map objects to unique identifiers. For example, you might map all web pages on the Internet to a unique identifier. Often, these...

SC19 Invited Talk: Next Generation Disaster Intelligence Using the Continuum of Computing and Data Technologies
From insideHPC

SC19 Invited Talk: Next Generation Disaster Intelligence Using the Continuum of Computing and Data Technologies

Dr. Ilkay Altintas from SDSC gave this Invited Talk at SC19. "This talk will review some of our recent work on building this dynamic data driven cyberinfrastructure...

China Ready to Launch Its Digital Renminbi
From The Eponymous Pickle

China Ready to Launch Its Digital Renminbi

World wide implications?Technology Review:   Chain Letter: MIT Technology ReviewBlockchains, cryptocurrencies, and why they matter12.12.19Chain Letter from MIT#174...

From Computational Complexity

Why is there no all-encompassing term for a course on Models of Computation?

In my last blog post I asked my readers to leave comments saying what the name of the course that has some of Regular Languages, Context Free Languages  Decideability...

Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is charged with catalyzing and empowering the U.S. computing research community to articulate and advance major research...

Appointment of Dr. Gurdip Singh as Division Director for the NSF/CISE Division of Computer and Network Systems
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Appointment of Dr. Gurdip Singh as Division Director for the NSF/CISE Division of Computer and Network Systems

The following is a letter to the community from Erwin Gianchandani, Acting Assistant Director, of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer...

Crypto Tax Formal Regulation at Hand?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Crypto Tax Formal Regulation at Hand?

Saw this in MIT Technology Reviews:  Chain+Letter newsletter, much recommended as a place to stay up to date on the topic and related regulatory changesThe IRSBy...

Amazon AWS Rolls out Quantum Computing Service: QAAS
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon AWS Rolls out Quantum Computing Service: QAAS

Had not thought it was ready yet, but here it is.  But perhaps as the article suggests, to study the application of QC, before its actual implementation.  Linking...
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