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AMD Zen 2 and branch mispredictions
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

AMD Zen 2 and branch mispredictions

Intel makes some of the very best processors many can buy. For a long time, its main rival (AMD) failed to compete. However, its latest generation of processors...

Indentifying Invasive Species
From The Eponymous Pickle

Indentifying Invasive Species

An area, forestry, where we did much predictive analysis as to yield and harvest.  Invasive species have increased in their danger.  Both in forestry and horticulturally...

Robotic Blood Vessel Instrument Guidance
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotic Blood Vessel Instrument Guidance

Seen this movie.  Pgressin this area continues to evolveInstrument Guidance Through Deep, Convoluted Blood Vessel NetworksPolytechnique MontrealDecember 3, 2019...

Deep Reinforcement Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Interesting piece, ultimately gets quite technical, but worth putting away for future consideration. Especially for real time learning and adapting of autonomous...

IDC: DDN is Fastest Growing Supplier of All-Flash Arrays
From insideHPC

IDC: DDN is Fastest Growing Supplier of All-Flash Arrays

Today DDN announced that it has leaped into the rankings of major all-flash array vendors as tracked by IDC over the first half of 2019. Through organic growth,...

Full Roundup: SC19 Booth Tour Videos from insideHPC
From insideHPC

Full Roundup: SC19 Booth Tour Videos from insideHPC

Now that SC19 is behind us, it's time to gather our booth tour videos in one place. Throughout the course of the show, insideHPC talked to dozens of HPC innovators...

Video: GigaIO Optimizes FabreX Fabric with GPU Sharing and Composition Technology
From insideHPC

Video: GigaIO Optimizes FabreX Fabric with GPU Sharing and Composition Technology

In this video from SC19, Alan Benjamin from GigaIO describes how the company's FabreX Architecture integrates computing, storage ans I/O into a single-system cluster...

Reconstructing Hidden Movement from Video
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reconstructing Hidden Movement from Video

Depending on the quality of this, consider the implications in many areas.  We did lots in the area of video understanding, could have used this.  Below description...

WekaIO Rocks the IO500 at SC19
From insideHPC

WekaIO Rocks the IO500 at SC19

In this video from SC19, Charla Bunton-Johnson & Mat Gruen from WekaIO describe the company's high performance shared file system and how they closely with industry...

Microsoft Uses IOTs with Advanced Features
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Uses IOTs with Advanced Features

Impressive direction by Microsoft,with useful details.Microsoft doubles down on Internet of Things with new features to simplify building connected devices     ...

IBM Powers AiMos Supercomputer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
From insideHPC

IBM Powers AiMos Supercomputer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The most powerful supercomputer to debut on the November 2019 Top500 ranking of supercomputers will be unveiled today at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Center...

Notable Extensions to Google Assistant: Photos and Notes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Notable Extensions to Google Assistant: Photos and Notes

Notable the ability to link to note taking capabilities, like Google Keep.  Searching specifics in podcasts also very useful for business application support. Google...

Video: TMGcore Showcases Immersive Cooling for HPC at SC19
From insideHPC

Video: TMGcore Showcases Immersive Cooling for HPC at SC19

In this video from SC19, Taylor Monnig from TMGcore describes OTTO, a completely automated, self-contained, two-phase liquid immersion-cooled data center platform...

Andy Ellis on Risk Assessment
From Schneier on Security

Andy Ellis on Risk Assessment

Andy Ellis, the CSO of Akamai, gave a great talk about the psychology of risk at the Business of Software conference this year. I've written about this before....

Microsoft Will Read Text from Office Apps
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Will Read Text from Office Apps

Like to see this direction for mobile interaction, starting to use voice as part of a mobile and voice experience for much used 365 office apps.Microsoft's redesigned...

Kroger Dark Kitchens
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Dark Kitchens

Been following Kroger for some time on their establishment of restaurants in stores, and  partially  prepared foods and 'food kits' and preparation methods.Will...

Alexa Commands for Privacy/Transparency
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Commands for Privacy/Transparency

Further look at privacy, by asking what has been heard.Amazon makes Alexa more transparent with ‘Tell me what you heard’ feature   By Allison Matyus in Digitaltrends...

Great Innovative Idea: Datasets First! A Bottom-up Data Linking Paradigm
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Great Innovative Idea: Datasets First! A Bottom-up Data Linking Paradigm

The following great innovative idea is from Konstantin Todorov from the University of Montpellier and a researcher at the LIRMM laboratory within the FADO group...

Amazon Sampling Plan Ends
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Sampling Plan Ends

An idea I though was a good one.  If it gathered the right data and understood how to use that data.  Sounds like Amazon could have made this work.Amazon decides...

Microway Showcases HPC & AI Solutions at SC19
From insideHPC

Microway Showcases HPC & AI Solutions at SC19

In this video from SC19, Eliot Eshelman from Microway describes the company's innovative solutions for HPC & AI. As Deep Learning enters the mainstream, NVIDIAMicroway...
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