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AI and Loyalty Marketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI and Loyalty Marketing

A non technical look at the idea, with expert opinion.What does artificial intelligence mean for loyalty marketing?    by Bill Hanifin with further expert opinion...

Digital Twins in Maintenance and Manufacturing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Twins in Maintenance and Manufacturing

Not a new thing, but a new thing done this systematically.  Like to see it also attached to general process and use AI pattern recognition and broader analytics...

Smart Speaker Stats
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Speaker Stats

And much more stats at the link:Amazon sold 10.4 million smart speakers in Q3 2019, three times more than Google’s 3.5 million devices  in Voicebot.AIAlibaba lead...

TPM-Fail Attacks Against Cryptographic Coprocessors
From Schneier on Security

TPM-Fail Attacks Against Cryptographic Coprocessors

Really interesting research: TPM-FAIL: TPM meets Timing and Lattice Attacks, by Daniel Moghimi, Berk Sunar, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Nadia Heninger. Abstract: Trusted...

Altair Teams with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC
From insideHPC

Altair Teams with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure for HPC

"Altair and Oracle have teamed up to help customers quickly expand their engineering and high performance computing (HPC) capacity in Oracle's cloud. Altair HyperWorks...

Visualizing the World’s Largest Turbulence Simulation
From insideHPC

Visualizing the World’s Largest Turbulence Simulation

In this visualization, LRZ presents the largest interstellar turbulence simulations ever performed, unravelling key astrophysical processes concerning the formation...

Mellanox LongReach Appliance Extends InfiniBand Connectivity up to 40 Kilometers
From insideHPC

Mellanox LongReach Appliance Extends InfiniBand Connectivity up to 40 Kilometers

Today Mellanox introduced the Mellanox Quantum LongReach series of long-distance InfiniBand switches. Mellanox Quantum LongReach systems provide the ability toMellanox...

DDN Launches New Data Management Capabilities and Platforms for AI and HPC
From insideHPC

DDN Launches New Data Management Capabilities and Platforms for AI and HPC

Today DDN announced new infrastructure and multicloud solutions ahead of its return to SC19 in Denver. "We are adding serious data management, collaboration and...

Enterprise Adoption of AI?  Ask Watson.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Enterprise Adoption of AI? Ask Watson.

A re positioning  which is interesting.    More at the link.IBM Pitches Watson for Enterprise AI Woes in InformationweekIBM says that Watson can help enterprises...

The Use of High-Performance Polymers in HPC and Data Center Applications
From insideHPC

The Use of High-Performance Polymers in HPC and Data Center Applications

"Polymer components in liquid cooling systems are attractive for several reasons: they are lightweight, typically less expensive than metal counterparts, and are...

OpenMP ARB Releases Technical Report 8 with New Usability Enhancements
From insideHPC

OpenMP ARB Releases Technical Report 8 with New Usability Enhancements

The OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) has released Technical Report 8, the first preview for the future OpenMP API, version 5.1. "We are excited about this...

Future of Chatbots
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Chatbots

An extensive look at the technology and future.   True they will become very important.   I have seen the change already occurring markedly for low-level technical...

Defining relevance is a topic in its own right.
From The Noisy Channel

Defining relevance is a topic in its own right.

Defining relevance is a topic in its own right. You typically collect either explicit human judgments or implicit judgements from behavior, and then you use those...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements
From Schneier on Security

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'm speaking on "Securing a World of Physically Capable Computers" at the Indian Institute of...

Learning from Mistakes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning from Mistakes

Ultimately most important.  How do we learn from mistakes, and the contexts that created those mistakes?  A form of causal reasoning that we found most useful in...

Mellanox Announces HDR InfiniBand-to-Ethernet Gateway Appliance for High Performance Data Centers
From insideHPC

Mellanox Announces HDR InfiniBand-to-Ethernet Gateway Appliance for High Performance Data Centers

Today Mellanox introduced Mellanox Skyway, a 200 gigabit HDR InfiniBand to Ethernet gateway appliance. Mellanox Skyway enables a scalable and efficient way to connect...

Rapid Growth lands Iceotope on 2019 Deloitte Fast 50
From insideHPC

Rapid Growth lands Iceotope on 2019 Deloitte Fast 50

Today datacenter cooling vendor Iceotope announced that it ranked number 14 and were Midlands Regional Winners in the 2019 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50, a ranking...

Example's of ISPs Use of Personal Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Example's of ISPs Use of Personal Data

Mentioned a Mozilla letter to the US Congress on the use and sale of personal data.  I am using it as part of a discussion today regarding the value of data.Inhttps...

What to expect at SC19
From insideHPC

What to expect at SC19

In this special guest feature, Dr. Rosemary Francis gives her perspective on what to look for at SC19 conference next week in Denver. "There are always many questions...

GPU-Powered Turbocharger coming to JUWELS Supercomputer at JÜlich
From insideHPC

GPU-Powered Turbocharger coming to JUWELS Supercomputer at JÜlich

The Jülich Supercomputing Centre is adding a high-powered booster module to their JUWELS supercomputer. Designed in cooperation with Atos, ParTec, Mellanox, and...
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