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Programming competition with $1000 in prizes: make my code readable!
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Programming competition with $1000 in prizes: make my code readable!

Colm MacCárthaigh is organizing a programming competition with three 3 prizes: $500, $300, $200. The objective? Produce the most readable, easy to follow, and well...

Arbitrary byte-to-byte maps using ARM NEON?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Arbitrary byte-to-byte maps using ARM NEON?

Modern processors have fast instructions that can operate on wide registers (e.g., 128-bit). ARM processors, the kind of processors found in your phone, have such...

On Innovation Labs
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Innovation Labs

We had multiple major innovation labs. I helped design and implement and run them.   Have lots of opinions about them.  Agree to what is stated below, and moreWhy...

Clothing Brand uses IOTA Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Clothing Brand uses IOTA Blockchain

IOTA, which does a novel kind of blockchain consensus model, using a directed acyclic graph (DAG).  Have been following it for a while for its potential in smart...

Registration Opens for September HPC User Forum at Argonne
From insideHPC

Registration Opens for September HPC User Forum at Argonne

Registration is now open for the HPC User Forum at Argonne National Lab. "Our global steering committee representing leading HPC centers has worked with Hyperion...

Video: Arm HPC Update from ISC 2019
From insideHPC

Video: Arm HPC Update from ISC 2019

In this video, Brent Gorda provides an update on the progress on Arm HPC from the ISC 2019 conference in Frankfurt. "From the perspective of Arm in HPC, it wasVideo...

Configuring Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for Best Performance
From insideHPC

Configuring Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for Best Performance

In this video, Dave Larsen describes how to configure Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory for best performance. "Intel Optane DC persistent memory is a revolutionary...

Podcast: What Quantum Applications are Always Hybrid
From insideHPC

Podcast: What Quantum Applications are Always Hybrid

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at inherently hybrid nature of quantum computing applications. "If you’re always going to have to mix classical code...

Science Fiction Writers Helping Imagine Future Threats
From Schneier on Security

Science Fiction Writers Helping Imagine Future Threats

The French army is going to put together a team of science fiction writers to help imagine future threats. Leaving aside the question of whether science fiction...

AI Drug Hunting for Phama
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Drug Hunting for Phama

Note the mention of simulations as a means of determining the effectiveness of prospective drugs.AI Drug Hunters Could Give Big Pharma a Run for Its Money Bloomberg...

Machine Learning vs AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machine Learning vs AI

Good set of examples for Marketing and related terminology  ....The Difference Between AI and Machine Learning and How Marketers Use Them to Increase ROI  by Alain...

Secure Cloud Architecture for Smart Cities
From The Eponymous Pickle

Secure Cloud Architecture for Smart Cities

Having seen how municipalities are being attacked by malware, this is becoming essential.A Secure Cloud Architecture for Smart CitiesGovernment Computer NewsStephanie...

Wal-Mart Integrates Online and In-Store Teams
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Integrates Online and In-Store Teams

The direction of Wharton here seems to be first a kind of re-training, and also a means of understanding customers in multiple contexts.    Should be powerful to...

Database Archive with Map Interface
From The Eponymous Pickle

Database Archive with Map Interface

Free spatio-temporal database archive.    The world map interface is interesting, you can play with the data on the map, then download data as needed.   You can...

Very Tiny, Vibration Powered Robotics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Very Tiny, Vibration Powered Robotics

Power of the very small.Vibration-Powered Robots Are the Size of the World's Smallest Ant Georgia Tech Research HorizonsBy John ToonResearchers at the Georgia Institute...

Papers and Diaper Tech War: Smart Diapers?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Papers and Diaper Tech War: Smart Diapers?

Have not seen a play in this area for some time,  early on Apps popped up.  Is this appealing to parents making a diaper choice?  Baby tech: Pampers to deliverby...

On the Creativity of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Creativity of AI

A long time question of mine, will AI subvert creativity that occurs normally when we normally do tasks?   Or will AI do that as well?AI Is More Creative Than You...

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 14 – Interview with Dan Lopresti Part 2
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 14 – Interview with Dan Lopresti Part 2

This is part 2 of Khari Douglas’ interview with Dr. Daniel Lopresti, the Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the Director of the Data...

Multiple Endpoints in the Latest Intel MPI Library Boosts Hybrid Performance
From insideHPC

Multiple Endpoints in the Latest Intel MPI Library Boosts Hybrid Performance

The performance of distributed memory MPI applications on the latest highly parallel multi-core processors often turns out to be lower than expected. Which is why...

Learn about Migrating HPC Workloads at ­niva Cloud Meetups
From insideHPC

Learn about Migrating HPC Workloads at ­niva Cloud Meetups

Univa is hosting a series of Cloud Meetups September through October in nine cities. "Come and spend a few hours to learn about how to avoid the pitfalls of migrating...
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