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Job of the Week: Systems Automation Engineer at PSC
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Systems Automation Engineer at PSC

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is seeking a Systems Automation Engineer in our Job of the Week. "In this role, you will primarily be responsible for developing...

Wal-Mart InHome Delivery
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart InHome Delivery

Reminds me of to the to car delivery of items by Amazon.   Have not heard if that is still active.  Received lots of attention this week,  gets Wal-Mart attention...

Speeding Up Blockchain
From The Eponymous Pickle

Speeding Up Blockchain

Speed becomes very important when we need to quickly apply in real time.  Note the permissioned vs Permissionless distinction here.Speeding Up Blockchain to Meet...

Recommending Deep Learning for Your Company
From The Eponymous Pickle

Recommending Deep Learning for Your Company

Useful outline.  With cautions.Should You Be Recommending Deep Learning Solutions in Your Company?    Posted by William Vorhies Summary:  If you are guiding your...

Underwater Street-View
From The Eponymous Pickle

Underwater Street-View

Been a long time follower of underwater live cameras.   A number of coastal communities support them.  Maintaining them is often a problem though, the ones I track...

How Well Can You Code the Projects You Assign Students?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How Well Can You Code the Projects You Assign Students?

Garth Flint had another good post today (Last Day of School And Done with Java) He lists some interesting projects he assigned and writes about some lessons learned...

Friday Squid Blogging: Possible New Squid Species
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Possible New Squid Species

NOAA video. 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 here...

Air Force and AI and MIT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Air Force and AI and MIT

Following through other connections to DOD work:MIT and US Air Force team up to launch AI acceleratorBy Danny Crichton@dannycrichton / 2 weeks agoThe Pentagon is...

Updated ACM Code of Ethics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Updated ACM Code of Ethics

Mentioned this effort last year, has been further updated.    Worth looking at how it would be useful in your domain.   However, at the very end there is a quote...

Seeking Great Data Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Seeking Great Data Analytics

Good piece, which even includes the rare 'decision' aspects included.    But implies the whole process is still very haphazard.  Suppose you wanted the automate...

Amazon's Futuristic Delivery Drones
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon's Futuristic Delivery Drones

For a long time it seemed that Amazon had abandoned the futuristic idea of drone delivery.   Now is it on the way?   Prepare for drone filled skies in suburbia?...

Video: LUMI Supercomputer at CSC to run on Sustainable Energy
From insideHPC

Video: LUMI Supercomputer at CSC to run on Sustainable Energy

Today CSC in Finland announced that its datacenter in Kajaani will host a pan-European high-performance supercomputer. The machine will be about ten times moreVideo...

NEXTGenIO Project Delivers Prototype to EPCC
From insideHPC

NEXTGenIO Project Delivers Prototype to EPCC

The EPCC supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh has installed a prototype system developed by the NEXTGenIO project. Funded by the European Commission...

Bring Your Cash
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bring Your Cash

New types of regulationAmazon Go doesn’t want to leave cash on the table   In Retailwire with further expert commentby Santi Briglia In the face of growing criticism...

Cray to build Big Red 200 Supercomputer for Indiana University
From insideHPC

Cray to build Big Red 200 Supercomputer for Indiana University

Today Cray announced that Indiana University has selected a Cray Shasta supercomputing system to advance the use of AI across diverse research fields at the university...

EU Funds Eight Pre-exascale Supercomputers
From insideHPC

EU Funds Eight Pre-exascale Supercomputers

The European Union has selected eight supercomputing centers to host pre-exascale supercomputers. The new systems will support Europe’s researchers, industry and...

Epic HPC Road Trip leads to Gary Grider at Los Alamos
From insideHPC

Epic HPC Road Trip leads to Gary Grider at Los Alamos

In this special guest feature, Dan Olds from OrionX continues his Epic HPC Road Trip series with a stop at LANL in new Mexico. "Our conversation started with the...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

A Rank Problem

More on restricted quantum circuits [ The Daily Grail ] Ken Regan just wrote about his paper with Chaowen Guan (GR). The paper is titled, “Stabilizer Circuits,...

iOS Shortcut for Recording the Police
From Schneier on Security

iOS Shortcut for Recording the Police

"Hey Siri; I'm getting pulled over" can be a shortcut: Once the shortcut is installed and configured, you just have to say, for example, "Hey Siri, I'm getting...

Nearly Divisionless Random Integer Generation On Various Systems
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Nearly Divisionless Random Integer Generation On Various Systems

It is common in software to need random integers within a range of values. For example, you may need to pick an object at random in an array. Random shuffling algorithms...
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