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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Embryos Coming to Life
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Embryos Coming to Life

Beautiful 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...

Security Vulnerabilities in Certificate Pinning
From Schneier on Security

Security Vulnerabilities in Certificate Pinning

New research found that many banks offer certificate pinning as a security feature, but fail to authenticate the hostname. This leaves the systems open to man-in...

Walmart Enters Meal-Kit Fray
From The Eponymous Pickle

Walmart Enters Meal-Kit Fray

Good margin I assume,  but is this really worth the effort?   Going to Wal-mart or an App versus ordering online?Walmart sells meal kits to challenge Amazon and...

Customer Service via Cognitive Solutions and BPM
From The Eponymous Pickle

Customer Service via Cognitive Solutions and BPM

Found this customer service example to be interesting ... in particular that it uses Business Process Modeling (BPM)  and Watson.    I believe any such problem "...

System Fabric Works adds support for BeeGFS Parallel File System
From insideHPC

System Fabric Works adds support for BeeGFS Parallel File System

Today System Fabric Works announced its support and integration of the BeeGFS file system with the latest NetApp E-Series All Flash and HDD storage systems which...

NSF Partnerships for Innovation Webinar
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Partnerships for Innovation Webinar

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnerships for Innovation program (PFI) offers researchers the opportunity to transform new knowledge into societal benefits...

DDN’s HPC Trends Survey: Complex I/O Workloads are the #1 Challenge
From insideHPC

DDN’s HPC Trends Survey: Complex I/O Workloads are the #1 Challenge

Today DDN announced the results of its annual HPC Trends survey, which reflects the continued adoption of flash-based storage as essential to respondent’s overall...

Job of the Week: Senior HPC Architect at Xtreme Design
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Senior HPC Architect at Xtreme Design

Xtreme Design is seeking a Senior HPC Cloud Architect in our Job of the Week. "XTREME Design is seeking an HPC-focused Cloud Architect to join our team and continue...

From Computational Complexity

Razor's Edge

Informally the sensitivity conjecture asks whether every hard Boolean function has a razor's edge input, where flipping a random bit has a reasonable chance ofrecent...

Intel Select Solutions: BigStack 2.0 for Genomics
From insideHPC

Intel Select Solutions: BigStack 2.0 for Genomics

BIGstack 2.0 incorporates our latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors, Intel 3D NAND SSD, and Intel FPGAs while also leveraging the latest genomic tools from theIntel...

Intel Parallel Studio XE AVX-512: Tuning for Success with the Latest SIMD Extensions and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512
From insideHPC

Intel Parallel Studio XE AVX-512: Tuning for Success with the Latest SIMD Extensions and Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 512

With the introduction of Intel Parallel Studio XE, instructions for utilizing the vector extensions have been enhanced and new instructions have been added. Applications...

MIT: An Ink that is a Sensor
From The Eponymous Pickle

MIT: An Ink that is a Sensor

Possible packaging applications.MIT researchers made a living ink that responds to its surroundingsThe 3D-printed, bacteria-loaded gel can be used as a sensor.By...

Kaiser Fung on the Limitations of AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kaiser Fung on the Limitations of AI

Colleague Kaiser Fung  on on hype and limitations of AI today.   Some useful thoughts.  In his always interesting Junkcharts blog.  I too have lived through several...

Game Your Brain: The neurological impact of UX
From Putting People First

Game Your Brain: The neurological impact of UX

The world is experiencing a merging of media and minds that we haven’t yet created a vocabulary for. We know that user experience design has the power to respond...

Game Your Brain: The neurological impact of UX
From Putting People First

Game Your Brain: The neurological impact of UX

The world is experiencing a merging of media and minds that we haven’t yet created a vocabulary for. We know that user experience design has the power to respond...

Cray Joins Big Data Center at NERSC for AI Development
From insideHPC

Cray Joins Big Data Center at NERSC for AI Development

Today Cray announced the Company has joined the Big Data Center at NERSC. The collaboration between the two organizations is representative of Cray’s commitment...

Social Reasoning and Intentionality for AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Reasoning and Intentionality for AI

Big issues here.   This is what we will have to address if we want to ultimately create useful conversations between people and machines.     Another moves towards...

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...

BioBurst: Leveraging Burst Buffer Technology for Campus Research Computing
From insideHPC

BioBurst: Leveraging Burst Buffer Technology for Campus Research Computing

In this video from the DDN User Group at SC17, Ron Hawkins from the San Diego Supercomputer Center presents: BioBurst — Leveraging Burst Buffer Technology for Campus...

SDSC Earthquake Codes Used in 2017 Gordon Bell Prize Research
From insideHPC

SDSC Earthquake Codes Used in 2017 Gordon Bell Prize Research

A Chinese team of researchers awarded this year’s prestigious Gordon Bell prize for simulating the devastating 1976 earthquake in Tangshan, China, used an open-source...
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