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Rescale & X-ISS offer Professional Services for HPC Cloud Migration
From insideHPC

Rescale & X-ISS offer Professional Services for HPC Cloud Migration

Today Rescale announced a partnership with X-ISS to offer professional services to enterprises migrating HPC workloads to the cloud. "At X-ISS, we are very excited...

Facebook Fingerprinting Photos to Prevent Revenge Porn
From Schneier on Security

Facebook Fingerprinting Photos to Prevent Revenge Porn

This is a pilot project in Australia: Individuals who have shared intimate, nude or sexual images with partners and are worried that the partner (or ex-partner)...

CS Educator Interview: Adam Newall
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

CS Educator Interview: Adam Newall

With increasing interest in computer science before high school these days you may have noticed that I have a number of K-8 teachers in this series. Several ofBootstrap...

Gidel FPGA Tools Speed Development with Intel’s HLS
From insideHPC

Gidel FPGA Tools Speed Development with Intel’s HLS

Today Gidel announced the availability of new development tools that take advantage of Intel’s HLS, producing a speed increase of 5x over prior development options...

Announcing the SC17 Inaugural Inclusivity Travel Grant
From insideHPC

Announcing the SC17 Inaugural Inclusivity Travel Grant

To open up opportunities to attend the conference, SC17 set up a new “Inclusivity Travel Grant” with the goal of helping individuals with demonstrated interestAnnouncing...

Call for Submissions: ISC 2018 Contributed Program
From insideHPC

Call for Submissions: ISC 2018 Contributed Program

The ISC High Performance 2018 contributed program is now open for submissions. As the largest HPC conference and exhibition in Europe, ISC 2018 takes place June...

How to Store Information in Your Clothes
From The Eponymous Pickle

How to Store Information in Your Clothes

Quite remarkable idea, ready to test this out before buying more storage devices.How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without ElectronicsBy University...

Data Science: Challenges and Directions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Data Science: Challenges and Directions

Late to this, but very useful.  Full text at link.  Have always been confused as to the very definition of data science, as opposed say to Analytics.  Science or...

Is Big Data Done?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Is Big Data Done?

Depends upon what you mean by Big.  Has to be enough, correct, accessible, actionable, process usable,  stable, etc.     We all manage by data, have done that for...

SC17 Update: Locals’ Guide to Restaurants in Denver
From insideHPC

SC17 Update: Locals’ Guide to Restaurants in Denver

Unfortunately, we did not have the opportunity to publish a new Print'nFly magazine for SC17. Not to leave you in a lurch, we've updated this Guide to Restaurants...

HPE Teams up with DDN for High Speed Storage
From insideHPC

HPE Teams up with DDN for High Speed Storage

Today DDN announced it has entered into a partnership with global high-performance computing leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Under the agreement, HPE will integrate...

SC17 Pub Crawl – Locals’ Guide to Bars and Entertainment in Denver
From insideHPC

SC17 Pub Crawl – Locals’ Guide to Bars and Entertainment in Denver

We've updated our Denver Pub Crawl for 2017. "Denver has great bars and entertainment in store for your visit to the Mile-High City. You’ll find that most of the...

Radio Free HPC Previews the SC17 Student Cluster Competition
From insideHPC

Radio Free HPC Previews the SC17 Student Cluster Competition

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the SC17 Student Cluster Competition. "Dan’s got the inside scoop on all the new wrinkles of the competition this...

Cavium Thunder X Cluster to Crunch Big Data at University of Michigan
From insideHPC

Cavium Thunder X Cluster to Crunch Big Data at University of Michigan

Today Cavium announced a new partnership that will position the University of Michigan as a leader in data-intensive scientific research by creating a powerfulCavium...

Distill: For Machine Learning Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

Distill: For Machine Learning Research

Brought to my attention: DistillDistill:  Machine Learning ResearchShould Be Clear, Dynamic and Vivid.Distill Is Here to Help.A modern medium for presenting research...

Feature Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Feature Visualization

In the Google Blog, they provide an overview and pointer to deeper information.  An image rich and informative article.Feature VisualizationPosted by Christopher...

Panasas Doubles Metadata Performance on ActiveStor Scaleout NAS
From insideHPC

Panasas Doubles Metadata Performance on ActiveStor Scaleout NAS

Today Panasas introduced the next generation of its ActiveStor scaleout NAS solution, capable of scaling capacity to 57PB and delivering 360GB/s of bandwidth. This...

Me on the Equifax Breach
From Schneier on Security

Me on the Equifax Breach

Last week, I testified before the House Energy and Commerce committee on the Equifax hack. You can watch the video here. And you can read my written testimony below...

Use the SCRIPT to Develop Your District’s Own #CSforAll Plans
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Use the SCRIPT to Develop Your District’s Own #CSforAll Plans

Individual teacher and school champions have enabled participation in K-12 computer science education to soar to new highs in recent years. However, true systemic...

Alexa as the End of Smartphones?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa as the End of Smartphones?

Had never thought of it quite this way. overall a big challenge.  Mobile is still convenience.  Also not enough about the attentiveness of such systems.  Voice/conversation...
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