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New HPC for Materials Program to Help American Industry
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New HPC for Materials Program to Help American Industry

Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced a new high-performance computing initiative that will help U.S. industry accelerate the development...

Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 For Demanding HPC Applications
From insideHPC

Intel Parallel Studio XE 2018 For Demanding HPC Applications

"For those that develop HPC applications, there are usually two main areas that must be considered. The first is the translation of the algorithm, whether simulation...

Solid State Cooling from SRI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Solid State Cooling from SRI

Fascinating development reported in IEEE Spectrum.  Have long been a minor student of the physics of refrigeration,  will this development be practical for cooling...

ISO Rejects NSA Encryption Algorithms
From Schneier on Security

ISO Rejects NSA Encryption Algorithms

The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. It's because the NSA is not trusted to put security ahead of surveillance...

Best Buy Banks on Smart Homes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best Buy Banks on Smart Homes

A natural step forward, and a place to connect beyond entertainment.  Selection, design, installation, training, security ....  services come into play with devices...

Machines Learn to be Curious
From The Eponymous Pickle

Machines Learn to be Curious

Clever Machines Learn How to Be Curious Quanta Magazine  by John PavlusIn Quanta.  Machines Learn to be Curious.The University of California, Berkeley's Pulkit...

Yokohama City University Installs Cray XC50-AC Supercomputer for Life Sciences
From insideHPC

Yokohama City University Installs Cray XC50-AC Supercomputer for Life Sciences

Today Cray announced that the Yokohama City University in Japan has put a Cray XC50-AC supercomputer into production. Located in the University’s Advanced Medical...

AI Joins the Meeting
From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Joins the Meeting

Attentive systems for meeting enhancements.When AI Joins Your MeetingBy Rowan Trollope  One of the best things about working at a company with Cisco’s resources...

Coca Cola, AI and Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Coca Cola, AI and Big Data

The Amazing Ways Coca Cola Uses Artificial Intelligence And Big Data To Drive Success    By Bernard Marr " ... In fact, Coca Cola was one of the first globally-recognized...

Freshly Funded Optalysys Optical Processing to Speed Genomics
From insideHPC

Freshly Funded Optalysys Optical Processing to Speed Genomics

Optalysys, a start-up pioneering the development of light-speed optical coprocessors, today announced the company raised 3.95 million U.S. dollars from angel investors...

HPE to Bundle Altair PBS Pro Workload Manager
From insideHPC

HPE to Bundle Altair PBS Pro Workload Manager

Today Altair announced a multi-year original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with HPE. This agreement represents an expansion of the long-term partnership...

Preferred Networks in Japan Deploys 4.7 Petaflop Supercomputer for Deep Learning
From insideHPC

Preferred Networks in Japan Deploys 4.7 Petaflop Supercomputer for Deep Learning

Today Preferred Networks announced the launch of a private supercomputer designed to facilitate research and development of deep learning, including autonomousPreferred...

DeepL Deployes 5 Petaflop Supercomputer at Verne Global in Iceland
From insideHPC

DeepL Deployes 5 Petaflop Supercomputer at Verne Global in Iceland

Today Verne Global announced that DeepL has deployed its 5.1 petaFLOPS supercomputer in its campus in Iceland. Designed to support DeepL’s artificial intelligence...

Exascale Computing Project Names Doug Kothe as Director
From insideHPC

Exascale Computing Project Names Doug Kothe as Director

The Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has named Doug Kothe as its new director effective October 1. "Doug’s credentials in this area and familiarity...

Foot Traffic Counting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Foot Traffic Counting

This company called Density was brought back to my attention for possible analysis.  we did this kind of analysis in the retail aisle.  (Their site at Density.io...

Amazon Looking at Smart Glasses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Looking at Smart Glasses

Ultimately there will be non obtrusive, wearable communications devices in common use.Report: Amazon is working on smart glasses powered by Alexa   in FastCompany...

Digital Factory Showing an Agile Way
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Factory Showing an Agile Way

Podcast on Digital Factory ModelCompanies are beginning to use digital factories as incubators of more agile ways of working, often filtering the best attributes...

What the NSA Collects via 702
From Schneier on Security

What the NSA Collects via 702

New York Times reporter Charlie Savage writes about some bad statistics we're all using: Among surveillance legal policy specialists, it is common to cite a set...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Drama Therapy: A Math Viewpoint

What is drama therapy? Kathryn Farley obtained her PhD from Northwestern University in performance studies in 2007. After almost a decade working in that area,...

Alexa Powered Lamp by GE
From The Eponymous Pickle

Alexa Powered Lamp by GE

Had heard of this late last year, it is here:GE's Sol lamp is the world's first Alexa-powered desk lamp, and it's brilliant  ... "Amazon's Alexa voice assistant...
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