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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From insideHPC
RSC Group from Russia Brings Hot Water Cooling to HPC
Last week at ISC 2017, the Russian RSC Group showcased its ultra high-dense scalable and energy efficient RSC Tornado cluster solution as well as a full set ofRSC...
From Schneier on Security
Fighting Leakers at Apple
Apple is fighting its own battle against leakers, using people and tactics from the NSA. According to the hour-long presentation, Apple's Global Security team employs...
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Video: New Mellanox SHIELD Technology Enables Self Healing Networks
“The CPU-centric data center architecture has come to an end and new data centers are now built based on a data-centric architecture. These systems require an intelligent...
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Bright Computing Steps up with Cloud Bursting for Azure at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Bill Wagner from Bright Computing describes the company's new capabilities for Cloud Bursting to Microsoft Azure. “Cloud bursting from...
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Interview: Piz Daint Supercomputer advances to the #3 position on the TOP500
In this video from PASC17 in Lugano, Michele De Lorenzi from CSCS discussed the recent advancement of Piz Daint supercomputer to the #3 position on the TOP500.Interview...
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Andrew Jones wraps up ISC 2017
In this special guest feature, Andrew Jones from NAG offers his perspective on ISC 2017. How he came to know such things is a mystery as Mr. Jones did not attend...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Coding is Not a Four Letter Word
I am at ISTE and have lost count of the times today someone said "you can program this without knowing how to code." Usually they mean this because they use a block...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Note Taking
Have been reexamining note taking systems. Had only briefly looked at OneNote before. Nicely done. The basic ideas should be fundamental, and easily connected...
From My Biased Coin
STOC General Comment Page
The 2017 STOC is over, and I thought it went very well. The new format ran with what seemed to me to be minimal to non-existent glitches, and overall it sounded...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Models of China Ambitions and Directions
Wharton has published a special, multi segment piece on new China Strategy and Economics. We did lots of work trying to understand the direction of China using...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Democratizing Design for Future Computing Platforms
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has been working hard on various white papers over the past couple of months and slowly releasing them. You can see all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Does Selfies?
Or perhaps the nature of derived meta data about self imagery. Selfies: We Love How We Look and We're Here to Show YouResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology...
From Schneier on Security
Separating the Paranoid from the Hacked
Sad story of someone whose computer became owned by a griefer: The trouble began last year when he noticed strange things happening: files went missing from his...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Chat Bot for Company Knowledge
I got a note recently that I should try Obie as a chat bot based on corporate knowledge provided in Slack. I have now used Slack for several projects, fine as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Closer Look at Amazon Echo Show
A closer review of the Amazon Echo Show, essentially a full Amazon Echo with a screen added. As skills are built for it, should add a visual dimension to assistance...
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Supercomputing the Secrets of the Snake Genome at TACC
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are using TACC supercomputers to study the unique traits of snake evolution. Led by assistant professor of biology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots Making up Languages
How might we be able to use this to teach and learn from Bot communications? As suggested below, this is probably not a formal language, as we understand it.What...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scalable Data Unification
Have not read yet, but starts at some of the right issues.The Seven Tenets of Scalable Data Unificationby Michael Stonebraker, Chief Technology Officer, Tamr Inc...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
ISTE 2017- A First Look
If I am seeing a theme at ISTE 2017 so far it is making. Session after session demonstrates learning by making things. No where is this more true than with computer...
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