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Social Media Demographics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Social Media Demographics

A view of most major social media their demographics and buying habits in 2017.  Interesting, but overly infographic.  Could be done in a single visual page.  ...

Bain on the Firm of the Future
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bain on the Firm of the Future

Not so much technology oriented, but about the basic notion of the firm.  Good, broad view.   Especially for technologists, who often believe it is all about tech...

Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) Community Updates

The registration of 2017 Global City Teams Challenge Expo (GCTC) is now open. The Expo will take place at Walter E. Washington Convention Center on August 28-29...

MIT Professor Runs Record Google Compute Engine job with 220K Cores
From insideHPC

MIT Professor Runs Record Google Compute Engine job with 220K Cores

Over at the Google Blog, Alex Barrett writes that an MIT math professor recently broke the record for the largest-ever Compute Engine cluster, with 220,000 cores...

GE Digital Approach to Digital Transformation
From The Eponymous Pickle

GE Digital Approach to Digital Transformation

Doing work with GE Digital on an upcoming Analytics Summit. They send along this Webinar, reviewing their approaches:" ... Gain insights into the five pillars of...

Michael Resch Named Chairman of GCS in Germany
From insideHPC

Michael Resch Named Chairman of GCS in Germany

Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing in Germany announced that Prof. Dr. Michael M. Resch is the new chairman of the GCS Board of Directors. “Over the coming...

How Viruses Spread
From The Eponymous Pickle

How Viruses Spread

An impressive visual and description of of how viruses spread.  In Quartz   " ... A new genetic tool maps how deadly viruses spread around the world in real time...

Dr. Eng Lim Goh presents: HPC Technology Trends
From insideHPC

Dr. Eng Lim Goh presents: HPC Technology Trends

Dr. Eng Lim Goh from Hewlett Packard Enterprise gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "SGI’s highly complementary portfolio, including its in-memory high-performance...

Robotics Newsletter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robotics Newsletter

Konrad Holubek writes: " ... I wanted to let you know that I collect and send out a weekly email on robotics, a subject I am very passionate about. You can seehttp...

Retail Analytics Trends
From The Eponymous Pickle

Retail Analytics Trends

Fairly general look at retail analytics and their future.In Bridge2iCategories Analytics, Blogs Customer Intelligence, RetailRetail Analytics Trends 2017 and Beyond...

Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzer for Faster Graphics Performance
From insideHPC

Intel® Graphics Performance Analyzer for Faster Graphics Performance

"Just as developers need tools to understand the performance of a CPU intensive application in order to modify the code for higher performance, so do those that...

Introduction to Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Introduction to Machine Learning

A good, largely non technical guide to the basics of machine learning.  Useful for the interested and motivated decision maker or executive.   Part I here, others...

Smart TV Hack via the Broadcast Signal
From Schneier on Security

Smart TV Hack via the Broadcast Signal

This is impressive: The proof-of-concept exploit uses a low-cost transmitter to embed malicious commands into a rogue TV signal. That signal is then broadcast to...

New Program Solicitation for the CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

New Program Solicitation for the CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII)

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a new program solicitation for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation...

Procter Singapore Supply Chain Center
From The Eponymous Pickle

Procter Singapore Supply Chain Center

In Business Journal, about Procter&Gamble:" ... The Singapore E-Center will be the Cincinnati-based company’s (NYSE: PG) first of its kind outside the U.S. and...

Microsoft Expands Cognitive Services
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Expands Cognitive Services

I remain disappointed by the integration level of Cortana assistant with other MS services, but at least now Microsoft seems to be advancing on cognitive services...

Intel to Open Source All Lustre Code as Brent Gorda Leaves the Company
From insideHPC

Intel to Open Source All Lustre Code as Brent Gorda Leaves the Company

"Starting today, Intel will contribute all Lustre features and enhancements to the open source community. This will mean that we will no longer provide Intel-branded...

PSSC Labs Updates CBeST Cluster Management Software
From insideHPC

PSSC Labs Updates CBeST Cluster Management Software

Today PSSC Labs announced it has refreshed its CBeST (Complete Beowulf Software Toolkit) cluster management package. CBeST is already a proven platform deployed...

Update on the Exascale Computing Project (ECP)
From insideHPC

Update on the Exascale Computing Project (ECP)

Paul Messina from Argonne presented this talk at the HPC User Forum in Santa Fe. "The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) was established with the goals of maximizing...

End of Brand Loyalty?
From The Eponymous Pickle

End of Brand Loyalty?

Of much importance to my former employer and all of CPG.  Still don't see its involved with culture. just the channels that cultures currently use for information...
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