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Reminder of the Need for Data Quality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reminder of the Need for Data Quality

Am often reminded in visits to the enterprise that data quality is not often enough considered carefully.  You don't have much if you don't have quality.  Consider...

Register Now for the SDSC Summer Institute on HPC
From insideHPC

Register Now for the SDSC Summer Institute on HPC

"This year’s workshop continues SDSC’s strategy of bringing high-performance computing to what is known as the ‘long tail’ of science, i.e. providing resourcesRegister...

Science and Technology links (March 30, 2017)
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Science and Technology links (March 30, 2017)

A famous and highly-funded researcher from Cornel, Brian Wansink, has published many studies regarding how we eat. His work has guided public policy all over the...

Video: State of the OpenFabrics Alliance
From insideHPC

Video: State of the OpenFabrics Alliance

In this video from the OpenFabrics Workshop, Susan Coulter from LANL presents: State of the OpenFabrics Alliance. "The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is an open source...

Group Editing Photos as Collaboration Example
From The Eponymous Pickle

Group Editing Photos as Collaboration Example

Nice idea ... Collaborative work is a kind of inteligence enhancement.  You could further see collaboration between multiple people and advisory machines.  Group...

CloudLightning Conference Coming to Dublin April 11
From insideHPC

CloudLightning Conference Coming to Dublin April 11

"The Cloud Lightning conference will feature academics and industry professionals from across Europe and the UK who will deliver presentations, talks, and research...

SHAPE Program offers HPC to Small Businesses in Europe
From insideHPC

SHAPE Program offers HPC to Small Businesses in Europe

"The SHAPE Program will help European SMEs overcome barriers to using HPC, such as cost of operation, lack of knowledge and lack of resources. It will facilitate...

Accelerating Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached with HPC Technologies
From insideHPC

Accelerating Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached with HPC Technologies

"This talk will present RDMA-based designs using OpenFabrics Verbs and heterogeneous storage architectures to accelerate multiple components of Hadoop (HDFS, MapReduce...

PewResearch on the future of free speech, trolls, anonymity and fake news online
From Putting People First

PewResearch on the future of free speech, trolls, anonymity and fake news online

To illuminate current attitudes about the potential impacts of online social interaction over the next decade, Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining...

Experientia guide to Milan Design Week 2017
From Putting People First

Experientia guide to Milan Design Week 2017

It’s that time of year again – Milan’s don’t-miss event for the design community is here. If you’re looking to get inspired at Milan Design Week, then check out...

Streamlined Text Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

Streamlined Text Mining

A  time ago we used relatively simplistic methods of context analysis to understand the meaning of gathered text.  Now with focused methods and increasing amounts...

GigaOM AI Videos
From The Eponymous Pickle

GigaOM AI Videos

Just pointed out to me, a set of video interviews about AI and forward looking technologies.  Here an interview with Auren Hoffman.   \ by GigaOm.  This example...

Google Launches Open Source Site
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Launches Open Source Site

Worth taking a look at.  Description in Techcrunch:Google launches new site to showcase its open source projects and processes   by Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl)...

Microsoft on Enterprise AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft on Enterprise AI

Interesting question on the 'adaptability' of AI.    It can certainly be used today by focusing it to specific problems.  It is being done.  Can it be used to cognitively...

Analytics Revolution?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Analytics Revolution?

This relates to the talk I gave yesterday.  Interview In SiliconAngle:An analytics revolution: the shift to deep learning and cognitive computing   by Tim Hawkins...

GW4 Unveils ARM-Powered Isambard Supercomputer from Cray
From insideHPC

GW4 Unveils ARM-Powered Isambard Supercomputer from Cray

Today the GW4 Alliance in the UK unveiled Isambard, the world’s first ARM-based production supercomputer at today’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council...

Prof. Dieter Kranzlmüller Named Chairman of the Board at LRZ in Germany
From insideHPC

Prof. Dieter Kranzlmüller Named Chairman of the Board at LRZ in Germany

Today the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) announced that Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors at GCS member Leibniz...

Purdue Supercomputer Gets Second Life in Colombia
From insideHPC

Purdue Supercomputer Gets Second Life in Colombia

"Besides trying to identify likely drug targets for new HIV treatments, EAFIT’s first supercomputer, named Apolo, is being used for everything from earthquake science...

Dell Powers New Owens Cluster at Ohio State
From insideHPC

Dell Powers New Owens Cluster at Ohio State

Today the Ohio Supercomputer Center dedicated its newest, most powerful supercomputer: the Owens Cluster. The Dell cluster, named for the iconic Olympic champion...

Register Now for PRACEdays17 in Barcelona
From insideHPC

Register Now for PRACEdays17 in Barcelona

Registration is now open for PRACEdays17. The event May 16-18 in Barcelona, Spain. "The PRACEdays17 program will follow the tradition set by the first three editions...
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