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25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium Validates Multi-Vendor Interoperability
From insideHPC

25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium Validates Multi-Vendor Interoperability

"In order to handle the increasing amount of data, server architectures all too often require multiple 10G ports. 25G Ethernet arrives just in time and has started...

Random Walks for Time Series Forecasting
From The Eponymous Pickle

Random Walks for Time Series Forecasting

Nicely done, fairly gentle.A Gentle Introduction to the Random Walk for Times Series Forecasting with Python   by Jason Brownlee on January 20, 2017 in Time Series...

New Rules on Data Privacy for Non-US Citizens
From Schneier on Security

New Rules on Data Privacy for Non-US Citizens

Last week, President Trump signed an executive order affecting the privacy rights of non-US citizens with respect to data residing in the US. Here's the relevant...

Radio Free HPC Interviews Henry’s Mom and Congratulates The UberCloud on New Funding
From insideHPC

Radio Free HPC Interviews Henry’s Mom and Congratulates The UberCloud on New Funding

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team speaks to our special guest for the week: Binnie Coppersmith, also known as Henry’s Mom. It’s Binnie’s 80th birthday, and...

Future of Healthcare Provision: Opportunities for Patient Engagement
From Putting People First

Future of Healthcare Provision: Opportunities for Patient Engagement

Future Agenda, a non-for-profit UK-based foresight initiative, has just published a new 38-page paper entitled Future of Healthcare Provision: Opportunities for...

From Computational Complexity

What was the first result in complexity theory?

Let Z_d[x] be the set of polynomials of degree d over the integers. Let ALG_d be the set of roots of polys in Z_d. One can easily show that ALG_1 is a proper...

Google Testing D-Wave Quantum Computing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Testing D-Wave Quantum Computing

A recent article led me to this arxiv.org paper abstract.  (Technical)  Using the D-Wave hardware.  Are the methods being shown real quantum computing?   Points...

Deep Learning in HPC – Using Data to Go Far Beyond Automation in Pathology
From insideHPC

Deep Learning in HPC – Using Data to Go Far Beyond Automation in Pathology

Dr. Amit Seti from IIT-Gauwhati presented this talk at GTCx in India. "This talk will cover how medical imaging data can be used to train computer vision systems...

Intel FPGAs Break Record for Deep Learning Facial Recognition
From insideHPC

Intel FPGAs Break Record for Deep Learning Facial Recognition

The test took place in Nanjing City, China, where ZTE’s engineers used Intel’s midrange Arria 10 FPGA for a cloud inferencing application using a CNN algorithm....

Watson Analytics Professional
From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Analytics Professional

Watson Analytics Professional: 3 reasons to go pro   by Karen GaligerWatson Analytics Professional Edition was just the right solution for Mears Group, LLC. With...

Learning and Bayesian updating in long cycle made-to-order production
From The Eponymous Pickle

Learning and Bayesian updating in long cycle made-to-order production

My colleague Jeff Camm writes in a recent paper. The Bayesian learning aspect of parameters is interesting.  Technical.  Abstract. Learning and Bayesian updating...

Let Alexa Scan Paper Abstracts for You
From The Eponymous Pickle

Let Alexa Scan Paper Abstracts for You

Alexa gets Meta, finds you the latest AI researchThe Echo bot can find the 50 latest papers and read you the summaries.Steve Dent, @stevetdent  in Endgadget. IMachine...

Job of the Week: Wind Energy Research Engineer at NREL
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: Wind Energy Research Engineer at NREL

"The National Renewable Energy Laboratory(NREL), located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Golden, Colorado, is the nation’s primary laboratory for research...

A Look at the CODAR Co-Design Center for Online Data Analysis and Reduction at Exascale
From insideHPC

A Look at the CODAR Co-Design Center for Online Data Analysis and Reduction at Exascale

Ian Foster and other researchers in CODAR are working to overcome the gap between computation speed and the limitations in the speed and capacity of storage byA...

Detecting and Identifying Images
From The Eponymous Pickle

Detecting and Identifying Images

Home/News/Air Force Tests IBM's Brain-Inspired Chip as an Aerial Tank SpotterACM Tech NewsAir Force Tests IBM's Brain-Inspired Chip as an Aerial Tank Spotter.  ...

Beyond Big Data to Complex Systems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Beyond Big Data to Complex Systems

Well written challenge to when big data doesn't work, and an intro to complex systems.When Big Data Isn’t Enough    Alex WoodieThe big data paradigm has changed...

Smart Machines to Boost Emotional Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Machines to Boost Emotional Intelligence

Intriguing premise.  As an engineer I don't think I fully understand it.  Link to podcast.Author Edward Hess discusses his new book, Humility is the New Smart:In...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fossils from the Early Jurassic
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Fossils from the Early Jurassic

New fossil bed discovered in Alberta: The finds at the site include 16 vampyropods, a relative of the vampire squid with its ink sac and fine details of its muscles...

Mr Clean Goes to the Superbowl
From The Eponymous Pickle

Mr Clean Goes to the Superbowl

Have been a participant in the Mr Clean brand equity, and especially how it has been enhanced by technology.    Lately there has not been much technical enhancement...

How expensive are the union and intersection of two unordered_set in C++?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How expensive are the union and intersection of two unordered_set in C++?

If you are using a modern C++ (C++11 or better), you have access to set data structures (unordered_set) which have the characteristics of a hash set. The standard...
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