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IBM Rolls Out All-flash Storage for Cognitive Workloads
From insideHPC

IBM Rolls Out All-flash Storage for Cognitive Workloads

"The DS8880 All-Flash family is targeted at users that have experienced poor storage performance due to latency, low server utilization, high energy consumption...

D-Wave Releases Open Quantum Software Environment
From insideHPC

D-Wave Releases Open Quantum Software Environment

"Just as a software ecosystem helped to create the immense computing industry that exists today, building a quantum computing industry will require software accessible...

A Decade of Multicore Parallelism with Intel TBB
From insideHPC

A Decade of Multicore Parallelism with Intel TBB

While HPC developers worry about squeezing out the ultimate performance while running an application on dedicated cores, Intel TBB tackles a problem that HPC users...

PECASE Awards Announced
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

PECASE Awards Announced

The White House has released the list awardees of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE awards were established...

Cray Appoints Stathis Papaefstathiou as SVP of Research and Development
From insideHPC

Cray Appoints Stathis Papaefstathiou as SVP of Research and Development

Today Cray announced the appointment of Stathis Papaefstathiou to the position of senior vice president of research and development. Papaefstathiou will be responsible...

Selecting HPC Network Technology
From insideHPC

Selecting HPC Network Technology

"With three primary network technology options widely available, each with advantages and disadvantages in specific workload scenarios, the choice of solution partner...

Chatbot Retention Problem
From The Eponymous Pickle

Chatbot Retention Problem

The open question is, how well will people accept non human online interaction?    Bots can be novel, but that is not enough.  Bottom line, they need to provide...

Industrial Lab for IoT
From The Eponymous Pickle

Industrial Lab for IoT

National Instruments industrial IoT lab unites rivalsCisco, HPE, Intel and others help sponsor the lab to show enterprises that IoT systems can work    By Stephen...

Twofish Power Analysis Attack
From Schneier on Security

Twofish Power Analysis Attack

New paper: "A Simple Power Analysis Attack on the Twofish Key Schedule." This shouldn't be a surprise; these attacks are devastating if you don't take steps to...

Experientia’s CITYOPT project awarded prestigious French award for its sustainable development design
From Putting People First

Experientia’s CITYOPT project awarded prestigious French award for its sustainable development design

Following the 2016 Smart Innovation Award at “FIMBACTE Trophées du Cadre de vie”, the CITYOPT project has once again been recognized, this time in the prestigious...

OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017 – Call for Sessions Open
From insideHPC

OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2017 – Call for Sessions Open

Each year the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) hosts an annual workshop devoted to advancing the state of the art in networking. "One secret to the enduring success of...

Digimarc at the NRF
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digimarc at the NRF

I had mentioned Digimarc and their advanced product marking technologies, recently in a post.   They will be present at the upcoming 2017 NRF show on January 15...

Trust issues: Users more gullible when they customize their technology
From Phys.org Technology News

Trust issues: Users more gullible when they customize their technology

Cheery robots may give people the creeps and serious robots may actually ease anxiety depending on how users perceive the robot''s role in their lives, according...

Video: Livermore HPC Takes Aim at Cancer
From insideHPC

Video: Livermore HPC Takes Aim at Cancer

In this video, Jonathan Allen from LLNL describes how Lawrence Livermore’s supercomputers are playing a crucial role in advancing cancer research and treatment....

Six things we learned at the Detroit auto show
From Phys.org Technology News

Six things we learned at the Detroit auto show

This year's North American International Auto Show reflects an industry that's flush with cash but uncertain about the future.

Oak Ridge Plays key role in Exascale Computing Project
From insideHPC

Oak Ridge Plays key role in Exascale Computing Project

Oak Ridge National Laboratory reports that its team of experts are playing leading roles in the recently established DOE’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP), a multi...

Apply Now for Summer of HPC 2017 in Barcelona
From insideHPC

Apply Now for Summer of HPC 2017 in Barcelona

"The PRACE Summer of HPC is an outreach and training program that offers summer placements at top High Performance Computing centers across Europe to late-stage...

NSF WATCH TALK- Security Challenges in the Landscape of Emerging Digital Financial Services
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF WATCH TALK- Security Challenges in the Landscape of Emerging Digital Financial Services

The next WATCH talk, called Security Challenges in the Landscape of Emerging Digital Financial Services is Thursday, January 19th, from Noon-1pm EST. The presenter...

Understanding Cities through Computation, Data Analytics, and Measurement
From insideHPC

Understanding Cities through Computation, Data Analytics, and Measurement

"For many urban questions, however, new data sources will be required with greater spatial and/or temporal resolution, driving innovation in the use of sensorsUnderstanding...

Intro to Neural Networks and Meta-Frameworks for Deep Learning with TensorFlow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Intro to Neural Networks and Meta-Frameworks for Deep Learning with TensorFlow

This starts with the basics of neural networks, which I find very useful.    Good straightforward overview of the topic.   Also addresses the kinds of learningIntroduction...
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