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Inducing Feelings about Faces
From The Eponymous Pickle

Inducing Feelings about Faces

At Brown University. Interesting, borderline scary results.  We continue to learn more about brain function, but there is still much more to know.  'Reading' the...

HPE Goes All-Flash for Public Cloud with 3PAR, Lowers Long Term Storage Costs with Spectra Logic
From insideHPC

HPE Goes All-Flash for Public Cloud with 3PAR, Lowers Long Term Storage Costs with Spectra Logic

Today HPE announced today a comprehensive initiative that brings together the best of on-premises performance, application availability, and control with the convenience...

NIST Public Safety Communications Research Funding Opportunity
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NIST Public Safety Communications Research Funding Opportunity

National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division plans on releasing a Federal Funding Opportunity (FFO)...

SGI and DDN Power UK Met Office SPICE System for Weather and Climate Research
From insideHPC

SGI and DDN Power UK Met Office SPICE System for Weather and Climate Research

Today SGI, Bright Computing, and DDN announced that the UK Met Office has selected the three HPC vendors to provide HPC for its new Scientific Processing and Intensive...

For HPC, Red Hat Offers Much More than just Linux
From insideHPC

For HPC, Red Hat Offers Much More than just Linux

"The HPC Community demands performance, transparency, and value—exactly what Red Hat and open source offer. Red Hat is the standard choice for Linux in HPC clusterers...

Simplify Cluster Deployment with Intel HPC Orchestrator
From insideHPC

Simplify Cluster Deployment with Intel HPC Orchestrator

"Intel HPC Orchestrator simplifies the installation, management, and ongoing maintenance of an HPC system by reducing the amounft of integration and validationSimplify...

Economics of Machine Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Economics of Machine Learning

Thoughtful piece.   But as in all economic models,  If you accept the economics without the un intended and unknown consequences.The Simple Economics of Machine...

Nvidia’s Bill Dally to Keynote HiPINEB 2017 Exascale Workshop
From insideHPC

Nvidia’s Bill Dally to Keynote HiPINEB 2017 Exascale Workshop

Nvidia's Bill Dally will keynote HiPINEB 2017 - the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era...

CoolIT Systems and STULZ Debut High Density Chip-to-Atmosphere Data Center Liquid Cooling
From insideHPC

CoolIT Systems and STULZ Debut High Density Chip-to-Atmosphere Data Center Liquid Cooling

In this video, CoolIT Systems CEO & CTO, Geoff Lyon, and STULZ ATS President, Joerg Desler, discuss high density Chip-to-Atmosphere™ data center liquid coolingCoolIT...

Should tech companies warn consumers that their products could be addictive?
From Phys.org Technology News

Should tech companies warn consumers that their products could be addictive?

How many times per day do you check your phone? Chances are, a lot. According to Time magazine, a recent study found Americans reach for their smartphones an average...

FPGA Myths
From insideHPC

FPGA Myths

As data center sprawl is now understood to be expensive and may not deliver performance increases for all types of applications, new technologies are coming toFPGA...

How real is the risk posed by 3-D printed guns?
From Phys.org Technology News

How real is the risk posed by 3-D printed guns?

3-D printed guns are back in the news after Queensland Police reported last week that they had discovered a 3-D printer in a raid on what appeared to be a "large...

How Fast Can You Sort a Deck of Cards?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

How Fast Can You Sort a Deck of Cards?

OK I admit it – sorting fascinates me. No, really it does. OF course it is also an important topic for computer science classes. CS Unplugged has a lot of resources...

Smart Skin Mirror
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Skin Mirror

Links to some of our smart mirror and virtual beauty innovation efforts, but emphasizes skin.  Useful calibration?   In Engadget: The first smart mirror you can...

Stick on Microscope Lenses
From The Eponymous Pickle

Stick on Microscope Lenses

Kind of thing that I could have used in a previous role.   I do like the extension of smartphones with new kinds of sensors.   And the simplicity of this.    In...

What about developer surveys for software engineering research?
From XRDS

What about developer surveys for software engineering research?

In this blog post we present some ideas that one can consider before conducting a qualitative survey to evaluate new software engineering tools and systems. These...

New Kinds of Translation with Google
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Kinds of Translation with Google

This is technical, but is now production on all Google translations services, even in Google Home, where I have been casually testing it.   Phrases and words.  Getting...

Arup and 3D Printing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Arup and 3D Printing

We did some work with the Engineering and  design firm Arup in the innovation space.   Was interesting to see they are doing work with 3D printing.This Intelligent...

Sugon Moves HPC as a Service to Europe with Arctur-2 Supercomputer
From insideHPC

Sugon Moves HPC as a Service to Europe with Arctur-2 Supercomputer

As announced at SC16, Chinese HPC vendor Sugon has built a new datacenter in Slovenia based around the Arctur-2 system, Sugon's first installation in continental...

Video: Building the Owens Cluster at OSC
From insideHPC

Video: Building the Owens Cluster at OSC

In this time-lapse video, engineers build the Owens cluster at the Ohio Supercomputing Center. "Named after Olympic track star Jesse Owens, the new Owens Cluster...
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