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Aquila Launches Liquid Cooled OCP Server Platform
From insideHPC

Aquila Launches Liquid Cooled OCP Server Platform

"The drive towards Exascale computing requires cooling the next generation of extremely hot CPUs, while staying within a manageable power envelope, said Bob Bolz...

Slidecast: For AMD, Its Time to ROCm!
From insideHPC

Slidecast: For AMD, Its Time to ROCm!

"AMD has been away from the HPC space for a while, but now they are coming back in a big way with an open software approach to GPU computing. The Radeon Open Compute...

Co-design for Data Analytics And Machine Learning
From insideHPC

Co-design for Data Analytics And Machine Learning

The big data analytics market has seen rapid growth in recent years. Part of this trend includes the increased use of machine learning (Deep Learning) technologies...

The memory usage of STL containers can be surprising
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The memory usage of STL containers can be surprising

C++ remains one of the most popular languages today. One of the benefits of C++ is the built-in STL containers offering the standard data structures like vector...

Better Software For HPC through Code Modernization
From insideHPC

Better Software For HPC through Code Modernization

Vectorization and threading are critical to using such innovative hardware product such as the Intel Xeon Phi processor. Using tools early in the design and development...

Recovering an iPhone 5c Passcode
From Schneier on Security

Recovering an iPhone 5c Passcode

Remember the San Bernadino killer's iPhone, and how the FBI maintained that they couldn't get the encryption key without Apple providing them with a universal back...

Cheap Frig Cams
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cheap Frig Cams

What we have all been looking for in the Smarthome?  Probably not, but another example where cheap simple cams can be be added to an attentive systems as part of...

The Unilever Consumer Connection
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Unilever Consumer Connection

Unilever advertises a number of their products through Supermarket News called The Consumer Connection.  To help "Unilever Advance Health, Well-Being and Category...

Internet of Robotic Things
From The Eponymous Pickle

Internet of Robotic Things

I remember an effort that sought to share the learning of robots, this is different:The latest Internet of Things (IoT) sub-segment to emerge is the Internet of...

White House Summit on #CSforAll & CS for All Consortium
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

White House Summit on #CSforAll & CS for All Consortium

Yesterday the White House hosted a major summit on Computer Science for All. I wasnt there myself but was able to watch much of it via live streaming. It was aRuthe...

ACM U.S. Public Policy Council Submits Comments to Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

ACM U.S. Public Policy Council Submits Comments to Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council submitted comments to the Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. The comments address the challenges and...

Why Computer Science Education in K-12 Settings Is  Becoming Increasingly Essential
From ACM on Huffington Post

Why Computer Science Education in K-12 Settings Is Becoming Increasingly Essential


IBM and Chevy Generating 'Positivity'
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM and Chevy Generating 'Positivity'

Anther example of the text analysis of social media streams  ...  although the resulting measure seems quite general.   In AdAge:Chevy and IBM Will Rate Your Social...

Baidu's Paddle
From The Eponymous Pickle

Baidu's Paddle

Via O'Reilly:Baidu's PaddleBaidu's deep learning framework, Paddle (PArallel Distributed Deep LEarning), has been open sourced.

Reducing Traffic with Reinforcement Learning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reducing Traffic with Reinforcement Learning

Our group looked at related problems in traffic and industry.    In Engineering.comMachine Learning Techniques Aim to Reduce Traffic  by Michael AlbaIt's a problem...

Huawei and ESI to Collaborate on HPC for Manufacturing
From insideHPC

Huawei and ESI to Collaborate on HPC for Manufacturing

ESI Group has signed agreement with Huawei to collaborate on on High Performance Computing and cloud computing for industrial manufacturing solutions for customers...

The new C standards are worth it
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The new C standards are worth it

The C language is one of the oldest among the popular languages in use today. C is a conservative language. The good news is that the language is aging well and...

Reinforcement Learning and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reinforcement Learning and AI

This bears some relationship to looking directly at business process and attempting to control it directly.  A kind of context simulation with rewards.   Thus similar...

NSF Awards $25M in new projects in support of the Computer Science for All Initiative
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

NSF Awards $25M in new projects in support of the Computer Science for All Initiative

The following is a guest blog post fromAaron Dubrow, Public Affairs Specialist for theOffice of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) at theNational Science Foundation...

From Computational Complexity

Academic Rankings Foster Competition

This week US News and World Report released their undergraduate rankings earlier this week. A time for schools to brag. US News and World Report used to publish...
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