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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Adaptable Leaders
Could not be more correct, especially in the world of changing technology and business. But what do they look like, and what do they have to be adaptable to? More...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Biology
Including the work of a biological game theorist. From matchbook-sized models of living human organs to the surprising alternative-energy implications of symbiotic...
From Schneier on Security
I Have Joined the Board of Directors of the Tor Project
This week, I have joined the board of directors of the Tor Project. Slashdot thread. Hacker News thread....
From insideHPC
Got Disruptive HPC Technology? Get Free Exhibit Space at SC16
Do you have new technology that could disrupt HPC in the near future? There's still time to get free exhibit space at SC16 in November. "At the SC16 Emerging Technologies...
From insideHPC
CloudLightning Project Seeks Your Input on New Survey
Are you looking at how to deliver HPC services through the Cloud? The CloudLightning Project in Europe is seeking your input on a new survey. The post CloudLightning...
From insideHPC
DOE Awards 1.7 Billion Core-hours on Argonne Supercomputers
The ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) has awarded 26 projects a total of 1.7 billion core-hours at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), aDOE...
From insideHPC
Video: Profiling Genome Pipeline I/O with DDN and the Sanger Institute
"The data that I presented from the Sanger Institute is typical of the profiles that we come across: a mix of good streaming IO (ie the larger reads), but unexpectedly...
From insideHPC
NASA Boosts Pleiades Supercomputer with Broadwell CPUs and LTO Tape
NASA Ames reports that SGI has completed an important upgrade to Pleiades supercomputer. "As of July 1, 2016, all of the remaining racks of Intel Xeon X5670 (Westmere)...
From Phys.org Technology News
Airport app concept nets UNT students win in first contest
Ever been lost in an airport terminal or nearly miss a flight because you were late? An airport app concept created by University of North Texas students may provide...
From Putting People First
Close to home
So close to home. That is what we feel at Experientia when work calls us to France. Just a quick trip across the border, to a country at once reminiscent of, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Problem with Thinking You Know
Very key and interesting teaching conundrum. I will be working with a varied group of students this fall, and the situation has come to mind. by Bertand...
From insideHPC
Video: 5-Minute Hadoop Cluster Setup using Bright Cluster Manager
Hadoop has a reputation for being extremely difficult to install and configure, but that seems to be changing. In this video, Bright Cluster Manager for Big Data...
From insideHPC
CocoLink Using Consumer GPUs for Deep Learning
CocoLink, a subsidiary of Seoul National University, in collaboration with Orange Silicon Valley, has upgraded its KLIMAX 210 server with 20 of the latest GeForce...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Change Makers
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued the following Dear Colleague Letter calling for proposals that will advance STEM learning and explore solutions...
From insideHPC
Managing Critical Data with SGI’s New Zero Watt Storage
Today SGI announced Zero Watt Storage, a powerful extension to its SGI DMF data management platform designed to meet growing customer demands for managing critical...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter and other Social Connections
Many of the blog posts here are also on my twitter feed: @FranzD that feed also repeats information from other information streams I am connected to in Advanced...
From The Eponymous Pickle
O'Reilly Newsletter on AI
O'Reilly piece on AI value hype. Good overview of the topic with links to some key indicators and topics. Positive and negative. When will the disruption occur...
From insideHPC
Cilk Plus from Intel Offers Easy Access to Performance
Intel® Cilk™ Plus is an extension to C and C++ that offers a quick and easy way to harness the power of both multicore and vector processing. The three Intel Cilk...
From insideHPC
Faster Route to Insights with Hardware and Visualization Advances from Intel
An eye-popping visualization of two black holes colliding demonstrates 3D Adaptive Mesh Refinement volume rendering on next-generation Intel® Xeon Phi™ processors...
From The Eponymous Pickle