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Economics of Disruption
From The Eponymous Pickle

Economics of Disruption

Digital strategy: Understanding the economics of disruptionResponding to digital disruption isn’t about creating a list of digitization priorities; it’s about identifying...

SHAPE Selects Eight Innovative HPC Projects for Access to PRACE Supercomputer
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SHAPE Selects Eight Innovative HPC Projects for Access to PRACE Supercomputer

Today the SME HPC Adoption Program in Europe announced the winners from its recent Call for Proposals. SHAPE is a pan-European program supported by PRACE whichSHAPE...

Video: GPUltima System Delivers a Petaflop in a Rack
From insideHPC

Video: GPUltima System Delivers a Petaflop in a Rack

gpultimaIn this video from the 2016 GPU Technology Conference, Jaan Mannik from One Stop Systems describes the GPUltima system at the GPU Technology Conference....

2016 Protocols Workshop
From Schneier on Security

2016 Protocols Workshop

Ross Anderson has liveblogged the 24th International Workshop on Security Protocols in Brno, Czech Republic....

A Building Sends a Friend Request
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Building Sends a Friend Request

Way back when, during my early days of innovation, I worked at the Pentagon, a remarkable place.     So this article seemed so striking I had to copy the link and...

Asking the Right Questions of Big Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Asking the Right Questions of Big Data

Good thoughts here.  Though having observed enterprise examples, it can be as little as asking any relevant questions of big data.  Align questions with key decision...

On Linear Regression
From The Eponymous Pickle

On Linear Regression

Good, non technical discussion.   Probably the most important method to really understand well.  Since it is most used.

Hill Tech Happenings – Week of April 11
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings – Week of April 11

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Hearing: To examine the status of innovative technologies in advanced manufacturing Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee 10 amContinue...

CCC Announces Industry-Academic Program with the Big Data Regional Hubs
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Announces Industry-Academic Program with the Big Data Regional Hubs

As a follow-up to the CCC/CRA Industry Academic Survey, conducted in spring of 2015 and the CCC Industry Roundtable Discussion held on July 24, 2015, the CCC is...

Live Report from LUG 2016 Day 3
From insideHPC

Live Report from LUG 2016 Day 3

In this special guest feature, Ken Strandberg offers this live report from Day 3 of the Lustre User Group meeting in Portland. "Rick Wagner from San Diego Supercomputing...

InsideHPC Guide to Technical Computing
From insideHPC

InsideHPC Guide to Technical Computing

Today's High Performance Computing (HPC) systems offer the ability to model everything from proteins to galaxies. The insights and discoveries offered by theseInsideHPC...

Interesting Links 9 April 2016
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 9 April 2016

This past weekend (and today) have been spent working with some amazing and knowledgeable people on the K12 Computer Science Curriculum Framework. We’ve been making...

Scams from the 1800s
From Schneier on Security

Scams from the 1800s

They feel quaint today: But in the spring of 1859, folks were concerned about another kind of hustle: A man who went by the name of A.V. Lamartine drifted from...

From Computational Complexity

What Rock Band Name would you choose?

I looked up my colleague Dave Mount on Wikipedia and found  that he was a drummer for the glam rock band Mud. He informed me that (a) on Wikipedia he is David and...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

ARC Day At Georgia Tech

A preview of the talks for this coming ARC Day ARC is our Algorithms & Randomness Center at Tech. It was created by Santosh Vempala, and this Monday ARC is holding...

Light Show Driven by Pattern Recognition AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Light Show Driven by Pattern Recognition AI

An example of using sensors to drive performance light position.  In the BBC.  Ultimately a good example.  The sensors gather data.  Patterns can be matched to...

Video: Software-Defined Networking on InfiniBand Fabrics
From insideHPC

Video: Software-Defined Networking on InfiniBand Fabrics

A design for virtual Ethernet networks over IB is described. The virtual Ethernet networks are implemented as overlays on the IB network. They are managed in aVideo...

Molex Acquires Interconnect Systems, Inc.
From insideHPC

Molex Acquires Interconnect Systems, Inc.

This week, Molex announced the acquisition of Interconnect Systems, Inc. (ISI) which specializes in the design and manufacture of high density silicon packaging...

How stealthy is Navy's new destroyer? It needs reflectors
From Phys.org Technology News

How stealthy is Navy's new destroyer? It needs reflectors

The future USS Zumwalt is so stealthy that it'll go to sea with reflective material that can be hoisted to make it more visible to other ships.

New Data in Multimedia Research
From The Eponymous Pickle

New Data in Multimedia Research

In CACM:Bart Thomee of Yahoo Labs discusses "YFCC100M: The New Data in Multimedia Research" (cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/2/197425), Contributed Article in the February...
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