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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
Alibaba Exceeds Wal-Mart
Alibaba Surpasses Walmart As Largest Retail Company In The World by Tyler Durden on 04/06/2016We may not have the exact numbers yet, but in a filing with the SEC...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Embedding Ethical Principles in Collective Decision Support Systems
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Francesca Rossi from the University of Padova. Rossi and her colleagues Joshua Greene (Harvard University), John Tasioulas...
From Schneier on Security
IBM Officially Owns Resilient Systems
It's officially final; IBM has "completed the acquisition" of Resilient Systems, Inc. We are now "Resilient: an IBM Company." As I expected when I announced this...
From insideHPC
Live Report from LUG 2016 Day 1
"The Lustre User Group (LUG) 2016 conference is well under way. The morning of the first day was spent on looking at Lustre today and tomorrow and security developments...
From insideHPC
Supermicro Launches Total Solution for Lustre on ZFS
“With Supermicro’s 90 top-load 3.5” hot-swap bay JBOD as the storage core of our Lustre Pod Cluster, we maximize performance, density and capacity and simplifySupermicro...
From insideHPC
University of Michigan Looks to OpenPOWER for HPC
The University of Michigan is collaborating with IBM to develop and deliver “data-centric” supercomputing systems designed to increase the pace of scientific discovery...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Camera Live Streams VR
Quite an impressive capability. In Mashable. New levels of real time immersion. Imagine the complexity of the editing.
From insideHPC
OpenPOWER Teams with Open Compute Project for the Datacenter
Today the OpenPOWER Foundation announced more than 50 new open innovations to help companies better solve grand challenges around big data. Many new community innovations...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Acting like Walmart
Is Amazon acting like Walmart in the 80s? In Retaillink:" ... Amazon's investments in trucks, planes, cargo boats and drones continue to drive speculation on whether...
From Schneier on Security
CONIKS
CONIKS is an new easy-to-use transparent key-management system: CONIKS is a key management system for end users capable of integration in end-to-end secure communication...
From Phys.org Technology News
Worrying about smart phone web-dependence anxiety
The more we rely on our smart phones being connected to the Internet, the greater the anxiety we feel if we lose that connection when travelling, according to new...
From Phys.org Technology News
Explainer: What is a dirty bomb and how dangerous is it?
The worrying news that individuals affiliated with the so-called Islamic State have undertaken hostile surveillance at a Belgian nuclear research facility has created...
From insideHPC
Register Now for SC16 Housing in Salt Lake City
Housing registration is now open for SC16 in Salt Lake City, Utah. As the world's largest gathering of supercomputing professionals, the event takes place November...
From insideHPC
Huawei HPC Coming to Bibliotheca Alexandrina Egypt
Today Egypt's Bibliotheca Alexandrina library announced plans to build an HPC platform using Huawei technologies. Based on high-density FusionServer servers, the...
From Phys.org Technology News
Many hurdles preventing emergence of online voting
The search for solutions to increase voter numbers on Election Day continues as states rack up underwhelming turnouts in both presidential and non-presidential...
From insideHPC
CSCS to Double Performance of Cray Supercomputer with GPUs
Europe’s most powerful supercomputer Piz Daint is being upgraded, a move that is expected to at least double its computing power. ETH Zurich is investing around...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inside the HoloLens Hardware
A much anticipated hardware technical look inside the MS Hololens, their virtual reality system and headset. This is a hardware technical overview. To me the...
From insideHPC
Gary Grider Presents: HPC Storage and IO Trends and Workflows
"Trends in computer memory/storage technology are in flux perhaps more so now than in the last two decades. Economic analysis of HPC storage hierarchies has led...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
The Brackets Project
Inspiration for projects come from everywhere. Today there was a lot of talk about “March Madness” or the NCAA Men’s basketball tournament. It got me thinking about...
From The Eponymous Pickle