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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 insideHPC
UCX: An Open Source Framework for HPC Network APIs and Beyond ARM
"Unified Communication X (UCX) is a set of network APIs and their implementations for high performance computing. UCX comes from the combined efforts of national...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top 20 Open Data Resources
From the DSC, most of these are well known examples, you should always think of readily available, credible data to add to internal systems. These are a great...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Social Media and Professional Development
Just because I have been on school vacation this week doesn’t mean the learning stops. In fact I have taken advantage of the relaxed time to get involved in some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pooling Robotic Knowledge. IOT too?
Had heard this being proposed some time ago, it appears to be moving forward. Consider how this might also be connected to the Internet of Things, if the things...
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for NCSA 2016 Private Sector Partner Annual Meeting
Registration is now open for the NCSA 2016 Private Sector Partner Annual Meeting. Through NCSA’s Private Sector Program, the event brings together private, university...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Dynamic Pricing
In K@W: On dynamic pricing. Seeing more of it, and as we gather more data it is possible to adjust to need or focus. The analytics are here. " ... The Promise...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Rogue Waves: Addressing Rare Events
Out of MIT. I recall this problem being posed in a conference, and its possible application to other more industrial problems. Rare events, but ones that can...
From insideHPC
Video: Dynamic Datacenter from Bright Computing
"Many organizations are gaining a competitive advantage by implementing a Dynamic Data Center strategy. In a dynamic data center compute resources may be dynamically...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experiences with Data Lakes
Just recently exposed to the use of a data lake for exploratory analytics with highly disparate data. This article provides some alternative use cases and experiences...
From insideHPC
UberCloud Offers SaaS Service for ISVs on Microsoft Azure
Today the UberCloud announced plans to support independent software vendors (ISVs) in Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) with its new go-to-cloud service for theUberCloud...
From Schneier on Security
Thinking about Intimate Surveillance
Law Professor Karen Levy writes about the rise of surveillance in our most intimate activities -- love, sex, romance -- and how it affects those activities. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Bets on Radical Design Thinking
In Fast Codesign; A radical bet, looking at disabled communities. Very interesting history of the concept that has led to a number of design innovations. So...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Computer Science Principles Workshops
A lot of schools are adding the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles course for next year. That means that a lot of teachers are looking for professional...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2016 Sloan Research Fellows
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced it’s 2016 Sloan Research Fellows. The fellows are awarded in eight fields: chemistry, computer science, economics,...
From insideHPC
Comet Supercomputer at SDSC Helps Confirm Gravitational Wave Discovery
The NSF-funded Comet supercomputer at SDSC was one of several high-performance computers used by researchers to help confirm that the discovery of gravitational...
From Schneier on Security
Simultaneous Discovery of Vulnerabilities
In the conversation about zero-day vulnerabilities and whether "good" governments should disclose or hoard vulnerabilities, one of the critical variables is independent...
From insideHPC
Slidecast: Making HPC Clouds Productive
In this video from the 2016 Stanford HPC Conference, Jason Stowe from Cycle Computing presents: Making Clouds Productive. "Nine years of Cloud HPC experiences has...
From insideHPC
Altair’s PBS Pro to Manage Workload for New NCAR Supercomputer
"Supercomputing is vital to NCAR’s research and this new system will be an important tool for researchers across the United States,” said Anke Kamrath, director...
From insideHPC
Video: Programming Models for Exascale Systems
"This talk will focus on programming models and their designs for upcoming exascale systems with millions of processors and accelerators. Current status and future...
From Putting People First