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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
Video: End to End Infrastructure Design for Large Scale Genomics
In this video from the DDN User Group at SC15, Kevin Behn from the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology presents: End to End Infrastructure Design for LargeVideo...
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Application Engineer at Mellanox in Austin
"Mellanox Technologies is looking for experienced computational researchers to work on developing and optimizing the next generation of scalable HPC applications...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Studio K for Kodu
I first wrote about Project K several years ago when it first came out. That was in my old Microsoft blog which I no longer have access to change. Recently I was...
From insideHPC
Numascale Expands Performance and Features with NumaConnect-2
"At SC15, Numascale announced the availability of NumaConnect-2, a scalable cache coherent memory technology that connects servers in a single high performanceNumascale...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Submits Comments to White House on Revised Policy for Managing Federal IT
The ACM U.S. Public Policy Council submitted comments to the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on proposed changes to the policy document for the...
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: North Korean Squid Fisherman Found Dead in Boats
I don't know if you've been following the story of the boats full of corpses that have been found in Japanese waters: Over the past two months, at least 12 wooden...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implications of Management by Algorithm
I am thinking that that this will start to increase. People are a most expensive and valuable resource. Imagine the process, resources and constraints being integrated...
From insideHPC
Video: Rendering in Ensight with OpenSWR
"EnSight is a software program for visualizing, analyzing, and communicating data from computer simulations and/or experiments. The purpose of OpenSWR is to provide...
From The Eponymous Pickle
UX Design and Physical Retail
We built full scale physical retail labs to address and test this.Will UX methodologies bolster retail's brick & mortar future?By Ken Lonyai With the never ending...
From insideHPC
Code Modernization: Two Perspectives, One Goal
"Modern systems will continue to grow in scale, and applications must evolve to fully exploit the performance of these systems. While today’s HPC developers are...
From insideHPC
UberCloud Partners with EGI to Bridge Research and Innovation
Today the UberCloud announced a collaboration with EGI based on a shared vision to embrace distributed computing, storage and data related technologies. As a federation...
From insideHPC
Video: Spectra Logic Changes Storage Economics with ArcticBlue at SC15
Matt Starr from Spectra Logic describes the company's new ArcticBlue nearline disk storage system. "If you think about a tape subsystem, it's probably the bestVideo...
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Univa Supports Dynamic Clusters on Microsoft Azure
"With Azure, Microsoft makes it easy for Univa customers to run true performance applications on demand in a cloud environment," said Bill Bryce, Univa Vice President...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco and Ericsson Hook Up for IoT
This looks of interest, experts in the network space. Cisco and Ericsson Hook Up for IoT Networks Cisco and Ericsson on ... announced a partnership to build out...
From insideHPC
Video: General Atomics Delivers Data-Aware Cloud Storage Gateway with ArcaStream
"Ngenea’s blazingly-fast on-premises storage stores frequently accessed active data on the industry’s leading high performance file system, IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What is Employee Engagement?
In the HBR. Definitions, expectations of results? " ... This holistic approach to understanding engagement will yield more-detailed insights into what makes...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stockholm as a Startup Unicorn Factory
In K@W: The examples are interesting, some surprising to me." ... What do Silicon Valley and Stockholm have in common? Spawning billion-dollar tech companies....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Become a Watson Analytics Expert
Gives you a good introduction about how this all works. Non technical. By Francis Hall:" ... Watson Analytics is a tool that’s been designed for business users...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thymio–An interesting Looking Robot for Teaching
New things for teaching seem to appear every week. Sometimes they are around for a while before I find out about them. Apparently the world of computer scienceThymio...
From Schneier on Security