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Green Revolution Cooling Helps Tsubame-KFC Supercomputer Top the Green500
From insideHPC

Green Revolution Cooling Helps Tsubame-KFC Supercomputer Top the Green500

Today Green Revolution Cooling announced that their immersive cooling technology is used by the most efficient supercomputers in the world as ranked in the latest...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Showcases Benefits of Code Modernization
From insideHPC

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Showcases Benefits of Code Modernization

"We've tailored our story for the HPC developers here, who are really worried about applications and performance of applications. What's really happened traditionally...

Robot and AI Reads
From The Eponymous Pickle

Robot and AI Reads

I see that MIT Technnology review is putting this out, following, provided some things I had not seen:Recommended Robot and AI Reads This WeekA roundup of interesting...

GE Thermal Innovation Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle

GE Thermal Innovation Lab

GE opens lab to improve combat aircraft thermal managementGE Aviation has opened a $13 million Vehicle Energy Systems Integration Lab (VESIL), at its Evendale,The...

Sirens’ Song of the IoT
From Blog@Ubiquity

Sirens’ Song of the IoT

These days we are witnessing a gold rush to the shining, promising new trillions of dollars market consisting of 30-50 billion devices interconnecting anything....

Security vs. Business Flexibility
From Schneier on Security

Security vs. Business Flexibility

This article demonstrates that security is less important than functionality. When asked about their preference if they needed to choose between IT security and...

Density of Information
From The Eponymous Pickle

Density of Information

A look at the graphical density of language.   I supported a project in school that looked at this topic. Is Mandarin denser than English?  By what metric?  Examples...

Live Blogging from November Cognitive Colloquium
From The Eponymous Pickle

Live Blogging from November Cognitive Colloquium

From Steve Hamm, IBM Storyteller.  See also his book at link . A number of good examples.   Good overview of work that is going on, with supporting video" ... Guruduth...

Are You Ready for Computer Science Education Week?
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Are You Ready for Computer Science Education Week?

As I write this blog post, I am in the middle of planning for Computer Science Education Week. I have prepared my Eventbrite site (http://2015-hour-of-code-shhs...

NTIA to Host Next Cybersecurity Multistakeholder Forum on Vulnerability Research Disclosure on December 2
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

NTIA to Host Next Cybersecurity Multistakeholder Forum on Vulnerability Research Disclosure on December 2

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will hold the next meeting of the cybersecurity multistakeholder process on vulnerability...

Fundamentals of Workplace Automation
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fundamentals of Workplace Automation

For those of us that are examining what the meaning of AI/cognitive based automation will mean to jobs.  Also, that even high end technical jobs will be redefined...

Call for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Call for Proposals: Creating Visions for Computing Research

The mission of Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community and enable the pursuit...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of December 1
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of December 1

Monday, November 30, 2015 House Floor: H.R. 3490 – Strengthening State and Local Cyber Crime Fighting Act U.S. House of Representatives The bill would authorize...

PhD Forum Coming to ISC 2016
From insideHPC

PhD Forum Coming to ISC 2016

Today the ISC 2016 conference issued their Call for Proposals for their new PhD Forum, which will allow PhD students to present their research results in a setting...

White House Seeks Public Comments on Revised Policy for Managing Federal IT
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

White House Seeks Public Comments on Revised Policy for Managing Federal IT

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is accepting public comments on proposed changes to the policy document for the planning and management of...

12 International Student Teams to Face Off at HPCAC-ISC 2016 Student Cluster Competition
From insideHPC

12 International Student Teams to Face Off at HPCAC-ISC 2016 Student Cluster Competition

Today the HPC Advisory Council announced that 12 university teams from around the world will compete in the HPCAC-ISC 2016 Student Cluster Competition at ISC 2016...

“Face-Melting Performance” with the Forte Hyperconverged NVMe Appliance from Scalable Informatics
From insideHPC

“Face-Melting Performance” with the Forte Hyperconverged NVMe Appliance from Scalable Informatics

"What we're showcasing this year is - what we're jokingly calling - face-melting performance. What we're trying to do is make extreme performance available at a...

Identifying Micro Moments
From The Eponymous Pickle

Identifying Micro Moments

I like breaking down moments in a customer journey.  Gives us hope for 'solving' the required interaction and knowledge and resources involved.   A way to solve...

Seagate and Newisys Demonstrate 1 TB/s Flash Architecture
From insideHPC

Seagate and Newisys Demonstrate 1 TB/s Flash Architecture

Today Seagate and Newisys announced a new flash storage architecture capable or 1 Terabyte/sec performance. Designed for HPC applications, the "industry’s fastest...

The mysterious aging of astronauts
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The mysterious aging of astronauts

When I took Physics courses in college, I learned about how astronauts should age a tiny bit slower than us. Of course, they would be exposed to a lot more radiation...
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