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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
Apply Now for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships
NCSA is now accepting applications for the Blue Waters Graduate Program. This unique program lets graduate students from across the country immerse themselves in...
From Blog@Ubiquity
Who Shaped Modern Computing — Part 2?
Legends like John McCarthy, Edsger Dijkstra and John Backus made significant impacts in the field and shaped modern computing as we know it today. By developing...
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Video: Pathscale Compilers Power ARM for HPC at SC15
In this video, Jason Souloglou and Eric Van Hensbergen from ARM describe how Pathscale EKOPath compilers are enabling a new HPC ecosystem based on low-power processors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Marketers Access to Data
In the HBR. Well put, its not only getting them access, but also useful access. In a form they can understand and can leverage. That starts with data visualization...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Corp on Device Reliance
Correspondent John Stine on devices and more, This comes to mind as I am about to switch phones and add a new communications channel. " ... During a separate seminar...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CADENS Seeking Data and Visualizations
Does your research generate, analyze, and/or visualize data using advanced digital resources? CADENS is looking for scientific data to visualize or existing data...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Lectures on Communications Security from 1973
Newly declassified: "A History of U.S. Communications Security (Volumes I and II)," the David G. Boak Lectures, National Security Agency (NSA), 1973. (The document...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Makes SystemML Freely Available
The continued competition to provide free and open source analytics integrated with their offerings. Consider the power of integrating cognitive systems like...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Essentials of Innovation
Mckinsey's new Podcast format:Why are some big companies simply better innovators? The leaders of McKinsey’s Innovation practice, Erik Roth and Nathan Marston,The...
From Schneier on Security
NSA Collected Americans' E-mails Even After it Stopped Collecting Americans' E-mails
In 2011, the Bush administration authorized -- almost certainly illegally -- the NSA to conduct bulk electronic surveillance on Americans: phone calls, e-mails,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Visualization and Analytics Tools
Piece on commonly used graph visualization tools. One less known and not mentioned is Polinode, which I was recently introduced to. Every data scientist should...
From insideHPC
Video: Asetek Showcases Growing Adoption of OEM Solutions at SC15
Asetek showcased its full range of RackCDU hot water liquid cooling systems for HPC data centers at SC15 in Austin. On display were early adopting OEMs such asVideo...
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing Black Hole Mergers
"General Relativity is celebrating this year a hundred years since its first publication in 1915, when Einstein introduced his theory of General Relativity, which...
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NEC to Build Fastest Supercomputer in Finland for VSC
Last week at SC15, NEC Corporation announced that the Flemish Supercomputer Center (VSC) has selected an LX-series supercomputer. With a peak performance of 623...
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Marketing Metric
I like simple metrics, especially linked to actual funds, but are these accurately measurable and stable? In Adage: " .... One Marketing Metric to Rule Them All...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Highlights from the GCTC Kick-Off Event
The following blog post is from Sokwoo Rhee, the Associate Director of Cyber-Physical Systems Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...
From insideHPC
CADENS Project Seeking Data and Visualizations
Does your research generate, analyze, and/or visualize data using advanced digital resources? In its recent Call for Participation, the CADENS project is looking...
From insideHPC
Video: Data Centric Computing for File and Object Storage from IBM
"We've had a great time here in Austin talking about data centric computing-- the ability to use IBM Spectrum Scale and Platform LSF to do Cognitive Computing.Video...
From insideHPC
Setting a Path for the Next-Generation of High-Performance Computing Architecture
At SC15, Intel talked about some transformational high-performance computing (HPC) technologies and the architecture—Intel® Scalable System Framework (Intel® SSF)...
From Schneier on Security