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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 …
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Video: Early Evaluation of IME as a Burst Buffer and Application Accelerator
Dirk Pleiter from the Jülich Supercomputing Centre presented this talk at the DDN User Group at SC15. “IME unleashes a new I/O provisioning paradigm. This breakthrough...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Another Open Source Machine Learning Platform
H2o.ai notes the use of Apache Spark:Why H2O?H2O is for data scientists and business analysts who need scalable and fast machine learning. H2O is an open source...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google is Answering More Complex Questions
In the Verge: An example of the logic behind simple questions. Google is doing much better. I have been noticing. But these questions would be easy for a human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Email as Virtual Assistant
Recently I participated in a think tank regarding the future of virtual assistants. Lots of varying opinions about what they would be able to do and when. Will...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Telling Stories with Data
I like the combination of story and lifecycle. Lifecycle implies a story.6 Ways to Tell Stories with Data Throughout the Customer Lifecycleby Alexandra Samuel...
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One Stop Systems to Showcase the OCP Flash Storage Array at SC15
Today One Stop Systems (OSS), a leading provider of HPC appliances, introduces the OCP Flash Storage Array (OCP-FSA), supporting over 250TB of Flash storage inOne...
From Schneier on Security
Paris Attacks Blamed on Strong Cryptography and Edward Snowden
Well, that didn't take long: As Paris reels from terrorist attacks that have claimed at least 128 lives, fierce blame for the carnage is being directed toward American...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Young Scientists Invited to Apply for Fourth Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Preparations for the fourth Heidelberg Laureate Forum are in full swing, and applications from young researchers to attend are now being accepted. The Heidelberg...
From Computational Complexity
Is the word Quantum being used properly by civilians? Understood by them? You know the answer.
I've seen the word `civilians' expanded in use from non-military to non-X for some X. Not sure I've ever seen `civilians' mean `people who don't do math stuff'...
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Intel Unveils Omni-Path for Scalable System Framework
Intel Corporation today announced several advancements to its Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel SSF) that promise to bring high performance computing capabilities...
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Cray CS400 to Power Polar Research at Alfred Wegener Institute
Today Cray announced the Company has been awarded a contract to provide the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) withCray...
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TOP500 Shows Growing Momentum for Accelerators
Today Nvidia announced growing momentum for GPU computing as reflected in the latest TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. "For the first time, more...
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USA Has a Shrinking Share of the TOP500
The latest TOP500 list was published today in conjunction with SC15 in Austin. For the sixth consecutive time, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer in China has retainedUSA...
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Benchmarks, Schmenchmarks: Big Iron Data and the November 2015 TOP500
In this special guest feature, Peter ffoulkes from OrionX offers his insights on the latest TOP500 listing of the world's fastest supercomputers. "Most importantly...
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LANL Looks to Aeon Computing for Lustre
Today Aeon Computing announced that the company will provide two Lustre file systems to enhance LANL’s technical and supercomputing capabilities in support of its...
From Schneier on Security
Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI?
There's pretty strong evidence that the team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who canceled their scheduled 2015 Black Hat talk deanonymized Tor users...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Levels of Sophistication
A little dated, from 2011. But I thought of interest. In the DSC:" .... In a research report on analytics by MIT and IBM (Kiron, et al. 2011), three progressive...
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IBM and Xilinx Team to Accelerate Datacenter Applications
Today IBM and Xilinx announced a multi-year strategic collaboration to enable higher performance and energy-efficient data center applications through Xilinx FPGA...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 November 2015
Last week was loaded with interesting things flowing from blogs, twitter, Facebook and email. When I first put this post together I realized it was so long that...
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