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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
Ethernet Alliance Moves Forward on 25G Technologies
Today the Ethernet Alliance shared details of its recent 25Gb/s technical feasibility event in New Hampshire. With 25Gb/s technologies being driven in part by hyperscale...
From insideHPC
Interview: Brent Gorda from Intel on the Keys to Startup Innovation for HPC
"Successful startups are the ones who have knowledge and a strong focus on a problem to solve. Knowledge comes from experience and there is no better way to accumulate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Investment on AI in Silicon Valley
Was part of the last surge. Now it is reported that much new is underway, and specifically in Silicon Valley. In the WSJ: " ... The latest example of the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing Good Network Design
In the Cisco Blog: Not supply chain networks, which I thought at first, but computer networks. Not usually my world, but had some interesting design ideas. I...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Identifying influential citations: it works live today!
Life has a way to give me what I want. Back in 2009, I wrote that instead of following conferences or journals, I would rather follow individual researchers. At...
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Critical Requirements for HPC in the Clouds
Users in HPC environments have requirements for using a cloud provider that are different than typical enterprise applications. Learn about the key considerations...
From Schneier on Security
Passwords by Mail
Julia Angwin's daughter is selling diceware passwords by mail....
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TACC Speeds Big Data Analytics with Nomadic Computing
Researchers at TACC have developed a new tool to analyze bigger datasets using supercomputers and machine learning algorithms. Called NOMAD, the tool can pull insights...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Times VR App Launches
Will this increase the exposure to VR enough to engage the general public? In Engadget:" ... At a time when virtual reality is changing the way we experience...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH Talk- Computer Security and the Internet of Things
The next WATCH talk, called Computer Security and the Internet of Things is Thursday, November 12, 2015 from Noon-1pm ET. The presenter is Tadayoshi Kohno from...
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Cycle Computing’s Rob Futrick to Keynote DataCloud 2015 in Austin
Today Cycle Computing announced that their CTO, Rob Futrick will be the Keynote speaker at DataCloud 2015, the 6th International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alan Kay Talk on Future of Technology
Alan Kay was an early inspiration to us. Here an overview and link to video:Computer Pioneer Alan Kay Says Tech Industry Ignores The FutureAlan Kay is a computer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing Assistant Technology
Today's CSIG Talk: Roberto Manduchi from the University of California, Santa Cruz , who presented “Designing Assistive Technology: A Personal Experience of Trial...
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How to Move HPC Forward in Europe
"With a differentiated strategy, sufficient investment, and political will, Europe has what it takes to be a global player and to achieve this ambitious goal. We...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Evolutionary Computation for Creativity
Nicely done interview regarding evolutionary and genetic methods in O'Reilly. This was an area we explored in the enterprise, but to my knowledge never used"...
From Computational Complexity
Computation and Journalism Part 2
The theory blogosphere is atwitter with an announcement of a talk next Tuesday at Chicago by László Babai Graph Isomorphism in Quasipolynomial Time. Luca will blog...
From insideHPC
DDN Storage Speeds Genome Sequencing at University of Miami
Today DDN announced that the University of Miami’s Center for Computational Science (CCS) has deployed high-performance, DDN GS12K scale-out file storage to speed...
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DEEP Project Unveils 500 Teraflop Prototype
The EU-funded DEEP Project has unveiled their innovative HPC platform: a 500 TFlop/s prototype system that implements a Cluster-Booster concept that has a lot in...
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Accelerated Drug Discovery with Intel Xeon Phi
Drug discovery has accelerated with the advent of high performance computing and new algorithms. "A structural bioinformatics algorithm, eFindSuite, can be used...
From Schneier on Security