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Bitfusion Labs Opens for Boosting Application Performance
From insideHPC

Bitfusion Labs Opens for Boosting Application Performance

Today Bitfusion announced Bitfusion Labs, a collaborative proving ground for delivering performance improvements for hardware-accelerated applications. The post...

ArcticBlue Nearline Storage from Spectra Logic Increases Data Shelf Life
From insideHPC

ArcticBlue Nearline Storage from Spectra Logic Increases Data Shelf Life

Today Spectra Logic launched ArcticBlue, a new nearline disk storage system that delivers "Twice the Shelf Life of Competing Disk Platforms at Half the Cost." ArcticBlue...

Bull Atos Installs Fastest Supercomputer in Croatia
From insideHPC

Bull Atos Installs Fastest Supercomputer in Croatia

Bull Atos has installed the fastest supercomputer in Croatia at the University in Rijeka. With an expected debut on the TOP500 in November, the 239 Teraflop BURA...

insideHPC Guide to Cloud Computing for HPC
From insideHPC

insideHPC Guide to Cloud Computing for HPC

Cloud computing is changing the way that IT organizations operate and innovate. While moving enterprise type applications to a cloud service provider is progressing...

Video: Network Architecture Trends
From insideHPC

Video: Network Architecture Trends

Pavan Balaji from Argonne presented this talk at the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing. "More cores will drive the network, with more sharingVideo...

What Should Kodak have Done?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Should Kodak have Done?

Fascinating piece in Innovation Excellence.  In particular because we met with Kodak to talk collaboration in innovation at the time of their long slide.   Kodak...

On the Limitations of 3D Printing
From The Eponymous Pickle

On the Limitations of 3D Printing

In Fast Company.    Prototyping clearly.  But then real world scale and precision become a couple of the problems.  Interesting case study. " ... Yet Strauser’s...

Wal-Mart Open Sources Cloud
From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Open Sources Cloud

Walmart decries cloud lock-in, plans to open-source OneOpsWalmart announced that it will open-source the cloud technology it has built up following its acquisition...

Governance in the Future of the CIO
From The Eponymous Pickle

Governance in the Future of the CIO

The Board Leadership & Governance Insight of the “Future of CIO” Governance is like a steering wheel, to ensure the business running in the right direction! ......

Amazon IOT Strategy, Facing the Consumer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon IOT Strategy, Facing the Consumer

Amazon has been developing some very interesting B to C Internet of Things related offerings, like the Echo and Dash.  So their approach will be good to follow....

Autograders–for good or for evil?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Autograders–for good or for evil?

Over 40 years ago I first graded programming projects. As an undergraduate lab assistant I reviewed student projects based on metrics from the professor. The professor...

Breaking Diffie-Hellman with Massive Precomputation (Again)
From Schneier on Security

Breaking Diffie-Hellman with Massive Precomputation (Again)

The Internet is abuzz with this blog post and paper, speculating that the NSA is breaking the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol in the wild through massive precomputation...

Digital Credentials in Pittsburgh
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Credentials in Pittsburgh

Steel City Credentials: Building the future of credentials in Pittsburgh, by Jason Swanson.  Badges too.  A kind of low level gamifiction implied?  Mapping micro...

DropBox Paper for Simplicity
From The Eponymous Pickle

DropBox Paper for Simplicity

In Wired:  Dropbox is building  a collaboration and work space tool called Paper to let people in small business work together to get things done.  In early beta...

Considering Risk Assessments
From The Eponymous Pickle

Considering Risk Assessments

In CWorld: Good short basic piece on basic risk assessments. Good place to start.  I would further get a professional to do the analysis that really knows the domains...

Whole Foods Builds New ERP System
From The Eponymous Pickle

Whole Foods Builds New ERP System

Whole Foods to Build New ERP System for ‘Single View’ of Product Data By Steven Norton in the WSJ Blog. The move is part of a broader effort by the grocery chain...

Domain Scoping for Subject Matter Experts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Domain Scoping for Subject Matter Experts

The capture, sharing and augmentation of expertise is a key topic for Cognitive.   How do we do it well?  By first understanding and then leveraging the language...

October GIURR Webinar with DARPA’s Dr. Bradford Tousley
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

October GIURR Webinar with DARPA’s Dr. Bradford Tousley

The National Academies’ Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GIURR) is hosting a webinar with Dr. Bradford Tousley, Director of the Tactical Technology...

IDC Breakfast Briefing Returns to SC15
From insideHPC

IDC Breakfast Briefing Returns to SC15

IDC will host a complimentary Analyst Briefing and Breakfast at SC15. The popular annual event is great way to catch up with the latest trends in the HPC Market...

Video: Beowulf Boot Camp Trains the Next Generation of HPC Experts
From insideHPC

Video: Beowulf Boot Camp Trains the Next Generation of HPC Experts

"This exciting course offers students and teachers a unique opportunity to work with advanced research technology not usually available in a typical classroom setting...
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