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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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NVIDIA GRID 2.0 comes to Microsoft Azure
"Our vision is to deliver accelerated graphics and high performance computing to any connected device, regardless of location," said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founderNVIDIA...
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EU/European HPC Plans for the Next Decade
Bob Sorensen from IDC presented this talk at the HPC User Forum. In a recent study, IDC assessed the EU's progress towards their 2012 action plan and made recommendations...
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German Supercomputing Sites Become Centers of Excellence for Horizon 2020
Today the European Commission announced HLRS, JSC, and LRZ have been named “Centers of Excellence for computing applications. Funded by the EC and the Horizon 2020...
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Stepping up to the performance challenge
The performance-savvy HPC developer is in high demand today. Leaps in intra-node parallelism, memory performance and capacity are set to meet applications struggling...
From Schneier on Security
How GCHQ Tracks Internet Users
The Intercept has a new story from the Snowden documents about The UK's GCHQ's surveillance of the Internet: The mass surveillance operation code-named KARMA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Winning with 3D Printing
From Bain & Company: An infographic: " ... Winning with 3D Printing. How additive manufacturing, popularly known as 3D printing, can help companies rethink...
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CCC Whitepaper- Systems Computing Challenges in the Internet of Things
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Computing in the Physical World Task Force has just released a community whitepaper on Systems Computing Challenges in...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Could big data and wearables help the fight against diseases?
Biologists and medical researchers are used to drinking data with a straw. Doctors measure heart rate, weight and blood pressure, one at a time, at a high cost....
From Computer Science Teachers Association
What are you doing this year?
What are you doing this year? At the start of the year all educators like to refresh materials, think about what else we could use to teach our content and figure...
From Computational Complexity
Venn Diagrams are used (yeah) but abused (boo)
In a prior blog entry I speculated about which math phrases will enter the English Language and will they be used correctly. I thought Prisoner's Dilemma would...
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PNNL Installs Data Vortex System
Today Data Vortex Technologies announced that the company has sold and delivered a DV205 system, “PEPSY”, to the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PEPSY...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of September 28
Tuesday, September 29, 2015 Hearing: Cybersecurity Policy and Threats Senate Armed Services Committee 9:30 am | G50 Dirksen Senate Office Building Hearing: Outside...
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Video: On the Role of Flash in Large-Scale Storage Systems
Nathan Rutman from Seagate presented this talk at the LAD'15 Conference. "So why is a spinning disk company talking about Flash? Last year, Seagate acquired Avago...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet Tells you How with Services
Since the beginning of the Internet, I have been interested in how it can provide teachable moments, and how people have used it as a primary place to find information...
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D-Wave to Collaborate with Google, NASA, and USRA on Quantum Computing
Today D-Wave Systems announced a new agreement covering the installation of a succession of D-Wave systems located at NASA's Ames Research Center. "The new agreement...
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UCX: Co-Design Architecture For Next Generation HPC Systems
"The UCX Unified Communication X project is a collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia to create an open-source production grade communication...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Curious Inversion
The math of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” Mark Haddon wrote the book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which was published...
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Curious Inversion
The math of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” Mark Haddon wrote the book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which was published...
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Pointwise Improves Mesh Generation Capabilities
Pointwise has announced the latest release of its meshing software featuring new native interfaces to computational fluid dynamics codes. The post Pointwise Improves...
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