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Brüel & Kjær joins the Altair Partner Alliance
From insideHPC

Brüel & Kjær joins the Altair Partner Alliance

Altair has announced that Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration Measurement has joined the Altair Partner Alliance (APA), bringing its noise, vibration and harshness (NVH)...

Video: PBS and Scheduling at NCI – The past, present and future
From insideHPC

Video: PBS and Scheduling at NCI – The past, present and future

"A university environment can be a challenge in many ways, with a wide variety of differing demands from more than a hundred different research groups, so how can...

Friday Squid Blogging; Giant Squid Sculpture at Burning Man
From Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging; Giant Squid Sculpture at Burning Man

It looks impressive, maybe 20-30 feet long: "I think this might be the coolest thing I have ever built," said Barry Crawford about his giant, metal squid that was...

More Assistants: IPSoft, Amelia and AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

More Assistants: IPSoft, Amelia and AI

Chetan Dube - CEO and president, IPsoft" ... For Chetan Dube, the dream of true artificial intelligence—a machine or program that does not simply regurgitate data...

Contract Guardian Updates
From The Eponymous Pickle

Contract Guardian Updates

My friends at Contract Guardian continue to meet the challenge of compliance in complex contractual and regulatory agreements.  Favorite topics of mine.  Check"...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Taming Some Inequalities

As used to solve a classic problem about distinguishing distributions Composite of src1, src2 Gregory Valiant and Paul Valiant are top researchers who are not unrelated...

From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP

Taming Some Inequalities

As used to solve a classic problem about distinguishing distributions Composite of src1, src2 Gregory Valiant and Paul Valiant are top researchers who are not unrelated...

Shell Oil Using Analytics
From The Eponymous Pickle

Shell Oil Using Analytics

How Shell Uses Analytics To Drive Business Success By Bernard Marr  in DSCThe oil and gas industries are facing major challenges - the costs of extraction are rising...

Philosopher looks at AI
From The Eponymous Pickle

Philosopher looks at AI

Will Artificial Intelligence Surpass Our Own?In Sciam: A philosopher worries about computers’ ever accelerating abilities to outpace human skills Sums it up quite...

Practical Bayesianism
From The Eponymous Pickle

Practical Bayesianism

This was hotly debated in a stat course way back when.   Latter part of this post is very technical, but the introduction is useful regardless.  Practical view...

SGI UV Helps Decode How Mutations Rewire Cancer Cells
From insideHPC

SGI UV Helps Decode How Mutations Rewire Cancer Cells

Linding Lab at the University of Copenhagen used an SGI UV system to discover how genetic diseases such as cancer systematically attack the networks controlling...

Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at BAE Systems
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at BAE Systems

BAE Systems in Salt Lake City is seeking an HPC Administrator in our Job of the Week. The post Job of the Week: HPC Systems Administrator at BAE Systems appeared...

Product Lifecycle Management Industry Newsletter
From The Eponymous Pickle

Product Lifecycle Management Industry Newsletter

I won't always pass these along, but just had to refer to the September PLM Industry Newsletter.  Interesting topics are covered in an capability we used in the...

CSTA K-12 CS Standards: We want your input!
From Computer Science Teachers Association

CSTA K-12 CS Standards: We want your input!

On December 1, 2011, the CSTA K-12 Computer Science Standards were released. These standards have been instrumental in assisting many schools, school systems, and...

Drone Speedboat
From Schneier on Security

Drone Speedboat

It's a thing....

IBM Acquires Strongloop for Digital Transformations
From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Acquires Strongloop for Digital Transformations

What is unclear here is how closely the processes in the enterprise are being modeled as part of such an effort.   Had always thought such modeling would be the...

Oak Ridge to Run ParallelWare on Titan
From insideHPC

Oak Ridge to Run ParallelWare on Titan

Today Oak Ridge announced approval of a project run ParallelWare from Appentra on the Titan Supercomputer. The project includes an allocation of 50,000 core hours...

IBM Power Systems Speed Online’s Bare Metal Cloud Environment
From insideHPC

IBM Power Systems Speed Online’s Bare Metal Cloud Environment

Today IBM announced that Online, a leading managed service provider in France, has selected IBM Power Systems to extend its service capabilities for customers who...

High Performance Cluster Computing Survey
From insideHPC

High Performance Cluster Computing Survey

Moving from a desktop oriented computing environment to a cluster based environment has it challenges for some organizations. However, a number of companies are...

CEO's Who Return. Seeking the Triumphant
From The Eponymous Pickle

CEO's Who Return. Seeking the Triumphant

In the New Yorker, featuring CEO  A.G. Lafley of Procter & Gamble.   A common discussion these days in former employee groups." ... How could someone who, according...
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