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From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Customers for Innovation Leverage

In part how our innovation centers were used. HBR article goes on to give more of the how.Win Over Executives by Proving Customers Support Your Ideaby Ron Ashkenas... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 14, 2015 at 12:24 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmenting Human Experience

Augmenting the human experience: AR, wearable tech, and the IoTAs augmented reality technologies emerge, we must place the focus on serving human needs. by Helen... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 14, 2015 at 08:48 AM

From insideHPC

Invest in Supercomputers, Not Chillers

By using Direct-to-Chip liquid cooling, Mississippi State University was able to purchase more servers by minimizing the capital spent to cool the data center.Invest... staff
From insideHPC | July 14, 2015 at 08:07 AM

From insideHPC

Penguin Computing Announces Extreme Density 1U GPU Server

Today Penguin Computing announced the Relion 1904GT server, which packs four GPU accelerators in a 1U form factor. As the company's densest 1U GPU server, Relion... staff
From insideHPC | July 14, 2015 at 08:00 AM

From insideHPC

Univa Grid Engine Adds Preemption Feature to Increase Cluster Efficiency

Today Univa announced availability of its much anticipated Preemption feature for Univa Grid Engine. Preemption, in combination with Universal Resource Broker,Univa... staff
From insideHPC | July 14, 2015 at 08:00 AM

From insideHPC

New UCX Network Communication Framework for Next-Gen Programming Models

UCX is a collaboration between industry, laboratories, and academia to create an open-source production grade communication framework for HPC applications. "The... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 14, 2015 at 07:39 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

BBC Micro:bit Revisited

At the CSTA Conference I had a long chat with Peli de Halleux from the TouchDevelop team about the BBC Micro:bit. Peli has been active in TouchDevelop and the BBC... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 14, 2015 at 07:34 AM

From insideHPC

Video: Seagate Teams with HP for ClusterStor

"At ISC 2015, Seagate announced that the company has extended its alliance agreement with computing leader HP to equip its high performance computing solutionsVideo... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 14, 2015 at 07:30 AM

From Schneier on Security

Human and Technology Failures in Nuclear Facilities

This is interesting: We can learn a lot about the potential for safety failures at US nuclear plants from the July 29, 2012, incident in which three religious activists... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 14, 2015 at 06:53 AM

From insideHPC

DDN Rolls Out World’s Fastest Entry-Level Lustre Appliance

Today DDN rolled out a new entry-level, turnkey Lustre storage appliance at ISC 2015. "As a founding member of OpenSFS, DDN was the first storage vendor to support... staff
From insideHPC | July 14, 2015 at 06:50 AM

From Putting People First

The ethics of digital design

Designers, writes Cennydd Bowles in a Design Council opinion piece, have a central role in safeguarding digital products so they not only empower but also protect... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 14, 2015 at 04:12 AM

From insideHPC

Announcing Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 for HPC

Today Bright Computing rolled out Version 7.1 of Bright Cluster Manager for HPC at ISC 2015. The event will be held July 12-16, 2015, in Frankfurt, Germany. Drop... staff
From insideHPC | July 14, 2015 at 03:15 AM

From Putting People First

Smart Cities will know everything about you

So, asks consultant Mike Weston, how can marketers cash in without becoming enemies of the people? Wistron writes that the law will be too slow to catch up with... Experientia
From Putting People First | July 14, 2015 at 03:12 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Analytics Under Cortana, Adds Apark

Does this imply that their new analytics will be strongly voice driven? Fascinating idea that will require some cognitive depth and context? How will this... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 14, 2015 at 02:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Using Twitter as a Social Research Tool

Useful Tools Overview: " ... The popularity of social media sites and the ease at which its data is available means these platforms are increasingly becoming primary... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 14, 2015 at 12:38 AM

From insideHPC

Speaker Lineup Announced for OpenMPCon Developer Conference

Today the OpenMP Architecture Review Board (ARB) announced the full line-up of world-class keynote speakers, technical presentations, tutorials and panel sessions... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | July 13, 2015 at 08:37 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Nestle Opens Digital Innovation Office

A number of companies I know have taken similar action. We did this informally for a long time. Such teams should look at a number of global locations: NestléThe... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 13, 2015 at 05:28 PM

From insideHPC

Energy Efficient Supercomputing

While large scale supercomputing centers continue to push the boundaries of the ability to process numerical information, either HPC like or Big Data like, a concern... MichaelS
From insideHPC | July 13, 2015 at 05:04 PM

From Schneier on Security

NSA Antennas

Interesting article on the NSA's use of multi-beam antennas for surveillance. Certainly smart technology; it can eavesdrop on multiple targets per antenna. I'm... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | July 13, 2015 at 04:01 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Store Data Meaningful

In the Cisco Blog: Somewhat obvious, but deserves to be thought through. For origin and comparison of data. Consider also related metadata that will make it meaningful... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | July 13, 2015 at 03:38 PM