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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 13
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 13

Senate Floor: Every Child Achieves Act, S. 1177 Education legislation relevant to K-12 computer science courses and teachers. Tuesday, July 14, 2015 Hearing: Oversight...

CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Webinar
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Webinar

The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) program is for research and teaching faculty in the first two...

Seagate Adopts IBM Spectrum Scale GPFS
From insideHPC

Seagate Adopts IBM Spectrum Scale GPFS

Today Seagate announced it is integrating IBM Spectrum Scale software with its ClusterStor HPC storage to deliver a new software defined storage appliance. TheSeagate...

What is real programming?
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

What is real programming?

I’m tempted to just leave the question there, get some popcorn and watch sparks fly. A lot of discussion on more or less that topic in the comments on a blog post...

Marianos Supermarket Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

Marianos Supermarket Experience

I am used to Jungle Jim's nearby, which does provide experience, but here is yet more.Via Steve Frenda, The Path to Purchase Institute:Mariano's latest... A supermarket...

The Zen of the Apple Store Experience
From The Eponymous Pickle

The Zen of the Apple Store Experience

Agreed, have a number of times visited an Apple store and asked myself, How could a retailer match this?  Its a novel experience, linked to some novel offerings...

Talk on the Digital Age
From The Eponymous Pickle

Talk on the Digital Age

Recent talk by my colleague Suna Polat from CimData on innovation in a digital age.   As it relates to PLM.   Slides and audio. Nicely done.  Also some interesting...

Latest HPCG Performance List Complements TOP500
From insideHPC

Latest HPCG Performance List Complements TOP500

The latest High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) Benchmark list will be announced in a special session this week at ISC 2015. This is the third list produced...

Interesting Links 13 July 2015
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 13 July 2015

Usually I write these up on Sunday so it will be ready first thing in the morning on Monday. This week I am at the annual CSTA Conference and I was in networking...

From Computational Complexity

Is there an easier proof? A less messy proof?

Consider the following statement: BEGIN STATEMENT: For all a,b,c, the equations x + y + z = a x2 +y2 + z2 = b x3 + y3 + z3 = c has a unique solution (uphere...

Numascale Sets New World Record on STREAM Benchmark
From insideHPC

Numascale Sets New World Record on STREAM Benchmark

Today Numascale announced record-breaking results from a shared memory system running the McCalpin STREAM Benchmark, a synthetic benchmark program that measures...

IBM and NVIDIA Launch Centers of Excellence at ORNL and LLNL
From insideHPC

IBM and NVIDIA Launch Centers of Excellence at ORNL and LLNL

Today IBM along with Nvidia and two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories today announced a pair of Centers of Excellence for supercomputing – one atIBM...

Study Confirms Critical Need for Computer Science Evaluation Tools
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Study Confirms Critical Need for Computer Science Evaluation Tools

A recent study released by the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) highlights the need for valid and reliable source assessment of student learning and...

Penguin Computing Boosts Tundra Open Compute Servers with ThunderX Processors
From insideHPC

Penguin Computing Boosts Tundra Open Compute Servers with ThunderX Processors

Today Penguin Computing announced the availability of their Open Compute Project (OCP) compliant Tundra server family based on Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX workload...

Slidecast: HPC & Big Data Update from HP
From insideHPC

Slidecast: HPC & Big Data Update from HP

"As data explodes in volume, velocity and variety, and the processing requirements to address business challenges become more sophisticated, the line between traditional...

HP and Intel Team on Scalable System Framework
From insideHPC

HP and Intel Team on Scalable System Framework

HP is bringing Intel's Scalable System Framework to its HP Apollo servers. The post HP and Intel Team on Scalable System Framework appeared first on insideHPC. ...

Why are microwave ovens all so difficult to use?
From Putting People First

Why are microwave ovens all so difficult to use?

The first ‘science oven’, launched in 1967, was simple to use but then digital interfaces came along and made things worse. The real problem, according to Charles...

Allinea Releases ARM 64-bit Development Tool Suite
From insideHPC

Allinea Releases ARM 64-bit Development Tool Suite

Today Allinea Software announced that their Allinea Forge development tool suite is now available for ARM platforms. The tool suite, renowned for its ability to...

TACC to Acquire Cray XC40 Supercomputer
From insideHPC

TACC to Acquire Cray XC40 Supercomputer

Today Cray announced the Company has been awarded a contract to provide a Cray XC40 supercomputer to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). This contract marks...

Offload vs Onload: How Mellanox Champions Flexibility and Scalability
From insideHPC

Offload vs Onload: How Mellanox Champions Flexibility and Scalability

In this video, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox discusses how the company's off-load model of InfiniBand reduces overhead on the CPU and provides maximum application...
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