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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 …
From insideHPC
Nvidia K80 GPUs Available on IBM Cloud
Today IBM announced that the company is now offering Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU accelerators on bare metal cloud servers. With the new offering, IBM Cloud is bringing...
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ISC 2015 to Draw 2600 HPC Enthusiasts Next Week
Today ISC 2015 forecasted that a record 2600 HPC enthusiasts from 53 countries and 153 exhibitors will make their way to Frankfurt for the ISC High PerformanceISC...
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Video: Simulating Cosmic Structure Formation
"Numerical simulations on supercomputers play an ever more important role in astrophysics. They have become the tool of choice to predict the non-linear outcome...
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New AMD FirePro S9170 GPU Sports 32GB Memory for HPC
“The AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU can accelerate complex workloads in scientific computing, data analytics, or seismic processing, wielding an industry-leading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Disney Data and Analytics Conference
I have heard Disney people talk on the topic a number of times, Interesting based just on the variety of businesses they are in and the variety of data being gathered...
From Schneier on Security
Amazon Is Analyzing the Personal Relationships of Its Reviewers
This is an interesting story of a reviewer who had her reviewer deleted because Amazon believed she knew the author personally. Leaving completely aside the ethics...
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Bright Computing Enhances Partner Program
Today Bright Computing announced that the company will roll out an enhanced partner program next week at ISC 2015 in Frankfurt. The post Bright Computing Enhances...
From Writing
From California to Italy
In one week, my girlfriend and I will be leaving California. We’ve sold just about everything we own. Our remaining earthly possessions fit into the back of mycross...
From Writing
From California to Italy
In one week, my girlfriend and I will be leaving California. We’ve sold just about everything we own. Our remaining earthly possessions fit into the back of mycross...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BBC Micro Bit Computer, Design and Intent
Teaching detailed computing to kids. I like the idea.In the BBC: The BBC has revealed the final design of the Micro Bit, a pocket-sized computer set to be given...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Job Announcement: Technology Policy Analyst
Prestigious educational, scientific, not-for-profit society for computing professionals seeks a highly motivated Policy Analyst to support its policy and government...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Reality and Nausea
In the CACM: Using virtual reality head mounted devices can give you motion sickness. An important negative for using VR, The article also contains a very good...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
It’s Worth A Try–Or Is It?
Is the BBC’s ‘Micro Bot’ the Silver Bullet). With a new set of announcements today the discussion has started again.There were a rash of comments on it in the CS...
From Schneier on Security
More on Hacking Team
Read this: Hacking Team asked its customers to shut down operations, but according to one of the leaked files, as part of Hacking Team's "crisis procedure," it...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benford's Law and Greece in the EU
Intriguing application of the little known Benford's law. A data science means for indicating falsified data. I am a follower of its application in practice....
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Slidecast: Numascale Achieves Record STREAM Benchmark
In this slidecast, Einar Rustad from Numascale describes how the company achieved a world-record on the McCalpin STREAM benchmark using their innovative scale-out...
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HPC Transforms for Researchers of Global Climate Change
"HPC is transforming our everyday lives, as well as our not-so-ordinary ones. From nanomaterials to jet aircrafts, from medical treatments to disaster preparedness...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Upcoming CCC Blue Sky Idea Tracks
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) sponsors an initiative to bring special “Blue Sky Ideas” tracks to leading computer science research conferences. The goal...
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ScaleMP Teams with Lenovo on Big Memory Systems
Today ScaleMP announced it is teaming with leading vendors at the ISC 2015 in Frankfurt to showcase the ability of very large memory systems to handle the mostScaleMP...
From The Eponymous Pickle