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Idaho National Lab Deploys SGI ICE X Supercomputer

Today Idaho National Laboratory (INL) announced that the lab has deployed an SGI ICE X supercomputer to power nuclear reactor simulations. Supplied through SGI's... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | June 10, 2015 at 11:32 AM

From insideHPC

PRACEdays15 Puts the Spotlight on Irish HPC

In this report from PRACEdays15 conference in Dublin last week, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World looks at the role of HPC in the host country, Ireland... staff
From insideHPC | June 10, 2015 at 11:03 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

SAP Previews new Analytics Tools

Appears also be trying to deliver more automated data science tools for specific usage templates:SAP previews new analytics tools for IT, business usersSAP hasFor... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 10, 2015 at 09:46 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Designing Happiness

In FastCoDesign: Good thoughts on the topic. " ... Designing Happiness ... The Secret to Customer Loyalty? It's less about the moment of interaction and... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 10, 2015 at 08:27 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Building Robotic Pants

In CACM:Scientists at the University of Bristol have developed robotic pants with built-in artificial muscles designed to aid the elderly or people with disabilities... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 10, 2015 at 07:48 AM

From Schneier on Security

Should Companies Do Most of Their Computing in the Cloud? (Part 1)

Yes. No. Yes. Maybe. Yes. Okay, it's complicated. The economics of cloud computing are compelling. For companies, the lower operating costs, the lack of capital... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | June 10, 2015 at 07:43 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Improving Network Security with Big Data

Good examples:Having a secure network is vital in today’s digital landscape and with so many headlines about data breaches and identity theft, security is of the... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 10, 2015 at 07:40 AM

From insideHPC

Video: Towards Inevitable Convergence of HPC and Big Data

Satoshi Matsuoka from the Tokyo Institute of Technology discusses Big Data at the NCSA Blue Waters Symposium. "The trend towards convergence is not only strategic... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | June 10, 2015 at 07:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

AI Can Delegate Work

AI Can now Delegate WorkBrought to my attention in an HBR ArticleAI Is Getting Good Enough to Delegate the Work It Can’t Do, by Katherine BarrMy thoughts: As we... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2015 at 11:48 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Wal-Mart Facts

In Fortune. It's the largest company in the world, and a number of other fun numbers of impressive scale. Ending with: " .... It hasn’t grown nearly as much... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2015 at 06:58 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

How Fast are Things Changing?

Potentially very fast, a simple view of the rate of change in computing power since 1940 to get to a computer processing roughly to the speed of a human brain... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2015 at 06:39 PM

From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Aging is a software bug

In my review of the movie Tomorrowland, I alluded to the fact that in the alternate world, people could stay young by drinking orange juice every morning. I conjectured... Daniel Lemire
From Daniel Lemire's Blog | June 9, 2015 at 05:18 PM

From insideHPC

Power8 Sets World Records on STAC-A2 Benchmarks

Over at the Smarter Computing Blog, IBM's Sumit Gupta writes that newly published STAC-A2 benchmarks show that POWER8-based system server can deliver more thanPower8... staff
From insideHPC | June 9, 2015 at 01:48 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

WATCH Talk- Cybersecurity for the Internet of Everything (IoE)

The next WATCH Talk, called Cybersecurity for the Internet of Everything (IoE), is Thursday, June 18, 12:00-1:00 PM EST. The presenter is Bret Hartman, the Vice... Helen Wright
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | June 9, 2015 at 01:47 PM

From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

A Classroom Game to Teach Data Representation With Images

Our Gram's House team has been working on three classroom games designed to teach middle school girls about computer science principles. One game intends to teach... Gail Carmichael
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science | June 9, 2015 at 01:36 PM

From insideHPC

Cisco Joins CERN openlab

Today, Cisco announced it is joining CERN openlab, CERN's platform for science and industry partnerships. The post Cisco Joins CERN openlab appeared first on insideHPC... staff
From insideHPC | June 9, 2015 at 01:26 PM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 8

Monday, June 8, 2015 Congressional briefing: Carnegie Mellon University and IEEE-USA on “What Can Be Done Today to Dramatically Improve Cybersecurity” with Jeremy... Renee Dopplick
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | June 9, 2015 at 12:43 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Tesco Tries in Aisle Rolling Robotics

In CWorld: Six foot tall robots, not really human-like android, more like large vacuum cleaners. Possibly scaring the Tesco shoppers? At least this could open... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | June 9, 2015 at 12:42 PM

From insideHPC

Bright Cluster Manager Speeds Deployment of Apache Hadoop

Today Bright Computing announced a significant update to distribution-agnostic Bright Cluster Manager for Apache Hadoop at the Hadoop Summit North America 2015.... staff
From insideHPC | June 9, 2015 at 12:33 PM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Washington News – Alerts and Updates

General Announcements * USACM signed a letter to President Obama from a variety of civil society organizations urging him to reject proposals that require U.S.... Renee Dopplick
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | June 9, 2015 at 11:40 AM