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Kroger Loyalty Program Ranks High
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kroger Loyalty Program Ranks High

In Adage:  " ... Kroger was among the brands with the highest-rated loyalty programs in various categories, according to a survey by Bond Brand Loyalty, with Amazon...

Predicting Future Business
From The Eponymous Pickle

Predicting Future Business

In the HBR:   Good overview of the nature of forecasting, including how Machine Learning will influence the future of doing a better job.  Several technology areas...

Shashi Shekhar Recieves UCGIS Top Education Honor
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Shashi Shekhar Recieves UCGIS Top Education Honor

The University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) Awards Program identifies and honors members of the geospatial community who have extraordinary...

Must Have Data Linked to Must Need Decisions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Must Have Data Linked to Must Need Decisions

In Forbes: Predictive Analytics And Novel Visualization Draw Customers To 'Must Have' DataIts about the data and the decision. And the tools needed to connect them...

China's Great Cannon
From Schneier on Security

China's Great Cannon

Citizen Lab has issued a report on China's "Great Cannon" attack tool, used in the recent DDoS attack against GitHub. We show that, while the attack infrastructure...

Open Computing Benefits Many Industry Segments
From insideHPC

Open Computing Benefits Many Industry Segments

The Open Compute Project is a way for organization to increase computing power while lowering associated costs with hyper-scale computing. This article is the 4th...

Video: Steve Simms Teaches Lustre 101 at LUG 2015
From insideHPC

Video: Steve Simms Teaches Lustre 101 at LUG 2015

In this video, Steve Simms from Indiana University kicks off LUG 2015 with a talk on Lustre 101. "Lustre is a mature and stable file system that through its developers...

Radio Free HPC Looks at the Aurora Supercomputer Coming to Argonne in 2018
From insideHPC

Radio Free HPC Looks at the Aurora Supercomputer Coming to Argonne in 2018

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the 180 Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne in 2018. "As the third of three Coral supercomputer procurements...

Feds Restrict Intel Processors in China
From insideHPC

Feds Restrict Intel Processors in China

Intel has been banned by the US Government from selling any more Xeon processors for use in the world's fastest supercomputer, the Tiahane-2 'Milky Way' machine...

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

Interesting Links 13 April 2015

Spring may actually be coming. Only of few piles of snow left on my property and I was able to take done the Christmas lights on the tree in front of my house.TouchDevelop...

A Tutorial in R for Beginners
From The Eponymous Pickle

A Tutorial in R for Beginners

In Datacamp.  Good piece.   Simple and straightforward look at how to do machine learning in R.  Step by step, includes evaluation of the model results.

Making Open Data Work with Visualization
From The Eponymous Pickle

Making Open Data Work with Visualization

In Federal Times: The DATA Act legislation means that federal agencies need to make their data open to the public: government leaders, watchdog groups, journalists...

Remembering Payday
From Wild WebMink

Remembering Payday

Wanting to remember to run the payroll for my company, I was amazed to discover that Google Calendar does not offer any way to create a recurring calendar entry...

RSC Leads Russian Supercomputer Market
From insideHPC

RSC Leads Russian Supercomputer Market

According to the latest edition of the local Top50 list of the most powerful supercomputers in Russia and CIS region, RSC has increased its share by 80%.The post...

Amazon Launches Machine Learning as a Service
From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Launches Machine Learning as a Service

An interesting competitive proposition.  Machine Learning as a Service,  From clear experts in the field.  You add the data and decision expertise.   More companies...

Future of Print Newspapers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Print Newspapers

A Darker narrative on the future of print.  In the NYT opinion page ,by Clay Shirky.   It will not go away, but will continue to be marginalized.   A look at the...

Video: How Aurora Will Usher in a New Era for HPC
From insideHPC

Video: How Aurora Will Usher in a New Era for HPC

"The selection of Intel to deliver the Aurora supercomputer is validation of our unique position to lead a new era in HPC,” said Raj Hazra, vice president, Data...

Cautions for Solving Big Data Problems
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cautions for Solving Big Data Problems

Good earlier piece by Vincent Granville I had reason to review,  He writes:" ... This seminal article highlights the dangers of reckless applications and scaling...

Job of the Week: HPC Software Engineer at SchedMD
From insideHPC

Job of the Week: HPC Software Engineer at SchedMD

SchedMD in Livermore, California is seeking an HPC Software Engineer in our Job of the Week.The post Job of the Week: HPC Software Engineer at SchedMD appearedinsideHPC...

Steve Omohundro on Smart Contracts
From The Eponymous Pickle

Steve Omohundro on Smart Contracts

Short piece on talk by Steve Omohundro at Stanford School of Business on Smart Contracts, AI, and Robotics.   ( Awaiting link for talk recording ).
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