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From The Eponymous Pickle

RFID at Item Level Reaching Tipping Point

For years starting in 2000, we predicted the near approach of common item level RFID use in retail. It eventually became much more common at the pallet andIn... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 31, 2015 at 01:32 PM

From insideHPC

Video: The InfiniBand Subnet Manager from Fabriscale

In this video from the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, Tor Skeie from Simula Laboratory presents: The InfiniBand Subnet Manager from Fabriscale... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | March 31, 2015 at 01:31 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Watson Cognitive is Part of Cloud Service

Some of the functionality of IBM's Watson is available on their cloud. More on this in Computerworld. Have worked with this for a while now. The services are... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 31, 2015 at 12:26 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Virtual Reality Big Data Analytics

Have mentioned experiments we did in this space, Which were not successful. Primarily because you already needed to be in this reality to make it work. Once... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 31, 2015 at 12:06 PM

From insideHPC

InsideHPC Guide to Genomics

Processing complex genomic data sets requires massive compute power, storage and network capabilities. Getting the balance right is critical to success. The insideHPC... MichaelS
From insideHPC | March 31, 2015 at 11:30 AM

From insideHPC

SGI to Boost Pangea Supercomputer to 6.7 Petaflops

"When we began our relationship with Total more than 15 years ago, our goal was to continually provide the capacity and power required for the company to pursue... staff
From insideHPC | March 31, 2015 at 11:18 AM

From insideHPC

Europe Seeks Routes to Saving Energy in HPC

In the second in this series of articles on ways to save energy in computing, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World reports on how Europe is looking to both... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | March 31, 2015 at 11:10 AM

From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Every Character Matters

My Explorations in Computer Science class is creating web pages this week. This is a fairly short unit and we don’t get very deep at all. Our hope is to give students... Alfred Thompson
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 31, 2015 at 10:20 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

IBM Throws $3B into the Internet of Things

Not an unexpected direction, maps well with some of their other efforts. " ... Big Blue is a keen adherent of the idea that connected devices (be they sensors... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 31, 2015 at 08:59 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Big Data Videos

A selection of big Data Videos:" .... Whether you’re entirely new to the field of big data, or looking to expand your machine learning knowledge; whether you have... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 31, 2015 at 08:37 AM

From Schneier on Security

Australia Outlaws Warrant Canaries

In the US, certain types of warrants can come with gag orders preventing the recipient from disclosing the existence of warrant to anyone else. A warrant canary... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | March 31, 2015 at 08:19 AM

From insideHPC

Video: NVM Express Introduction and Tutorial

NVM Express is a specification for accessing solid-state drives (SSDs) attached through the PCI Express (PCIe) bus. "NVM" stands as an acronym for non-volatileVideo... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | March 31, 2015 at 07:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Amazon Launches Home Services

Amazon Home Services. Have done some work with Amazon buying sites. Now they have launched an offering similar to Angies List. On the surface of it, very nicely... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 30, 2015 at 07:47 PM

From insideHPC

Open Computing Drives Innovation and Efficiency

The Open Compute Project Foundation was created to design the most efficient server, storage and related designs for the next generation of data centers in an open... MichaelS
From insideHPC | March 30, 2015 at 05:30 PM

From insideHPC

OCF Builds CFD-ready Lenovo HPC Appliance

Lenovo is now offering the UK’s first ANSYS CFD-ready HPC appliance designed to ease cluster deployment while boosting engineering productivity.The post OCF Builds... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | March 30, 2015 at 03:45 PM

From Computational Complexity

Intuitive Proofs

As I mentioned a few months ago, I briefly joined an undergraduate research seminar my freshman year at Cornell. In that seminar I was asked if a two-dimensional... Lance Fortnow
From Computational Complexity | March 30, 2015 at 02:36 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Kraft Data Based Marketing

An example of data driven marketing, from Kraft. " ... The company was wedded to a TV-centric model, wasn’t committed to measurement, and thought of media buying... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 30, 2015 at 02:06 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Persuasive Technology

A long time favorite topic. How can technology persuade? Special Report from the MIT technology review.Persuasive technologies surround us, and they’re growing... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 30, 2015 at 02:00 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Financial Effect of Information Management

White paper: A Forrester study determines the impact of solving business problemsBy IBMdatamag News Desk on January 30, 2015Understanding the impact on finances... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | March 30, 2015 at 01:59 PM

From XRDS

Providing feedback in the classroom

In my previous post, I discussed some current and ongoing research on effective pedagogical approaches to STEM education. The problems in STEM education have gained... Olivia
From XRDS | March 30, 2015 at 01:11 PM