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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 …
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UK Atomic Weapons Establishment Signs up for SGI ICE XA Supercomputer
Today SGI announced that the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) will be one of the first customers to install SGI's record-breaking SGI ICE XA supercomputers...
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Video: Lustre Based Enterprise Storage – Tuning Clients for Optimal Performance
"The architecture of the ClusterStor product line builds on 25 years of experience with storage systems, Seagate (formerly Xyratex) and Lustre on a parallel open...
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Microsoft Update on RDMA
In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer’s Workshop, Tom Talpey from Microsoft presents: Microsoft Update on RDMA.The post Microsoft Update on RDMA appeared first...
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Is Europe Leading the Energy Efficiency Race?
Europe is notorious for its high energy costs. In the first of three articles on energy efficiency in high-performance computing, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing...
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Petroleum Geo-Services to Acquire 5 Petaflop Cray XC40
Today Cray announced a contract to provide Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS) with a 5 Petaflop Cray XC40 supercomputer. The system will be one of the largest supercomputers...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research drives IKEA’s global success
In a long Fortune Magazine article on IKEA’s successful global expansion, author Beth Kowitt devotes quite a few paragraphs to the importance of qualitative, ethnographic...
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Madeup: a Programming Language for Making Things Up
One of the things I have been wondering about is how to make a real connection between 3D printing and learning computer science. Sure most 3D printers are attached...
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Presentations online of IEA energy efficiency behaviour workshop
The 11th and 12th of March, the International Energy Agency [IEA] in Paris hosted a workshop on energy efficiency and behaviour in the buildings sector. The goal...
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Video: Dimensioning Data Centre Resiliency at CSCS
"The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) offers a range of computing and storage services to Swiss and international research communities. These services...
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Video: Welcome to the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference
In this video, Gilad Shainer and Hussein Harake kick off the 2015 HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference. The event will focus on High-Performance Computing...
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Computational Thinking With Wolfram Language
An excellent transcript (with pictures) of the talk and detailed demonstration given by Stephen Wolfram at the recent SXSW on their Wolfram Language. We looked...
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Leading with Strategic Thinking at Gillette
Via José Ignacio Sordo Galarza:I hope this note finds you in good health and spirits! If you recall right, almost 10 years ago, in early 2005 P&G agreed to acquire...
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Doctors are now inviting patients to help design their own medical treatment
In many hospitals and clinics around the [USA], oncologists and surgeons simply tell cancer patients what treatments they should have, or at least give them strong...
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Video: Adaptive Routing for Scalable Topologies
"Adaptive Routing has been added to the static routing capability available in previous switch families. InfiniBand supports moving traffic via multiple parallel...
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UK report on consumer problems in the mobile phone market
Calling the shots? is the title of a new Citizens Advice Bureau report that analyses consumer problems in the mobile phone market and explores opportunities for...
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Measuring experience
Over the summer of 2014, Northstar, in collaboration with the London School of Economics, conducted an ethnographic study at the Royal Academy of Arts, exploring...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Visualization
In Flowingdata: A short talk on visualization. Keeping people in the loop. Using their visualization skills. Well done. Key further is the direct connection...
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Personal Blogs
Despite many people running off to simpler models like Twitter and Tumblr, I still like personal blog. I can even to be said to collect them. Here is an example...
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Mellanox Demonstrates Next-Gen 100Gb/s LinkX Cables & Silicon Photonics Transceivers
Today Mellanox introduced three new LinkX 100Gb/s solutions with a live demonstration at the OFC 2015 Conference (Booth 2419).
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