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From The Eponymous Pickle

Pringles as Global Kelloggs Snack Equity

Was a participant in the design of Pringles supply chain. I saw first hand how widely it was sold in Japan. In clothing stores? It is interesting to see how... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 25, 2015 at 12:55 PM

From insideHPC

Mellanox Shows Record Performance with ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Interconnect Adapters

Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand adapters. staff
From insideHPC | February 25, 2015 at 12:51 PM

From insideHPC

DDN Powers Fight Against Ebola at VBI

Today DDN announced that the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute is using the company's GRIScaler storage solutions to perform rapid, accurate Ebola outbreak modeling... staff
From insideHPC | February 25, 2015 at 12:43 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Status and New Product Adoption

In Knowledge@Wharton: " ... Certain consumers are keen about adopting new products and are prone to mimicking the product choices of others. But when it comes to... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 25, 2015 at 12:43 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Hospitality Innovation at Starwood

We worked with groups in the hospitality industry to brainstorm the future of business mobility. So the industry has always fascinated me. Now in McKinsey: ... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 25, 2015 at 12:34 PM

From insideHPC

NERSC Honors HPC Achievement Award Winners

This week NERSC announced the winners of its third annual HPC Achievement Awards. The awards recognize NERSC users who have demonstrated an innovative use of HPC... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 25, 2015 at 11:44 AM

From insideHPC

Penguin Computing Launches Scyld ClusterWare for Hadoop

Today Penguin Computing announced Scyld ClusterWare for Hadoop, adding greater capability to the company’s existing Scyld ClusterWare high performance computing... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 25, 2015 at 10:48 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

A Look at Correlation

A useful, only mildly technical tutorial by Vincent Granville. How can you determine if a correlation is spurious? Understanding this point is one of the most... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 25, 2015 at 08:37 AM

From Schneier on Security

"Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems"

New paper: "Surreptitiously Weakening Cryptographic Systems," by Bruce Schneier, Matthew Fredrikson, Tadayoshi Kohno, and Thomas Ristenpart. Abstract: Revelations... Bruce Schneier
From Schneier on Security | February 25, 2015 at 07:09 AM

From insideHPC

Video: Assisting User’s Transition to Titan’s Accelerated Architecture

In this video from the University of Houston CACDS HPC Workshop, Fernanda Foertter from ORNL presents: Leveraging Leadership Computing Facilities: Assisting User's... Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 25, 2015 at 07:00 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Storytelling, Context and Persuasion

All data tells a story, in a context, and suggests a future." ... In a world increasingly saturated with data and information, visualizations are a potent wayCombining... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 25, 2015 at 12:30 AM

From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Washington News – Alerts and Updates

* USACM sent congratulatory letters to the three new Commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The letter recommends reestablishing the Technical... Renee Dopplick
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | February 24, 2015 at 10:50 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

The Yo Store

Why? , its a one stop shopping place for sensing online events. In Fastcompany. " ... Eight months after bewildering the tech world, Yo is getting a substantial... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 24, 2015 at 07:19 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G's Strategic CIO

In CIO Mag:by Phil Weinzimer: P&G's Filippo Passerini Stands Out as Stellar Example of a Strategic CIO ... I didn't know what to expect when Procter & Gamble... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 24, 2015 at 06:53 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Graph Databases and Modeling the Internet of Things

Have had a number of conversations on the use of graphical databases lately. It is a good technology to understand. It works well with anything that is interconnected... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 24, 2015 at 06:17 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Building a Mobile Supply Chain

By their nature, supply chains are mobile and real time:" .... Embracing mobility promises to increase visibility and responsiveness in the supply chain when properly... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 24, 2015 at 05:40 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Searching on Amazon vs Google

Thought about this the other day. Where do I search? Google, Amazon, Wikipedia. My own blog posts. I typically categorize my search need quickly to make... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | February 24, 2015 at 05:36 PM

From insideHPC

Three GPU Hackathons Going Global with OpenACC

NCSA, ORNL, and CSCS will host a series of GPU Hackathons in 2015. Rich Brueckner
From insideHPC | February 24, 2015 at 04:51 PM

From XRDS

Using static analysis to evaluate Java exception handling

Static analysis is a method that one can use in order to analyze, understand, and assess the quality of a program. The main strength of static analysis is the pinpointing... Maria Kechagia
From XRDS | February 24, 2015 at 03:27 PM

From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

CCC Aging in Place Workshop Report

The organizing committee for the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Trans-NIH/Interagency Workshop on the Use and Development of Assistive Technology for the... Helen Wright
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 24, 2015 at 02:51 PM