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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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CUDA 2.2 beta
HPCwire today is carrying a news release from NVIDIA about the release of the latest beta version of CUDA. Some of the new features: Hardware debugger for the...
From Putting People First
European internet trends today and tomorrow
Microsoft just published a rather thorough report on the future developments of the internet across Europe. In the report, Microsoft analyses the differences in...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why are dynamic languages easier than static languages?
Dynamic langages like Python or Ruby are considerably easier than static languages like Java and C++. John is asking us why: How do you account for the huge increases...
From insideHPC
10th WRF User
Just announced via the WRF mailing list is the 10th WRF User’s Workshop meeting.
From Wild WebMink
On Sun's Board?
On Monday and Tuesday I had calls from a persistent journalist trying to get me to comment on the rumoured IBM/Sun negotiations. My reply was the same as it has...
From insideHPC
Clouds, virtualization, and all
Sun’s HPC Watercooler points today to a webcast created by Jonathan Eunice (Illuminata) and Dan Olds (Gabriel Consulting) called “Cloud, virtualization, and All...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lite Business Intelligence
Newly discovered: LiteBI. A form of simplified business intelligence as a service. Also their blog. Taking a look now, would be interesting to see how thisPentaho...
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Intel
At IDF in Beijing Intel’s Pat Geslinger announced today that Ct will show up in a new parallel programming product scheduled to be in beta later this year Intel...
From insideHPC
SDSC
Found at HPCwire today The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego announced today that its director, Fran Berman, will...
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Sun comments on HPC sales team growth in face of
On Monday I commented on a post on Marc Hamilton’s blog in which he outlined a reorganization in the HPC sales organization to focus on that area as a growth activity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enriched Loyalty Card
From RetailWire. A new idea. A loyalty card with some additional benefits, such as low price guarantee if the price decreases within 7 days. Still is not about...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Its official: the standard programming language for multidimensional databases is MDX
Julian Hyde just announced that Oracle will support MDX: they were the last vendor to resist this Microsoft technology.
From insideHPC
Google Data Center
Alongside last week’s release of details on their proprietary data center technology, Google has released a video tour of a large data center example.
From insideHPC
Using HPC to visualize cultural
The High Performance Computing Program established jointly by the DOE and the National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced the first recipients of grants...
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ISC
The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), to be held this year in Hamburg, Germany, has announced its focus areas (PDF) for the summer conference In addition...
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Sun Dial, a mobile application to alert muslims to prayer
Religious technology may seem like an oxymoron, but as more people obtain mobile phones, iPhones and other devices to help them manage their lives, it’s only natural...
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Service design as the design of activity systems
Jeff Howard draws attention to a recent service design paper by Daniela Sangiorgi of Lancaster University: “Dr. Daniela Sangiorgi’s 2008 presentation from ISDN3...
From Springenwerk Blog
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Deliberately Insecure Web Applications For Learning Web App Security (WebGoat, BadStore, Hacme, SecuriBench, WebMaven) Irongeek's Information Security site with...
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