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From The Noisy Channel

Which Blowhard Are You?

I’m a few weeks late to find this flow chart in Wired to tell you which blowhard you are (I’d only seen a small subset of it before). Find out if you are Chris... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 13, 2009 at 04:03 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Transparency or FAIL

I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 13, 2009 at 03:26 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Transparency or FAIL

I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 13, 2009 at 03:26 PM

From The Noisy Channel

Transparency or FAIL

I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the... Daniel Tunkelang
From The Noisy Channel | April 13, 2009 at 03:26 PM

From insideHPC

A visual timeline of the rise and sale of

Inspired by the text timeline that Siliconvalley.com (a publication of the Mercury News) put out on 01 April, I’ve created a graphical timeline of the rise and... John West
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 03:23 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Pharmaceutical Compliance

Compliance in pharma is about determining if people take their medications according to schedule. Efforts like the 'smart' medicine cabinet have been demonstrated... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | April 13, 2009 at 03:22 PM

From insideHPC

CilkArts: The Voodoo that You

Matteo Frigo of CilkArts has posted a very detailed account of why certain idiosyncrasies exist in the Cilk language constructs as well as its C++ parent. For those... John Leidel
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 02:35 PM

From insideHPC

University of Michigan Scores a

The University of Michigan Center for Arrythmia Research is has announced their use of a SiCortex machine dedicated to the study of heart arrhythmia. John Leidel
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 01:53 PM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Unilever and Logistics

Good overview of what Unilever is doing in logistics, in Consumer Goods Technology. Nothing very surpirsing here, covers their work with BravoSolution. " ... The... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | April 13, 2009 at 01:44 PM

From insideHPC

Addison Snell remembers

Addison Snell, now of Tabor Research, but once of SGI, remembers his time at SGI and offers his view of what went wrong: Do you know what the saddest part is of... John West
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 01:43 PM

From insideHPC

Mathematica

My latest features are up at HPCwire. In “Mathematica takes on parallelism” I discuss last November’s announcement of Mathematica 7, and how it bakes parallelism... John West
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 01:31 PM

From insideHPC

Yahoo! brings in four universities into cloud research

The Yahoo! M45 project (also part of the Open Cirrus cloud effort funded by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel and hosted at facilities around the world) just took a pretty... John West
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 01:28 PM

From Wild WebMink

The "yes I was on the web over Easter" link selection

Statebook Excellent visualisation of what the government will do with all the data that's being gathered for various reasons. It's not the individual feeds that... webmink
From Wild WebMink | April 13, 2009 at 12:52 PM

From insideHPC

IBM stream computing prototype achieves big performance boost for TD

In March of last year I began writing about an IBM research effort to develop a new hardware and software architecture for ingesting and analysing large scale streams... John West
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM

From insideHPC

Mentoring workshop for students seeking careers in high performance

NCSA is announcing a mentoring workshop to be held alongside their upcoming accelerator symposium A FREE mentoring workshop for undergraduate and graduate students... John West
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM

From insideHPC

There is a right way, and a wrong way, to

Dan Reed reposted an essay on his blog that recently appeared at the CACM blog in which he talks about the shortcuts (my word, not his) we took to get to petascale... John West
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM

From insideHPC

Nehalem memory cheat

Doug at ClusterMonkey pointed us to a Nehalem memory cheat sheet put together for Dell’s technology wiki by Jeff Layton. The writeup looks like a pretty complete... John West
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 09:16 AM

From Putting People First

Thinking about the future of news

The current paradigm of creating of serious news stories — through newspapers and big media — is under threat. Here is a haul of background on the matter (from... Experientia
From Putting People First | April 13, 2009 at 07:01 AM

From insideHPC

WRF Goes Version

The WRF development team [through the WRF mailing list] has announced the release of the Weather Research Forecast code version 3.1. John Leidel
From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 02:25 AM

From The Eponymous Pickle

Collaboration Curves

Interesting piece that looks at the implications of collaboration. In the enterprise this is an increasing issue, especially when people are only distantly connected... Franz Dill
From The Eponymous Pickle | April 12, 2009 at 11:44 PM