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ORNL & Morehouse to Offer Supercomputing
From insideHPC

ORNL & Morehouse to Offer Supercomputing

Morehouse College computer science seniors now have their own supercomputing class in the catalogue.

Intel to Invest $7 Billion in US
From insideHPC

Intel to Invest $7 Billion in US

Intel CEO Paul Otellini announced yesterday that the company has planned to spend roughly $7 billion over the next two years to build advanced manufacturing facilities...

Link roundup after travelling too much
From Wild WebMink

Link roundup after travelling too much

TripIt API Documentation - v1More web end-points for cloud applications. This is the path to the future of cloud.A Twitter Decision"Twitter spam. Really? Are you...

From Springenwerk Blog

Links for 2009-02-11 [del.icio.us]

RailsLab .:. Scaling Rails - RailsLab Scaling Rails screencasts produced by Gregg Pollack and supported by New Relic

The Third Wave on Video
From Wild WebMink

The Third Wave on Video

While I was in Australia I recorded this video with the essence of my talk about the third wave of free and open source software and the adoption-led trend andfreedom...

Brain Processing Subliminal Messages
From The Eponymous Pickle

Brain Processing Subliminal Messages

Roger Dooley posts on the processing of subliminal messages by the brain. Based on a 2007 University College London Study. It is known that the brain reacts to...

Berkeley report calls for standard cloud API to drive
From insideHPC

Berkeley report calls for standard cloud API to drive

Well, it looks like someone at the EE Times hit the publish button a few hours early, since they refer to a press release for tomorrow in the present tense. But...

Using virtualization to make many servers look like one
From insideHPC

Using virtualization to make many servers look like one

ScaleMP founder and CEO Shai Fultheim has an article today at the Virtualization Journal extolling the benefits of using server virtualization to aggregate many...

Timelapse installation of Ireland
From insideHPC

Timelapse installation of Ireland

Last week SGI posted a release about the installation of a 2,500 core Altix ICE in Ireland last November. The system peaks at 25 TFLOPS, and made it to slot 117...

Concurrent Thinking updates cluster
From insideHPC

Concurrent Thinking updates cluster

UK-based Concurrent Thinking announced this week the release of the latest version of their cluster appliances. From the release …these bring unprecedented simplicity...

Leadership Cohort Update - February 2009
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Leadership Cohort Update - February 2009

Since the beginning of January, Leadership Cohort members have been instrumental in establishing new local chapters for the Southern New Jersey Shore and Houston...

Congress Finalizes Massive Boost in Science Funding
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Congress Finalizes Massive Boost in Science Funding

Late last night Congress released the first high-level details on the final agreement for the American Recovery and Reinvestment package. (For background, this...

Seismic shift in Internet age mass
From Putting People First

Seismic shift in Internet age mass


Harsh Truths About Corporate Web Sites
From The Eponymous Pickle

Harsh Truths About Corporate Web Sites

An interesting article. Has some good points. One thing I did not agree with was that a company should suggest that its employees publicly blog and Tweet, as...

Cellphone Location or Spying?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Cellphone Location or Spying?

Google Latitude has brought it up again ... more on cell phone location.

Sim visits 'Go Girls Go for IT' in AustraliaGuest Blogger:  Annemieke Craig, Australia
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Sim visits 'Go Girls Go for IT' in AustraliaGuest Blogger: Annemieke Craig, Australia

The last years of secondary school are important for thinking about what careers students can consider. Declining number of females studying computing at tertiary...

Academic applied research is
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Academic applied research is

While pure theory is wasteful, bringing applied research to academia is equally wasteful! Applied research seeks to produce applied results. These results are...

Cray announces Q4 and 2008 results, posts paper
From insideHPC

Cray announces Q4 and 2008 results, posts paper

Cray announced its financial results for both Q4 and its fiscal year ended December 31. For 2008, Cray reported revenue of $282.9 million and a net loss of ($31...

Future of Newspapers
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Newspapers

Nick Carr examines the future of newspapers: Smaller, tighter, hybrids, micropayments or just mostly gone?

Update on CCC Robotics
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Update on CCC Robotics

The CCC-sponsored
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