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Tom Peters on Boomer Markets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Tom Peters on Boomer Markets

Tom Peters comments on the Boomer market and links to some new Forrester work in this area.

CES Overview
From The Eponymous Pickle

CES Overview

Have not been to one of these in years, but worth a look: The Consumer Electronics Show

User Response: 10GbE Cluster
From insideHPC

User Response: 10GbE Cluster

Yesterday, we posted a summary and link to an article arguing for the general acceptance of 10GbE as a valid cluster interconnect platform.

The purpose of peer review
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

The purpose of peer review

Michael Nielsen has an excellent post today: Three myths about scientific peer review. The myths are: Scientists have always used peer review: it seems it became...

Thursday's Links, January 8th
From Wild WebMink

Thursday's Links, January 8th

OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian KnotInteresting and reasonably balanced article on the endless and fruitless debate Novell is generating.Sun...

NY Times on the Pittsburgh Economy
From CSDiary

NY Times on the Pittsburgh Economy

I’m about to start the last day of meetings here in Taipei. There have been many interesting research presentations and hallway conversations, as well as ceremonial...

Microsoft Tag Released
From The Eponymous Pickle

Microsoft Tag Released

It is unfair to compare this to the CueCat, since that fabled failed project attempted to include a unitasking piece of hardware, while these methods do not and...

Open Source Victories
From The Eponymous Pickle

Open Source Victories

Open Source victories of 2008. For those interested in the topic of open source this is interesting. After my leaving the big firm, now that I have to make my...

IBM and ITIF calls on President-elect to pump $30B into
From insideHPC

IBM and ITIF calls on President-elect to pump $30B into

From coverage at The Register In December, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Palmisano made a presentation to Carol Browner, the incoming White...

Progress is continuous by nature
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Progress is continuous by nature

In my post We never invent anything new, yet progress is made!, I argued that innovation is incremental and social. I derived two recommendations for innovators...

10GbE is Ready for Your Cluster.  Or is
From insideHPC

10GbE is Ready for Your Cluster. Or is

Linux Magazine has an article written by Dan Tuchler detailing why he thinks 10-gigabit Ethernet should be a more widely considered for vanilla HPC cluster installations...

200 TFLOPS Chinese super expected in
From insideHPC

200 TFLOPS Chinese super expected in

According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the home grown Dawning 5000A is expected to be installed in April of this year. The supercomputer, with a peak capability...

Survey finds banks plan to increase HPC spend in
From insideHPC

Survey finds banks plan to increase HPC spend in

IT analysis firm Waters published results from a survey earlier this week detailing the 2009 spend plans by banks for HPC. The survey was conducted by Platform...

Many-Core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference 2009,
From insideHPC

Many-Core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference 2009,

The Many-Core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference (MRSC) has evolved over the last few years to become the primary European conference addressing the use...

CYC is Posting Snippets of Knowledge
From The Eponymous Pickle

CYC is Posting Snippets of Knowledge

I see that the CYC company is now twittering. CYC was started in 1984 by Douglas Lenat. Their site has some demos. Have followed its progress since then andin...

R Computing for Data Mining
From The Eponymous Pickle

R Computing for Data Mining

The NYTimes has an overview article on the open source R Computing Language. Emphasizing its use for data mining applications. Not a bad article, but they start...

Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell Appear on CBS 60 Minutes
From CSDiary

Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell Appear on CBS 60 Minutes

Last Sunday I wrote about the computational neuroscience work by Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell. Well, the CBS 60 Minutes feature was really quite interesting. In...

Gigapan Story is #1 on Times of London in 2008
From CSDiary

Gigapan Story is #1 on Times of London in 2008

This news has been on the SCS web page for about a week already, but still worth a mention here: Last year the online edition of the Times of London did a story...

Search Engine Optimization Blogs
From The Eponymous Pickle

Search Engine Optimization Blogs

eCairn has published a list of the top 150 blogs that cover Search Engine optimization and Search Engine Marketing (SEO/SEM).

Targeting Shoppers with Loyalty Data
From The Eponymous Pickle

Targeting Shoppers with Loyalty Data

Short NYT article that shows how dunnhumby uses loyalty data to target consumers for retail clients. After many years of using loyalty data, retailers are finally...
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