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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 …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Exposes a TeraByte
Article on Amazon's public data sets, worth taking a look:" ... Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing...
From insideHPC
Article explores answers for challenges faced by virtualization in
Twitter user LeahRosin tweeted a link to this article yesterday at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, “Virtualization for high-performance computing on Linux: Critiques...
From Springenwerk Blog
github iPhone client
Wow, that was quick! It took only 6 days (or 4 work days) for my iPhone app to be reviewed and approved by Apple. It's my 3rd iPhone app, but my first own, not-for...
From insideHPC
Cilk++ 1.0 multicore C++ development environment
This week parallel programming platform developer Cilk Arts announced the release of 1.0 of their flagship product, Cilk++ for Windows and Linux The Cilk++ programming...
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Acceleware announces GPU services
This week HPC application appliance maker Acceleware (about whom I’ve written in depth before) announced the formation of a new professional services team Acceleware…announced...
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Hosted HPC on the
Michael Feldman blogs at HPCwire this week about the evident increase in customers taking advantage of hosted HPC services, and Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Futures...
From insideHPC
TeraGrid conference looking for education, workforce development
This week 2009 TeraGrid Conference announced it is looking for submissions that highlight successes in training and workforce development — part of HPC’s contribution...
From insideHPC
Russian HPC company intros cell-based system at
Russian HPC maker T-Platforms, which has sytems on the Top500, is showing off its new cell-based gear at CeBIT this week in Hanover T-Platforms company, the leading...
From insideHPC
SiCortex science to science
SiCortex announced this week that it is beginning a webinar series to highlight the ways in which HPC is used in science…on SiCortex gear, one presumes. In each...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Ada Lovelace DayGuest Blogger: Barbara Boucher Owens, USA
Ada Lovelace Day is March 24, 2009. A movement to promote female role models in technology is underfoot and you can help. But first some background, most of which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle on the IPhone
I have mentioned here several times that I was not willing to drag around yet another device and so was not interested in buying a Kindle. I have tried a number...
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Designing the User Interface
A good review, which describes what is new in the book: Designing the User Interface, 5th Edition by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant. I have a much earlier...
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ConAgra Looks at Store Marketing
An interview with ConAgra on in-store marketing.
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Institute for Large Scale Innovation
Just founded by John Kao and Deloitte, of interest:The Institute for Large Scale Innovation (ILSI) is a non-profit organization founded to address three key questions...
From insideHPC
Rocks-A-Palooza
The Rocks cluster toolkit developers have announced the fourth annual Rocks-A-Palooza.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On academic branding
Good communication is part of our jobs as researchers. And communicating well, in 2009, means having an effective web presence. When I read someone’s paper, and...
From insideHPC
120 more employees laid off at
Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register is reporting today that another 9% of SGI’s workforce has been laid off Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics has let go...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caromatherapy
The Whiff Guys, sensory specialists, report on caromatheraphy experimentation by Mercedes-Benz. Read it as car-aromatherapy. Admittedly only in the luxury limotheir...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sites that Excerpt: Legal?
Excerpts from the NYTimes like the one below from the article: Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt, are coming under fire. It is true that most of the challenges...
From insideHPC