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Before specialized graphics-processing chips existed, pioneers in the field of visualization used multicore supercomputers to realize data in three dimensions. Today, however, the speed at which supercomputers can process data is rapidly outstripping the speed at which they can input and output that data. Graphics-processing clusters are becoming obsolete.
As many of you already know, virtualization is big, and it continues to grow in popularity. Users are now actively seeking complementary solutions to extend the virtual infrastructure across the entire enterprise, from storage to server to desktop. The move to "Total Enterprise Virtualization" is real and might be taking place in your organization right now. Today, virtualization is understood as a comprehensive infrastructure solution that is absolutely strategic to a competitive business.
Virtual Machines and Types of Service for TeraGrid Computing Foundational capabilities we provide in TeraGrid, such as "roaming" access and a "coordinated" software environment, open new possibilities in terms of more specialized services, or to allow the TeraGrid, as a system, to respond to supply and demand. For example, a resource provider might elect to increase the "price" of a queue in order to improve turnaround time by reducing demand, or decrease the price to increase demand (and thus utilization).
REvolution Computing offers REvolution R, an enhanced distribution of R, as a free download. It also offers REvolution R Enterprise, a subscription-based version of R aimed at large companies that work with large data sets, and ParallelR (included in the Enterprise edition), which can take advantage of multi-processor systems and clusters for large data crunching tasks. R itself, and REvolution's versions, are being embraced in a number of fields, with a number of innovative new applications arriving.
It's not a direct line, but you'll get to the admin secretary closest to Steve Ballmer. If you have a longstanding Microsoft issue that multiple trips to the MS customer service line haven't solved, try pitching her your problems. Microsoft Steve Ballmer
IBM's future Power7 chip may be just about done as far as the engineering is concerned, and its server designs might also be more or less completed as well. But there is plenty of time yet to tweak the boxes, and I doubt very much that the final packaging and pricing for the future Power7 machinery is anywhere close to being set. Which is a pity, really.
Last week, Sam explored trends in the technology jobs market, suggesting that significant opportunities only reveal themselves when examining both the available jobs and the underlying trends in demand for skills. Coincidentally, on the same day that Sam’s piece was published, The New York Times suggested that “the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians.”
Stefan Constantinescu of IntoMobile has written a lengthy piece dissecting the long, tortuous history of the Newton II/Apple Tablet/iTablet/Tablet Mac. It's a pretty comprehensive look at seven years worth of speculation, rumor, outlandish analyst claims, more speculation, more rumor, and event after event with no release of what's become Apple's most infamous vaporware product.
The time has come to declare that the beginning of the end for the traditional approach to Information Technology. The party is over. The End of IT 1.0 As We Know It – has begun. To borrow a phrase from my previous IBM colleagues who wrote, “The End of TV As We Know It” with which I became familiar while working on IP Television (IPTV).
Cyber expert Marcus Sachs, director of SANS Internet Storm Center and executive director of government affairs for national security policy at Verizon had a few minutes to discuss with The New New Internet the future of cyber security. Sachs emphasizes the difference between what should be done and what will be done in terms of cyber security. Sachs recognizes that there are other, more pressing issues on the Obama Administration policy agenda than cyber security and appreciates the Obama Administration’s collaboration with the private sector in forming the 60-Day Review. Sachs also supports the Obama Administration’s openness to a variety of perspectives and opinions, including the appointment of his friend Jeff Moss to the DHS Advisory Committee.
The New York Times has announced that its increasingly popular Congress API has been upgraded to include additional features and data (more at our Congress API Profile). The latest version of the Congress API includes two new features that give developers access to more information: Retrieval of bills cosponsored by an individual member and all of the cosponsors for a particular bill Compare the voting records of two members of the House or Senate to see how often they agree and disagree
Pandora is winning today in the Marketing Department. Their latest video ad has gone viral, and with good reason. It’s common knowledge that the bond between a mother and child is powerful.
When the banking crisis tore through Wall Street and the City of London there wasn’t much Devin Wenig could do, apart from sit and watch the trading screens in his office turn red. As for any supplier to investment banks, a string of collapses including Bear Stearns was not good news for Thomson Reuters, even though the financial news and data provider claims to thrive on volatility.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Inspired by our post on Linux backup utility Back in Time, but finding it lacking encryption and network powers, Rob Oakes wrote his own Python-based utility to back up Windows, Mac, or Linux machines across local machines or networks.
Each day during the school year I try to send out a computer tip or two. It's usually a website, but sometimes it's a news item or an Excel tip, etc. You can also find the archive of my tips going back to May of 2005. Please leave a comment to let me know
ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn reports today on a new open source navigation project launched by European GPS company TomTom that adds additional functionality to navigational devices, regardless of the make or model. The OpenLR project aims to put navigation data on top of a GPS unit's existing database so drivers can access local traffic, weather, and other useful information as they travel.
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The real appeal of Twitter is almost the inverse of narcissism. It's practically collectivist — you're creating a shared understanding larger than yourself. [Meeting] Misha for lunch [after a month's absence], I already know she was nervous about last w
The Insecure.org developers have announced the release of version 5.0 of Nmap, their popular network scanner and mapper. The release features nearly 600 significant changes and the developers consider it to be "the most important Nmap release since 1997". Major improvements to the network scanner include the addition of the Ndiff scan comparison tool and the Nmap Scripting Engine
Virtual Bridges partners with IBM and Canonical for Microsoft-free “Desktops in the Cloud” This groundbreaking partnership combines the most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu, with the IBM suite of enterprise-class applications and services, including Symphony, Sametime and Notes, together with Virtual Bridges’ end-to-end, top-to-bottom pure Linux-based VDI offering, VERDE (Virtual Enterprise Remote Desktop Environment).
Vivek Kundra believes America has fallen behind in technological innovation, but that there is hope. At the Open Government and Innovations Conference in Washington D.C. Kundra cited an Information Technology and Innovation Foundation report that listed the United States last out of 36 nations for adapting new technology, according to an InformationWeek report. The study included areas such as immigration policy, number of students graduating from college and the use of broadband in households and businesses.
Google's Chrome OS isn't the first operating system to challenge Microsoft Windows' commanding lead. But it's got an advantage that other rivals such as Linux lacked: the Web. Any new operating system must attract the developers who produce the applications to make it useful. The trouble Windows challengers have had is matching the wide spectrum of software available for Windows already
nominated for both Best Novel (for The Last Colony) and Best Fan Writer, which I think is pretty neat. This guy should be nominated for the best blog, if you ask me. - ptw
Name an industry that can produce 1 million new, high-paying jobs over the next three years. You can't, because there isn't one. And that's the problem.
It’s clear Google and Amazon wouldn’t be where they are today without the use of open source software,” said Stevens. The Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. success stories were also echoed by Aslett, who said both public cloud platforms benefited from low cost licencing and flexibility, as well as the ability to empower their developers. “For Google, it’s about ability to make changes to their operating system without having to ask anybody’s permission or pay for client licence fees,” he said, adding that development times are also speed up in the process.
Multi-million dollar supercomputers take up most of the headlines, but many organizations are now considering the addition of smaller, personal supercomputers to their desktop fleet. Despite some strong global sales, find out why the idea still hasn’t taken off at most companies
Wolfram Alpha to open data feeds Wolfram Alpha, a project from the makers of math software Mathematica, will soon be opening up its data sets, opening up new possibilities for data mash ups
THE FREE INTERACTIVE PLAYER FOR MATHEMATICA NOTEBOOK DOCUMENTS Mathematica Player uses the unique capabilities of Wolfram Mathematica to display notebooks and to run fully interactive Demonstrations from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, as well as other interactive notebooks converted for use with Player.
people all over the world are making a list of 365 people they've met during the course of their lives - people who left an impression and whose name they remember - then they're randomly writing a set number of words about someone on their list. They're
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