Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2009
From insideHPC
Spansion packs a whole lotta RAM into your
Early this week flash memory vendor Spansion announced its EcoRAM solution, a product that lets you cram 512 GB of flash memory that presents as RAM to an Opteron-based system. The solution offers the same read performance as…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
White House Cybersecurity Review Complete; Public Announcement Expected Soon
The Obama Administration recently finished a 60-day review of federal cybersecurity efforts. Melissa Hathaway, Acting White House Cyberspace Director, indicated in public remarks (scroll down for video) at the RSA computer security…
From The Noisy Channel
Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
If you’re attending the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week, please let me know! I’ll be there all day Monday and Tuesday, and I’ll be talking on Tuesday afternoon about “Enabling the Information Seeking Process”…
From The Noisy Channel
Presenting at Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
If you’re attending the Infonortics Search Engine Meeting in Boston next week, please let me know! I’ll be there all day Monday and Tuesday, and I’ll be talking on Tuesday afternoon about “Enabling the Information Seeking Process”…
From The Noisy Channel
Book Writing vs. Blogging
When I announced that I’d be writing a book, I promised that I would blog about the experience. It may seem odd that I’m only blogging about it now, when I’m almost done, but perhaps that gives you a sense of how absorbing the…
From The Noisy Channel
Book Writing vs. Blogging
When I announced that I’d be writing a book, I promised that I would blog about the experience. It may seem odd that I’m only blogging about it now, when I’m almost done, but perhaps that gives you a sense of how absorbing the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Analytics API Launched
It was brought to my attention that the Google Analytics API was recently launched. Will take a close look. Much more here.
From insideHPC
InsideTrack: rumors of other bidders for
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours…here’s what I’m hearing about companies sniffing around SGI and looking at the potential of bidding against Rackable. Cisco: given their Unified Computing Platform (codenamed California…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advertising Yourself
From Knowledge@Wharton: Advertising Yourself: Building a Personal Brand through Social Networks. " ... According to Jonah Berger, Wharton marketing professor, using social networking sites or a new media endeavor such as blogging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fortune 500 Blogging
From SNCR, research results on corporate blogging and its use with other social media.Authors Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Research Chair of the Society for New Communications Research and Chancellor Professor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geocities Gone
Geocities, the oldest free web site community, is gone. It was fifteen years old. Quite a few web-years. Like the article says, I had forgotten it still existed. Yahoo bought it for $4.7 Billion.
From The Noisy Channel
Slight Change to the HCIR
I hope you all are gearing up for HCIR 2009! Those who have not yet read the call for participation or looked at the web site can safely ignore this message, which announces what we hope is a minor change for participants. After…
From The Noisy Channel
Slight Change to the HCIR
I hope you all are gearing up for HCIR 2009! Those who have not yet read the call for participation or looked at the web site can safely ignore this message, which announces what we hope is a minor change for participants. After…
From insideHPC
6 core istanbul moves forward to
We’re hearing this in several places, but The Register’s Timothy Prickett Morgan has an overview of AMD’s schedule acceleration on the new Opterons AMD is picking up the pace for its six-core, Istanbul family of Opteron processors…
From insideHPC
Computational biology at
TACC is reporting on work being done on its system related to computational biology and understanding how the molecules that advanced laboratory techniques have identified
From insideHPC
Acumem announces new
Acumem has announced that support for Windows HPC Server 2008 is now available in its performance tools suite featuring Threadspotter and Slowspotter. The performance analysis tools, which expose causes of bandwidth-heavy behavior…
From insideHPC
Fault tolerance at scale: embrace your inner
iSTGW is running a feature article this week with an overview of the issues discussed at the Fault Tolerance for Extreme Scalability Workshop sponsored by the NSF in March. At a workshop in March, U.S. experts met to discuss…
From insideHPC
Matlab announces Argonne, Tesla using their
The Mathworks announced two customers this week using their tools in science and engineering. The first at Argonne The MathWorks today announced that Argonne National Laboratory significantly reduced the simulation time of models…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Includes WebCams
Google Maps has started to include webcam locations. Now over 9,000 world-wide.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals and Financial Modeling
Renowned Game and simulation model builder Ken Karakotsios posts on market signals in financial engineering. A very nice case study of how a model is constructed and engineered for the real world.
From insideHPC
ICCS offers free HPC
Found at HPCwire, news that the ICCS, hosted by the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, is offering free HPC education: The ninth annual International Conference on Computational Science will take place in downtown Baton…
From insideHPC
SC09
The latest edition of the SC09 newsletter is out; it’s not up on the website yet, but Rich Brueckner from Sun has linked to it here (thanks, Rich). Technical Panel Proposals Due May 1 Now is the time to begin planning your participation…
From insideHPC
AMD reports Q1 2009, posts
Two days ago (sorry, I was on the road) AMD reported its first quarter results for 2009. Performance was down over 20% year over year, and they lost money, continuing the downward trend that started years ago. AMD reported revenue…
From The Noisy Channel
Too Connected, Or Not Connected Enough?
A bit off my usual selection of topics, but an article by Bruce Perens about a cyber-attack on Morgan Hill, a small city in northern California caught my attention: Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers…
From The Noisy Channel
Too Connected, Or Not Connected Enough?
A bit off my usual selection of topics, but an article by Bruce Perens about a cyber-attack on Morgan Hill, a small city in northern California caught my attention: Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers…
From Putting People First
What on Earth are Anthropologists Doing Playing With Mobile Phones?
What on earth are anthropologists doing playing with mobile phones, asks Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS. “It’s widely recognised that projects can succeed or fail on the realisation of their relative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 DataBar
The GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS, Reduced Space Symbology) is a form of barcode, approved and promoted by the GS1 standards body which contains more data space and is meant to provide new data needed in UPC codes. StoreFrontBackTalk…
From insideHPC
SiCortex Honors Earth Day With Special
In honor of Earth Day, SiCortex has announced an interesting and unusual offer to those interested in purchasing new systems.
From insideHPC
Panasas Announces New Product
Panasas has announced a new, broader product line of storage products.
From insideHPC
Glimpses of AMD
AMD, today, released a press statement delivering some tidbits of tasty info on the next three years of core silicon coming out of Sunnyvale.