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From the notable news department
Some recent news that arrived in my in box. Intersect360 Research, a leading market intelligence, research, and consulting advisory practice for the High Performance Computing industry, announced today that it has hired Michael Feldman, a 35-year computer industry veteran, to augment its analyst team.
Feldman, recognized as an expert in the HPC industry worldwide, is well-known as the former managing editor of HPCwire, where he spent eight years as one of the foremost predictors of HPC trends. Feldman was also the co-host, along with Intersect360 Research CEO Addison Snell, of the insightful and popular weekly HPCwire Soundbite podcast.
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Is that anything like the Nights Watch?
Just read a very good article over at SemiAccurate that provides many details on Intel's Knight's Corner. In simple terms, Knights Corner, also known as the Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture is Intel's answer to NVidia and AMD/ATI GPU solutions for HPC. Pay attention to the software and MPI discussion at the end of the article. To add a some green perspective, you may also be interested in reading this blog post from NVidia.
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How many things can rhyme with your acronym?
The first UC Berkeley AMP (Algorithms, Machines, and People) Camp will be hosted in Berkeley (and online) August 21-22, 2012, brought to you by the AMPLab, featuring hands-on tutorials teaching Big Data analysis using the AMPLab software stack, including Spark, Shark, and Mesos. These tools help accelerate Hadoop and other popular data management platforms.
The AMPLab works at the intersection of machine learning, cloud computing, and crowdsourcing; integrating Algorithms, Machines, and People (AMP) to make sense of Big Data, and we want to share our expertise with you! Attendees will learn to solve Big Data problems using components of the Berkeley Data Analytics System (BDAS) and cutting edge machine learning algorithms.The agenda can be found here.
Registration for in-person attendance is sold out, but FREE online live streaming of the event is available.
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From the "I'm not dead" Python department
For those of you that don't know the Beowulf mailing list is a highly useful resource to the HPC community. Started by Don Becker and now run by Penguin Computing the list has been a discussion place for pioneers, innovators, and users of HPC clusters. Recently the list went down along with the beowulf.org site. Questions about the list future surfaced. Through some recent discussions with Penguin, I am pleased to announce that the list will be back up real soon. Penguin is aware of the problem and expects the list to be back up by August 10th. They ask for the communities patience in this matter. I have also offered community help to assist with future list moderation. I will post any new information as it develops.
Update: (August 9th, 2012) The list is back up. Penguin and some community members are working on the moderation issue. Thanks Penguin.
Final Update: (August 20, 2012) The list is functioning, there are several moderators from the community, and new users are able to post. Good job Penguin.
