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les bons temps rouler... tr�s vite!
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Supercomputing
2010 (SC'10) took place in New Orleans Nov. 13-19. A team from
Georgia Tech, NYU and Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) won the ACM Gordon Bell Prize
for an application simulating 260 million red blood cells flowing
in plasma, extracting 700 teraflops out of the ORNL supercomputer's
224,000 cores.
Meanwhile, the cavernous exhibit floor was full of booths of all
sizes (IBM, nvidia, Microsoft were some of the largest), and the
student teams in the cluster competition advertised: "Will compute
for Mtn Dew." For a quirky (and a bit shaky, though not from too
many mint juleps) two-minute trip to SC'10, jazz background
included, see this YouTube video made in collaboration with
ATEJI, the "parallel programming in Java made
simple" people.
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Cutter
to Offer 3 In-House Workshops by Claude Baudoin
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The
Cutter Consortium just added to its catalog three short (1- or
2-day) in-house workshops taught by Claude Baudoin:
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Reader
Feedback
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The
summary of the Cutter Summit 2010 in The Kit #36, and in particular
the case study discussion about IT cost vs. value, elicited this
impassioned reaction from Rick Warren of RTI:
"Am I the only
one who's getting tired of the placement of all things information-
and information-processing related in the silo of 'IT' separate
from an organization's core business? In an age where every
administrative assistant 'works with computers' all day long,
haven't we reached the point where we should be viewing IT as a
cross-cutting concern embedded within every team and job function,
and not as something run out of a separate office by a bunch of
nerds whom the rest of the company doesn't understand? Maybe I'm
misinterpreting or exaggerating the split between IT and business
because I admittedly work for a small software firm and not a
megalithic 'traditional' business. Or maybe I'm right, and it's a
generational thing. Top executives are typically people in their
fifties who cut their teeth in business before these new-fangled
'computers' were relevant to most people. To folks coming up today,
the applicability and benefits of leveraging IT in every field at
every time is so obvious that it's difficult to even communicate
effectively with someone who doesn't see things that way."
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Cloud
vs. Record Management
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The
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently
published an FAQ and a more complete Bulletin about the challenges
posed by cloud computing with respect to records management. The
bulletin:
- starts with definitions of the cloud and its deployment
models
- presents cases of cloud usage by US government agencies
- lists record management challenges posed by the cloud
- proposes guidelines for standards and policies to manage
records stored in a cloud
- proposes draft language, which could be adapted for private
companies, to set in a contract with a cloud provider its
obligations with respect to records.
(Spotted by Vince Polley of
KnowConnect)
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"We're
on Facebook in order to lie to our closest friends, and on
Twitter in order to say the truth to perfect strangers."
- Yves Lande,
via Twitter (@LANDEYves, in French only)
("On est sur Facebook pour mentir � ses amis les plus
proches.
Et sur Twitter pour dire la v�rit� � de parfaits inconnus.")
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