It's hard to believe I beat Tom Johnson on this one, but here's a five
minute talk from IgniteDC on the politics of data visualization.
http://www.targetpointconsulting.com/ToThePoint/2010/01/05/chart-wars
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FRIAM Applied Comp
Time machines are easy. Just bury something vaguely valuable (with a
note) in a safe place no-one can find (at least for a while). When it
becomes valuable and found it will fund the needed research to build the
machine for you and come back and get you.
There was a nice SF story based on th
Douglas Roberts wrote:
As long as we're dreaming, let's bring back Time Warp.
One that works, this time.
I used to think I needed to spend all of my time developing time-travel
so I could go back in time to do all the things I didn't get done while
I was wasting my time on time-travel. But t
LAVA started to bid on developing/providing these "gateways" over a year
ago and dropped out after discovering how dysfunctional the whole deal
was (State procurement, NMCAC, etc.).The spec was well motivated
technically but had become a bit of a nightmare patchwork of
requirements that did
Owen,
HPC system requirements are pretty much 100% application-dependent. Large
scale ABM simulations, like EpiSims require clusters with fast
interconnects, as Marcus indicated. Other HPC apps have different
requirements. E-Commerce needs large memory + lots of CPU horsepower for
database tran
On Jan 25, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Google will eventually beat all these efforts because they are
thinking plumbing/networking with scalable data stores (NoSql).
Hmm, I think their application toolkits will get good at use cases
where there are medium and high latencies to
