Tue.Nov 25, 2014

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ENIAC: The World’s First Computer Has Finally Been Resurrected

CTOvision

'By Vijay Prabhu. From Wired: Eccentric billionaires are tough to impress, so their minions must always think big when handed vague assignments. Ross Perot’s staffers did just that in 2006, when their boss declared that he wanted to decorate his Plano, Texas, headquarters with relics from computing history. Aware that a few measly Apple I’s and Altair 880’s wouldn’t be enough to satisfy a former presidential candidate, Perot’s people decided to acquire a more singular prize: a big chunk of ENIAC

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Questions Every IT Manager Should Ask About Thermal Management

Data Center Knowledge

'A smart approach to data center cooling can reduce electricity bills by up to 50 percent, writes JP Valiulis of Emerson Network Power. But how do you identify the best thermal management strategy for your facility? Read More.

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Will The Crash of Forge.mil Motivate A Move To The More Functional GitHub?

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'Forge.mil provides some very important functionality that developers in the DoD ecosystem need and more importantly allow the technology leadership of DoD to ensure more appropriate influence over enterprise software projects. But it has been criticized by many in the community for not being as fully functional as GitHub. GitHub has achieved tremendous success in the commercial world and in key niches in governments as well.

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Performance Analysis: Bare-Metal and Virtual Clouds

Data Center Knowledge

'More organizations are off-loading their applications and workloads into the cloud environment every day. Find out if a bare-metal or virtual cloud environment is right for you. Read More.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Please join us at LinkedIn for discussion

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'By Bob Gourley. We exist, dear readers, for you. And we have noticed that you have been changing the way you interact with us. Fewer and fewer of you interact by leaving comments on posts. Increasingly you interact with us via Facebook , Twitter and LinkedIn. And some really interesting/cool people interact with us via Google Plus. We want you to continue interacting with us and sharing our content via all those channels.

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You May Not Know it, but You Used a Supercomputer Today

Data Center Knowledge

'From weather reports to pharmaceuticals, HPC systems are involved in our lives more than we like to think Read More.

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CloudFlare to Open Data Centers in China in 2015: Report

Data Center Knowledge

'CloudFlare to open 12 data centers in mainland China over the next six months in preparation for the beta launch of local service in January 2015. Read More.

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Sentient’s Distributed AI to Live in Tata Data Centers

Data Center Knowledge

'Indian data center, connectivity services giant participates in startup’s $103M funding round Read More.

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ASUS System Named World’s Most Efficient Supercomputer

Data Center Knowledge

'Newcomer to the list, the system is deployed at German heavy ion research facility Read More.

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Survey: Context is Next Big Data Challenge

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'Focus has shifted from volume of data to analytics that delivers speedy results Read More.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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DataBank Expands Downtown Dallas Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

'Adds 4MW at former Federal Reserve building, signs tenant for half of new space Read More.

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Cloud Gaming Poised for 2015 Turning Point: Report

Data Center Knowledge

'Cloud gaming poised for a turning point in 2015, according to recent report. Read More.

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Eaton Tying Data Center Power Management With IT Using Software

Data Center Knowledge

'The company is uniting its diverse portfolio of offerings through software and partnerships for a smarter data center Read More.