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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

CIO Business Intelligence

These motivations help shape geo-specific conversations about sustainability. Ensuring infrastructure is consolidated and set up for optimal performance is a key lever to accelerating sustainability initiatives. Finding the answer to the world’s most pressing issues rests on one crucial capability: high performance computing (HPC).

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Amazon’s second chance: Bellevue gives tech giant an opportunity to reshape its regional legacy

GeekWire

After winning the election in late 2001, he remembers reaching out to local CEOs, including Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, to see how his administration could help, or at least not hurt, their efforts to create jobs. But the tech giant’s approach in Bellevue couldn’t be more different. Bellevue Mayor Lynne Robinson. Chris Gregoire.

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Qubit by qubit, the quantum computers of tomorrow are coming into being

Vox

The IBM Quantum System Two is sheathed in gray metal, roughly the size and shape of an industrial refrigerator. Up close, it emits a quiet electronic hum. Up close, it emits a quiet electronic hum. The technology itself may be fragile, but there’s no limit to what we could build on its foundation. Sign up here!

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It may be curtains for Arclight and Pacific, the theaters I’ve only dreamt of attending

The Verge

As any film nerd will tell you , 70mm is pretty much the ultimate in movie-exhibition, whether you’re watching 2001: A Space Odyssey , The Hateful Eight , or It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. I’ve long heard about Arclight Cinemas’ top-tier picture and sound, and many of them were located in the heart of Hollywood. Truly devastating.

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Billionaires get too much credit for philanthropy

Vox

Donations to religious congregations still make up the biggest share of charitable donations in the US, but in 2016, 32 percent of all US donations went to a religious cause, which is about half of the amount that went to religion in 1990. I think that our systems just haven’t kept up,” she told Recode.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters , written by Basecamp’s Ryan Singer , hit my radar last summer, and I’ve been trying to write about it ever since. Before I dig in, let me say that this post includes a number of quotes and several hand-drawn illustrations from Shape Up.

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Army vet and extreme marathon man Gavin Woody brings grit and grind back to role as a startup CEO

GeekWire

” “I actually ran a 100 miler this weekend, up near Leavenworth,” Woody admitted. Photo courtesy of Gavin Woody) Woody’s upbringing, schooling and military service all shaped the leader he is today. Gavin Woody, co-founder and CEO of the pet care startup Felix&Fido, in Seattle this week. ” he said.

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