Tuesday, January 21, 2014

oracle in transition

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/20/oracle_in_transition,
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/executives/ellison/index.html

http://money.cnn.com/2013/11/01/technology/enterprise/larry-ellison-pay,
http://www.forbes.com/profile/larry-ellison


"Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director, Oxfam International, said: “We can no longer pretend that the creation of wealth for a few will inevitably benefit the many – too often the reverse is true." 
http://www.oxfam.org/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2013-01-19/annual-income-richest-100-people-enough-end-global-poverty-four-times

Oxfam's Annual Income of the Richest 100 study also found that the top one percent of the world's richest families are worth £67.3tn, amounting to 46 percent of the world's total wealth.
Executive director of Oxfam International Jeremy Hobbs said, "Concentration of resources in the hands of the top one per cent depresses economic activity and makes life harder for everyone else - particularly those at the bottom of the economic ladder.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2324023/bill-gates-slips-to-worlds-second-richest-man-as-inequality-gap-widens

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Jeremy_Hobbs,
http://www.wto.org/english/forums_e/debates_e/jeremy_hobbs_popup_e.htm

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Oxfam_International#In_Cahoots_with_World_Bank

Beyond HDD

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/21/discombobulations

Titan-SC

http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/titan

http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/29/cray-titan-supercomputer-nvidia-tesla-gpu-k20

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2013228/titan-supercomputer-hits-20-petaflops-of-processing-power.html

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/29/energy-department-kicks-off-its-giant-titan-supercomputer-with-thousands-of-nvidia-and-amd-chips

K-SC

http://www.top500.org/system/177232

Vulcan-IBM SC

http://www.top500.org/system/177732

Can Supercomputers Predict the Future?

http://archive.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-09-12/can_supercomputers_predict_the_future_.html

http://www.top500.org/blog/can-supercomputers-predict-the-future

Tianhe-2
http://www.top500.org/system/177999

sc
http://www.top500.org/blog/slides-from-the-top500-bof-session-during-sc13-in-denver

http://www.top500.org/blog/dongarra-to-receive-ken-kennedy-award-for-software-technologies-that-power-supercomputers

panasonic-wows-with-super-tablet

http://news.techeye.net/mobile/panasonic-wows-with-super-tablet

The Big Data Zoo----Taming the Beasts & SC

http://research.techeye.net/content33087

http://news.techeye.net/hardware/sgi-builds-pittsburgh-4096-processor-core-16tb-shared-memory-supercomputer

http://www.psc.edu/publicinfo/news/2010/101110_Blacklight.php

inkjet-can-print-eye-cells

http://news.techeye.net/science/inkjet-can-print-eye-cells

bd s

http://research.techeye.net/index.php?option=com_advsearch&task=search&searchword=big+data

http://news.techeye.net/science/nsa-security-claims-blown-apart

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/31/blame_silicon_valley_for_the_nsas_data_slurp_and_what_to_do_about_it/

http://research.techeye.net/technology/data_center

canadian-scientists-fear-conservative-book-burning

"I look at it as an insidious plan to discourage people from using libraries," said Dr. Rudi Mueller, who left the department in 2012.
"If you want to justify closing a library, you make access difficult and then you say it is hardly used."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/health-canada-library-changes-leave-scientists-scrambling-1.2499217

http://news.techeye.net/science/canadian-scientists-fear-conservative-book-burning