Worth Reading: One-fourth of malware comes from sharing
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When we cover the bi-annual listing of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the metric at the heart of those results, the high performance Linpack benchmark, the gold standard for over two decades, is the basis. However, many have argued the benchmark is getting long in tooth with its myopic focus on sheer floating point performance over other important factors that determine a supercomputer’s value for real-world applications.
This shift in value stands to reason, since larger machines mean more data coursing through the system, thus an increased reliance on memory and the I/O subsystem, among other factors. While raw floating …
Measuring Top Supercomputer Performance in the Real World was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.
Before students around the world can embrace summer vacation, they must first endure final exams. This time-tested tradition brings late night cram sessions, the regurgitation of facts and figures, nail biting and sweaty palms. For those who work hard, final exams can build character. And for those who started their summer break too early, there’s an easier option: cheating.
As the spouse of a teacher, I know cheating is a major concern in classrooms around the world. Teachers have a variety of tricks to prevent this including watching their students like hawks, giving out different tests, not allowing labeled bottled drinks or even requiring an ID before entering the room.
Of course, some countries take their prevention measures to the extreme. Iraq literally shut off the internet and Algeria blocked Twitter and Facebook. All of this in an effort to prevent cheating. Yikes!
This is a great reminder of a couple of things:
The internet is a tool. A tool is only as valuable as the hands it is in. It can be used for bad purposes. It can also be used to transform the world. I look at stories like how Land O’Lakes is leveraging data to help their Continue reading
On the same day I posted this post, I’m also speaking in a webinar about the new CCNA R&S exams, hosted by the folks at the Cisco Learning Network (CLN). The new exams have some SDN content. And it always seems like when you talk to networkers about anything that sounds like SDN, the question comes up: should I learn programming?
Today’s question answers a similar question, one that I hope is useful for the specific audience for the webinar. If you assume that programming is a skill you should learn, and you’re currently studying for CCNA R&S, what’s a good path from CCNA learning to then learning programming? That is, what are some good steps to bridge between those Cisco CCNA R&S SDN exam topics and then learning programming?
Intel has finally opened the first public discussions of its investment in the future of machine learning and deep learning and while some might argue it is a bit late in the game with its rivals dominating the training market for such workloads, the company had to wait for the official rollout of Knights Landing and extensions to the scalable system framework to make it official—and meaty enough to capture real share from the few players doing deep learning at scale.
Yesterday, we detailed the announcement of the first volume shipments of Knights Landing, which already is finding a home …
Knights Landing Proves Solid Ground for Intel’s Stake in Deep Learning was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.