The Nimbix Developer Summit takes place on March 15, 2016 in Dallas, TX. Admission is free for the inaugural event and is open to developers and application engineers of all disciplines. TechEnablement.com discussed the implications of the Nimbix technology in our article Outsourcing Media And Entertainment To The Nimbix Cloud. The press release follows: DALLAS, TX – … [Read more...]
Researchers Find Vulnerability in Two-Factor Authentication
Nasir Memon, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, along with doctoral students Hossein Siadati and Toan Nguyen, found that users may be tricked into sharing their verification code with a malicious party using a much simpler tactic by simply asking them via a phishing attack. The full paper can be found … [Read more...]
Microsoft Opensources Javascript Engine
Microsoft moves more software to an open-source model. ChakraCore is the core part of Chakra, the high-performance JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Windows applications written in HTML/CSS/JS. ChakraCore supports Just-in-time (JIT) compilation of JavaScript for x86/x64/ARM, garbage collection, and a wide range of the latest JavaScript features. ChakraCore also … [Read more...]
Chrome ‘Brotli’ Compression claimed make web 20%-26% Faster
Google chrome will be updated to utilize the Brotli compression scheme, but only for HTTPS connections. According to Google, Brotli is a whole new data format. that provides 20–26% higher compression ratios over the Zopfli scheme introduced two years ago. In a study ‘Comparison of Brotli, Deflate, Zopfli, LZMA, LZHAM and Bzip2 Compression Algorithms, the authors show that … [Read more...]
SC15 Excitement! Bright Computing Provisions and Manages HPC and Cloud Clusters Worldwide
The Bright Computing booth was a bustling hub of happy activity at SC15. Solving cluster deployment issues "headache free" has brought Bright Computing to the forefront in the under-appreciated world of HPC and cloud provisioning as well as generated a global customer (and fan) base. In short, Bright Computing provides comprehensive software solutions for provisioning and … [Read more...]
Gary Grider Talks MarFS – A Scalable Near-POSIX Name Space over Cloud Objects File System
Gary Grider, HPC luminary and the High Performance Computing Division Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory, will give a BrightTalk live online presentation Nov 10 2:00 pm United States - New York (Eastern) time. The video will be available 45 minutes after his presentation at 2:45 Eastern. Register here to attend or view the video. Those who cannot wait can find Gary's … [Read more...]
Free Mozilla Online Classes – HTML, JavaScript CSS, Privacy, and More!
The Mozilla Foundation is featuring a number of web-based activities that include step-by-step instructions and has been tested in schools, after school programs, libraries and community centers around the globe. Whether learning how to code, understanding why privacy matters, or creating openly-licensed web content, we believe teaching the web should be fun and … [Read more...]
Microsoft Azure Provides Private Preview of NVIDA-based Cloud Computing
NVIDIA GPUs are coming to Azure! Microsoft announced it will provide a private preview of NVIDIA GPUs running in the Azure Cloud with a target of December 2015. Through our partnership with NVidia, we will be offering state-of-the-art GPU Visualization Infrastructure and GPU Compute Infrastructure. Join this session to learn about the technology, see demos, and hear … [Read more...]
Google’s Ingress Location Based Game Continues to Grow in Popularity
Ingress, a multi-player GPS based location game created Google' Naintic labs continues to grow. If you like geocaching, chances are you will like Ingress. Gameplay consists of establishing "portals" at places of public art, landmarks, monuments, etc., and linking them to create virtual triangular fields over geographic areas. Progress in the game is measured by the number of … [Read more...]
HTTP/2 Formally Approved
Mark Nottingham. the current chair the IETF HTTP Working Group and member of the W3C TAG blogged on February 18, 2015 that the IESG has formally approved the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications, and they’re on their way to the RFC Editor, where they’ll soon be assigned RFC numbers, go through some editorial processes, and be published. This is a big deal in the HTTP world. New … [Read more...]