Global financial industry leaders such as Citi and J.P. Morgan have acknowledged they are currently modernizing their code via collaborative efforts with the Intel Software and Solutions Group. Results reported in the recent presentation, Intel’s New STAC A2 Results and Speeding Up FX LSV Monte Carlo case study[1], demonstrate an overall 32.9X speedup in the financial industry … [Read more...]
Fee waived for Nimbix Inaugural Developer Summit on March 15, 2016
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...]
Reasonable Priced Rooms for GTC 2016
They are going fast so don't delay. The NVIDIA GPU conference has "Pre-negotiated conference rates at nearby hotels start as low as $98 per night" available for GTC 2016: http://www.gputechconf.com/attend/travel. Miss out and expect to pay 2x more now for rooms that are walking distance to the conference, with the multiplier increasing as GTC approaches. Update: The $98 per … [Read more...]
Microsoft Hololens Vision for Superbowl Sunday
Microsoft shows a vision of the future with people enhancing their view of the Superbowl by wearing the Microsoft Hololens at home. Note how the commercial conveys how the Hololens ability to move and limited field of view will affect the viewing experience. https://youtu.be/oKqzeoMCU0c … [Read more...]
Learn how to program IBM’s ‘Deep-Learning’ SyNAPSE chip
IBM introduced the latest brain-inspired SyNAPSE chip on August 7, 2014 than implements 1 million neurons and 256 million synapses and consumes on 70mW (0.07 watts) of power during operation, which is doubly remarkable as this is the largest chip IBM has ever built at 5.4 billion transistors, and has an on-chip network of 4,096 neurosynaptic cores. As part of a complete … [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...]
OpenCL Programmers – Help GIMP Get OpenCL Hardware Acceleration
StreamComputing launched an educational initiative this week that aims to get more developers to study and use OpenCL in their projects. Within this project, up to 20 collaborators will port as many GEGL operations to OpenCL as possible. There is tons of work to be done, but the benefit is that your code will be running in GIMP. Vincent Hindriksen and Adel Johar … [Read more...]
$4B Computer Science for All Proposed by President Obama
Computer Science for All is the President’s proposed $4 billion initiative to empower all American students from kindergarten through high school to learn computer science and be equipped with the computational thinking skills they need to be creators in the digital economy, not just consumers, and to be active citizens in our technology-driven world. Our economy is rapidly … [Read more...]
Minecraft Education Edition Announced after Microsoft Acquires MinecraftEDU
Microsoft is acquiring MinecraftEdu and investing in a new and expanded version of Minecraft for the classroom called Minecraft: Education Edition. This new title – available as a free trial this summer – will build on the learnings from MinecraftEdu while offering an expanded set of features. And in support of MinecraftEdu customers, they can continue to useMinecraftEdu and … [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...]