The International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale has published its Advance Agenda. Now in its second year, Exacom 2016 will be held in conjunction with ISC 2016 in Frankfurt on Thursday, June 23, 2016.

The International Workshop on Communication Architectures at Extreme Scale has published its Advance Agenda. Now in its second year, Exacom 2016 will be held in conjunction with ISC 2016 in Frankfurt on Thursday, June 23, 2016.
[SPONSORED GUEST CONTENT] Scheduled Ethernet is emerging as a viable alternative to InfiniBand for AI networking. Why? Because of its ability to offer comparable performance but with greater flexibility and cost-effectiveness.
This study was designed to document key perceptions, challenges, and successes by focusing on data organization, integration, security, and definitional clarification to address key areas of concern and interest in ongoing data lake adoption. The intent of the survey and this corresponding report is to understand and share the current and planned adoption of technologies in the Hadoop ecosystem, intended specifically for a data lake strategy, and to learn how adopting companies are addressing critical data lake success factors, including rethinking data for the long-term, establishing governance first, and tackling security needs upfront. The survey and report also identify emergent areas of concern and new areas of clarification needed for data lake maturity.
Happy Holiday weeks to you! For this, our penultimate weekly episode of the year, Shahin and Doug take a fast (8:55) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: High-stakes high frequency trading measured in nanoseconds, AI federated learning at three US national labs, perspectives from “AI doomers.”
