[san-tech][03569] Re:”1平方インチあたり5テラビットとなるHDDの要素技術を開発”, NEDO & 東北大学

Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:08:54 +0900
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平成 24年 5月 29日に開催された、文部科学省　情報科学委員会 (第 76回) での
本プロジェクト関連配付資料が公開されました (6月 22日)


情報科学技術委員会（第76回）　配付資料
  http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/gijyutu/gijyutu2/006/shiryo/1322302.htm

配付資料
資料2　「高機能・超低消費電力コンピューティングのためのデバイス・システム基盤」最終成果報告
プロジェクトリーダー
村岡裕明・大野英男、東北大学電気通信研究所
  http://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/gijyutu/gijyutu2/006/shiryo/__icsFiles/afieldfile/2012/06/20/1322302_02.pdf

[san-tech][03531] hVault: Holographic Storage Systems

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:23:48 +0900
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2012/05/01
"New Name in Holographic Storage: hVault"
 April 30th, 2012, StorageNewsletter
  http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/optical/new-name-in-holographic-storage-hvault

"Holographic storage: this could work"
 April 18, 2012, Storage Bits, News & Blogs, ZDNet
  http://www.zdnet.com/blog/storage/holographic-storage-this-could-work/1657

"HVault announces holographic storage system with petabytes of capacity"
 HVault also has its eye on the consumer market
 April 17, 2012, ComputerWorld
  http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226284/HVault_announces_holographic_storage_system_with_petabytes_of_capacity
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新興 Holographic Storage Systemsメーカー登場です：

hVault Holographic Storage Systems
  http://hvault.com/

Launch Date: Spring 2012
See us at NAB, April 16 -19

[san-tech][03521]"Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs", April 10, 2012, Datanami (Re: Stanford Online Graduate Certificate in Mining Massive Data Sets)

Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:03:29 +0900
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2012/06/03

"立教大学　経営学部、日本初産学協同によるビッグデータの授業を開講
 ～データ・サイエンティスト育成に力を入れているEMCジャパンが講義に協力～"
 2012年5月22日
  http://japan.emc.com/about/news/press/japan/2012/20120522-1.htm

  "本授業は、立教大学　経営学部　国際経営学科3年次生向けに開講される
   BBP (Bilingual Business Project) (*1) の一環として、2012年の前期の
   授業の中で2012年5月28日から7月9日まで実施されます。EMCジャパンが
   講義を支援し、ビジネスにおけるビッグデータの効果的活用について議論
   します。本授業では、学生が自ら想定顧客を決定し、ビッグデータを活用
   した新しいビジネスモデルやユースケースの提案を最終目標とします。
   最終講義では、グループ単位で成果を発表し、EMCジャパンが評価を実施、
   それをもとに学生への単位が認定されます。"
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2012/04/15

Learning From Data - Online Course, Caltech
  http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html

A real Caltech course, not a watered-down version
Broadcast live from the lecture hall at Caltech

*)Introductory Machine Learning course
*)Free, live broadcast online
*)Taught by Caltech Professor Yaser Abu-Mostafa
  http://work.caltech.edu/paper/CaltechNews.pdf
*)Prerequisites: Basic probability, matrices, and calculus
*)Live Q&A and online homeworks
*)Scoreboard ranking of participants

Outline
"This is an introductory course on machine learning that covers
 the basic theory, algorithms, and applications. ..."

Lecture  1: The Learning Problem (Tuesday, April 3)
.....
Lecture 18: Epilogue (Thursday, May 31)

Recorded Lectures
  http://work.caltech.edu/previous.html
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Datanamiの特集記事です：

"Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs"
 April 10, 2012, Datanami
  http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-04-10/six_big_name_schools_with_big_data_programs.html

紹介されているプログラムへのリンクです、特徴は記事を参照して下さい。

[san-tech][03502] US Gov. $200M Big Data R&D Initiative, March 29, 2012 & IPA報告書

Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:49:35 +0900
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2012/04/18

"SDSC Announces 'Center of Excellence' for Predictive Analytics"
 April 17, 2012, UCSD News Center
  http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressreleases/sdsc_announces_center_of_excellence_for_predictive_analytics/

 PACE to Bridge Gap Between Academia, Industry, and Government
  "... is launching a new "center of excellence" aimed at leveraging
   SDSC's data-intensive expertise and resources to help create
   the next generation of data researchers by leading a collaborative,
   nationwide education and training effort among academia, industry,
   and government.

   SDSC is providing seed funding for the program, called PACE
   for Predictive Analytics Center of Excellence. ..."
.....
  "While education and training initiatives are a large part of PACE,
   the project will also be open to collaborations and projects
   with industry and government, especially using Gordon, a unique,
   data-intensive supercomputer recently introduced by SDSC
   and which currently ranks among the 50 fastest supercomputers
   in the world."
.....
Federal Focus on Big Data
  "SDSC's PACE program comes as the administration's Office of Science
   and Technology Policy (OSTP) last month announced $200 million in
   funding for new investments in big data research and development
   projects with the announcement of its Big Data initiative"

PACE (Predictive Analytics Center of Excellence)
  http://pace.sdsc.edu/
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[san-tech][03521]"Six Big Name Schools with Big Data Programs", April 10, 2012, Datanami (Re: Stanford Online Graduate Certificate in Mining Massive Data Sets)
  Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:03:29 +0900 
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2012/04/06

"7 Big Winners in the U.S. Big Data Drive"
 April 05, 2012, Datanami
  http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-04-05/7_big_winners_in_u.s._big_data_drive.html

#1 DARPA XDATA Program
#2 The Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization (SDAV) Institute
#3 An Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) for Climate Research
#4 Big Data for Earth System Science
#5 Department of Homeland Security
   & Center for Excellence on Visualization and Data Analytics (CVADA)
#6 Big Data for the CDC
#7 The Machine Reading Program, DARPA

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2012年 3月 29日に、米国オバマ政権から $200 Million規模の Big Data
Research and Development Initiativeが発表されました：

Press Video (116:36):
"Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data"
 Thursday, March 29, 2012, from 2-3:45 pm ET
"NSF Leads Federal Efforts In Big Data", March 29, 2012
 All Images (真ん中あたり)
  http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=123607
  "Broadcast of OSTP-led federal government big data rollout
   March 29, 2012, in the AAAS Auditorium in Washington, DC"
"Video from Thursday's Big Data R&D Initiative Launch Posted"
 March 31st, 2012, CCC Blog
  http://www.cccblog.org/2012/03/31/video-from-thursdays-big-data-rd-initiative-launch-posted/
※解説付き

Press Release:
"OBAMA ADMINISTRATION UNVEILS "BIG DATA" INITIATIVE:
 ANNOUNCES $200 MILLION IN NEW R&D INVESTMENTS"
 March 29, 2012
 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
 Executive Office of the President
 The White House
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/big_data_press_release_final_2.pdf

[san-tech][03474] Paper/Slide: Big Learning, Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale (Dec. 16 - 17, 2011), NIPS 2011 Workshop

Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:06:03 +0900
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NIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) 2011の Workshopとして
開催された

Big Learning
Algorithms, Systems, and Tools for Learning at Scale
 December 16 - 17, 2011
  http://biglearn.org/index.php
の Paperと Slideが公開されています：

[san-tech][03473] Video/Slide: Using Hadoop for HPC Applications (NERSC Training Event) & Cloudera Seismic Hadoop

Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:43:12 +0900
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US NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) で
2011年 10月 5日に開催されたトレーニングのビデオが資料と共に公開されて
います：

Using Hadoop for HPC Applications
Lavanya Ramakrishnan, NERSC Technology Integration Group
  http://www.nersc.gov/users/training/nersc-training-events/hadoop-for-hpc/

"The tutorial will provide an overview of Hadoop technologies,
 discuss some use cases of Hadoop for science and present
 the programming challenges with using Hadoop for legacy applications."

[san-tech][03465] "Advanced Computing Infrastructure: Vision and Strategic Plan", February 2012, US NSF Report

Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:51:40 +0900
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US NSF (National Science Found) の新しいレポートです：

"Advanced Computing Infrastructure: Vision and Strategic Plan"
 Document History: Posted: February 22, 2012
  http://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf12051
  http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12051/nsf12051.pdf

Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21)
  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504730

[san-tech][03460] DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes (CLIQR) Quest) Challenge

Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:04:28 +0900
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DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) 懸賞金チャレンジです：

DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response codes
(CLIQR) Quest) Challenge
  https://www.cliqrquest.com/Default.aspx

".. DARPA CLIQR Quest (Cash for Locating and Identifying Quick Response
 codes (CLIQR) Quest), a prize-based challenge that seeks to advance
 the understanding of social media and the Internet, and explore
 the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely
 communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required
 to solve broad scope, time-critical problems."

[san-tech][03458] "Helix Nebula - the Science Cloud": CERN, EMBL, ESA and Commercial partners, 01.03.2012

Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:58:47 +0900
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欧州 3研究機関と産業界のクラウドコンソーシアムがアナウンスされました：

"Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud computing"
 01.03.2012
  http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2012/PR03.12E.html
  http://www.embl.de/aboutus/communication_outreach/media_relations/2012/120301_Heidelberg/index.html
  http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM5725Y1ZG_index_0.html

  "Today a consortium of leading IT providers and three of Europe's
   biggest research centres (CERN, EMBL and ESA) announced a partnership
   to launch a European cloud computing platform. "Helix Nebula -
   the Science Cloud", will support the massive IT requirements of
   European scientists, and become available to governmental
   organisations and industry after an initial pilot phase."

[san-tech][03453] "Cray's YarcData Division Launches New Big Data Graph Appliance", Feb 29, 2012

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:57:40 +0900
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2021/03/03

"Cray Parlays Supercomputing Technology Into Big Data Appliance"
 March 01, 2012, HPCwire
  http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-03-01/cray_parlays_supercomputing_technology_into_big_data_appliance.html

"Cray gets graphic with big data"
 ThreadStorm appliance cries 'Urika!'
 1st March 2012, The Register
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/01/cray_urika_big_data_appliance/
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Crayから Big Data Graph Appliance (実際はラック) が発表されました：

"Cray's YarcData Division Launches New Big Data Graph Appliance"
 Feb 29, 2012
  http://investors.cray.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=98390&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1667153

  "... dedicated to providing "Big Data" solutions for enterprise
   customers, today announced the launch of the YarcData uRiKA
   graph appliance -- a purpose-built solution for Big Data relationship
   analytics -- at the 2012 Strata Conference in Santa Clara, California."

※2012 Strata Conferenceでの Premier Exhibitorsはこのため？

[san-tech][03452] Stanford Online Graduate Certificate in Mining Massive Data Sets

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:07:05 +0900
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Stanford大学で以下の大学院レベルのオンラインコースを開講しています：

Mining Massive Data Sets Graduate Certificate
  http://scpd.stanford.edu/public/category/courseCategoryCertificateProfile.do?method=load&certificateId=10555807&selectedProgramAreaId=11221

Description
.....
"With the Mining Massive Data Sets graduate certificate, you will
 master efficient, powerful techniques and algorithms for extracting
 information from large datasets such as the web, social-network
 graphs, and large document repositories. Take your career to
 the next level with skills that will give your company the power
 to gain a competitive advantage."

[san-tech][03443] "Big Data investment map", 27. February 2012, Beautiful Data

Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:07:25 +0900
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興味深いグラフです：

"Big Data investment map"
 27. February 2012, Beautiful Data"
  http://beautifuldata.net/2012/02/big-data-investment-map/
  http://beautifuldata.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BigDataVentures.png

  "While getting ready for the Strata Conference in Santa Clara,
   I prepared a network map showing the most important companies
   represented at the conference and their connections via venture
   capital or investment firms ..."

[san-tech][03411] 2012/01/25：京速コンピュータ「京」と創薬・医療の産学連携セミナー

Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:27:20 +0900
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 2012年 1月 25日(水) に以下のセミナーが開催されます：

第 2回 京速コンピュータ「京」と創薬・医療の産学連携セミナー
‐HPCI計算生命科学推進プログラム‐

日　時：2012年 1月 25日 13:30-17:40
場　所：東京国際フォーラム
参加費：無料 (事前登録)
主　催：大阪大学大学院基礎研究科
(HPCI戦略プログラム分野1「予測する生命科学・医療および創薬基盤」教育プログラム)
詳　細：http://www.biogrid.jp/pdf/bunya1-2.pdf

Three "Bolshoi" Supercomputer Simulations of the Evolution of the Universe, Sep. 29, 2011

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"Three "Bolshoi" Supercomputer Simulations of the Evolution of
 the Universe Announced by Authors from University of California,
 New Mexico State University"
 September 29, 2011
  http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/Bolshoi/News.html

  "Two research articles describing the most accurate cosmological
   simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of
   the universe yet made" ... "The results calculated by the Bolshoi
   simulation - spectacular visualizations of what the universe was
   like at time steps 40 million or 80 million years apart - are
   being made publicly available to the world’s astronomers and
   astrophysicists..."

[san-tech][03297] Slide (Google Docs): SciDAC 2011 (2011/07/10 - 14)

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:13:04 +0900
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2011年 7月 10日～14日に開催された

Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) 2011

  http://events.cels.anl.gov/scidac11/

の講演資料がほぼ公開されています (先週に比べてかなり増えています)。

Agenda

  http://events.cels.anl.gov/scidac11/agenda-2/

ただし、PDF直公開ではなく Google Docs経由での公開となっています。

[san-tech][02445] NAP：Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences: Summary of a Workshop, 2010

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:48:48 +0900
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The National Academies Press (NAP) の新刊です：

"Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences: 

 Summary of a Workshop"

 Scott Weighman and Thomas Alison, Rapporteur; National Research Council

 Publication Year:2010, Size: 58 pages, 6 x 9

  http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12916.html

Description:

  "Steps Toward Large-Scale Data Integration in the Sciences summarizes

   a National Research Council (NRC) workshop to identify some of the

   major challenges that hinder large-scale data integration in the 

   sciences and some of the technologies that could lead to solutions. 

   The workshop was held August 19-20, 2009, in Washington, D.C."

※PDF版は無償ダウンロード公開です。

"NSF Launches Science360 for iPad Application", June 9, 2011

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"NSF Launches Science360 for iPad Application"
 June 9, 2011
  http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=119789

  "The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Science360 for iPad application
   is now available in the App Store section of Apple's iTunes. This
   application features spectacular images from NSF-funded institutions
   in high resolution for download to the iPad. The application also allows
   users to share images and video on Facebook and Twitter or via email.
   In addition, breaking science news is always at a user's fingertips
   through the application news feed."
.....
  "To download the Science360 for iPad application for free, visit
   the Apple iTunes store."

Science360 for iPad, By National Science Foundation
  http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/science360-for-ipad/id439928181

[san-tech][03237] Slide, Paper: ScienceCloud2011 (2011/06/08)

Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:18:38 +0900
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2011年 6月 8日に開催された

ScienceCloud2011, 2nd Workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing
 Co-located with ACM HPDC 2011 (High Performance Distributed Computing)
 June 8th, 2011
 http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/ScienceCloud2011/

の講演資料とペーパーが公開されています：

Report Recommends Ways to Improve K-12 STEM Education, US National Research Council

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"Report Recommends Ways to Improve K-12 STEM Education, Calls on
 Policymakers To Raise Science Education to Same Level of Importance
 as Math and Reading"

 June 23, 2011, The National Academies
  http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=13158

  "State, national, and local policymakers should elevate science education
   in grades K-12 to the same level of importance as reading and mathematics,
   says a new report from the National Research Council.  The report
   recommends ways that leaders at all levels can improve K-12 education
   in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

   The report responds to a request from Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) for
   the National Science Foundation -- which sponsored the Research Council
   report -- to identify highly successful K-12 schools and programs in
   STEM fields."

"Universities Report $55 Billion in Science and Engineering R&D Spending for FY 2009", Sep. 2010, US NFS

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少し前のですが、FY2009の米国大学の科学・技術の研究開発費に関する統計です：

"Universities Report $55 Billion in Science and Engineering R&D Spending
 for FY 2009; Redesigned Survey to Launch in 2010"
 NSF 10-329, September 2010
 Ronda Britt, Research and Development Statistics Program, Division of
 Science Resources Statistics, NSF
  http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10329/
  http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10329/nsf10329.pdf

  "University spending on research and development in science and
   engineering (S&E) increased 5.8% between FY 2008 and FY 2009 to
   $54.9 billion, according to FY 2009 data from the National Science
   Foundation (NSF) Survey of Research and Development Expenditures
   at Universities and Colleges (table 1).[2] When adjusted for
   inflation, academic R&D rose by 4.2% in FY 2009."

TABLE1. S&E R&D expenditures at universities and colleges FY 2004-09
  http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10329/tab1.gif
  http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf10329/tab1.xls