Daily links for 08/08/2012

• IBM’s New Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer to Help Research in Health Sciences (video)

  “New York State’s University of Rochester now sports the world’s fastest computer dedicated to medical research.   The IBM Blue Gene/Q clocks in at 172-teraflops (172 trillion floating point operations per second), according to the Poughkeepsie Journal, making it one of the fastest computers in a university setting.”

  tags: ibm health

• Michelle X. Zhou: Big Data: Good for Business, Useful for You

  “My team at IBM works in people analytics, which aims to gain a deep understanding of people including understanding their personality and needs. We then use such an understanding to create hyper-personalized engagements with individuals (such as making a movie recommendation based on personality). Right now we’re looking at how to use big data generated on social media to analyze brand perception and the people who voice those perceptions. We want to help companies better serve their customers with what they want, when they want it.”

  tags: ibm big data

• Managing FTP services in OS X Lion | MacFixIt – CNET Reviews

  “Apple’s sharing services in OS X have included the options for the Mac-native Apple Filing Protocol (AFP), the Windows-native Server Message Block (SMB), and the classic File Transfer Protocol (FTP). These three file-sharing protocols have been useful for compatibility not only with common Mac and Windows machines, but the FTP option has enabled practically any system to transfer files to a Mac. The lack of the ability to enable FTP in the system preferences may seem a bit limiting, but there are ways to get around this and get FTP service back up and running.”

  tags: ftp os x lion

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