omniomni/omni-engineering huggingface dataset:
Beijing GNU/Linux User Group. The Beijing GNU/Linux User Group (BLUG) was founded in Beijing on November 19, 2002, and has since met at least monthly without exception. It was awarded Best SFD 2007 event (1 of 3), Golden Bull 2008 by CSDN as a technology driving group, and Best LUG of the Month by Linux Format early 2008. The Beijing GNU/Linux User Group has also been the host of many famous actors of our movement such as RMS, Ulrich Drepper, Mark Shuttleworth, or Louis Suarez, to name just a few.

The BLUG has grown from a monthly meeting organizer to offering a wide array of activities nowadays ranging from writing software to hacking hardware or just having fun around local food and drinks. Definitely a great bunch to visit if you're in town.

Events 

 Meet every 2nd Tuesday of the month for regular meetings
 Meet every other Tuesday as a social, geeky gathering which is called BLUG Tuesday
 Meet almost every 1st Saturday of the month for Coding for Fun (a hackathon kind of event)
 One should check the website/IRC channel to make sure the event is on

See also 
Linux User Group

References

External links 

 Official website
 SFD 2007 Beijing

Information technology organizations based in Asia
Electronic mailing lists
Free and open-source software organizations
Internet properties established in 2002
Linux user groups
Mayank Prakash. Mayank Prakash (born 1973) is a businessman based in the United Kingdom. Computer Weekly magazine described him as "the most influential person in UK IT" in their 2017 awards.

Qualifications 

Mayank Prakash holds an MBA from Manchester Business School, is a Wharton Fellow and an alumnus of Singularity University.

Career History 

Mayank Prakash started his career as a graduate engineer trainee at the Hewlett-Packard. He worked in the HCL JV starting with the entrepreneurial Frontline Solutions start-up venture and was soon after selected to join the senior management trainee programme and deputed to incubate ERP implementation capabilities working with the Big Four accounting firms at HCL Tech.

Prakash was the international CIO of Avaya, then the group CIO of iSoft and later the CIO of Sage Group in UK. Prakash was hired by Morgan Stanley to lead the tech and data team of Morgan Stanley Wealth and Asset Management and as director of Morgan Stanley Advantage Services.

In 2014, Prakash left Morgan Stanley to join the Department for Work and Pensions as the director general in charge of technology, replacing Andy Nelson. In this role, Prakash combines his predecessor's job as CIO with business transformation, security and data responsibilities, and worked directly for Sir Robert Devereux.

Subsequently, he joined FTSE100 Centrica as the chief consumer digital and information officer.

Current roles 

Prakash joined the board of Uber as a non-executive director.

As Centrica sold its North American business, Prakash was head hunted to join UK's largest wealth and professional services group Evelyn Partners managing £57bn assets as the group CTO and then promoted to become the group chief operations officer. Prakash is also a director on the board of UK's fastest growing £10bn funding business Evelyn Partners Fund Solutions Limited.

He was selected as the deputy president of the British Computer Society in 2021 and its president in 2022. The British Computer Society is the Chartered Institute for Technology. Prakash is the chair of the board and also serves on the nominations and remuneration committee of the Trustee Board.

Prakash is also the chair of PIMFA WealthTech Advisory Council.

References 

Technology business executives
1973 births
Living people
British civil servants
Chief information officers
Chief digital officers
Alumni of the Manchester Business School
Presidents of the British Computer Society
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Felice Ippolito. Felice Ippolito  (16 November 1915 – 24 April 1997) was an Italian geologist, politician and engineer. He was a fiery promoter of the development of nuclear energy in Italy. His daughter is the actress Angelica Ippolito.

Biography 
Born in Naples, Ippolito graduated in civil engineering with a specialization in geology in 1938, and in 1950 he became Professor of Applied Geology at the University of Naples Federico II. Interested in the use of civil nuclear energy because of his research on uranium as a geologist, in 1952 he became General Secretary for the use of nuclear energy, became in 1960 the  (CNEN), the predecessor of ENEA. In this role, he contributes to various projects including establishing the Latina, Trino and Garigliano nuclear power plants. In December 1955, he was among the founders of the Italian Radical Party.

In August 1963 an Ippolito case about a supposed maladministration of the CNEN broke in the newspapers. Ippolito was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to 11 years in prison. The case was widely considered a scapegoat to block nuclear power in favour of the nascent Italian oil industry, and it has also been associated with the mysterious death of Enrico Mattei in 1962. Ippolito was pardoned by Giuseppe Saragat after two years in prison.

In 1968, Ippolito founded  the magazine Le Scienze, the Italian version of Scientific American. Between 1979 and 1989, he was an Independent Left (Sinistra indipendente; SI) MEP, elected on the Italian Communist Party list.

References

External links 

 Felice Ippolito MEP Page 

1915 births
1997 deaths
Engineers from Naples
20th-century Italian geologists
MEPs for Italy 1979–1984
MEPs for Italy 1984–1989
Italian Communist Party politicians
Radical Party (Italy) politicians
University of Naples Federico II alumni
Academic staff of the University of Naples Federico II
Politicians from Naples
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. The Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) is a Presidential award established by the United States White House in 1995. The program is administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on behalf of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to reward outstanding mentoring by individuals and organizations. PAESMEM is the highest national mentoring award bestowed by the White House.

A Few Selected Recipients
1996 – Richard A. Tapia, Diola Bagayoko
1997 – Geraldine L. Richmond
1998 – Nina Roscher
2000 – Maria Elena Zavala
2003 – 
Individual – Linda B. Hayden, Margaret Werner-Washburne
Organisation – Karl W. Reid (National Society of Black Engineers)
2004 -
Organization - Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science
2005 – Lenore Blum, Rosemary Gillespie, Cheryl B. Schrader
2007 
Individual – Jerzy Leszczynski, Kennedy Reed, Kenneth Sajwan, Laura Bottomley, Lesia Crumpton-Young, Mary Anne Nelson, Patricia DeLeon, Steven Oppenheimer
Organisation – Medeva Ghee (The Leadership Alliance & The Partnership for Minority Science Education)
2008 – Richard Zare, Susan M. Kauzlarich
2009 – Maja Matarić
2011 – Juan E. Gilbert, Jo Handelsman, Mary Lou Soffa
2014 – Erika Tatiana Camacho, Keivan Stassun
2015 
Organisation – EDGE Foundation
2018 – Ulrica Wilson
2020 - Overtoun Jenda

STEM mentoring
Mentoring in the STEM fields has been shown to assist with student retention, a significant problem in the STEM pipeline.

References

External links
Official site
National Science Foundation Program page

National Science Foundation
Mentorships
American science and technology awards
Martin Casado. Martín Casado is a Spanish-born American software engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was a pioneer of software-defined networking, and was a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nicira Networks.

Early life and education
Martín Casado was born around 1976 in Cartagena, Spain. He received his bachelor's degree from Northern Arizona University in 2000. In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate from the same university. Casado was a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1998 until 2003. While at LLNL, he ran large-scale computer simulations for the United States Department of Defense.

Casado attended Stanford University, earning both his Masters and PhD in computer science in 2007.
While at Stanford, he began the development of OpenFlow, an open-source protocol that enabled software-defined networking. His Ph.D. thesis, "Architectural Support for Security Management in Enterprise Networks,” under advisors Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker and Dan Boneh, was published in 2008.

Career
In 2007, Casado co-founded Nicira Networks along with McKeown and Shenker, a Palo Alto, California based company working on network virtualization. Casado also served as Nicira’s chief technology officer.  

Along with McKeown and Shenker, Casado promoted software-defined networking. His Ph.D. work at Stanford University led to the development of the OpenFlow protocol, which was promoting using the term software-defined networking (SDN). McKeown and Shenker co-founded the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) in 2011 to transfer control of OpenFlow to a not-for-profit organization.

In July 2012, VMware acquired Nicira for $1.26 billion. 
At VMware he was made a fellow and held the positions chief technology officer (CTO) for networking and security and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit.

Casado left VMware and joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in February 2016 as its ninth general partner. 
Andreessen Horowitz had been one of the investors in Nicira, contributing $17.7 million to the start-up venture.

Awards
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Grace Murray Hopper Award (2012)

References

External links

Northern Arizona University alumni
Stanford University alumni
1970s births
Living people
Xia Heng. Xia Heng (; born 7 November 1983) or Henry Xia is a Chinese entrepreneur. He co-founded the Chinese plug-in gas-electric hybrid car company XPeng Motors.

Early years 
Heng studied automobile engineering at Tsinghua University and earned a master's degree in 2008 after 6 years there. Prior to co-founding XPeng Motors, Henry served as the supervisor for the New Energy Vehicle Control Section, a research and development team, at Guangzhou Automobile Group. He received multiple awards in research, innovation and management during his time at Guangzhou. Heng has worked as a resident engineer in multiple European countries, has published more than 10 research papers and patents about electric and smart vehicles, and has expertise in electric and smart vehicle controls, vehicle integration and project management.

XPeng Motors 
In 2014, Heng co-founded XPeng Motors with a small group of vehicle and IT experts. Heng is tasked with the company's strategic planning and product architecture design. The company initially focused on research and development for new core technologies for use in motors, batteries, electronic control systems and center-display touch screens. Heng recruited former employees from Guangzhou Automobile, BMW, Lamborghini, BYD, ALi, Tencent, Huawei, and Samsung. Since 2015, the company has built and tested four test cars. XPeng has projected that it will start production of its own vehicle before the end of 2017.

References 

1983 births
Living people
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
Businesspeople from Hunan
Chinese founders of automobile manufacturers
Tsinghua University alumni
XPeng people
Louis Ward. Louis Larrick Ward (November 18, 1919 - February 10, 1996) was an American businessman who successfully turned the Russell Stover Candies company into an international brand after purchasing the company in 1960.

Early life and education 
Ward was born November 18, 1919, in Lenora, Kansas, to Carter William and Fern Alpha (née Larrick) Ward. He initially attended the University of Kansas from 1937 to 1938 before ultimately transferring and in 1941 earning a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Stanford University.

Career 
Since 1946, Ward has been with multiple employers in the chemical industry such as Drexel, Harriman & Company and Spencer Chemical Company. In 1960, he acquired Russell Stover Candies and built into an internationally known brand. He also served as a director to the First National Bank in Kansas City, Missouri.

Personal life 
On December 15, 1955, Ward married Adelaide Selby Cobb (1933-2022), later chair of the Ward Family Foundation. They had three children;

 Linda Larrick Ward
 Scott Hardman Ward
 Thomas Selby Ward

Louis L. Ward died on February 10, 1996, aged 76.

References

1920 births
1996 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
Stanford University alumni
Mite (disambiguation). Mites are microscopic arachnid animals.

Mite may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment 
Mite (album), 1988, by Chisato Moritaka
Mite (Dungeons & Dragons), a character in the role-playing games

Education 
Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Karnataka, India
Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science, a program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.

People 
Mite Cikarski, Macedonian footballer
Mite Kremnitz, German writer

Other uses 
River Mite, Cumbria, England
The Greek lepton, a small coin translated as "mite" in various passages of the Bible
Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements, non-self-replicating DNA strands
Mooney M-18 Mite, a 1947 model of one-man aircraft

See also
 Might (disambiguation)
 Mate (disambiguation)
 Meet (disambiguation)
 Mitre (disambiguation)
 Mitt (disambiguation)
 Tick (disambiguation)
Fermi (supercomputer). Fermi is a 2.097 petaFLOPS supercomputer located at CINECA.

History 

FERMI is the main HPC  computer in CINECA. It was acquired in June 2012 and entered into full production on August 8 the same year. Fermi is the Italian national tier-0  system for scientific research and is also part of the European HPC infrastructure (PRACE). Its procurement was sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research.

In June 2012, Fermi reached the seventh position on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world.

In the Graph500 list of top supercomputers, Fermi reached the fifth position, testing at 2,567 gigaTEPS (traversed edges per second).

Specifications
FERMI is a Blue Gene/Q system, the last generation of the IBM project for designing petascale supercomputers. It consists of 10 racks, two midplanes each, for a total of 10.240 compute nodes and 163.840 cores.
 Each compute card (compute node) features a 1.6 GHz IBM processor chip with 16 A2 cores, 16 GB of RAM and the network connections. A total of 32 compute nodes are plugged into a node card. Then 16 node cards are deployed on one midplane which is combined with another midplane and two I/O drawers to fill a rack with a total of 32·32·16 = 16K cores for each rack. On the compute nodes runs a light Linux-like kernel (CNK − compute-node kernel). 
 Compute nodes are disk-less. I/O functionalities are provided by I/O nodes.
 The nodes are accessed by ssh via the front-end nodes (or login nodes) at login.fermi.cineca.it. The login nodes run a complete RedHat Linux distribution (6.2). Parallel applications have to be cross-compiled on the front-end nodes and can only be executed on the partition defined on the compute nodes.

The CINECA system consists of 10 racks configured as follows:
 2 racks: 16 I/O nodes per rack (minimum job allocation of 64 nodes - 1024 cores).
 8 racks:  8 I/O nodes per rack (minimum job allocation of 128 nodes - 2048 cores).

See also
 Supercomputing in Europe

References

Articles about Fermi and its network
 Il Sole 24 ore - in Italian
 Datacenter Knowledge

Supercomputing in Europe
IBM supercomputers
Galileo (supercomputer). Galileo is a 1.1petaFLOPS supercomputer located at CINECA in Bologna, Italy.

History
GALILEO is available in Cineca since January 2015, in full production since February, the 2-nd, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy), the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the University of Milano-Bicocca. It is the Italian National Tier-1 HPC machine, devoted to scientific computing as well as technical oriented applications. Galileo is also available to European researchers as a Tier-1 system of the PRACE 
 infrastructure.

In June 2015, Galileo reached the 105-th position on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world.

In the Green500 list of top supercomputers. Galileo reached the 389-th position in their benchmark, the system tested at 242.17 MFLOPS/W (Performance per watt).

Technical details 
Galileo is an IBM Linux infiniband cluster,  with a NeXtScale architecture. It is made of 516 compute nodes. Each node contains 2x8-cores Intel Haswell processors (2.40 GHz) and a shared memory of 128 GB. The internal network is Infiniband with 4xQDR switches. The cluster is accessible though 8 login nodes, also user for visualization, reachable via ssh at the address login.galileo.cineca.it. The login nodes are equipped with 2 nVidia K40 GPU each. On the cluster there are also 8 service nodes NX360M5 for I/O and management.
The Operating system for both executable and login nodes is CentOS 7.0.

Galileo is an heterogeneous hybrid cluster: 359 nodes are equipped with Intel accelerators (Intel Phi 7120p), 2 accelerators per node for a total of 768 Phi in the system; 40 nodes are equipped with nVidia accelerators (nVidia K80), 2 accelerators per node for a total of 80 K80 in the system.

See also
 Supercomputing in Europe

References

External links
 La Repubblica in Italian
 Corriere Comunicazioni in Italian
 ResearchItaly  in Italian
 Primeur Magazine 
 RaiNews in Italian

GPGPU supercomputers
IBM supercomputers
Supercomputing in Europe
X86 supercomputers
Pico (supercomputer). PICO is an Intel Cluster installed in the data center of Cineca. PICO is intended to enable new "BigData" classes of applications, related to the management and processing of large quantities of data, coming both from simulations and experiments. The cluster is made of an Intel NeXtScale server, designed to optimize density and performance, driving a large data repository shared among all the HPC systems in Cineca.

History

The development of PICO was sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Italy) in 2015.

Specifications

PICO is an Intel Cluster made of 74 nodes of different types, devoted to different purposes, with the common task of data analytics and visualization on large amount of data.
 Login nodes: 2 × 20-core nodes, 128 GB-mem. Both of this two nodes are reachable with the IP: login.pico.cineca.it
 Compute Nodes: 51 × 20-core nodes, 128 GB-mem. A standard scientific computational environment is defined here. Pre-installed applications are in the visualization domain, as well as data analysis, post-processing and bioinformatics. It is possible to access this environment via ssh and submit large analysis in a PBS batch environment.
 Big memory Nodes: two nodes, big1 and big2, equipped respectively with 32 cores – 0.5 T and 40 cores – 1 T of RAM are available for specific activities, which require a remarkable quantity of memory. Both are HP DL980 servers.
The big1 node is equipped with 8 Quad-Core Intel Xeon E7520 processors with a clock of 1.87 GHz and 512 GB of RAM, and a NVidia Quadro 6000 graphics card. 
The big2 node is equipped with 4 Ten-Core Intel Xeon E7-2860 with a clock of 2.26 GHz  and 1024 GB of RAM.
Viz nodes: 2 × (20-core, 128 GB-mem, 2 × GPU Nvidia K40) + 2 × (16-core, 512 GB-mem, 1 × GPU Nvidia K20). A remote visualization environment is defined on this partition, taking advantage from the large memory and the GPU acceleration.
BigInsights nodes: 4 × 16-core nodes, 64 GB-mem/node, 32 TB local disks/node + 1 × 20-core nodes, 128 GB-mem.). On these nodes an IBM solution for Hadoop applications is available. InfoSphere BigInsights is available for special projects.
Other nodes: 13 × 20-core nodes, 128 GB-mem. They are used for internal activities in the domain of Cloud computing, large Scientific Databases, hadoop for science.

See also
 Supercomputing in Europe

References

Articles about Pico and its network
Cineca: dal supercomputing alla gestione dei big data (Luca De Biase)
L’utilizzo dei Big Data in Istat: stato attuale e prospettive (presentation at ForumPA by Giulio Barcaroli - ISTAT)
Centro internazionale di fisica teorica Abdus SalamSymposium on HPC & Data-Intensive Applications in Earth Science (presentation by Carlo Cavazzoni and Giuseppe Fiameni - Cineca)

Supercomputing in Europe
IBM supercomputers
Williams Shipping. Williams Shipping is a marine services & logistics company based in Southampton, England. Its services include vessel chartering, marine operation services, oil spill response, road transport, marine lubricants and container hire.

History 
George Williams founded the company in 1894, after a career working on windjammers.

Marine Fleet

Transport Fleet

In 2014, the company acquired a 100 tonne crawler crane with a boom of 42 metres.

In 2015 the company expanded its transport fleet with Euro-6 DAF XF tractor units to furnish its specialist logistics and general haulage operations. Trucks include three XF 510 FTG Super Space Cabs plated at 65-tonnes, two 44-tonne XF 460 FTG Space Cabs and an XF 460 FTR Space Cab with 47 tonne Hiab Crane.

In 2016 the company purchased a Hyster reach stacker and developed a 1-acre area of its Millbrook site into a cargo handling yard.

Locations 
The company has offices in the Eastern Docks and Millbrook areas of Southampton, in Aberdeen and in Pembrokeshire. Its office in Pembroke Port opened in 2004 as part of a joint venture with Milford Haven Port Authority.

References
Unbearable (sculpture). Unbearable is a bronze sculpture by the Danish artist Jens Galschiot. It consists of a graph showing the global fossil fuel carbon emissions, and an impaled polar bear. The sculpture was finished in 2015 and exhibited in Paris during COP21. The sculpture is made in cooperation with WWF Denmark.

Overview
The polar bear is impaled on an oil pipeline, which is in shape of a graph showing the cumulative global fossil fuel carbon emissions. The polar bear is in natural full size and made in copper. The graph shows the emissions since year 0. The graph is 20 meters long, and until 1850 not rising. Then in 1850 the human consumption of fossil fuels rises. The graph end in year 2015 five meters above ground impaling the polar bear. 
The sculpture was funded by WWF Denmark, a Crowdfunding campaign and Jens Galschiot. The campaign was crowdfunded on Kickstarter and gathered 12.000 euros

Exhibitions
The sculpture was exhibited at a climate march in Copenhagen, where thousands of demonstrates attended. After the march the sculpture was exhibited at Cité Universaitre in Paris at COP21. According to Jens Galschiot the sculpture was scheduled to be exhibited in front of the Danish parliament in April 2016.

Polar Bear Army

Jens Galschiot made a happening in Paris during COP21, where he and his employees were in polar bear costumes. The happening was an effort to create a focus on human consumption of fossil fuel. Paris was in state of emergency at the time of the happening. Jens Galschiot and his employees were therefore not allowed to wear masks. The polar bear army participated in many climate changes demonstrations. According to Jens Galschiot the polar bear army will participate in a happening in New York City together with the president of the United Nations General Assembly Mogens Lykketoft.

See also
 COP21
 Fundamentalism
 Jens Galschiot
 Pillar of Shame
 Sculpture
 Danish sculpture
 WWF

References

2015 in the environment
Bronze sculptures
Environmental art
Polar bears in art
Sculptures by Jens Galschiøt
Sculptures of bears