Communications of the ACM
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June 2024
From insideHPC
Asperitas Launches Direct Forced Convection Immersion Cooling
Amsterdam – June 25, 2024 – Thermal management company Asperitas today launched Direct Forced Convection technology, designed to enable scale, power and reliability across multiple workloads, including HPC and AI. The company…
From insideHPC
Aug. 1 Deadline for Margaret Butler Fellowship in Computational Science at Argonne
June 25, 2024 — The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s Margaret Butler Fellowship in Computational Science is accepting applications until Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Apply here The fellowship is typically a two-year appointment…
From Schneier on Security
Breaking the M-209
Interesting paper about a German cryptanalysis machine that helped break the US M-209 mechanical ciphering machine.
The paper contains a good description of how the M-209 works.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Can Robots Be Mentors For Children?
In today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape, robots are seen as a potential tool for childhood education and development. From educational resources to companionship, experts such as roboticist Henrik Christensen believe…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240624: GPU Price War?, Rectangular Chip Packaging, AI for Science Assistant, Big HPC-AI Systems Keep Coming
Good first-Monday-of-summer morning to you! Here’s a rapid (6:35) run-though recent HPC-AI news, including: GPU price war in the offing?; the big chip companies consider rectangular chip wafer design; formulating advanced genAI…
From The Noisy Channel
Is Similarity Objective?
Some search problems have binary answers. We often frame these problems in terms of matching or equivalence. A simplistic formulation of relevance is that a canonicalized representation of the query intent equals or matches a…
From insideHPC
Diraq Quantum Adds Deeptech and Venture Investors to $22M Investment Round
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – JUNE 24, 2024 – Quantum computing company Diraq today announced the expansion of its investment round, bringing the total raised to USD $22 million. The company attracted further investment from a number of…
From insideHPC
CEA-Leti Announces Launch of FAMES Pilot Line As Part of EU Chips Act
GRENOBLE, France – June 24, 2024 – CEA-Leti announced the kick-off meeting today of the FAMES Pilot Line, a project aimed at advancing semiconductor technologies in Europe. This initiative aligns with the goals of the EU Chips…
From Computational Complexity
Soliciting open problems in honore of Luca T for my Open Problems Column
As you all know Luca Trevisan, a Giant in our field, passed away at the too-young age of 52. See Lance's post on Luca HERE.
As the editor of the SIGACT News Open Problems Column I am putting together an open problems column in…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcome to our new ACM-W Rising Star Committee Chair!
Silvia is Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain. She is also Director of the Master’s Degree in Software Systems Engineering and Technology at UPV, a program awarded…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Performance tip: avoid unnecessary copies
Copying data in software is cheap, but it is not at all free. As you start optimizing your code, you might find that copies become a performance bottleneck. Let me be clear that copies really are cheap. It is often more performant…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Advice To First Timers at #ISTE24 or #CSTA2024
Summer conference season is coming up. ISTE starts this weekend (without me) and CSTA (with me) is in July. Over the years I have been to scores of conferences and I have learned a few things. I thought I might share some ofComfortable…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Nebula
Beautiful astronomical photo.
From insideHPC
GENCI to be Site of 2nd EuroHPC Exascale HPC System
The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking has signed a hosting agreement with the French national research organization GENCI for its next exascale supercomputer, called Alice Recoque, which will be operated by CEA, a French research agency…
From insideHPC
Wave Photonics Secures £4.5M Investment Round
June 20, 2024 — Wave Photonics, a Cambridge-based start-up, has received £4.5 million to develop on-chip photonics designs for quantum technologies, sensors, and data center applications. The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund…
From insideHPC
IQM Quantum Opens Data Center in Germany
Munich, 21st June 2024 – IQM Quantum Computers today announced the opening of its first quantum data center in Munich to support industry applications, with plans to place up to 12 quantum computers in the data center that, at…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Coordinate conundrum puzzles and vector graphics
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London One way computers store images is as a set of points (as coordinates) that make up lines and shapes. This is the basis for the kind of computer graphics called Vector Graphics.Continue…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Validating gigabytes of Unicode strings per second… in C#?
We have been working on a fast library to validate and transcode Unicode and other formats such as base64 in C++: simdutf. We wondered: could we achieve the same good results in C#? Microsoft’s .NET framework has made great strides…
From insideHPC
Classiq Teams with BMW Group and Nvidia for Quantum Applicability in Electrical Systems
TEL AVIV | June 20, 2024 — Classiq today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA and the BMW Group to optimize mechatronic systems. The initiative is focused on solving a complex computational challenge to find the optimal architecture…
From insideHPC
WEKA Grows IP Portfolio to More Than 100 Patents
CAMPBELL, Calif., June 20, 2024 – WekaIO, the AI-native data platform company, today announced its IP portfolio has been awarded more than 100 patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The company was
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Robotics Meets Workforce Shortage
In recent years, industries have been struggling with a significant challenge: a shortage of skilled labor. This issue spans various fields, from manufacturing to healthcare, and is increased by factors such as demographic shifts…
From Computational Complexity
Luca Trevisan (1971-2024)
From Schneier on Security
Recovering Public Keys from Signatures
Interesting summary of various ways to derive the public key from digitally signed files.
Normally, with a signature scheme, you have the public key and want to know whether a given signature is valid. But what if we instead…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Aged 11-16? Share your views on Computing education in England.
Deadline tomorrow for the Young People's Advisory Group on Computer Science - have your say on how computing is taught in England.
From Schneier on Security
New Blog Moderation Policy
There has been a lot of toxicity in the comments section of this blog. Recently, we’re having to delete more and more comments. Not just spam and off-topic comments, but also sniping and personal attacks. It’s gotten so bad that…
From insideHPC
ACM Announces Awards in AI, Graph Processing, OS Software and Internet Privacy
New York, June 18, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced the recipients of four technical awards. They are: David Blei, Columbia University, receives the ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award. Blei is recognized…
From Yoshua Bengio
The International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI
In November 2023, I’ve been given the responsibility to chair the International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI as part of an international…
L’article The International Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced…From insideHPC
Pasqal Delivers 100+ Qubit Quantum Processing Unit to GENCI and CEA
Paris, June 19, 2024 – A 100+ qubit quantum processing unit (QPU), acquired by GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif), was delivered at TGCC, the CEA computing centre, the three organizations have announced. As
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From insideHPC
June 21 Call for Proposals Deadline for OCP Global Summit and Future Technologies Symposium
The 2024 OCP Global Summit (and co-located Future Technologies Symposium) call for proposals opened on May 13 and will close this Friday, June 21 at 5 pm PT. Click here for more information. The OCP Global Summit will take place…
From Computational Complexity
Rethinking Hueristica
I've argued that more and more we seem to live in an Optiland, a computational utopia where through recent developments in optimization and learning we can solve the NP-problems that come up in practice and yet cryptography remains…