Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2024
From Schneier on Security
The Scale of Geoblocking by Nation
Interesting analysis:
We introduce and explore a little-known threat to digital equality and freedomwebsites geoblocking users in response to political risks from sanctions. U.S. policy prioritizes internet freedom and access…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
2nd ACM Celebration of Women in Computing in Africa: Africa CWIC 2024
The organizers of Africa CWIC 2024 report on their 2nd ACM Celebration of Women in Computing. On Friday, 1st November 2024, United States International University – Africa (USIU-Africa) hosted the 2nd ACM Celebration of Women…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Mixing Research with Entrepreneurship: Find a need and solve it
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Becoming a successful entrepreneur often starts with seeing a need: a problem someone has that needs to be fixed. For David Ronan, the problem was that of how hard it is to mixContinue…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing floats at over a gigabyte per second in C#
A few years ago, we wrote csFastFloat, a C# library to parse floating-point numbers faster. Given the string “3.1416”, it computes the binary value 3.1416. The functionality of the library is equivalent to the C# function Double…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Introducing JUST ACM-W Student Chapter
This month, we are introducing the ACM-W Student Chapter at Jordan University of Science and Technology, officially established on August 19, 2024. The chapter is the first ACM-W Student Chapter in Jordan and brings together…
From insideHPC
Exascale: Gordon Bell Prize Team Presents Record-Breaking Algorithm for Chemistry and Biology
Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named an eight-member team drawn from Australian and American institutions as the winner of the 2024 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for the project, “Breaking the
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From insideHPC
Hyperion Annunces 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
ST PAUL, Minn., Nov. 21, 2024 — Hyperion Research today announced the recipients of the 20th round of HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. Since 2011, these semi-annual innovation excellence awards have been recognized globally
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From insideHPC
ACM Presents Winners of Gordon Bell Climate Modelling Prize
Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2024 – ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today presented a 12-member team with the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling for their project “Boosting Earth System Model Outputs And Saving PetaBytes…
From insideHPC
DOE Office of Science Funds $31M for Research Capacity at Academic Institutions
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 21, 2024 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $31 million in funding for 42 projects to 36 institutions in 24 states to build research capacity, infrastructure, and expertise at academic…
From insideHPC
C1 Edge Research: 99% of Organizations Accelerating Gen AI Adoption
BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Nov. 21, 2024 — C1, a global technology solution provider, today published a report titled The Era of AI-Powered Connected Human Experience is Underway. The report details how organizations across multiple…
From insideHPC
Hammerspace Reports Records in MLPerf1.0 Benchmark with Tier 0 Storage
SAN MATEO, Calif. – November 21, 2024 – Data orchestration platform company Hammerspace has unveiled groundbreaking MLPerf1.0 benchmark results that highlight the unmatched capabilities of its revolutionary Tier 0 technology,…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing Organizers Get Open About Upcoming Workshop
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will be hosting the Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing workshop from December 9-10 in Washington, DC. Their goal is to create a report summarizing best practices and…
From insideHPC
Meta FAIR and VSParticle Launch Catalyst Database Designed to Accelerate Clean Energy Transition
Delft, 20th November 2024: In a bid to accelerate the transition to clean energy in the fight against climate change, VSParticle (VSP) – a Dutch nanotechnology engineering company – today announced the first results from a collaboration…
From insideHPC
MiTAC Computing Unveils AI/HPC Servers at SC24
Atlanta– SC24 – Nov 19, 2024 – MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, a server platform design manufacturer and a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings (TSE:3706), has unveilws its new server lineup at SC24 (booth #2543). MiTAC Computing…
From The Noisy Channel
Where Do Categories Come From?
In my previous post, I argued that categories are fundamental for search applications. I characterized a robust set of categories as offering coverage, coherence, and distinctiveness.
However, that post did not address the question…From insideHPC
Quantum: Atom Computing and Microsoft Report Entangling 24 Logical Qubits
November 19, 2024 — Quantum computing company Atom Computing announced that together with Microsoft they have entangled 24 logical qubits, which they said sets a world record. The companies also jointly demonstrated error
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Participation: 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum for Outstanding Young Researchers in Mathematics and Computer Science
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) would like to encourage young researchers to consider applying for a spot at the 12th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Heidelberg, Germany from Semptember 14-19, 2025. According to the…
From Computational Complexity
For what d is the following true: For all 2-colorings of \(R^d\) has a mono unit square (Answering(?) the Question)
In my last post (see here) I invited you to work on the following question:
Find a \(d\) such that
--There is a 2-coloring of \(R^d\) with no mono unit square.
--For all 2-colorings of \(R^{d+1}\) there is a mono unit square.
Actually…From insideHPC
ASUS Presents Storage-Server Solutions for AI at SC24
Atlanta, Nov. 19, 2024 — ASUS today announced its next-generation infrastructure solutions at SC24, featuring a lineup powered by AMD and Intel, as well as liquid-cooling solutions designed to accelerate AI. By continuously pushing…
From insideHPC
Dell Expands AI Factory in Collaboration with Microsoft
Round Rock, TEXAS – November 19, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) introduced AI offerings designed to help Dell and Microsoft customers simplify AI adoption, speed deployment and power demanding workloads in multicloud environments…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces Omniverse Real-Time Physics Digital Twins With Industry Software Companies
Nov. 19, 2024 — NVIDIA today announced an NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint that enables industry software developers to help their computer-aided engineering (CAE) customers in aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, energy and other…
From insideHPC
Ansys Reports 110x Fluent CFD Simulation Acceleration with NVIDIA GH200
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18, 2024 – Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS) today announced results of the largest Fluent CFD simulation run on NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips. The technology collaboration accelerated simulation by 110x, reducing
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From insideHPC
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI for GenAI on Microsoft Azure
RALEIGH, N.C. – November 19, 2024 — Open source company Red Hat, Inc., today announced an extended collaboration with Microsoft to streamline and scale artificial intelligence and generative AI deployments in the cloud. With
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From Schneier on Security
Why Italy Sells So Much Spyware
Interesting analysis:
Although much attention is given to sophisticated, zero-click spyware developed by companies like Israel’s NSO Group, the Italian spyware marketplace has been able to operate relatively under the radardocument…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List of Top Supercomputers
SC24 here in Atlanta is off to a great start with more than 17,000 attendees (a 21 percent increase over 2023), 480 exhibitors from 29 countries and ....
The post @HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New TOP500 List of Top Supercomputers…
From insideHPC
Luminary Cloud Uses NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for Real-Time CAE Digital Twins
SAN MATEO, CA (November 18, 2024) – Luminary Cloud today announced that it is demonstrating an interactive virtual wind tunnel that combines its cloud-native NVIDIA CUDA-X-accelerated CFD SaaS with the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint…
From insideHPC
TOP500 at SC24: El Cap on Top, U.S. Now Has 3 Exascale Supercomputers
Here in Atlanta at SC24, where an anticipated 16,000 attendees are expected to set a conference attendance record, the new TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers reports that El Capitan, the HPE-Cray/AMD supercomputer…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Participation: Breadth of Practices in Academia/Industry Relationships Workshop
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) would like to encourage you to consider applying to attend the Breadth of Practices in Academia/Industry Relationships workshop in Seattle, WA on March 20-21, 2025. According to the request…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies: AI for Enterprises with Dell AI Factory
SC24, ATLANTA – November 18, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced its new AI portfolio designed to make enterprise AI adoption easier with the Dell AI Factory, for AI workloads and data management. “Getting AI up and…
From insideHPC
Penguin Solutions Accelerates Time to Value for AI Factories
Fremont, Calif., – November 18, 2024 – Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG), today announced its collaboration with Dell Technologies to deliver AI solutions designed to accelerate customers’ time to value through validated, high…