The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
Dec. 4, 2024 — Registration is now open for the Energy High Performance Computing Conference at Rice University’s Ken Kennedy Institute in House, Tuesday-Thursday, Feb. 25-27. Registration is here. For the past 18 years, the …
Now in one place all of my sixty favorite theorems from the six decades of computational complexity (1965-2024).
It’s been the biggest year for elections in human history: 2024 is a “super-cycle” year in which 3.7 billion eligible voters in 72 countries had the chance to go the polls. These are also the first AI elections, where many feared…
At SC24, we caught up with Floyd Christofferson, Vice President of Product Marketing at data management platform vendor Hammerspace, a company at the headwaters of making data an instantly accessible and globally shared resource…
Dec. 4, 2024 — MLCommons today released AILuminate, a safety test for large language models. The v1.0 benchmark – which provides a series of safety grades for the most widely-used LLMs – is the first AI safety benchmark designed…
LAS VEGAS, Dec. 3, 2024 — At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services today announced the general availability of AWS Trainium2-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, introduced new Trn2 UltraServers, enabling…
SAN MATEO, Calif. – December 3, 2024 – Hammerspace announced contributions to the Linux kernel designed to transform standard Linux servers into platforms for enterprise, AI and HPC file and object storage. These contributions…
Dec. 3, 2024 – Beaverton, Ore. – The CXL Consortium, an industry standard body focused on coherent connectivity, announces the release of its Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.2 Specification. The 3.2 Specification optimizes CXL Memory…
The upcoming Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing workshop seeks to bring together a diverse group of researchers to discuss the challenges and possible solutions when working with at-risk populations, building…
Bethany Ahluwalia has become our new ACM-W Website Manager, effective December 2024. We thank Chandra Burnham for her immense support during the search and transition processes. Bethany is a final year MEng Computer Science student…
Valvoline Global has taken its engine cooling and lubrication heritage going back more than a century and announced at SC24 its HPC-AI liquid cooling debut. In this interview, we spoke with Samuel Raudales, Valvoline Global's…
Dec. 2, 20224 — For applicants and recipients of Department of Energy (DOE) financial assistance and loan funding, a newly published “Research Technology and Economic Security Framework” highlights DOE’s goals, process, high-level…
RALEIGH, N.C. – Dec. 2, 2024 — Red Hat, Inc., open source solutions provider, today announced it has signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale availability of Red Hat open source solutions in AWS…
Dec. 2, 2024 -- The Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany received a 100-qubit quantum computer from neutral atom quantum computing company Pasqal in mid-November.
Amsterdam, December 2, 2024 – Nebius Group N.V.; NASDAQ:NBIS), an AI infrastructure company, today announced s definitive agreements for a USD 700 million private placement financing from a group of institutional and accredited…
Dec. 2, 2024, Santa Clara, CA: Tenstorrent said it closed over $693M in its Series D funding round at a pre-money valuation of $2B. Samsung Securities and AFW Partners led the oversubscribed round. In addition to the leads, other…
Last week, I had the honor of presenting “Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents” at Search Solutions 2024 with Aritra Mandal.
We introduced the bag-of-documents model as a way to align query and document representations — specifically…Dec. 2, 2024, SANTA CLARA, CA — Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) today announced that Pat Gelsinger, the company’s CEO since February 2021, has retired from the company after a 40-plus-year career and has stepped down from the…
I recently wrote about the new iOS feature that forces an iPhone to reboot after it’s been inactive for a longish period of time.
Here are the technical details, discovered through reverse engineering. The feature triggers after… (I got this material from a nice article by Arthur Benjamin here.)
Conway suggested the following trick to determine if a number is divisible by each of the following:
2,3,5,7,11,17,19,31
Note that
\( 152=2^3\times 19\)
\(153…