Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dashboards that Persuade
Whitepaper by Tableau Software. Well done. Registration information required. " .... Do your dashboards tell the story you want to get across or does your data get lost in a sea of pixels? Tableau strives to keep our users…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Appeal to HoloLens Developers
Thinking possible applications. See previous writings in the tags below.Get the Microsoft HoloLens Development Edition.Help develop the future. The first Microsoft HoloLens devices will ship in the first quarter of 2016 to developers…
From insideHPC
OpenSFS to Sponsor Two Lustre BoFs at SC15
OpenSFS is sponsoring two Lustre BoFs at SC15 in Austin. As a nonprofit organization, OpenSFS was founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development, ensuring it remains vendor-neutral, open, and free.
The post OpenSFS to Sponsor…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sensor Data from Device to Cloud
In ReadwriteWeb: Deserves better understanding and careful choices. " ... The evolution of accessible radio standards over the last 25 years has led to a plethora of ways to pass information collected at a large number of The…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Workshop to Identify Interdisciplinary Data Science Approaches and Challenges to Enhance Understanding of Interactions of Food Systems with Energy and Water Systems
The following is a special contribution to this blog from the organizing committee of the National Science Foundation (NSF) workshop to Identify Interdisciplinary Data Science Approaches and Challenges to Enhance Understanding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business HR Simplification
On simplifying HR in Knowledge@Wharton:Human resources departments manage a company’s most precious resource — employees — and yet many still use outdated systems that introduce inefficiencies. As companies grow, merge, restructure…
From insideHPC
Bright, Dell, & Eduline Build HPC Solution for Turkey’s Anadolu University
Today Bright Computing announced that Anadolu University has chosen a collaborative solution from Bright, Dell and Eduline, for its high performance computing environment. Located in Northwest Turkey, Anadolu is the second largest…
From Putting People First
Experientia report: Design for ageing gracefully
Design for Ageing Gracefully Rethinking Health and Wellness for the Elderly: Public Services Asian Insights & Design Innovation, DesignSingapore Council October 2015
The post Experientia report: Design for ageing gracefully appeared…From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Dell’s Acquisition of EMC
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks Dell's pending acquisition of EMC. "Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman…
From insideHPC
High Performance Computing GPU Accelerators in Deep Learning
Training the neural networks used in deep learning is an ideal task for GPUs because GPUs can perform many calculations at once (parallel calculations), meaning the training will take much less time than it used to take. More…
From insideHPC
Moab Powers Dynamic Resource Sharing at HPC4Health in Canada
Today Adaptive Computing announced that they have fully deployed Moab 8.1 at the HPC4Health consortium in Canada. “The folks at Adaptive Computing helped us create the technology to build a converged data center that dynamically…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Live Coding and the Teachable Moment
The smart thing is to practice any code writing one is going to demonstrate in front of an audience. When I was was working in industry and preparing demos for presentations I would typically work though the program code several…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unilever Organizing Marketing Team
Sharing and spreading expertise. An opportunity to gameify? Contains enough people to perform an internal crowd sourcing. Process linked to knowledge sharing?How Unilever spreads expertise across its global marketing team …
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Is The Hot Hand Fallacy A Fallacy?
A simple idea that everyone missed, and more? Composite of src1, src2, src3 —A myth of a myth of a myth? Joshua Miller and Adam Sanjurjo (MS) have made a simple yet striking insight about the so-called hot hand fallacy. Today…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Is The Hot Hand Fallacy A Fallacy?
A simple idea that everyone missed, and more? Composite of src1, src2, src3 —A myth of a myth of a myth? Joshua Miller and Adam Sanjurjo (MS) have made a simple yet striking insight about the so-called hot hand fallacy. Today…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Benchmark Intelligence
Brought to my attention by the Brandery. Benchmark Intelligence. " ... The New way to Manage a Chain ... Operational Business Intelligence for Restaurant Chains (and more) ... Streamlined field auditing, text based customer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Software is Smart Enough for SAT but ...
In the NYTimes. Impressive these approaches have become, especially in narrow applications. But still not intelligent in a broad sense. Temper your expectations.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customer Service and Technology
You need both. In Customerthink: " ... A recent article on RetailWire.com posed a question about which of two customer loyalty strategies delivered greater ROI. Is it a customer service experience, or is it technology thatTechnology…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Servicing with Augmented Reality
A service example with augemented reality. This was our first proposed kind of AR application in manufacturing maintenance. Did not succeed, but at the time the technology would not support the knowledge delivery required…
From insideHPC
Call for Benchmark Proposals: SC16 Student Cluster Competition
SC16 has issued a Call for Proposals for a new initiative that aims to integrate aspects of past technical papers into the Student Cluster Competition.
The post Call for Benchmark Proposals: SC16 Student Cluster Competition appeared…From insideHPC
Video: Prologue O/S – Improving the Odds of Job Success
"When looking to buy a used car, you kick the tires, make sure the radio works, check underneath for leaks, etc. You should be just as careful when deciding which nodes to use to run job scripts. At the NASA Advanced Supercomputing…
From insideHPC
Cray Opens EMEA Research Lab in Bristol
Today Cray announced the creation of the Cray Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Research Lab. The Cray EMEA Research Lab will foster the development of deep technical collaborations with key customers and partners, and will…
From insideHPC
HPC People on the Move: October Edition
I’ve been commissioned by insideHPC to get the scoop on who’s jumping ship and moving on up in high performance computing. Familiar names this week include Mary Bass, Wilf Pinfold, and Mike Vildibill.
The post HPC People on the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Need for Metadata Services
I was introduced to the problem last year. The need for a means for systematically collecting key contextual data. To make the data of more value, for a longer time. In O'Reilly: We need open and vendor-neutral metadata…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Accepting Nominations for the 2016 Alan T. Waterman Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to accept nominations for the 2016 Alan T. Waterman Award. The Waterman Award is NSF’s highest honor. Each year, the Foundation bestows the award to recognize the talent, creativity…
From BLOG@CACM
Danke Sehr!
I was not sure what to talk about. And then from Wolfsburg (Germany), miracle struck!
From insideHPC
Case Study: PBS Pro on a Large Scale Scientific GPU Cluster
Professor Taisuke Boku from the University of Tsukuba presented this talk at the PBS User Group. "We have been operating a large scale GPU cluster HA-PACS with 332 computation nodes equipped with 1,328 GPUs managed by PBS Professional…
From Schneier on Security
Soviet Spying on US Selectric Typewriters
In the 19980s, the Soviet Union bugged the IBM Selectric typewriters in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. This NSA document discusses how the US discovered the bugs and what we did about it. Codename is GUNMAN. Is this the world's…
From insideHPC
10 Reasons HPC Marketing Differs from B2B
In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon from McMahon Consulting writes that, for High Performance Computing vendors, HPC Marketing is a completely different animal than B2B.
The post 10 Reasons HPC Marketing Differs from B2B…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 12 October 2015
I’m not in school today. Columbus Day holiday here in the US. A bigger deal is that my grandson stayed over last night. I love being a grandfather. He’s only a year old. Not quite ready to learn to code but when he is I’ll be…