Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
October 2021
From insideHPC
Rambus Launches 5600 MT/s RCD Chip for DDR5 Memory Module Suppliers
SAN JOSE, Oct. 13, 2021 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a chip and silicon IP provider, today announced it is sampling its 5600 MT/s 2nd-generation RCD chip to the major DDR5 memory module (RDIMM) suppliers. This new level of performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apptio and IBM for Enterprise Cloud Transformation
" ... supporting the client journey to the cloud that can help map aligning the optimal portfolio of cloud capabilities ...
Apptio and IBM Announce Collaboration to Help Accelerate Enterprise Transformation with IBM’s OpenApptio…From The Noisy Channel
Balance Your Search Budget!
Search can be computationally intensive. Indeed, search has been the driving force behind many advances in computational efficiency, from MapReduce for distributed indexing to approximate nearest-neighbor methods.
But not allHere…From insideHPC
Supermicro Expands GPU System Portfolio for AI, HPC, Cloud Workloads
SAN JOSE, Oct. 12, 2021 — Supermicro has announced new systems based on NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPUs and 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with built-in AI accelerators (Supermicro X12 series). These servers are designed…
From insideHPC
Cambridge Quantum Releases Quantum NLP Toolkit and Library
CAMBRIDGE, UK — Cambridge Quantum today announced the release of what it said is the world’s first toolkit and library for Quantum Natural Language Processing (QNLP). The toolkit is called lambeq, named after the late mathematician…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Meet Nutan Limaye, Global Director, Celebrations Project
Dr. Nutan Limaye is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Meet My T. Thai, ACM-W Standing Committees Co-Chair
Dr. My T. Thai is a University of Florida (UF) Research Foundation Professor of Computer & Information Science & Engineering and Associate Director of UF Nelms Institute for the Connected World. Dr. Thai's current research interests…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Meet Chuneli Tang, ACM-W Co-Treasurer
CHUNLEI TANG as a new member of the ACM-W leadership team is a research associate at Harvard Medical School.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Supporting, Celebrating, and Advocating for Women in Computing
Spotlight on the Ibadan ACM-W Chapter
From insideHPC
Quantum Accelerator Duality Announces First Corporate Supporters
Oct. 13, 2021 — Duality, the nation’s first accelerator focused on supporting quantum science and technology companies, has announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is among its first corporate supporters, along with Caruso Ventures…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter & Gamble and Microsoft: Data and Digital Transformation
Microsoft talks about how they work with key customers. Notably with my former employer, where I worked on many related problems, and can agree that using data effectively was well understood to be key. Fairly good detailFor…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pratt @ Whitney with Low-Code
Had a few long ago links with Pratt & Whitney, and continue to like the idea of Low-Code approaches if they can ensure that security is built in with standard codes that are used. Have not looked at WEBCON
Pratt & Whitney’s Low…From The Eponymous Pickle
Rotor-Cipher Cryptography Machines
On rotor-cipher machines. A historical view, with comments.
Jon D. Paul has written https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-scandalous-history-of-the-last-rotor-cipher-machine the fascinating story of the HX-63, a super…From insideHPC
Eni Upgrades HPE HPC Infrastructure via GreenLake
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the upgrade of the supercomputer system of Eni, the Italian multinational supermajor energy company. The upgrade of the company’s supercomputer, HPC4, will be delivered as…
From BLOG@CACM
Not Worth a Thousand Words
Pictures are no substitute for substance.
From insideHPC
HPC: Stop Scaling the Hard Way
...today’s situation is clear: HPC is struggling with reliability at scale. Well over 10 years ago, Google proved that commodity hardware was both cheaper and more effective for hyperscale processing when controlled by software…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Static Analysis
Short intro to the idea and its application to managing software:
In “Static Analysis: An Introduction,” author Patrick Thomson provides a perspective on the history, current state and future of static analysis, an important…From insideHPC
Hailo Claims Record AI Chip Venture Round with $136M Series C
Artificial intelligence chipmaker Hailo today announced it has raised$136 million in a Series C funding round led by Poalim Equity and Gil Agmon. The company said the round brings Hailo’s total funding to $224 million and will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Raytheon Collaborate
Collaborative breadth is very interesting
October 11, 2021 in HPCwire
ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 11, 2021 — IBM and Raytheon…From insideHPC
IBM and Deloitte Launch Offering for AI in Hybrid Cloud Environments
NEW YORK AND ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 11, 2021 – IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Deloitte today announced a new offering—DAPPER, an AI-enabled managed analytics solution. The solution reinforces the two organizations’ 21-year global alliance—which…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Translates 100 Languages
More translations emergences, MS beating equaling Google in number of languages covered. Do these methods create completely fluent multi lingual interaction? Or just phrase by phrase translation?
Microsoft taps AI techniques…From The Eponymous Pickle
Trade Skill Schools and Pandemic
Virtual reality is not near enough as yet. So how do we teach physical skills? I was asked in recent days by a training manager of electricians. Quickly, because we need them now.
Virtual class was a devastating blow to…From Computational Complexity
I have a book out on muffins (you prob already know that)
Lance: How come you haven't blogged on your muffin book? You've blogged about two books by Harry Lewis (see here and here) one book by the lesswrong community (see here), and you even did a mashup of a post by two different Scott…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI to keep the Lights on?
This deserves a deeper dive, especially if you are into complex modeling of the operation of systems. The contest is over, but by examining the overview of the statement of the problem, you can be qickly impressed. I am continuing…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (October 10th 2021)
Evans and Chu suggest, using data and a theoretical model, that as the number of scientists grow, progress may stagnate. Simply put, in a large field, with many researchers, a few papers and a few people are able to acquire a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Updates for Apple Glass
Following Apple's look at Smart Glasses. Should note that Google Glasses are apparently still being used in test in some specialized situations. But not in any standard way to interact with the real world. One of the primary…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Pledges a Million to Secure Open Source
Securing Open Source.
Google Pledges $1 million to Secure Open Source Software
By Computing (U.K.) October 5, 2021
Google has pledged $1 million in funding to a new open source security project hosted by the Linux Foundation.
Dubbed…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
For software performance, can you always trust inlining?
It is easier for an optimizing compiler to spot and eliminate redundant operations if it can operate over a large block of code. Nevertheless, it is still recommended to stick with small functions. Small functions are easierContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rise of Robo Voices
If we can insert voices, and are starting to insert believable synthetic 'acting', it may not be long before the entire experience will be fabricated?
ACM NEWS
The next time you see a movie or TV show…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Challenge: Are we Close to AGI?
Artificial General Intelligence. Quite interesting note ... we started in the 80s. How far are we now?
Artificial General Intelligence: Are We Close, and Does it Even Make Sense to Try? By MIT Technology Review, August 25…