Communications of the ACM
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October 2024
From insideHPC
Hyperion/HPC User Forum: 2 Weeks Left to Apply for Innovation Excellence Award
The HPC Innovation Excellence Awards recognize noteworthy achievements by users of high-performance computing (HPC). The 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Award winners will be announced at the Hyperion Research AI/HPC Market Update…
From insideHPC
Intersect360 Research: HPC-AI Leadership Organization Adds 6 Advisory Committee Members
SUNNYVALE, CA—Oct. 10, 2024— HPC and AI industry analyst firm Intersect360 Research has announced the addition of six new Advisory Committee Members to the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO). The newly-announced members, all…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you parse a CSV file in C#?
We often store large datasets using comma-separated-value (CSV) files. The format is simple enough, each line of a text file is made of several values separated by commas, like so: "Willett, Walter C.",Harvard T.H. Chan School…
From insideHPC
Breaking the ICE at Livermore: ICECap to Use Exascale Fusion Simulations for Digital Design
A groundbreaking multidisciplinary team of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers is combining the power of exascale computing with AI, advanced workflows and GPU-acceleration with the intent to advance scientific…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Laureates on Mechanisms for Successful Visioning
CCC’s mission is to catalyze computing research, and we are always on the lookout for ways to promote visioning about the future of computing across disciplinary boundaries. When I was at the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum in…
From insideHPC
Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World
The Exascale Era began in spring 2022 when the Top500 list certified that the HPE-AMD Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory had broken through the exascale computing barrier. And with the Intel-HPE Aurora system…
From insideHPC
n2 Group Acquires Managed Services Company X-ISS
Oxford, UK – 17 October 2024 – n2 Group, a computing technology investment company, announces the acquisition of high-performance computing (HPC) and AI specialists X-ISS. The addition of X-ISS expands the Group’s portfolio–
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From Computational Complexity
Computing and the Nobels
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From Schneier on Security
Cheating at Conkers
The men’s world conkers champion is accused of cheating with a steel chestnut.
From insideHPC
IQM Selected for 2 Quantum Computers for Euro-Q-Exa Hybrid System at LRZ
Munich, 16th October 2024 – The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) has signed a purchase agreement with IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a maker of superconducting quantum computers. Under the agreement, IQM will deliver two
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From insideHPC
Women in High Performance Computing and ISC Group Extend Partnership for 2025
Bicester, UK—Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) and ISC Group announced the continuation of their partnership in advance of ISC 2025, scheduled for June 10–13, 2025, in Hamburg, Germany. As part of this collaboration,…
From insideHPC
Altair Announces Aerospace Collaboration with Motivo
TROY, Mich., October 15, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced a collaboration with Motivo, a product engineering firm focused on translating forward-thinking visions into best-in-class products for clients in the mobility,
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From insideHPC
Dell AI Factory Offers New Cooling, High Density Compute and AI Storage
Round Rock, TEXAS – October 15, 2024: Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) introduced integrated rack-scalable systems, server, storage and data management innovations to the Dell AI Factory, for high density computing and AI workloads…
From Schneier on Security
More Details on Israel Sabotaging Hezbollah Pagers and Walkie-Talkies
The Washington Post has a long and detailed story about the operation that’s well worth reading (alternate version here).
The sales pitch came from a marketing official trusted by Hezbollah with links to Apollo. The marketing…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Table lookups are efficient
When optimizing small functions, I often rely on a table lookup: I replace the actual computation with table of precomputed values. It is often surprisingly efficient. Let us consider an example. Suppose that you are given an…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking at SOSS Fusion 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The event will be held on October 22 and 23, 2024, and my talk is at 9:15 AM ET on October 22, 2024…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Best Practices for Conference Submission and Policy Review Whitepaper Teaser
In July 2024, the Computing Research Association Working Group on Socially Responsible Computing Subcommittee on Best Practices for Conference released a whitepaper to guide conference organizers in developing responsible computing…
From Schneier on Security
Perfectl Malware
Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware:
The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected…From Computational Complexity
A Trip Down Memory Lane: Desc comp, Constant Round Sorting, Division Breakthrough, Derandomization.
From Schneier on Security
Indian Fishermen Are Catching Less Squid
Fishermen in Tamil Nadu are reporting smaller catches of squid.
From Schneier on Security
More on My AI and Democracy Book
In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are hard at work writing.
At this point, we would like feedback on …From Schneier on Security
IronNet Has Shut Down
After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that it was based on IP he developed…
From insideHPC
HPE Launches ProLiant System Powered by AMD for AI
HOUSTON – October 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 for complex AI model training tasks, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators…
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies Adds AMD-Powered PowerEdge Servers
San Francisco, Oct. 10, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) expanded it generative AI (GenAI) solutions portfolio with Dell AI Factory additions tailored for AMD environments. Dell said the solutions offer enterprises enhanced…
From insideHPC
HPE Announces Fanless Direct Liquid Cooling Systems Architecture
HOUSTON – Oct. 10, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced what the company said is the industry’s first 100 percent fanless direct liquid cooling systems architecture, designed to enhance the energy and…
From insideHPC
AMD Launches CPU, GPU and DPU Chips Aimed at Big AI
Today in San Francisco AMD announced updated versions of its chips portfolio and moved to position itself as an across-the-board provider of data center technology for organizations implementing Big AI. The company also said
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From Schneier on Security
Deebot Robot Vacuums Are Using Photos and Audio to Train Their AI
An Australian news agency is reporting that robot vacuum cleaners from the Chinese company Deebot are surreptitiously taking photos and recording audio, and sending that data back to the vendor to train their AIs.
Ecovacs’savailable…From insideHPC
HF Sinclair Launches Immersion Cooling Fluids
Oct. 9, 2024 — HF Sinclair’s Lubricants & Specialties business annoiunced a line of single-phase immersion cooling fluids. INNOVATE is a series of dielectric thermal management fluids formulated with proprietary, ultra-pure,
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From insideHPC
Airbus Selects Multiverse for Gesture Recognition Control Systems for Fighter Pilots
DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN – October 9th, 2024 – Multiverse Computing, a quantum AI software company, today announced it will work with Airbus Defence and Space to build a new gesture-based control system for fighter jets…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
From software to reality?
Both the Physics and Chemistry Nobel prizes were awarded to computer scientists in 2024. Computer scientists are emerging as leading figures in the natural sciences. In turn, these sciences are increasingly dominated by theorists…