Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2015
From insideHPC
University of Warsaw Selects Cray XC40 Supercomputer
This week, the University of Warsaw in Poland announced plans to install a Cray XC40 supercomputer at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modeling. The six-cabinet Cray XC40 system will be located …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Logistic Regression vs Decision Trees
Decision trees were a favorite method in the enterprise, in part because the solution could be easily understood. Now think of them in relation to Logistic regression for use in classification:" .... By Lalit Sachan in Blogon…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
A Little More on the Graph Isomorphism Algorithm
Looking at some of its components From source, our congrats too Laci Babai’s first talk a week ago Tuesday is now a webcast here. There is also a great detailed description of his talk by Jeremy Kun, including background on the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Building Predictive Models
Good, non technical article in DSC about building predictive models. No hype, suitable for executive use. All this is fairly standard stuff, basic approaches, but I like to see it stated in different ways. You are always…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Windows at 30 and our first Interaction
Mashable piece on the history of Windows. Back then, a small group of us from the enterprise flew out to Redmond to see a demo of Windows 1. Bill Gates, all by himself, gave a demo. A couple of reporters joined the group…
From insideHPC
Altair Collaborates with Intel to Integrate PBS Pro with OpenHPC Software Stack
This week at SC15, Altair announced today it will provide an open source licensing option for its PBS Professional HPC workload manager. Scheduled to be released to the open source community in mid-2016, PBS Pro will become available…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems HDCA Supports 16 Nallatech 510T Accelerator Cards
This week at SC15, One Stop Systems featured the first PCIe 3.0 expansion appliance to support up to sixteen Nallatech 510T accelerator cards. The preconfigured appliance is targeted for data centers operating HPC applications…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Modeling and Optimization Postdoc at LANL
Los Alamos National Lab is seeking an HPC Modeling and Optimization Postdoc in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: HPC Modeling and Optimization Postdoc at LANL appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Tundra Servers come to Penguin on Demand
This week at SC15, Penguin Computing announced availability of its OCP-compliant Tundra platform on the company’s Penguin Computing on Demand (POD) public HPC cloud service. "POD customers will realize an immediate benefit of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Hard is it to Build A Cognitive Assistant?
Jim Spohrer, Director, Global University Programs at IBM, co traveler on the issue of how to build and benefit from AI with cognitive methods, poses these questions. See the tags below. Answer and join in at the link. I will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Difficulty of Persuasion
Seth Godin on the difficulty of persuasion. This is a really fundamental thing in all of business. Stories and targeting worldviews.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice to Text Using Siri
On voice to text using Siri, just examined." .... Beause people like leaving voicemails but don't like listening to them, Apple is reportedly looking at using its digital personal assistant Siri to provide voice-to-text service…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Spawning in South Australian Waters
Divers are counting them: Squid gather and mate with as many partners as possible, then die, in an annual ritual off Rapid Head on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of Adelaide. Department of Environment divers will check the waters…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Germany and Digital
In the Economist: " .... Does Deutschland do digital? ... Europe’s biggest economy is rightly worried that digitisation is a threat to its industrial leadership ..."
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics for Innovation
Via former colleague Julie Anixter:Kobi Gershoni great piece on why Product Developers need to read the external signals .... " ... How can you use big data to increase your chances of success at the fuzzy front-end through…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Theory vs Practice of Data Science
After a long time of practicing what we called 'analytics', I have just, for the first time taken an engagement that includes the term 'data scientist'. So what is the difference between theory and practice? Nice piece…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting to Wow in Sales
In K@W: An old article that still makes an excellent point. Its more than just about the retail price.
From insideHPC
OpenACC 2.5 Includes Support for ARM and x86 Processors
The OpenACC Standards Group released the 2.5 version of the OpenACC API specification.
The post OpenACC 2.5 Includes Support for ARM and x86 Processors appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Earth Core Simulation Awarded Gordon Bell Prize
Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, IBM Research, New York University and the California Institute of Technology have been awarded the 2015 Gordon Bell Prize for realistically simulating the forces inside the Earth…
From insideHPC
Creating Careers for Research Software Engineers
"Recognition of status and career advancement in academia relies on publications. If your skills as a software developer lead you to focus on code to the detriment of your publication history, then your career will come to a …
From insideHPC
New HPCG Benchmark List Goes Beyond LINPACK to Compare Supercomputers
The High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) Benchmark list was announced this week at SC15. This is the fourth list produced for the emerging benchmark designed to complement the traditional High Performance LINPACK (HPL)…
From insideHPC
Video: OpenHPC Community Launches at SC15
In this video from SC15, Karl Schulz from Intel and Michael Miller from SUSE describe the all-new OpenHPC Community. "The use of open source software is central to HPC, but lack of a unified community across key stakeholders …
From BLOG@CACM
A Week of HPC at SC15
ETH's Torsten Hoefler walks through a week of workshops, tutorials, papers, and his reactions to a week at SC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Searching and Shopping with Images
Image recognition, manipulation and delivery. Have yet to see this very useful in shopping. Practical example uses exist in enterprise knowledge interaction. Several early examples looked at how to search untagged advertising…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Raising Digital Quotient
From McKinsey: " .... With the pace of change in the world accelerating around us, it can be hard to remember that the digital revolution is still in its early days. Massive changes have come about since the packet-switch network…
From Schneier on Security
Reputation in the Information Age
Reputation is a social mechanism by which we come to trust one another, in all aspects of our society. I see it as a security mechanism. The promise and threat of a change in reputation entices us all to be trustworthy, which…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Finding Methods in the Madness
Beginning programmers seem to like monolithic code. Give them a task to program and they start right off. writing everything in one huge method. If you assign them to use a specific method for a specific task they will do that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extracting Value from Big Data
Really a subset of how you extract value from any data. Both the data you have and the data you can acquire from public or acquire or commission. A goal directed, combinatorial, likely cognitive problem. Intel Corp in Datanami…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Brain MRI, 30 Years Ago
Heady Times: This Scientist Took The First Brain Selfie And Helped Revolutionize Medical ImagingEarly one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck was lying on a makeshift platform inside a GE lab in upstate New…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Emotion in Computing
From the BBC: Reminds me of work done to understand how people react to product. And a new kind of connection in an internet of things?" ... That is the project Daniel McDuff has been working on at the Massachusetts Institute…