Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2016
From insideHPC
Mellanox Brings HDR to SC16 while Dominating Today’s TOP500
"InfiniBand's advantages of highest performance, scalability and robustness enable users to maximize their data center return on investment. InfiniBand was chosen by far more end-users compared to a proprietary offering, resulting…
From insideHPC
Using Machine Learning to Avoid the Unwanted
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Justin Gottschlich, PhD from Intel describes how the company doubling down on Anomaly Detection using Machine Learning and Intel technologies. "In this talk, we present future…
From insideHPC
Asetek’s Adaptable Liquid Cooling on Display at SC16
Demonstrating Asetek’s adaptability to any data center cooling need, HPC installations from around the world are currently on display at SC16 in Salt Lake City, Utah November 14-17. Servers from these installations featuring
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From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Based Search for Research
Making search better with semantics ...
New AI-Based Search Engines Are a 'Game Changer' for Science Research
Scientific American (11/12/16) Nicola Jones
Artificial intelligence (AI)-based academic search engines such as Semantic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cancer Research with Deep Learning
In the CACM:
" .... Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers are applying deep-learning techniques to automate how information is collected from cancer pathology reports documented across a nationwide network of cancer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning Lessons from Building Bots
Thoughtful video from recent conference. I am continuing to look at bot style solutions. Still not very impressed with solutions I have seen.
Lessons learned from building bots
Andy Mauro discusses pitfalls, opportunities, and…
From insideHPC
Livestream Monday Tonight: Jen-Hsun Huang Keynote from the Nvidia Booth at SC16
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will give a special talk tonight at 7:30pm Mountain Time from SC16 in Salt Lake City. Tune in right here on insideHPC to watch this keynote and all the Nvidia Theater talks this week. "See how other
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From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Ethics of AI
In O'Reilly. Well put. Its not required right away, but we need to think about it because it is moving into some areas where compliance and ethics are important.
The ethics of artificial intelligence, A framework for thinking…
From Schneier on Security
Fake HP Printer That's Actually a Cellular Eavesdropping Device
Julian Oliver has designed and built a cellular eavesdropping device that's disguised as an old HP printer. Masquerading as a regular cellular service provider, Stealth Cell Tower surreptitiously catches phones and sends them…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Working Together
A topic of interest that addresses applications like cooperation and teamwork in robots. Working with each other or with people.
From GaTech:
Team of Robots Learns to Work Together, Without Colliding
Georgia Tech News Center (09…
From insideHPC
Aquila and TAS Energy Launch Liquid Cooled Edge Data Center Solution
Today Aquila announced a liquid-cooled edge data center co-development program featuring the first ruggedized modular edge data center developed around the Aquarius liquid cooled compute platform. This platform combines TAS’s…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Symposium on Accelerating Science: A Grand Challenge for AI
The Computing Community Consoritum (CCC) is co-sponsoring with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) one of several symposia in the AAAI 2016 Fall Symposium series on November 17-19, 2016 in Arlington…
From Schneier on Security
Fake Fingerprint Stickers for Gloves
There's a Kickstarter for a sticker that you can stick on a glove and then register with a biometric access system like an iPhone. It's an interesting security trade-off: swapping something you are (the biometric) with something…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Plans for Watson's Future
Watching this closely. That they are continuing to plan for hardware is interesting.
As Watson matures, IBM plans more AI hardware and software
IBM releases faster hardware and software that make it easier to train deep-learning…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Reviews the New TOP500
http://www.radiofreehpc.com/audio/RF-HPC_Episodes/Episode122/RFHPC122top500podcast.mp3 In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The 48th edition of the TOP500…
From insideHPC
Can FPGAs Help You?
FPGAs will become increasing important for organizations that have a wide range of applications that can benefit from performance increases. Rather than a brute force method to increasing performance in a data center by purchasing…
From insideHPC
Seagate Accelerates ClusterStor with Flash
Today Seagate Technology introduced the ClusterStor 300N storage system with Nytro Intelligent I/O Manager, the newest addition to its family of scale-out storage systems for high-performance computing and the first with a flash…
From insideHPC
Mobile Edition: Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC16 in Salt Lake City
Welcome to the Mobile Edition for the Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC16 in Salt Lake City. Inside this guide you will find technical features on supercomputing, HPC interconnects, and the latest developments on the road to exascale.…
From insideHPC
Omni Path Comes to Penguin Computing On-Demand
Today Penguin Computing announced several important achievements of its Penguin Computing On-Demand (POD) HPC cloud service, including a recent 50 percent increase in capacity and plans to double POD’s total capacity in Q1 2017…
From insideHPC
Accelerating Machine Learning on Intel Platforms
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference, Ananth Sankaranarayanan from Intel describes how the company is optimizing Machine Learning frameworks for Intel platforms. Open source frameworks often are not optimized…
From insideHPC
New Cray XC50 Delivers 1 Petaflop Per Cabinet
XC generic, 7 cabinet, left
Today Cray announced the launch of the Cray XC50 supercomputer – the company’s fastest supercomputer ever with a peak performance of one petaflop in a single cabinet. "Supercomputing applications are…
From insideHPC
Enabling Personalized Medicine through Genomic Workflow Acceleration
If the keys to health, longevity, and a better overall quality of life are encoded in our individual genetic make-up then few advances in the history of medicine can match the significance and potential impact of the Human Genome…
From Putting People First
Billions spent on cyber security tech while human error ignored
Billions spent on cyber security tech while human error ignored, writes Misha Glenny in the Financial Times. Armies of zombie computers threaten us all. Despite the headlines, the cyber security industry has prioritised the development…
From ACM on Huffington Post
Why the Software Industry Needs Computing Education Research
By Andrew J. Ko, Associate Professor, University of Washington and Susanne Hambrusch, Professor, Purdue University Anyone
From The Eponymous Pickle
Standards for Body Area Networks
Examined for possible wearable applications, and medical sensors and effectors.
IEEE releases new standard for body area network
After five years of work, the IEEE announced a new standard, IEEE 802.15.6, for wireless communications…
From Computational Complexity
Did you do research when you were an undergrad? Well.. it was a different time.
Dan is a high school student who has worked with me and is now an ugrad at College Park
DAN: Bill, did you do research when you were in high school?
BILL: No, things were different then, there wasn't really a mechanism for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Even Physicists Fear Mathematics
Well yes, Because math is a deeper abstraction. Not always connected to the see-able or tangible. But also a very useful tool. But a tool that needs to be reworked for the most difficult problems. And that reworking then…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Global Technology
50 notable global technology companies.
The New Game of Global Tech
As distinctions dissolve among the hardware, software, services, and telecom sectors, companies are changing how they compete. ,,,, "
by Olaf Acker, Florian Gr…
From Phys.org Technology News
At $800K a pop, new Navy destroyer's ammo is in question
The new guns on the Navy's biggest and most advanced destroyer are going to be firing blanks if the Navy can't find cost-effective projectiles.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Non Technical View of Machine Learning
Good piece
Machine Learning: An In-Depth, Non-Technical Guide - Part 1
By Alex Castrounis • Jan 27, 2016
Chapters:
Overview, goals, learning types, and algorithms
Data selection, preparation, and modeling
Model evaluation, validation…