Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2017
From insideHPC
WekaIO Partners with HPE to Develop All-Flash Storage for HPC and AI
Today WekaIO announced a partnership with HPE to deliver integrated flash-based parallel file system capabilities that can significantly accelerate compute-intensive workloads. The WekaIO Matrix software-defined storage solution…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chinese Economics
Been looking at the 'One Belt, One Road Initiative'. Earlier we had looked at modeling retail demand in Chinese markets using agent simulation modeling, as it predicted future supply chains. See china tag and 'Agent Models'…
From insideHPC
HPC Connects: The Search for Elusive Proteins that perform Gene Editing
In this video from the SC17 HPC Connects series, David Paez-Espino from the Joint Genome Institute describes how researchers are using supercomputing to search for elusive proteins that perform gene editing. "This revolutionary…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Baidu Launches Conversational OS
Ultimately it will be system that can natural converse with us that will be AI. Not just systems that can recognize language, but systems that can carry on an ongoing, intelligent, useful dialog based on changing context Still…
From insideHPC
Toshiba to Demo NVMe Over Fabrics at SC17
Today Toshiba Memory America announced plans to demonstrate High Performance Computing NVM Express over Fabrics at SC17 in Denver. "NVMe-oF brings direct-connect NVMe SSD performance to the storage fabric with the flexibility…
From insideHPC
Gidel Launches Acceleration Boards Based on Intel Stratix 10 FPGAs
Today Gidel launched their Proc10S family of high performance, scalable compute acceleration boards. The devices are based on the Stratix 10 FPGA, which was released by Intel in late 2016. "Gidel’s newest acceleration board was…
From Schneier on Security
New Research in Invisible Inks
It's a lot more chemistry than I understand: Invisible inks based on "smart" fluorescent materials have been shining brightly (if only you could see them) in the data-encryption/decryption arena lately.... But some of the materials…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking a Fingerprint Biometric
Embedded in this story about infidelity and a mid-flight altercation, there's an interesting security tidbit: The woman had unlocked her husband's phone using his thumb impression when he was sleeping......
From insideHPC
Japanese HPC Cloud Startup XTREME Design Raises $2.75M
Today Japanese HPC Cloud Startup XTREME Design announced the completion of a $2.75M financing agreement in Series-A round funding led by World Innovation Lab (WiL). "XTREME Design provides access to supercomputing resources for…
From Computational Complexity
Advice for the Advisor
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of Machine Intelligence
Well done piece, with useful charting out of the state of intelligence. Below just a brief excerpt:
The current state of machine intelligence 3.0
Watching the appeal and applications of machine intelligence expand.
By Shivon Zilis…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems AHx10 Heat Exchanger Delivers Rack Level Cooling without Facility Water
Today CoolIT Systems unveiled their new AHx10 Heat Exchange Module. This latest member of the CoolIT lineup is a rack mounted Liquid-to- Air heat exchanger that enables dramatic increases in server density without the need for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AlphaX Decision Sciences
Brought to my attention, Advanced Analytics for Oil Companies.
About AlphaX:
AlphaX Decision Sciences, LLC is incorporated in Delaware with offices in Houston, San Jose and Dubai. The Company’s ten employees are dedicated to
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From insideHPC
DDN Powers Radio Astronomy at Pawsey Centre in Australia
Today DDN announced that Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia has deployed a pair of DDN GRIDScaler parallel file system appliances to help deliver the first colored panoramic view of the universe. "The GRIDScaler…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Risky Things
Risk increases as things exist in external environments, as does the IOT.
The Internet of Risky Things - What to do about IOT Sceurity? By Peter Liss in Linkedin
Expert Business Developer in IoT, Telco and Technology
In Part 3
There…
From insideHPC
All about Baselining: RedLine Explains HPC Performance Methodology
In HPC we talk a lot about performance, and vendors are constantly striving to increase the performance of their components, but who out there is making sure that customers get the performance that they’re paying for? Well, according…
From insideHPC
Building Fast Data Compression Code with Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) 2018
Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) is a highly optimized, production-ready, library for lossless data compression/decompression targeting image, signal, and data processing, and cryptography applications. Intel…
From My Biased Coin
BARC, Copenhagen
A few summers ago, I had an opportunity to visit Copenhagen, and work with Rasmus Pagh for a month. I (and the family) liked it so much we went back the next summer for a hashing workshop. While algorithms and data structure…
From insideHPC
Rescale & X-ISS offer Professional Services for HPC Cloud Migration
Today Rescale announced a partnership with X-ISS to offer professional services to enterprises migrating HPC workloads to the cloud. "At X-ISS, we are very excited to partner with Rescale to eliminate the compute ceilings and…
From Schneier on Security
Facebook Fingerprinting Photos to Prevent Revenge Porn
This is a pilot project in Australia: Individuals who have shared intimate, nude or sexual images with partners and are worried that the partner (or ex-partner) might distribute them without their consent can use Messenger to…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Educator Interview: Adam Newall
With increasing interest in computer science before high school these days you may have noticed that I have a number of K-8 teachers in this series. Several of them use Bootstrap in middle school. Bootstrap is a great combination…
From insideHPC
Gidel FPGA Tools Speed Development with Intel’s HLS
Today Gidel announced the availability of new development tools that take advantage of Intel’s HLS, producing a speed increase of 5x over prior development options. Intel’s High Level Synthesis (HLS) compiler turns untimed C+…
From insideHPC
Announcing the SC17 Inaugural Inclusivity Travel Grant
To open up opportunities to attend the conference, SC17 set up a new “Inclusivity Travel Grant” with the goal of helping individuals with demonstrated interest and passion for HPC that would not otherwise have close to a chance…
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: ISC 2018 Contributed Program
The ISC High Performance 2018 contributed program is now open for submissions. As the largest HPC conference and exhibition in Europe, ISC 2018 takes place June 24 – 28, 2018, in Frankfurt, Germany "We welcome submissions for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How to Store Information in Your Clothes
Quite remarkable idea, ready to test this out before buying more storage devices.
How to Store Information in Your Clothes Invisibly, Without Electronics
By University of Washington
A new type of smart fabric developed at the University…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science: Challenges and Directions
Late to this, but very useful. Full text at link. Have always been confused as to the very definition of data science, as opposed say to Analytics. Science or process task? This article scopes it well.
Data Science: Challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Big Data Done?
Depends upon what you mean by Big. Has to be enough, correct, accessible, actionable, process usable, stable, etc. We all manage by data, have done that for a long time, but now we have more much of it, so better to do…
From insideHPC
SC17 Update: Locals’ Guide to Restaurants in Denver
Unfortunately, we did not have the opportunity to publish a new Print'nFly magazine for SC17. Not to leave you in a lurch, we've updated this Guide to Restaurants in Denver for 2017. "Forget Yelp. We talked to the locals to get…
From insideHPC
HPE Teams up with DDN for High Speed Storage
Today DDN announced it has entered into a partnership with global high-performance computing leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Under the agreement, HPE will integrate DDN’s parallel file system storage and flash storage cache…
From insideHPC
SC17 Pub Crawl – Locals’ Guide to Bars and Entertainment in Denver
We've updated our Denver Pub Crawl for 2017. "Denver has great bars and entertainment in store for your visit to the Mile-High City. You’ll find that most of the fun places are in the LoDo area of Downtown. It’s a bit of a hike…