Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2018
From insideHPC
AMD Goes Full 7nm with EPYC Rome Processor
Today AMD unveiled its upcoming 7nm compute and graphics product portfolio designed to extend the capabilities of the modern datacenter. During the event, AMD shared new specifics on its upcoming “Zen 2” processor core architecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cooperative Work: Editing the Wikipedia
Fascinating experiment. Which has implications to other kinds of cooperative work that have to come to some conclusion. Surprised me how little poorthe complete resolution is.Perhaps because goals are not well stated? Or
Why…
From insideHPC
Predictions for SC18: A change in climate for HPC?
In this special guest feature, Dr. Rosemary Francis from Ellexus offers up her predictions for SC18 in Dallas. "It’s almost time for SC18 and this year it’s a biggie. Here is what we expect to hear about at SC18 as the Ellexus…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Public Blockchains for Private Business Data
Blockchains as a service? Would get them more commonly used and understood. More detail about the direction at the link. Privacy of data is being emphasized.
Coming soon: Public blockchains for private business data
Ernst &
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Mercedes Delivery Research
How can I put packages in a van to optimize delivery based on a given delivery route?
Mercedes’ AI research could mean faster package delivery
Moving on from failure and exploding milk jugs.
By Roberto Baldwin, @strngwys in …
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems to Acquire Bressner Technology in Europe
Today One Stop Systems announced that the company has acquired Bressner Technology GmbH, a leading specialized high-performance computing supplier in Europe. "Based in GRÖBENZELL, Germany near Munich, Bressner provides standard…
From insideHPC
DDN to showcase World’s Fastest Storage and more at SC18
Today DDN announced it will showcase a number of new innovations optimized for HPC, AI and hybrid cloud at SC18 in Dallas. Designed, optimized and right-sized for commercial HPC, AI, deep learning (DL), and exascale computing…
From insideHPC
TYAN steps up with New Intel Xeon E-2100 Processors
Today TYAN introduced new Intel Xeon E-2100 processor-based server motherboards and systems to the market. The new lineup is designed to offer enhanced performance, advanced security, and reliability of cost-effective entry server…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Gets an Update on the Spaceborne Supercomputer
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team sits down with Mark Fernandez from HPE to discuss the Spaceborne Supercomputer that it currently orbiting the planet in the International Space Station. "Last week, HPE announced it is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Forecast for Amazon's Ad Platform
Amazon further monetizes its traffic
Retail Briefing: Amazon’s making the duopoly a triopoly
by Shareen Pathak
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From Schneier on Security
Security of Solid-State-Drive Encryption
Interesting research: "Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs)": Abstract: We have analyzed the hardware full-disk encryption of several SSDs by reverse engineering their firmware.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and Wal-Mart Partner to Take on Amazon
Quite interesting details in the complete article linked to below. Microsoft has the cloud based technical capabilities. Also the IOT architecture that will be important. But is the advanced tech that Amazon has installed…
From Computational Complexity
Is Fuzzy Sets Common Knowledge? How about Napier as inventing (or something) logs?
Darling: Bill, help me with this crossword puzzle. 6 letter word that begins with N, clue is log man
Bill: Napier
Darling: Who was that?
Bill: A famous lumberjack
Darling: Give me a serious answer
Bill: Okay. He is said
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From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Measuring the memory-level parallelism of a system using a small C++ program?
Our processors can issue several memory requests at the same time. In a multicore processor, each core has an upper limit on the number of outstanding memory requests, which is reported to be 10 on recent Intel processors. In…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
USDOT Request for Comment on Preparing the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicles
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is committed to facilitating a new era of transportation innovation and safety and ensuring that our country remains a leader in automation. It is acting as a convener and facilitator…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Empowered Coding for Eye Tracking
Brought to my attention. A natural next step
Smart-Gaze: AI powered coding for efficient Eye Tracking in Karna.ai
“What you see is what you buy”
It is believed that 95% of the purchase decisions happen in the subconscious (let…
From BLOG@CACM
A Tale of Two CTs (and a Revised Timeline for Computational Thinking)
Rethinking the timeline of Computational Thinking to recognize several computer scientists in addition to Jeannette Wing.
From insideHPC
vScaler Cloud Adopts RAPIDS Open Source Software for Accelerated Data Science
vScaler has incorporated NVIDIA’s new RAPIDS open source software into its cloud platform for on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Deployable via its own Docker container in the vScaler Cloud management portal, the…
From insideHPC
AMD Powers Mentor Graphics HPC Application Development Environment
Today AMD announced the availability of the Mentor Graphics Sourcery CodeBench Lite Edition development environment for AMD EPYC and Ryzen CPUs and AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs. "AMD’s innovative hardware technologies combined with…
From Schneier on Security
Troy Hunt on Passwords
Troy Hunt has a good essay about why passwords are here to stay, despite all their security problems: This is why passwords aren't going anywhere in the foreseeable future and why [insert thing here] isn't going to kill them.…
From insideHPC
Appentra Auto-parallelization coming to Emerging Technologies Showcase at SC18
Today HPC Startup Appentra Solutions announced the company's plans to showcase its auto-parallelization technologies at the Emerging Technologies Showcase at SC18. "SC18 is the premier international conference for High Performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Amazon Go Stores Productive
First numbers from the cashierless concept.
First Amazon Go locations demonstrate concept’s strong appeal
Cashierless stores unlikely to be direct competitor to supermarkets Russell Redman in SupermarketNews
In the early going…
From insideHPC
XTREME-Stargate Launches “New era of Cloud Platform for AI and HPC”
Today HPC Cloud Startup XTREME-D announced the official release of XTREME-Stargate, a gateway appliance that delivers a new way to access and manage high-performance cloud for the next AI generation. "XTREME-Stargate is an innovative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Recognizing the Irrelevant
Part of any conversation is the means of filtering out value and movement toward goals.
Learning to Recognize the Irrelevant
By Young-Bum Kim Alexa Dev
Alexa Alexa research Alexa science
A central task of natural-language-understanding…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jurassic Perfumes
From my long ago touch on and interest in the science and commercialization of aroma. A surprising result. A way to use patterns from genes to innovate aromas?
Jurassic Park for Perfume: Ginkgo Bioworks Reconstructs Scents From…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neural Networks and Optical Illusions
In particular the use of the GAN architecture is of interest.
Neural Networks Don't Understand What Optical Illusions Are
By Technology Review
Machine vision systems cannot process images like this the way humans can.
University
Researchers…
From insideHPC
In-Network Computing Technology to Enable Data-Centric HPC and AI Platforms
Mellanox Technologies' Gilad Shainer explores one of the biggest tech transitions over the past 20 years: the transition from CPU-centric data centers to data-centric data centers, and the role of in-network computing in this…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Projects Should Be Personal
I’m always looking for new projects. I find them in the strangest places. Facebook for one. And some not so strange places. The AP CS Principles curriculum from code.org has lead me to several. Most recently, the unit on data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intuitive Enterprise
Think about 'intuitive' as being like cognitive. Its a form of augmentation, another means generating potential solutions, then testing them. Testing can be formally numerical, in an analytic sense, simulations to help understand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Looking Back at Forecasting in Support of Analytics
Forecasting is an important part of any kind of analytics or predictive AI. Ultimately you have to use predictive systems not only in their current contexts but also for needed future contexts. In other words the world,
This…