Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2020
From insideHPC
INCITE Awards HPC Time to 51 Research Projects on ORNL, Argonne Supercomputers
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 51 high-impact computational science projects for 2021 through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory…
From insideHPC
At SC20: DDN Installs 30 SFA18K Series HPC Storage Hardware for Fugaku
DDN, the AI and data management software and hardware specialist, today announced its SFA18K Series has been adopted as the second-tier storage system for the supercomputer Fugaku, named today the world’s most powerful supercomputing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introducing the Amazon Care Hub
Brought to my attention, a system that works with existing Amazon devices. Part of the Alexa App. No additional cost. Which lets you follow the activities of people needing extra care. Quickly communicate with and for them…
From insideHPC
At SC20: Fugaku Extends HPC Top500 Lead, Benchmarks 2 ExaFLOPS on HPC-AI; Summit, Sierra Nos. 2 and 3; China at Nos. 4 and 6
The Arm-based Fugaku supercomputer, residing at the Riken Center for Computational Science in Japan, solidified the lead it seized in June atop the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. Announced today at virtual…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seoul Goes Drone for Delivery
Looks to be a long step forward. with advances getting more autonomous.
Drone Taxis, Bags of Rice Take Flight in Downtown Seoul
Bloomberg By Youkyung Lee
An autonomous aerial delivery vehicle was tested in Seoul, South Korea…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Researchers unveil massive analysis of online hate & counter-speech
The following was adapted from this Santa Fe blog post. At a recent presentation at the Science Writers 2020 conference, Joshua Garland and Mirta Galesic of the Santa Fe Institute presented the first large-scale analysis of…
From BLOG@CACM
Why Focus on Technologies for Human Learning?
By choosing human learning as a topic area, computer scientists can contribute to major societal challenges, win grants in additional programs, and tackle new computer science challenges. Three classes of challenges are described…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Origami Inspired Grip
Enjoy the inspiration of origami in design and modeling interaction.
An origami-inspired robotic fingertip with shape-morphing capabilities by Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore
To perform tasks that involve moving or handling objects…From insideHPC
At SC20: Penguin Computing Unveils HPC, AI & Analytics, Cloud and Data Solutions
Penguin Computing today announces a series of solutions and four technology practices designed to help organizations modernize their enterprises with emerging technologies and software-defined architectures for data-intensive…
From insideHPC
At SC20: Bright Computing Launches HPC Cluster Manager 9.1
Today, Bright Computing, a specialist in Linux cluster automation and management software for HPC and machine learning, announced the latest version of Bright Cluster Manager (BCM) software. Version 9.1 is designed to simplify…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power Apps for Teams
Like to see this direction, not only as a means to interact, share data and improve collaboration, but Apps that will address particular inefficiencies that already exist in business. We all do business, lets make it work better…
From insideHPC
HPC Computational Research at New England Colleges on Display at SC20
Holyoke, MA, Nov. 16, 2020 – Computational research at New England colleges and universities will be on display during SC20, the largest conference in high performance computing (HPC). The Massachusetts Green High Performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Garage Drop Off Examined Again
Another area we experimented with in the innovation center, and even talked to Amazon about. Thought it had been discarded, but its back. With discussion at the link:
Are garages optimal delivery drop-off points? by Tom Ryan…From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Blockchain e-Voting a Solution to Elections?
Blockchain Voting. In Coindesk.
New MIT Paper Roundly Rejects Blockchain Voting as Solution to Election Woes By Benjamin Powers
As media outlets waited to announce a winner until the Saturday following the election day, calls…From Schneier on Security
On Blockchain Voting
Blockchain voting is a spectacularly dumb idea for a whole bunch of reasons. I have generally quoted Matt Blaze:
Why is blockchain voting a dumb idea? Glad you asked.
For starters:
It doesn’t solve any problems civil elections…From The Eponymous Pickle
GMail Morphs Again
Been a user of GMail since our megacompany included it as an option in the very beginning. It has continued to morph in ways that were often disturbing and less than useful. Now its changing again. Hoping for more logic and…
From insideHPC
AMD Says New GPU Surpasses 10TFLOPS for HPC Acceleration
AMD today announced the new Instinct MI100 accelerator, which the company said is the first x86 server GPU to surpass 10 teraflops (FP64) performance. Built on the new AMD CDNA architecture, the Instinct MI100 “enables a new
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From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: Fraunhofer’s Dr. Daniel Grünewald Talks GaspiLS, a Scalable Linear Solver Library for the Exascale Age
At Virtual SC20, Dr. Daniel Grünewald of the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany updated us on GaspiLS, a scalable linear solver library that the institute says is built for the exascale age. Many engineering simulations are based…
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC: HPE CTO Michael Woodacre Talks Progress toward Exascale and How HPC & AI Work in Tandem to Fight Disease
At Virtual SC20, we caught up with HPE’s Michael Woodacre, HPE Fellow and chief technology officer of HPC & Mission Critical Systems, who updated us on the company’s involvement with all three of the U.S.’s first exascale systems…
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: Bright Computing Talks the ‘New Era of HPC,’ Bright Cluster Manager 9.1 and Cluster-as-a-Service
We caught up at Virtual SC20 with two of Bright Computing’s senior execs, CEO Bill Wagner and CTO Martijn de Vries. Bright is a maker of software for deploying and managing high-performance clusters, and Wagner talking about
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From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: Catching up with Penguin Computing’s Expanding HPC Reach
At Virtual SC20, we checked in with Penguin Computing Chief Strategy Officer Matt Jacobs, who is helping guide the company’s rapidly expanding reach, encompassing HPC, AI, on and off premises, hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and anywhere…
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: How to Build a Supercomputer – Supermicro Showcases 3 LLNL HPC Clusters
At Virtual SC20, we sat down with Mike Scriber, he’s Supermicro’s senior director, server solution management, to talk about three supercomputing clusters the company has installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. They…
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: AMAX Pushes the CPU-GPU Compute Envelop with PCIe Gen 4 for HPC/AI
At Virtual SC20, Dr. Rene Meyer, VP of technology at AMAX Information Technologies, spent time with us explaining developments and trends driving new levels of HPC-class performance in support of advanced AI solutions. AMAX is…
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: An Update on the Fraunhofer Institute’s Carme, Where HPC Meets Interactive Machine Learning
At Virtual SC20, we spent time with Philipp Reusch, Scientific Assistant at Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Reusch is closely involved in the development for the institute’s Carme (“kar-mee”), a framework to manage…
From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: VMware Talks Trends and Transformational Technology for Virtualized HPC Workloads
At Virtual SC20, VMware’s Mohan Potheri, the company’s principal systems and virtualization architect, talked with us about the broadening array of approaches used by VMware’s HPC customers and the emerging technologies that
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From insideHPC
At Virtual SC20: Speaking about Bespoke HPC and AI Solutions with Silicon Mechanics’ Solutions Architect
At Virtual SC20, we talked with Solutions Architect Andrew O’Neill of Bethel, WA-based Silicon Mechanics, a systems integrator founded in 2001 with a focus on HPC, artificial intelligence and enterprise storage solutions. Clients…
From insideHPC
Where to Go and What to Do at Virtual SC20: These HPC Experts Give Guidance
As you plan for this week’s Virtual SC20, we thought it would be helpful to ask four HPC industry experts for guidance regarding the sessions, trends, news and other highlights worthy of your attention coming out of what one
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From insideHPC
HPC-Scale Data Management for the Enterprise That’s Easier and More Cost-Efficient than NAS
In this sponsored post, Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI and Strategic Alliances, WekaIO, discusses how WekaFS is designed to enable organizations to maximize the full value of their high-powered IT investments - compute, networking…
From insideHPC
Nvidia Announces A100 80GB GPU
Nvidia today unveiled the A100 80GB GPU for the Nvidia HGXTM AI supercomputing platform with twice the memory of its predecessor. The new chip with HBM2e doubles the A100 40GB GPU’s high-bandwidth memory to 80GB and delivers
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From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating Technology Leaders – Women in UI/UX
Thursday, December 10 at 3:00 PM ET/12:00 PM PT, a panel discussion featuring Evren Holland (Head of User Experience and Design, MotiveMetrics), Eunjoo Kim (UX Design Lead, Google), and Iram Mirza (UX lead for Play Store and…