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 The Eponymous Pickle
Alexa Guesses Intent, Latent Goals
Quite interesting, but this depends on the results. Admirable idea. Based on what I read it seems this will at least somewhat depend on suggesting existing skills that address goals and needs. And I still don't see how…
From insideHPC
Dr. Peter Braam Joins ThinkParQ as CTO
Kaiserslautern Germany, November 12th, 2020 – ThinkParQ, the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the appointment of industry pioneer and innovative visionary Dr. Peter Braam as Chief Technical Officer…
From insideHPC
Using Workstations To Reshape Your Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure
The study results summarized in this white paper show that firms are already using workstations to lower the cost, increase the security, and speed up their AI infrastructure. The addition of workstations into a firms AI workflow…
From insideHPC
Iceotope and Lenovo Partner for Edge HPC
12 November 2020, Sheffield, UK: The Iceotope, Avnet and Schneider Electric partnership to jointly develop chassis-level immersion cooled data centre solutions has been joined by Lenovo to deploy its ThinkSystem SR670 servers…
From insideHPC
Microchip Announces PCI Express 5.0 and CXLTM 2.0 Retimers
Chandler, AZ, November 10, 2020 – Microchip Technology Inc. announced today the XpressConnect family of low-latency PCI Express (PCIe®) 5.0 and Compute Express Link™ (CXLTM) 1.1/2.0 retimers. XpressConnect retimers triple the…
From insideHPC
CXL Consortium Releases Compute Express Link 2.0 Spec
The CXL Consortium has announced the release of the Compute Express Link 2.0 specification, which adds support for switching for fan-out to connect to more devices; memory pooling for increased memory utilization efficiency and…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
Support for Email Addresses in Local Languages Grows with Major Tech Companies
By Mark Svancarek, Chair, EAI Working GroupMany people around the world are currently excluded from experiencing the full benefits of the Internet simply because they are unable to use a domain name or email address in the language…
From Schneier on Security
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From insideHPC
WekaIO Wins Best of Show for Innovative AI Application at Flash Memory Summit
Nov. 11, 2020 – WekaIO (Weka), a specialist in high-performance and scalable NVMe-optimized file storage, today announced that Weka AI was honored with Flash Memory Summit’s 2020 Best of Show Award for Most Innovative AI (Artificial…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Holographic Video Display for Mobile Phones
New directions for display on mobile phone, multi dimensional? Implications for typical phone tasks? Advanced marketing?Sounds impressive.
Thin Holographic Video Display for Mobile Phones
IEEE Spectrum, Charles Q. Choi
At South…From insideHPC
Stäubli to Highlight New Cooling Connectors at Virtual SC20
Duncan, SC (Nov. 9, 2020) — At virtual SC20, held online November 17 -19, Stäubli, a manufacturer of quick-release coupling systems for IT/liquid cooling, will be digitally highlighting the new DAG coupling this year. The DAG…
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Issues New Release of Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has announced the availability of the Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) v1.2 release. ECP, a collaborative effort of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science and the National…
From Schneier on Security
“Privacy Nutrition Labels” in Apple’s App Store
Apple will start requiring standardized privacy labels for apps in its app store, starting in December:
Apple allows data disclosure to be optional if all of the following conditions apply: if it’s not used for tracking, advertising…From Schneier on Security
New Zealand Election Fraud
It seems that this election season has not gone without fraud. In New Zealand, a vote for “Bird of the Year” has been marred by fraudulent votes:
More than 1,500 fraudulent votes were cast in the early hours of Monday in the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Networks
Technical, hardware.
Building a Quantum Network, One Node at a Time
University of Rochester NewsCenter By Bob Marcotte
A nanoscale quantum node fabricated from magnetic and semiconducting material by researchers at New York State…From Schneier on Security
The Security Failures of Online Exam Proctoring
Proctoring an online exam is hard. It’s hard to be sure that the student isn’t cheating, maybe by having reference materials at hand, or maybe by substituting someone else to take the exam for them. There are a variety of companies…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pandemic Research for Preparedness & Resilience (PREPARE)
Recently, the Computing Research Association’s Computing Community Consortium (CCC) released a white paper called Pandemic Informatics: Preparation, Robustness, and Resilience, by Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado Boulder)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Causality is Important for Machine Learning
Have always thought causal thinking and learning was a major consideration for the future of AI in general. Here a step in the right direction. But overall its still a hard question.
Understanding Causality Is the Next Challenge…From insideHPC
La Jolla Institute for Immunology Optimizes COVID-19 Research with Excelero
San Jose – Nov. 11, 2020 – Excelero, maker of software-defined block storage for AI/ML/deep learning and GPU computing, has deployed its solution for a new high-performance storage architecture at La Jolla Institute for Immunology…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Eight Unexpected Ways to Connect with ACM-W
by Bettina Bair, ACM-W Communications co-Chair Did you know that ACM-W has more than 40,000 ACM-W members, all over the world? I love looking at this map! It looks like we built a circuit with flashing lights, but the lights…
From insideHPC
IQM Quantum Raises €39M in Series A Funding
Espoo, Finland, 10th November 2020 – IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a European builder of superconducting quantum computers, today announced that it has raised €39M in Series A funding, bringing the total amount of funding raised…
From insideHPC
IBM and AMD in ‘Confidential Computing’ Agreement for Cloud and AI Acceleration
IBM and AMD today announced a multi-year development agreement to enhance the security and artificial intelligence offerings of both companies. The effort builds on open-source software, open standards and open system architectures…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram and Etherium
Saw this late, but interesting.
Investigating the Ethereum Gold-Bug and Blockchain in the Wolfram Language
Wolfram Blog by Christian Pasquel
Blockchain was integrated into the Wolfram Language in 2018 with the release of Version…From insideHPC
Western Digital Expands Flash Portfolio for Scaling Data-Centric Architectures
SAN JOSE – Western Digital (NASDAQ: WDC) has announced a suite of NVMe SSDs for enabling data-centric architectures for data centers, industrial IoT, automotive and client applications. It includes the Ultrastar DC ZN540 ZNS …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating the PowerGrid
We are much in need of better power grid simulations. PNNL is working on it. Note the broader look at multiple task modeling and improvement. Worth looking at for other industrial multiple task and goal operations. Full and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shaping Future Strategy with Wargaming
Early in my career worked in the DOD. We worked lots of simulated decisions for many operational reasons. More like you might see in classic gaming, than you would see in modeling a business supply chain process. To look…
From insideHPC
Quantum Expands Unstructured Data Management Portfolio
Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO) today unveiled an expansion of its portfolio to help customers classify, manage and protect video and unstructured data across its lifecycle. The company said addressing the need to manage data end…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Subscribe to the New NSF CISE Newsletter
The following blog was originally posted on the CRA Bulletin. The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate just announced a new newsletter that will share “periodic…
From insideHPC
Micron Ships World’s First 176-Layer NAND
BOISE, Idaho — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), has announced shipment of what the company said is the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory, “achieving unprecedented, industry-pioneering density and performance. …
From insideHPC
insideHPC Guide to HPC/AI for Energy – Part 2
In this technology guide sponsored by our friends over at Dell Technologies, we take a deep dive into how the team of Dell Technologies and AMD is working to provide solutions for a wide array of needs for more strategic cultivation…