Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
Novartis and Pharma AI
Fairly broad look at how drugs can use AI:
By Bill Briggs
Here’s a cooking story unlike any you’ve heard before. That’s because…From The Eponymous Pickle
Imagine if Your Therapist Could Access Your Smartphone
Very interesting thought, will the contents of our phones provide maps to our psyche in the future? Useful, but beware of possible uses, privacy?
Imagine if Your Therapist Could Access Data From Your Smartphone
The Wall Street…From insideHPC
Thoughts on SC21: Exascale, TOP500, Diversity in HPC, Quantum, the Metaverse
We pulled together a quartet of HPC thought leaders from the technology analyst and national lab communities to gather their reflections on SC21, ranging from big-picture insights on how the event reflects the state of HPC to…
From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
ICANN72 Recap: Highlights on the Progress of UA and IDNs
By Sarmad Hussain, Sr. Director IDN & UA Programs ICANN’s global multistakeholder community recently came together virtually for ICANN72 Annual General Meeting (25-28 October), which followed a robust Prep Week schedule of sessions…
From insideHPC
LLNL Team Wins SC21 Reproducibility Advancement Award for Approximation Framework
A suite developed by a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) team to simplify evaluation of approximation techniques for scientific applications has won the first-ever Best Reproducibility Advancement Award at the 2021…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Developers are Better with Automation
Will have to deal with this as automation progresses. How about the influence on say the security of the code being written?
Developers Are Better With Automation and Reusable
ACM CAREERS
Developers Are Better With Automation and…From insideHPC
Cornelis Fabric Tapped by DOE / NNSA for Advanced Sim
Cornelis Networks announced it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) as an HPC network provider for the NNSA’s Tri-Laboratory Commodity Technology System 2 (CTS…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Mind Mapping
Have used mind mapping for a number of serious applications, both for documenting and building, but it seems to be less mentioned of late. Here Google talks its usefulness..
How mind mapping can help creators make better content…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Risk and Coming Regulation
More needs to be done here here, though though predicting it wil be hsrd. Consider risk analyses under varying scenarios.
Assess AI Risk to Prepare for Coming AI Regulations
September 30, 2021
AI regulations are coming, with…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Apply for the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) recently announced the start of the application period to attend the 9th annual HLF, which will take place September 18–23, 2022 in Heidelberg, Germany. From the call for applications: Young…
From insideHPC
DoE: HPC4EI Solicitation to Connect Industry with Exascale HPC Resources
Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million to connect industry partners with U.S. national laboratory high-performance computing (HPC) resources, including the new exascale systems…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Long-Haul InfiniBand at Purdue University – Extending Accelerated Research Across Campus
[Sponsored Post] For data-driven researchers, the time-related expense of moving data from machines between data centers slows computation and causes costly delays in results. Plus, data center space can be limited for many organizations…
From insideHPC
MLOps Company Comet Raises $50M
New York – November 18, 2021 – Comet, provider of the development platform for enterprise machine learning (ML) teams, today announced it has raised $50 million in a series B funding round, led by OpenView, with participation…
From BLOG@CACM
How to Reduce the Carbon Emissions of Your Website
We can control our online ecological impact.
From insideHPC
XTREME-D Launches S3-Compatible Distributed Object Cloud Storage and Roadmap for AXXE-L HPC as a Service
St. Louis, Nov. 17, 2021 – Award-winning Platform as a Service Provider XTREME-D today announced AXXE-L Cloud Storage, an S3-compatible distributed object storage service that offers high performance, erasure coding, end-to-end…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting integers to fix-digit representations quickly
It is tricky to convert integers into strings because the number of characters can vary according to the amplitude of the integer. The integer ‘1’ requires a single character whereas the integer ‘100’ requires three characters…
From insideHPC
Yonsei Univ. to Bring IBM Quantum System One to Korea
SEOUL, November 16, 2021 — Today at the IBM Quantum Summit, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Yonsei University announced that Korea is expected to become the fourth country in the world to have an on-premises IBM Quantum System One after …
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast – How to Get the Most out of the TOP500
insideHPC in association with the technology analyst firm OrionX.net have released episode 2 of the @HPCpodcast, launched earlier this week and featuring OrionX.net analyst Shahin Khan and Doug Black, insideHPC’s editor-in-chief…
From insideHPC
ORNL, Google and Snowflake Formalize Novel Data Stream Processing Concept
A team of collaborators from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Google Inc., Snowflake Inc. and Ververica GmbH has tested a computing concept that could help speed up real-time processing of data that…
From insideHPC
Research Team Uses Summit to Earn Gordon Bell Prize Nomination for Simulating Carbon in Extreme Conditions
A research team used machine-learned descriptions of interatomic interactions on the 200-petaflop Summit supercomputer at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to model more than a billion…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia to Launch Cloud-Based Software Subscription
Nokia to launch cloud-based software subscription service
Finish telecommunications giant Nokia has announced several Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings aimed at communication service providers (CSP).
The company says its…From insideHPC
OLCF’S HPC Systems Engineer Bing Xie Wins IEEE Early Career Award
Bing Xie, a high-performance computing systems engineer for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, has received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society’s Early Career Researchers Award for…
From insideHPC
MLPerf Releases Results for its HPC v1.0 ML Training Benchmark
Today, MLCommons released new results for MLPerf HPC v1.0, the organization’s machine learning training performance benchmark suite for high-performance computing (HPC). To view the results, visit https://mlcommons.org/en/training…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing around the Corner
Mentioned a number of times here. The ultimate privacy loss?
Real-Time Video of Scenes Hidden Around Corners Now Possible
University of Wisconsin-Madison News, Eric Hamilton, November 11, 2021
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin…From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Intelligence
Interesting podcast from Recorder Future, approach was new to me.
Maximizing the Value of Open Source Intelligence
Recorded Future Blog - Predictive Analyt...by Caitlin Mattingly
Podcast Episode 230
Our guest this week is Harry…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Development in DOD, Government.
A brief examination of the problem.
Best Practices for Building the AI Development Platform in Government
October 28, 2021 6959
The US Army and other government agencies are defining best practices for building appropriate AI…From Computational Complexity
CS Slow to Change?
Back in March of 2019 I wrote
I was also going to post about Yann LeCun's Facebook rant about stodgy CS departments but then Yann goes ahead and wins a Turing award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio for their work on machine…From insideHPC
XTREME-D’s Evolving Supercomputing-as-a-Service Strategy
We sat down with XTREME-D to get an update on the company’s supercomputing-as-service strategy and what the company will be highlighting during SC21. Speaking on behalf of the company are Daisuke Nagao, Senior Vice President …
From insideHPC
INCITE Program Awards HPC Time to 51 Open Science Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced allocations of supercomputer access to 51 high-impact computational science projects for 2022 through its Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment…
From insideHPC
Siemens Energy Taps NVIDIA Omniverse for Power Plant Digital Twin
Siemens Energy, a supplier of power plant technology in the worldwide energy market, is relying on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform to create digital twins to support predictive maintenance of power plants. In doing so, Siemens …