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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
NITRD 30th Anniversary Commemoration
Join us on Thursday, December 2, 2021, at 12pm EST for a special virtual event marking the 30th anniversary of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program. For three decades, the NITRD program…
From insideHPC
Penguin President Sid Mair
We sat down with Penguin Computing President and CEO Sid Mair, to talk about the highly interesting year the developer of open, Linux-based solutions for enterprise data centers HPC and cloud has had in 2021 and about the latest…
From insideHPC
SDSC and Fungible Claim Record HPC Storage Performance
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & SAN DIEGO — Fungible Inc., a data-centric computing company, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego, today announced they have shattered the NVMe over TCP…
From insideHPC
ORNL Study on COVID-19 Earns Gordon Bell Prize Nomination
As the coronavirus pandemic entered its second year, a team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory used the nation’s fastest supercomputer to streamline the search for potential treatments…
From insideHPC
Cerebras Systems Launches Software Development Kit for Wafer-Scale Applications
SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – November 16, 2021 – Cerebras Systems, whose mission is to accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) compute, today announced at SC21 a new Cerebras Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to enable creation …
From insideHPC
ECP Brings Visualization Software to Exascale and GPU-accelerated HPC Systems
The development of the VTK-m toolkit, a scientific visualization toolkit for emerging architectures, is a critical advancement in support of scientific visualization on exascale and GPU-accelerated systems for high-performance…
From insideHPC
Habana Labs Announces Turnkey AI Training Solution Featuring Supermicro Server and DDN Storage
TEL-AVIV, ISRAEL and SANTA CLARA, Calif.–November 16, 2021– Habana Labs, an Intel Company and developer of AI processors, today announced the availability of a turnkey, enterprise-class AI training solution featuring the Supermicro…
From insideHPC
insideHPC and OrionX.net Launch the @HPCpodcast
insideHPC in association with the technology analyst firm OrionX.net today announced the launch of the @HPCpodcast, featuring OrionX.net analyst Shahin Khan and Doug Black, insideHPC’s editor-in-chief. @HPCpodcast is intended…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM debuts Quantum Machine it says no Standard Computer can Match
Yet more advances, now to 127 Qubits. Implications for complexity?
IBM debuts quantum machine it says no standard computer can match in Fortune
IBM has announced its largest quantum processor to date, as the company seeks to show…From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Eye Movement
From Max Planck, worth a follow.
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Germany), November 8, 2021
Scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences…From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Cochlear Implants
3D Printing, ML Unite in Research to Improve Cochlear Implants
University of Cambridge (U.K.), November 12, 2021
Improving cochlear implants (CIs) by combining three-dimensional (3D) printing and machine learning (ML) was the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones in the Sewers
Good examples of using advanced tech to inspect.
The Wall Street Journal, …From insideHPC
Dell Announces New CAE Solutions, PowerSwitch and GPU-Driven HPC Server Options
Nov. 16, 2021 — At SC21, Dell has announced new computer-aided engineering and design solutions, expanded HPC/AI managed services, a Dell EMC PowerSwitch and GPU accelerator options for PowerEdge servers, all designed for modeling…
From insideHPC
One Stop Systems: Transporting AI to the Edge
Moving high performance AI capabilities out to the edge – what One Stop Systems calls its “AI transportable” strategy – is the company’s mission. In this interview with OSS President and CEO David Raun, he updates us on edge …
From insideHPC
Tech Enthusiast Mike Scriber Talks What’s New & Next at Supermicro
For tech enthusiasm, you’d be hard pressed to top Mike Scriber, senior director, Server Solutions Management, at Supermicro. In this interview, he talks about how the “server building block solutions” company, as it describes…
From insideHPC
IBM Unveils 127-Qubit Quantum Processor
IBM today announced a 127-quantum bit (qubit) ‘Eagle’ processor at the IBM Quantum Summit 2021. The company said the processor is a significant step toward tapping into the massive computing potential of devices based on quantum…
From insideHPC
Atos and Nvidia Join to Launch European AI Lab
November 15, 2021 — Atos and NVIDIA today announced the Excellence AI Lab (EXAIL), which brings together scientists and researchers to help advance European computing technologies, education and research. The lab’s first research…
From insideHPC
Astera Labs Targest 400/800G Ethernet Connectivity Bottlenecks with Smart Cable Modules
SANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – November 15, 2021 – Astera Labs, a maker of connectivity solutions for intelligent systems, today announced its new Taurus Smart Cable Module (Taurus SCM) portfolio designed to overcome performance bottlenecks…
From insideHPC
Astera Labs Claims 1st CXL 2.0 Memory Accelerator SoC Platform
SANTA CLARA, CA, U.S. – November 15, 2021 – Astera Labs, make of connectivity solutions for intelligent systems, today announced its new Leo Memory Accelerator Platform for Compute Express Link (CXL) 1.1/2.0 interconnects to …
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What Role Will Computing Research Play in the Future of Infrastructure?
Congress recently passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a bipartisan bill which includes $550 billion in new federal spending on infrastructure over five years. President Biden is scheduled to sign the bill into…
From insideHPC
CXL Consortium at SC21: 1st Public Demo of Compute Express Link
November 15, 2021 – Beaverton, OR – The CXL Consortium, an industry standards body dedicated to advancing Compute Express Link (CXL) technology, will showcase growing momentum for CXL technology at Supercomputing (SC21), taking…
From insideHPC
TOP500: Little Change to HPC Top 10
The newest edition of the twice-yearly TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers was released today at SC21 in St. Louis — with little change in the Top10. The Microsoft Azure system called Voyager-EUS2 was the
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From The Eponymous Pickle
AI That Feels
A space we examined with how products could link with consumers.
AI systems with emotional intelligence could learn faster and be more helpful
By MARY CZERWINSKI, JAVIER HERNANDEZ, DANIEL MCDUFF in…From insideHPC
MemVerge and Open Source Community Partnering to Protect Distributed HPC Apps with DMTCP
ST. LOUIS – NOVEMBER 15, 2021 – At SC21 today, MemVerge and the DMTCP Project announced a partnership designed to accelerate development and adoption of long-awaited Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing (DMTCP) technology.…
From insideHPC
HPE on the Critical Storage Elements for HPC-AI
Uli Plechschmidt brings extensive knowledge and good cheer to the deep challenges of high performance storage. In this interview, HPE’s worldwide product marketing for HPC storage offers a review course in the storage capabilities…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charging it All
Was asked this recently ... how?
There’s a Queue Coming for Tesla Charging, and That’s OK To survive, Superchargers and their equivalents will need to become less exclusive By LAWRENCE ULRICH in IEEE Spectrum
In Elon Musk's…From insideHPC
Altair and NVIDIA at Argonne: Using Workload Management Software to Maximize HPC Resources
Here’s a fascinating look at how a national lab works in partnership with advanced computing vendors to further the lab’s supercomputing mission. From Argonne National Laboratory’s leadership computing facility (ALCF) we have…
From insideHPC
Penguin Announces GovPOD HPC/AI Cloud On-Demand for the Federal Government
Supercomputing 2021 – November 15, 2021 – Penguin Computing today announced GovPOD (Government Penguin On Demand) HPC/AI Cloud, built for federal government agencies featuring a software, hardware and management platform designed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Should we do with old Electronics?
We are all dealing with it. Barriers and more ....
What should we do with old electronics? in the Google Blog
Nov 11, 2021
Learn about five major barriers that keep people from recycling their old devices.
leaning out a drawer…From insideHPC
HPE’s Neil Dey Talks Exascale-class System Building
After more than a decade of discussion, planning, designing and system building, 2021 is expected to be the year that exascale-class computing finally arrives in the U.S. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is at the epicenter of this…