Communications of the ACM
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November 2021
From insideHPC
Atos Talks HPC, AI, Exascale and Quantum Strategies
Europe’s leading HPC systems provider, Atos, is enjoying a successful 2021, highlighted by major contract wins, new product rollouts and the acquisition of US-based Nimbix, providing Atos with a ready-made cloud HPC capability…
From insideHPC
Liqid Expands Infrastructure Composability to GPUs
Composable infrastructure company Liqid was one of the first entrants in that market segment, and the company has steadily built up its composable capabilities since its founding eight years ago. In this interview with Sumit …
From insideHPC
HPE Greenlake: A Private HPC Cloud that Seems Public
Cloud HPC is one of the hottest segments of the HPC industry – yet it has a variety of iterations from various vendors. One of them, from the HPC industry’s leader for systems revenues, is in effect a private cloud offering that…
From insideHPC
HPE Builds Supercomputer for France’s GENCI-CINES
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it is building what it said will be one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers to be installed and operated next year at CINES (National Computing Center for Higher Education)…
From insideHPC
How AMD Helps Push Azure’s HPC Strategy
Microsoft Azure early on took an aggressive stance in the cloud HPC segment, becoming, for example, one of the first to offer the InfiniBand interconnect on its public cloud platform. The strategy has paid off as cloud has become…
From insideHPC
Nvidia and NetApp: What’s Coming Next from Their AI Partnership
Managers from two AI powerhouses, Nvida and NetApp, sat down with us to talk about their several years-long partnership, along with its latest developments, which are considerable. >From NetApp, Joey Parnell, senior member of…
From insideHPC
AMD’s Evan Groenke on the New MI200 GPU
In this interview with AMD’s Senior Product Manager, Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Group, Evan Groenke, he discusses the buzz around the company’s newly announced MI200 data center GPU, which AMD says is the most powerful…
From insideHPC
Inspur: Growing Strength in HPC and AI
It’s been a good year for Inspur, as the company’s Global AI and HPC Director, Vangel Bojaxhi, explains in this SC21 interview. He shares updated market research numbers showing Inspur’s strong position in the global HPC and …
From insideHPC
Cornelis Networks Talks High Speed Fabrics for Heterogeneous HPC-AI
We caught up with Phil Murphy, CEO of fabrics technology company Cornelis Networks, which has one of the most interesting vendor histories in the HPC community. Extending back to the 1990s and carrying forward extensive interconnect…
From Computational Complexity
When did Computer Science Theory Get so Hard?
I posted on When did Math get so hard? a commenter pointed out that one can also ask
When did Computer Science Theory Get so Hard?
For the Math-question I could only speculate. For CS- I WAS THERE! When I was in Grad School one…From The Eponymous Pickle
Map of Knowlwdge
Comic map view of the topic:, made me think.
Data, information, knowledge, insight, wisdom, and Conspiracy Theory in Language Log
November 13, 2021 @ 5:02 pm · Filed by Victor Mair under Language and art, Language and philosophy…From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Have followed several of these ... The specifics of addressing the complexity of the context is the most interesting thing. How do such systems solve the challenge of that complexity?
Robot Teams Win DARPA Subterranean Challenge…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
POPL 2022—Et Tu, Brute?
Some things just cannot wait. Men must stand up now for women’s equality— Rick Goings Kathleen Booth, Cicely Popplewell, Grace Hopper, and Jean Sammet were four pioneers of the field of Programming Languages. They are credited…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (Novembre 13rd 2021)
Pacific rougheye rockfish can live hundreds of years while other rockfish barely live past ten years. Female condors can reproduce without males. The phenomenon is known as parthenogenesis and it occurs in birds such as chickens…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of New, Bigger Graphics
Future of New, Bigger Graphics
and a short simplified video look
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biological Signals
Machine Sensing, again an area we examined for product manufacturing process control.
Making Sense With Biology By Samuel Greengard Commissioned by CACM Staff
November 11, 2021
Machine-based sensing has advanced remarkably in recent…From The Eponymous Pickle
Need of Authentication
Key security component is doing this well.
Why Strong Digital Identity Authentication Is More Important Than Ever
OCTOBER 27, 2021 • THE RECORDED FUTURE TEAM
79% of organizations experienced an identity-related breach within the…From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printed Bridges
Continuing to expand uses.
3D-Printed Bridges Promise Smarter, Greener Transit Links
The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Michaels, November 3, 2021
Three-dimensionally (3D)-printed bridges have been erected in the Netherlands, China…From The Eponymous Pickle
Tufte Course
Edward Tufte Online Course
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Practical examples are from everywhere: science, social science, music, business and more.
More information
In the enterprise we scheduled a number of these Tufte courses,…From BLOG@CACM
What Should be Done About Facebook?
The recent release of the Facebook papers by a whistleblower has confirmed that leaders at the company have long known about problems facilitated by their social media, including disinformation, misinformation, hate speech, depression…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Checking simple equations or inequalities with z3
When programming, you sometimes need to make sure that a given formula is correct. Of course, you can rely on your mastery of high-school mathematics, but human beings, in general, are terrible at formal mathematics. Thankfully…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
OSTP Announces Public Events in November to Engage the American Public in National Policymaking about AI and Equity
The White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) is launching a series of listening sessions and events to involve the American public in the development of a Bill of Rights for an Automated Society. With the growing influence…
From insideHPC
ALCF Deploys Testbed to Advance AI for Science
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) is building a testbed comprised of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. Designed to explore the possibilities of high-performance computing (HPC) architectures, the…
From insideHPC
DDN Launches AI Innovation Lab with NVIDIA in Singapore
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – Nov. 11, 2021 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management company, today announced that it has joined with NVIDIA to establish an AI Innovation Lab in Singapore to drive innovation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Adds NLP to Watson Discovery
In our early looks at Watson, precisely what we wanted to add to Discovery to make it useful. For better links directly to business decision makers. This cou d be key for novel uses, Show me some examples.
IBM to Add New Natural…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Sheds Light on How Brain Processes Language
Closer looks at the Brains intelligence towards biomimicry.
Surprisingly Smart Artificial Intelligence Sheds Light on How the Brain Processes Language
By SciTechDaily, November 5, 2021
Neuroscientists find the internal workings…From The Eponymous Pickle
Net Zero Emissions and Nuclear Power
Some energy challenges and stats.
Duke Energy CEO: Net-zero emissions can’t be achieved without nuclear power
By Akiko Fujita
As one of the country’s largest energy holding companies, Duke Energy (DUK) is on a mission to slash…From The Eponymous Pickle
A Critical Assessment of 250 luxury, Premium, and Lifestyle Retail Brands.
Comparative measures for the pandemic.
A Critical Assessment of 250 Luxury, Premium, and lifestyle Retail Brands. in RetailWire
Last year we saw a decade of retail innovation roll out in just months. Has the industry been able…From insideHPC
SC21: Three HPC Thought Leaders’ Planning Suggestions for the Hybrid Conference
SC21, the biggest HPC confab of the year, is next week, and making the most of the hybrid conference calls for good time management. As an assist to both in-person and virtual attendees we spoke with three industry thought leaders…
From Computational Complexity
20 Years of Algorithmic Game Theory
Twenty years ago DIMACS hosted a Workshop on Computational Issues in Game Theory and Mechanism Design. This wasn't the very beginning of algorithmic game theory, but it was quite the coming out party. From the announcement
The…