Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2022
From insideHPC
AMD Announces GA of 4th Gen EPYC Processors
Today at an AMD event in San Francisco, the company announced the general availability of the 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors built on the “Zen 4” core for data center servers running compute-intensive workloads. AMD said the new…
From insideHPC
Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation Approves Bylaws and Charter for Open Community Control of Rocky Linux and Projects
RENO, Nev.—November 10, 2022—The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) today published its charter and bylaws, documenting the organization’s governing structure and rules for hosting open source projects, including its…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Coordinated Science Laboratory Releases a White Paper on Key Findings from their Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility
The Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) just released a white paper reflecting ideas that were presented and discussed at the Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Social Responsibility sponsored by the CSL at the University…
From Computational Complexity
The Structure of Data and Machine Learning
Terry Tao entitled his 2006 Fields Medal Lecture "The Dichotomy between structure and randomness" and state the Structure Theorem: Every object is a superposition of structured object and a pseudorandom error. He gave many examples…
From Schneier on Security
An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers
The major browsers natively trust a whole bunch of certificate authorities, and some of them are really sketchy:
Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari, nonprofit Firefox and others allow the company, TrustCor Systems, to act as what…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Measuring the memory usage of your C++ program
In C++, we might implement dynamic lists using the vector template. The int-valued constructor of the vector template allocates at least enough memory to store the provided number of elements in a contiguous manner. How muchContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Manufacturing
McKinsey writes:
The future of manufacturing—and why manufacturing is the future
November 9, 2022: About 1,200 global exhibitors are gathering in Atlanta this week to showcase their latest products, developments, and offerings…From insideHPC
Overcoming Challenges to Deep Learning Infrastructure
With use cases like computer vision, natural language processing, predictive modeling, and much more, deep learning (DL) provides the kinds of far-reaching applications that change the way technology can impact human existence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stock IOT
Research
SES-imagotag Stock is a Pure Play on Retail IoT in Nanalyze
One of the cool things about an investment research firm like Nanalyze is our longevity. We’ve been around for nearly 20 years now, and so we benefit fromAbout…From insideHPC
Panasas Introduces Data Insight and Data Movement Suite for HPC and AI/ML
SAN JOSE, November 10, 2022 –High performance storage company Panasas today announced new data insight and mobility products joining the company’s PanFS software suite. The PanView and PanMove software solutions bring data management…
From insideHPC
Rescale Teams with NVIDIA to Combine HPC and AI for Engineering in the Cloud
SAN FRANSCISCO, Nov. 9, 2022 — At the Big Compute 2022 Virtual Event, Rescale, maker of solutions for high performance computing built for the cloud to accelerate engineering innovation, today announced it is teaming with NVIDIA…
From insideHPC
Lenovo at SC22: Neptune™ Liquid Cooling Technology, HPC Servers Powered by New AMD, Intel and NVIDIA Chips, TruScale HPC-as-a-Service
[SPONSORED CONTENT] Lenovo’s decade-long stream of advancements in liquid cooling technology for its HPC-class servers will be a focus of activity for the company at the SC22 conference (booth 1204) from Nov. 14-17 in Dallas…
From insideHPC
Preparing for SC22: 3 HPC Thought Leaders on Sessions to Go to, Trends to Watch for Next Week in Dallas
SC22 is around the corner, and there’s a special feeling surrounding this year’s annual conference, it being the first SC many of us will have attended in person since 2019. Getting the most out of the conference in Dallas next…
From insideHPC
Vodafone Partners with IBM to Prepare for the Quantum Era of Applications in Telecom
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2022 — IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today at the IBM Quantum Summit 2022 that Vodafone Group is collaborating with IBM on quantum-safe cybersecurity, and also joining the IBM Quantum Network, which will give the…
From insideHPC
DDN Announces Expanded Services Portfolio
CHATSWORTH, Calif., – Nov. 9, 2022 – DDN, the artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions company, is growing its services offerings with embedded onsite professionals and managed services to support…
From The Eponymous Pickle
RUST, a More Secure Language
Briefly introduced to this. it does not remove all potential problems. But worth examination.
ACM NEWS
The ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech
By Wired, November 8, 2022
Whether you run IT for a massive…From The Eponymous Pickle
Walk Faster in these 'AI Shoes"
Quite an interesting claim. Workplace Use? Military?
Home/News/Shift Robotics Used AI to Create 'World's Fastest.../Full Text
ACM TECHNEWS
Shift Robotics Used AI to Create 'World's Fastest Shoes'
By PC Magazine, November 8, …From insideHPC
ThinkParQ Launches Hierarchical Index Tool, BeeGFS Hive Index
Kaiserslautern, Germany, November 9, 2022 — ThinkParQ the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the launch of its new hierarchical index tool, BeeGFS Hive Index. BeeGFS Hive Index is a hierarchical index…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monumental Math Bubble Problem Solved
Solution further to some kinds of 'coverage' applications?
‘Monumental’ Math Proof Solves Triple Bubble Problem and More
The decades-old Sullivan’s conjecture, about the best way to minimize the surface area of a bubble cluster…From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing Through Walls with WiFI
Security Issue reported in ACM. technical abstract, related issues previously reported.
Seeing through Walls with Wi-FI in ACM.
ABSTRACT
We present Wi-Peep - a new location-revealing privacy attack on non-cooperative Wi-Fi devices…From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Writing Better Recipes
Can AI Write Recipes Better Than Humans?
By The New York Times, November 9, 2022
A reporter, Priya Krishna, put AI recipes to the test.
Can artificial intelligence create a better Thanksgiving menu than people can?
Credit: Timothy…From insideHPC
Neo4j Announces GA of Graph Database Neo4j 5
SAN MATEO, Calif. – November 9, 2022 – Neo4j, a graph technology company, announced today the general availability of Neo4j 5, the cloud-ready graph database. The company said Neo4j 5 widens the performance lead of native graphs…
From insideHPC
Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale Launches Quantum Computing Readiness with IBM
Paris, Nov. 8, 2022 – IBM Quantum Network member Crédit Mutuel Alliance Fédérale and IBM today announced that they have started the discovery phase of an engagement to include exploring applicability of quantum computing to banking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Some Sample Metaverses
Some proposed members of a universe of Metaverses
Meet the Teams Collaborating to Build an Infinite Universe of Metaverses in Coindesk
For people waiting for the metaverse era to begin, these are exciting moments, with a range…From insideHPC
Agnostiq Announces Covalent Support for HPC on AWS
TORONTO, Nov. 9, 2022 — Agnostiq, Inc., a Toronto-based high-performance computing (HPC) startup, today announced a new release of its open-source workflow orchestration platform, Covalent, which now supports Amazon Web Services…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stream and Shop Disney?
Seems clever, but what is being sold?
Can Disney marry streaming and shopping?
12 EXPERT COMMENTS
Can Disney marry streaming and shopping?
Nov 08, 2022, by Tom Ryan in Retailwire
The Walt Disney Company last week launched a “limited…From insideHPC
It’s Official: Intel Announces Ponte Vecchio and Sapphire Rapids, Hints at ‘Falcon Shores’ XPU in 2024
Intel today officially announced its long awaited, next-generation server chips: the Xeon CPU Max, known to date as “Sapphire Rapids,” and the Data Center GPU Max, which for more than two years has been known – and been a focal…
From Schneier on Security
Defeating Phishing-Resistant Multifactor Authentication
CISA is now pushing phishing-resistant multifactor authentication.
Roger Grimes has an excellent post reminding everyone that “phishing-resistant” is not “phishing proof,” and that everyone needs to stop pretending otherwise.…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: SC Tags, the Tech Trade War and Scaling Up in the Cloud
With SC22 approaching we take a quick look at the taglines for the conference going back to SC14 (watch for the repeats!). How many do you remember? A short discussion of this year’s tag then moves on to technology trade disputes…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Modern vector programming with masked loads and stores
When you start a program, it creates a ‘process’ which own its memory. Memory is allocated to a software process in blocks called ‘pages’. These pages might span 4kB, 16kB or more. For a given process, it is safe to read andContinue…