Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2023
From insideHPC
ALCF: Groq AI Online Workshop, Dec. 6-7
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host an online workshop to learn about the ALCF’s new GroqRack system on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 6 and 7 from 1:30 to 5 pm Central Time. To register go here. The ALCF said the Groq…
From Schneier on Security
Email Security Flaw Found in the Wild
Google’s Threat Analysis Group announced a zero-day against the Zimbra Collaboration email server that has been used against governments around the world.
TAG has observed four different groups exploiting the same bug to steal…From insideHPC
TierPoint Selects DDC Cabinet Technology for AI Workloads in High-Density Data Center
San Diego – DDC Cabinet Technology, maker of scalable data center-to-edge solutions that feature patented Dynamic Density Control (DDC) technology, announced the company’s ‘better than liquid’ cooling technology will support
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Future of Research on Social Technologies Visioning Workshop
Earlier this month, the CCC, with support from the Knight Foundation, held a visioning workshop on, “The Future of Research on Social Technologies.” The workshop organizers were Motahhare Eslami (Carnegie Mellon University),…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces Ethernet Platform for AI from Dell, HPE, Lenovo
Nov. 20, 2024 — NVIDIA today announced that Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Lenovo will be the first to integrate NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking technologies for AI into their server lineups to help enterprise…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20231120: SC23 Overview – Exascale Update, New AI Chips, Quantum Village, UCIe-PCIe-Ultra Ethernet
In this edition of the HPC News Bytes podcast, Shahin takes us on a rapid (5:04) tour of SC23, analyzing the key developments and new technologies that highlighted last week’s conference in Denver: Conference attendance expands…
From insideHPC
EQSIM and RAJA: Enabling Exascale Predictions of Earthquake Effects on Critical Infrastructure
Nearly 120 years ago, the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 provided a stark and sobering view of the havoc that can be caused by the sudden and violent movement of Earth’s tectonic plates. According to USGS, the rupture…
From Computational Complexity
War Games
With the self-destruction of OpenAI well underway, Friday night I watched the movie War Games for the first time since the 80s. Quick synopsis (spoilers): NORAD can't trust humans to launch nuclear weapons so it creates an AI…
From Schneier on Security
Using Generative AI for Surveillance
Generative AI is going to be a powerful tool for data analysis and summarization. Here’s an example of it being used for sentiment analysis. My guess is that it isn’t very good yet, but that it will get better.
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Unpatched Vulnerabilities in the Squid Caching Proxy
In a rare squid/security post, here’s an article about unpatched vulnerabilities in the Squid caching proxy.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read…From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: How companies build algorithms using experimentation
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")
Wisdom of the crowd algorithms shape what people see on the internet. Constant online…
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Launches Log File Analyzer LogVisor AI
Advanced Clustering Technologies today announced the high performance computing systems integrator’s LogVisor AI during the SC23 conference in Denver. LogVisor AI analyzes log files and re-organizes the data, bringing forward…
From insideHPC
New Commodity Supercomputing Clusters Deployed at NNSA Labs Claim TOP500 Spots
Three of the newest National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) commodity computing clusters recently deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) are among the most powerful…
From insideHPC
LLNL-led SCREAM Team Clinches Inaugural Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling
A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-led effort that performed an unprecedented global climate model simulation on the world’s first exascale supercomputer has won the first-ever Association for Computing Machinery…
From Schneier on Security
Ransomware Gang Files SEC Complaint
A ransomware gang, annoyed at not being paid, filed an SEC complaint against its victim for not disclosing its security breach within the required four days.
This is over the top, but is just another example of the extreme pressure…From Geeking with Greg
It's easy for social media to fill with astroturf
Most underestimate how easy it is for social media to become dominated by astroturf. It's easy. All you need is a few people creating and controlling multiple accounts. Here's an example.
Let's say you have 100M real people Now…From insideHPC
DE-CIX and CR8DL Announce Enhanced Data Capabilities Partnership for HPC
New York & Phoenix, November 16, 2023 — Internet exchange operator DE-CIX and CR8DL, a cloud-based high-performance computing company, today announce a research computing partnership. Aimed at supporting discovery across scientific…
From Computational Complexity
Inverting a Function
With the STOC deadline this last Monday, a number of complexity papers have appeared on arXiV and ECCC. Two caught my eye because they seem to independently prove the same interesting result.
Beating Brute Force for Compression…From insideHPC
Accelerating AI Inference for High-throughput Experiments
An upgrade to the ALCF AI Testbed will help accelerate data-intensive experimental research. The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s (ALCF) AI Testbed—which aims to help evaluate the usability and performance of machine learning…
From Schneier on Security
Leaving Authentication Credentials in Public Code
Seth Godin wrote an article about a surprisingly common vulnerability: programmers leaving authentication credentials and other secrets in publicly accessible software code:
Researchers from security firm GitGuardian this week…From insideHPC
The Future-Proofed Datacenter: DDC Delivers 85kW Air-Cooled Density for AI and HPC Workloads
At DDC, the global leader in scalable datacenter-to-edge solutions, we are taking an innovative approach to building new and retrofitting legacy datacenters. Today, our patented cabinet technology can be deployed in nearly any…
From insideHPC
Azure VMs with AMD MI300 GPU Accelerators at Microsoft Conference
Nov. 15, 2023 -- Today at Microsoft Ignite, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) and Microsoft featured AMD products, including the upcoming Instinct MI300X GPU accelerator, EPYC and Ryzen CPUs with AI engines. Microsoft’s new Azure ND MI300x v5…
From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: How some companies get it right
(This is an excerpt from drafts of my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")
How do some companies fix their algorithms? In the last decade, wisdom of the crowds…
From insideHPC
Panasas PanFS 10 AI/HPC Hybrid Storage Management
Denver, November 13, 2023 – Panasas, a leading data solutions provider for high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI), today introduced PanFS 10, the newest release of its flagship parallel file system.…
From insideHPC
DarkByte Teams with HPE on AI Cloud
Nov. 14, 2023 — DarkByte will host its AI cloud powered by renewable energy using sources including solar, batteries, hydro, and nanotech – helping to define new industry standards in environmental sustainability, incorporating…
From Schneier on Security
New SSH Vulnerability
This is interesting:
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a large portion of cryptographic keys used to protect data in computer-to-server SSH traffic are vulnerable to complete compromise when naturally occurring…From insideHPC
Classiq Announces Quantum Center for Life Sciences with NVIDIA
TEL AVIV, November 13, 2023 — Quantum software pioneer Classiq today unveiled a new industry initiative, the Quantum Computing for Life Sciences & Healthcare Center, formed in collaboration with NVIDIA and the Tel Aviv Sourasky…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m speaking at the AI Summit New York on December 6, 2023.
The list is maintained on this page.
From insideHPC
Altair Announces Altair HPCWorks 2024
TROY, Mich., Nov. 14, 2023 — Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced significant upgrades to Altair HPCWorks, its high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud
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From insideHPC
At SC23: Immersive Virtual Reality on Display at Dell Technologies Booth 625, Come and Experience It
When HPC and AI converge remarkable things can result, and one of them is on display on the floor of the SC23 conference here in Denver at the Dell Technologies booth (#625). We encountered it ourselves, it’s an immersive VR.…