Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2015
From insideHPC
Podcast: Big Data on the Wrangler Supercomputer
In this TACC podcast, Niall Gaffney from the Texas Advanced Computing Center discusses the Wrangler supercomputer for data-intensive computing. "We went to propose to build Wrangler with (the data world) in mind. We kept a lot…
From insideHPC
Video: Introduction to the HPC Advisory Council
In this video from SC15, Brian Sparks from Mellanox presents an overview of the HPC Advisory Council. "The HPC Advisory Council’s mission is to bridge the gap between high-performance computing (HPC) use and its potential, bring…
From Blog@Ubiquity
My GPS Car Is Smarter Than Your Honor Student
Driverless cars may know how to negotiate intersections and park themselves better than humans, but so far I haven’t read about a smart car that can get me through Silicon Valley faster during rush hour. The problem isn’t with…
From insideHPC
New Cybersecurity Center of Performance Launches from SHPCP
Today the Society of HPC Professionals announced the formation of the HPC in Cybersecurity Center of Performance located in Washington, D.C. "The HPC in Cybersecurity Center of Performance (CoP) is an educational chapter focused…
From insideHPC
Video: OpenMP and the Intel Compiler
In this video from the Intel HPC Developer Conference at SC15, Kent Millfield from TACC presents: OpenMP and the Intel Compiler. "The OpenMP standard has recently been extended to cover offload and SIMD. The Intel compiler has…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopper Scientist: Herb Sorensen
I want to remind people of Herb Sorensen's blog: Shopper Scientist. He visited our innovation centers a number of times. One of the most data oriented retail explorers I have ever met. I hear he may be coming out with anInside…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do You Have Any Duct Tape?
Students this morning were asking people for duct tape. I don’t know what problem they were trying to solve but eventually it was solved with a plastic cup. Really. But it got me thinking about how students ask for help in programming…
From Schneier on Security
Hit-and-Run Driver Arrested Because Car Reported Accident
A Florida woman drove away after an accident, but her car automatically reported it anyway. She was arrested....
From insideHPC
HPC Myths Need Not Hamper the Technology’s Growth
In this special guest feature, Kristin Hansen, Chief Marketing Officer at Bright Computing writes that HPC doesn't need to be held back by commonly held misconceptions.
The post HPC Myths Need Not Hamper the Technology’s Growth…From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Touch as a Scale
Always looking for new ways to convert mobile devices into sensors. Here is a new one, perhaps obvious. Using the 3D touch capabilities as a scale on the 6s phone. Sometimes as part of a game. It seems that Apple is blocking…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IKEA's Future Living Innovation Lab
In their blog: Future food and more. Covered in the Verge." ... Space10 is a future-living lab and exhibition space in the heart of Copenhagen. Our mission is to investigate the future of urban living by detecting major challenges…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Software
The Open Source EraAn Oxford Economics Study Commissioned by WiproOpen source is mainstream today. Why are businesses shifting to open source software? What are the main challenges and how are they overcoming them? How can open…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Reality Editor
MIT's Amazing New App Lets You Program Any Object. The Minority Report Style App that makes programming your Smart home as easy as connecting the dots. ... (Video) .... " The Reality Editor (and its free associated developer…
From BLOG@CACM
Why Is Ada Lovelace Still the Woman That Young (and Not So Young) Women Look To?
I was lucky enough to represent ACM and ACM-W at the recent Ada Lovelace Symposium at Oxford University.
From insideHPC
Video: Lenovo and Intel Partner on HPC Innovation at SC15
In this video from SC15, Brian Connors of Lenovo and Charlie Wuischpard of Intel Lenovo discuss how their company's are partnering to drive innovation in high performance computing. “We’re excited to collaborate with Lenovo …
From insideHPC
GPUs Power Facebook’s New Deep Learning Machine
Today Nvidia announced that Facebook will power its next-generation computing system with Tesla GPUs, enabling a broad range of new machine learning applications.
The post GPUs Power Facebook’s New Deep Learning Machine appeared…From insideHPC
Video: Designing Parallel Financial Analytics Libraries Using a Pattern Oriented Approach
"How can quants or financial engineers write financial analytics libraries that can be systematically efficiently deployed on an Intel Xeon Phi co-processor or an Intel Xeon multi-core processor without specialist knowledge of…
From insideHPC
Help Improve the SC16 Student Cluster Competition
One of the highlight of the annual SC conference is the Student Cluster Competition, where student teams race to build the fastest HPC cluster. For SC16, the conference is looking for your help improve the application benchmark…
From insideHPC
Cray CS-Storm Takes GPUs to New Levels of Scalability at SC15
"In this video from SC15, Amar Shan describes how the the Cray CS-Storm takes GPUs to new levels of scalability. Systems like the CS-Storm have propelled Cray to power 50 percent of the TOP500 supercomputers. While the Cray CS…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Applications Open for Blue Waters Graduate Fellowships
The Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Program lets graduate students from across the country immerse themselves in a year of focused high-performance computing (HPC) and data-intensive research using the Blue Waters supercomputer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Launches Walmart Pay
Payment systems can link together payment, behavioral segmentation, loyalty and mobile engagement channels. Opportunity to link in new kinds of analytics is considerable.In Retailing Today:Shoppers at Walmart stores will soon…
From insideHPC
Cosmic Microwave Background Analysis with Intel Xeon Phi
"Modal is a cosmological statistical analysis package that can be optimized to take advantage of a high number of cores. The inner product computations with Modal can be run on the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor. As a base, the entire…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caricatures
Nautil on Caricatures. I remember seeing the MIT Caricature Generator at work during a visit. I did not think it was very good, compared to human work. But I liked its premise. Take a person's image, and figure out how…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Predictive Analytics Work
Predictive analytics requires a customer-obsessed innovation culturePosted by Fred Giron in Forrester. Some very good points. It starts and ends with business process and the ability to rapidily try multiple methods of solution…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Embedding Machine Learning in Data Visualization
Via Spotfire: From a survey of work to integrate data visualization packages with machine learning. With the intent to provide easily understood, extensible and standardized libraries of solutions against existing data.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Leaders
Tom Kelley, co-author of Creative Confidence (Crown Business, 2013) and a partner at IDEO, a global design and innovation firm, on what creative leaders do. We worked with IDEO in a number of ways, see the tag below. Well…
From Computational Complexity
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
From Schneier on Security
How People Learn about Computer Security
Interesting research: "Identifying patterns in informal sources of security information," by Emilee Rader and Rick Wash, Journal of Cybersecurity, 1 Dec 2015. Abstract: Computer users have access to computer security information…
From Putting People First
Sharing City Seoul through the eyes of an urban sociologist
For several years, Shareable has followed, and reported on, Sharing City Seoul, a pioneering project, created by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. With its government-sponsored sharing economy initiatives and community projects…
From Putting People First
Sharing City Seoul through the eyes of an urban sociologist
For several years, Shareable has followed, and reported on, Sharing City Seoul, a pioneering project, created by the Seoul Metropolitan Government. With its government-sponsored sharing economy initiatives and community projects…