Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2016
From insideHPC
HIP and CAFFE Porting and Profiling with AMD’s ROCm
In this video from SC16, Ben Sander from AMD presents: HIP and CAFFE Porting and Profiling with AMD's ROCm. "We are excited to present ROCm, the first open-source HPC/Hyperscale-class platform for GPU computing that’s also programming…
From Schneier on Security
Auditing Elections for Signs of Hacking
Excellent essay pointing out that election security is a national security issue, and that we need to perform random ballot audits on every future election: The good news is that we know how to solve this problem. We need to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Map of What's Connected to the Internet
I remember when the Internet predecessor was just connected to the Pentagon, defense contractors and some bases. In Gizmodo:
" .... This map was made on August 2 by John Matherly, the founder of Shodan, a search engine for
That…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watson Analytics Tutorials
Of interest. Good tutorial demonstration of the application of Watson to 'automated' analytics that I am investigating further. This or something like it, may be the future of analytics.
Watson Analytics for Students How
The…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Research Data Exchange (RDE) Adds More Data Environments for Download!
The Research Data Exchange (RDE) is a web-based data resource provided by the USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program. It collects, manages, and provides access to archived and real-time multi-source and multi-modal…
From insideHPC
RAID Inc. Steps up with ZFS on Lustre at SC16
In this video from SC16, Brad Merchant from RAID Inc. describes the company's new Lustre ZFS Building Block. "RAID Inc. offers a suite of building block product families that can be purchased individually or in conjunction with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asia's AI Agenda
My recent interaction with the Asian components of this have left me impressed. The below is an abstract with links to the complete report. And beyond to link to managing change in the analytics and machine learning world,…
From insideHPC
DDN IME Burst Buffer Exceeds 1 TB/s for Japan’s Fastest Supercomputer
"Storage performance has been one of the biggest challenges in developing supercomputers. To meet the demands for storage performance, IME was introduced to the Oakforest-PACS on a massive scale, the first such introduction in…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Digimarc
My former colleague and leader, Andy Walter, is now on the board of Digimarc, a company we talked to for advanced digital watermarking ideas. More on Digimarc.
From insideHPC
Best Threads Per Core with Intel Xeon Phi
"When designing an application that contains many threads and less cores than threads, it is important to understand what is the optimal number of threads that should be assigned to a core. This value should be parameterized,…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
CS Education Week School/District Pledge
Does your school believe in Computer Science for All? Take the @CSforAll #CSEdWeekpledge to show your support and be included in announcement!
Our economy is rapidly shifting, and families, educators and business leaders are…
From insideHPC
Silicon Mechanics: HPC Built for You at SC16
In this video from SC16, Silicon Mechanics CTO Daniel Chow describes how the company brings value and performance to its HPC customers. "When looking for a leading solutions integrator to couple disparate hardware and software…
From Schneier on Security
Analyzing WeChat
Citizen Lab has analyzed how censorship works in the Chinese chat app WeChat: Key Findings: Keyword filtering on WeChat is only enabled for users with accounts registered to mainland China phone numbers, and persists even if…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linking Echo to Business Data Queries
Does get back to when is a voice interaction with your data most useful? An added human channel to data. Another means to deliver business intelligence beyond the dashboard.
Sisense-Amazon Echo integration lets you ask Alexa…
From insideHPC
SGI UV as a Converged Compute and Data Management Platform
In life sciences, perhaps more than any other HPC discipline, simplicity is key. The SGI solution meets this requirement by delivering a single system that scales to huge capabilities by unifying compute, memory, and storage…
From The Eponymous Pickle
World Needs Smart Cities
A good article by a former collaborator of Enterra Solutions.
The World Needs Smart Cities by Stephen DeAngelis
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where Big Data Projects Fail
A now somewhat dated, but useful piece in Forbes by Bernard Marr, useful for any analytics project, big or small. Bottom line, its about the business, and communicating the solution to the decision makers involved. Before…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Arup on Robotic Coworkers
What will it be like to work with robotic co-worker? UK engineering design firm Arup talks about it.
From Putting People First
More on upcoming conference on design & sustainable innovation for smart cities
Last month Putting People First announced the upcoming conference on design & sustainable innovation for smart cities in Nice France. Meanwhile we are pleased to announce the full event agenda (see below). This event will feature…