Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
December 2021
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Will the Metaverse Hit Next-Big-Thing Status?
Is the metaverse really real? Sorry – it’s not real, though uber virtual realism is a big part of its promise. But will it be the next phase of the internet, the next big market opportunity in tech, HPC-AI included (as Nvidia…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Pharma Giant, Bayer, partners with AI-based Assessment Platform
Bayer, the pharmaceutical company that owns big name brands such as Aspirin, Aleve, Midol, Cenesten and Iberogast, recently partnered with Ada Health, an AI-based assessment platform. This free app uses an AI chat robot to collect…
From insideHPC
MLCommons Releases MLPerf Training v1.1 AI Benchmarks
San Francisco — Dec. 1, 2021 – Today, MLCommons, the open engineering consortium, released new results for MLPerf Training v1.1, the organization’s machine learning training performance benchmark suite. MLPerf Training measures…
From insideHPC
Duality Announces Quantum Science and Tech Advisory Committee
Chicago — Dec. 1, 2021 — Duality has announced the members of its Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), which will support participating startups with business know-how as well as knowledge of quantum science and technology. The…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA’s Gilad Shainer Talks Infiniband-based Quantum-2 and Cloud Native Supercomputing
NVIDIA has made a series of significant HPC-related announcements recently, many of them at the company’s GTC conference in early November, including the launch of its Infiniband-based Quantum-2 supercomputer and developments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Rowhammer
Schneier writes about rowhammer, I like the image of a rowhammer.
Rowhammer is an attack technique involving accessing — that’s “hammering” — rows of bits in memory, millions of times per second, withWell…From The Eponymous Pickle
Covid ReShaping Supply Chains
Another example of ther need for needed disaster planning.
How COVID-19 is reshaping supply chains
November 23, 2021 | Article, By Knut Alicke, Ed Barriball, and Vera Trautwein
Companies have only partly addressed the weaknesses…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lotfi Zadeh and Fuzzy Logic
I note the post about Lotfi Zaheh and the connection to fuzzy logic, from the Language Log. Just featured in the Google Doodle. We used some of his methods to implement 'fuzzy logic' for AI implementations. Worth reexamining…
From insideHPC
AMAX Launches LiquidMax Liquid Cooled HPC-AI Workstations
Dec. 1, 2021 — AMAX, provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI) and OEM data center manufacturing, announces the launch of LiquidMax series liquid cooled workstations. Starting with LiquidMax TL40…
From insideHPC
Panasas Joins Thales Network for HPC Storage Security
SAN JOSE – Dec. 1, 2021 – High-performance computing (HPC) data storage company Panasas announced it has joined the Thales Accelerate Partner Network and is working with Thales on the adoption of integrated storage security solutions…
From Computational Complexity
TheoretiCS: New TCS Journal
Guest Post from Paul Beame on behalf of the TheoretiCS Foundation
I am writing to let you know of the launch today of TheoretiCS, a new fully open-access journal dedicated to Theoretical Computer Science developed by the members…From BLOG@CACM
Original Roman Pocket Calculators are Extremely Rare
As far as we know, only three or four original specimens of the Roman hand abacus have survived.