Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2019
From insideHPC
UberCloud Recognized with three HPC Industry Awards
Today the UberCloud announced that it has been recognized in three leading HPC industry awards for two of its innovative engineering projects in the cloud. "We are proud and humbled for the two prestigious Hyperion Innovation…
From insideHPC
Improving HPC Performance with the Roofline Model
"When we are optimizing our objective is to determine which hardware resource the code is exhausting (there must be one, otherwise it would run faster!), and then see how to modify the code to reduce its need for that resource…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Makes more Speech Services Available
Impressive array of cognitive speech services, in 120 languages! Now broadly available with demonstrations at the link.
Cloud Speech-to-Text
Speech-to-text conversion powered by machine learning and available for short-form or…
From insideHPC
The New HPC
Addison Snell gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Intersect360 Research returns with an annual deep dive into the trends, technologies and usage models that will be propelling the HPC community through 2017 and beyond…
From insideHPC
Video: Atos Olympe Supercomputer Powers Research at CALMIP
Today Atos announced the deployment of a BullSequana X1000 supercomputer at CALMIP, one of the biggest multi-scale inter-university supercomputing centers in France. Called Olympe, the supercomputer will be used for over 200
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
EU and Copyrights
Had not heard of this particular topic. Of interest.
In the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Been around a long time, a good follow.
The Final Version of the EU's Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet By Cory Doctorow…
From insideHPC
Advancement in AI & Machine Learning Calls For New HPC Solutions
High performance computing has gone through numerous shifts in the past few years. The new HPC, inclusive of analytics and AI, and with its wide range of technology components and choices, presents significant challenges to a…
From Computational Complexity
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
Last weekend I saw the documentary Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People. Pulitzer, as you probably know from the prize named after him, was a major newspaper publisher in the late 19th and early 20th century. He ran two papers…
From Schneier on Security
Reverse Location Search Warrants
The police are increasingly getting search warrants for information about all cellphones in a certain location at a certain time: Police departments across the country have been knocking at Google's door for at least the last…
From insideHPC
Video: In-Memory Computing Using Photonic Memory Devices
In this video, IBM researchers describe an all-optical approach to developing direct in-memory multiplication on an integrated photonic device based on non-volatile multilevel phase-change memories. Using integrated photonic
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From insideHPC
Ai allows for identification of new cancer genes
Researchers at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre have created a new artificial intelligence-based computational method that accelerates the identification of new genes related to cancer. Prof. Pržulj highlights that this new…
From insideHPC
Sven Breuner Joins Excelero as Field CTO
Today Excelero announced that it has appointed HPC pioneer Sven Breuner as Field Chief Technical Officer (CTO.) With over a decade of leadership in the HPC industry, Sven will help expand the innovative capabilities in Excelero…
From BLOG@CACM
How Did the Romans Calculate?
Experts are still wondering how the Romans calculated with their number system.
From insideHPC
PASC19 to feature talk on Scalable High Performance Architectures with Embedded Photonics
The PASC19 conference will feature a Public Lecture by Keren Bergman on Flexibly Scalable High Performance Architectures with Embedded Photonics. The event takes place June 12-14 in Zurich, Switzerland the week before ISC 2019…
From insideHPC
Singularity: Container Workflows for Compute
Greg Kurtzer from Sylabs gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Singularity is a widely adopted container technology specifically designed for compute-based workflows making application and environment reproducibility…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Japanese Translation of the CCC’s Next Steps in Quantum Computing Report Now Available
In May 2018, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) hosted a workshop on quantum computing, titled Next Steps in Quantum Computing: Computer Science’s Role. The workshop brought together computer scientists – including computer…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Explaining Facts Over Knowledge Graphs
Of general interest, linking explanation and knowledge graphs. Technical.
ExFaKT: a framework for explaining facts over knowledge graphs and text in Acolyer
ExFaKT: a framework for explaining facts over knowledge graphs and text…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cutting Through 5G Hype
Seems to be a major issue, especially with regard to how smart homes, and connected automobiles will be implemented. McKinsey reports on the hype, with predictions about what we might get when:
" .... Cutting through the 5G hype…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Qualcomm Goes All-in with Voice
This was surprising, had a chat with Qualcomm recently and it did not come up. Examining what this looks like. Test examples out there? Send them along.
Qualcomm goes all-in on Amazon Alexa voice control with a new development…
From Schneier on Security
Details on Recent DNS Hijacking
At the end of January the US Department of Homeland Security issued a warning regarding serious DNS hijacking attempts against US government domains. Brian Krebs wrote an excellent article detailing the attacks and their implications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Streaming Applications
Streaming applications, the only system I have worked with that does this is Splunk. Also well known is Flink. Usually large scale. Many other approaches exist. Streaming is a means of processing arriving requests as they…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Testing Digital Shelf Tags
An idea that has been around for a long time, we tested it extensively. Costs versus value often interfered. Now both Kroger and Wal-Mart appear serious with broader tests.
Walmart testing digital shelf tags at 2 locations …
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
More fun with fast remainders when the divisor is a constant
In software, compilers can often optimize away integer divisions, and replace them with cheaper instructions, especially when the divisor is a constant. I recently wrote about some work on faster remainders when the divisor is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stats on Skills and Usage on Alexa vs Google Assistants
Considerable Details at the Link
Google Assistant Actions up 2.5x in 2018 to reach 4,253 in the US By Sarah Perez in TechCrunch
In addition to competing for smart speaker market share, Google and Amazon are also competing for
For…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Headlights: Adaptive Driving Beams
Good sensor and adaptive example. Made me think of the problem more abstractly. Shining and focusing on data more precisely?
Smart Headlights Inch Closer to American Roads
The New York Times By Eric A. Taub
Adaptive driving…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Questions to Ask to Scope AI Methods
Good look below that is worth a read. And I also point out that these questions should be asked of any analytical problem. To take it further I would also ask if AI would provide a better answer than simpler methods? I would…
From insideHPC
Call for Submissions: Arm Research Summit in Austin
The Arm Research Summit, has issued its Call for Submissions. The event takes place September 15-18 in Austin, Texas. As a one-of-a-kind forum for topics that are shaping our world, the Summit focuses on presentations and discussions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deloitte on AI Getting More Pervasive
A Sponsored piece by Deloitte in the HBR on how Ai is getting more pervasive. Well done:
AI Is Not Just Getting Better; It’s Becoming More Pervasive
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) software and hardware are giving rise…
From insideHPC
25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium Offers Low Latency Specification for 50GbE, 100GbE and 200GbE HPC Networks
Today the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium announced the availability of a low-latency forward error correction (FEC) specification for 50 Gbps, 100 Gbps and 200 Gbps Ethernet networks. "Five years ago, only HPC developers cared…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Tracking Important
Good to see the mention of Zaltman's work, whose expertise we used extensively. Not quite sure what 95% means here, but certainly important.
Why is Eye-Tracking really important for Market Research? in DSC
Posted by Ayush
“95…