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
Rapids: Data Science on GPUs
Christoph Angerer from NVIDIA gave this talk at FOSDEM'19. "The next big step in data science will combine the ease of use of common Python APIs, but with the power and scalability of GPU compute. The RAPIDS project is the first…
From insideHPC
Are Platform Configuration Problems Degrading Your Application’s Performance?
The Intel VTune™ Amplifier Platform Profiler on Windows* and Linux* systems shows you critical data about the running platform that help identify common system configuration errors that may be causing performance issues and bottlenecks…
From insideHPC
NOAA and NCAR team up for Weather and Climate Modeling
The United States is making exciting changes to how computer models will be developed in the future to support the nation’s weather and climate forecast system. NOAA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Strategic Roadmap for Using Blockchain
Good piece. Podcast and transcript which introduces a reasonable approach to assessing and implementing this over-hyped emergent technology.
Using Blockchain: A Strategic Roadmap for Companies
Saikat Chaudhuri from Wharton's…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Open Sources ClusterFuzz
Interesting example of automating certain kinds of testing, always useful idea to automate repetitive operations that need to be complete.
Google Open Source Blog
The latest news from Google on open source releases, major projects…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Helping Alexa Assistant to Learn
Fascinating piece in the Alexa Dev blog on memory measures for Alexa Assistant, am examining. See the full technical paper linked to below. Lengthy
How Alexa May Learn to Retrieve Stored "Memories"
By Rasool Fakoor who is an
In…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Programming Projects and the Good Idea Fairy
I think Garth Flint (blog at Garth's CS Education Blog) first introduced me to the idea of the good idea fairy. The good idea fairy strikes you with a great idea that works out well (most of the time) but takes you more timeWell…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Will Win the SmartHome Wars?
Have now been using and testing both the Amazon and Google home ecosystems in the Smart Home since their inception. As a user, designer and developer. And before that as well, how assistants can provide smart services in'Service…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Predicts Power Disruptions
Intriguing application, one that is using data from IBM's acquisition. Not much detail here, except for Watson and Weather data. Will edit in later findings. See this from the Weather Company, part of IBM: https://business…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blockchain Online Encyclopedia
Been a long time follower of online knowledge. Early on we used the Wikipedia as an architectural model for internal wikis, and also as a concept for contextual and metadata for analytical models.
Now I just read in Engadget…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Early Shipments Available: Intel Xeon Servers with Optane DC Persistent Memory
Today Supermicro launched its Early Shipment Program for servers and storage systems that customers can validate using next-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors which are expected to be officially released later this year…
From insideHPC
ISC 2019 Announces Lineup for Student Cluster Competition
The ISC 2019 conference has announced the teams that will compete in their Student Cluster Competition. The annual event takes place June 16-20 in Hamburg, Germany. "Now in its eighth year, the ISC HPCAI Advisory Council Student…
From insideHPC
IBM Research Ai Hardware Center to Drive Next-Generation AI Chips
Today IBM announced an ambitious plan to create a global research hub to develop next-generation AI hardware and expand their joint research efforts in nanotechnology. As part of a $3 billion commitment, the IBM Research AI Hardware…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Recap of the Manoa Mini-Symposium on Physics of Adaptive Computation
This blog post includes contributions from Josh Deutsch (UC Santa Cruz), Mike DeWeese (UC Berkeley), and Lee Altenberg (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa). In early January, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) hosted a visioning…
From insideHPC
NEC Steps Up with AMD EPYC Servers for Aerospace and Automotive
In this video, NEC’s Oliver Tennert and AMD’s Dan Bounds describe how the two companies are developing high density computing solutions using AMD EPYC processors and liquid cooling for the aerospace and automotive industries.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Backpropagation
Continuing the advanced tech theme this morning. .. In the early days you had to code your own backpropagation, now you don't. Still good to know what is going on. Here a not too technical view. De-mystifying can help you…
From insideHPC
Stanford HPC Conference: Innovating the Way to the Future
In this special guest feature, Cydney Ewald Stevens from the HPC Ai Advisory Council writes that the Stanford HPC Conference will focus using technology to build a better world. "AI and HPC practitioners share passions for cutting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Combining CNN and RNNs
Made me think .... Technical.
Combining CNNs and RNNs – Crazy or Genius? by William Vorhies
Summary: There are some interesting use cases where combining CNNs and RNN/LSTMs seems to make sense and a number of researchers pursuing…
From Schneier on Security
China's AI Strategy and its Security Implications
Gregory C. Allen at the Center for a New American Security has a new report with some interesting analysis and insights into China's AI strategy, commercial, government, and military. There are numerous security -- and national…
From Computational Complexity
An Immerman-Szelepcsényi Story
As a grad student in the late 80's I had the opportunity to witness many great and often surprising theorems in computational complexity. Let me tell you about one of them, the Immerman-Szelepcsényi result that nondeterministic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
JP Morgan's AI Initiatives
A Podcast and transcript. Useful case study. in Knowledge@Wharton
Apoorv Saxena, global head of AI and machine-learning services for JPMorgan Chase, discusses the bank's AI initiatives.
When America’s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Experiments with Quantum Computers
Technical piece. We are starting to tease out how we might utilize quantum effects in computers. We saw some examples we might use in combinatorial analytic problems, for example supply chain optimization. Waiting to get…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Vine Trades Free product for Data
Link contains pointers to other articles mentioned. I would think that Vine will provide a good platform, especially for new and novel products. And result in new kinds of curated behavioral data. Gets back to data as an
Is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UpComing Webinar on Knowledge Graphs
Its important to link knowledge with other forms of semantic databases. As we use these methods they become easier to link and maintain to AI style applications. We used TopQuadrant, I will attend.
WEBINAR: What are Knowledge…
From insideHPC
BGFS File System Shows Momentum in Asia with Pacific Teck
Today ThinkParQ announced its Platinum Partnership with Pacific Teck in APAC. Founded in 2013, Pacific Teck brings cutting edge technology products from around the world to the APAC region and since 2017, Pacific Teck has been…
From insideHPC
Video: Reproducible Science with Containers on HPC through Singularity
Eduardo Arango from Sylabs gave this talk at FOSDEM'19. "Singularity is the most widely used container solution in high-performance computing. Enterprise users interested in AI, Deep Learning, compute drive analytics, and IOT…
From insideHPC
WekaIO Beats Big Systems on the IO-500 10 Node Challenge
Today WekaIO announced record performance on the IO-500 10 Node Challenge benchmark. The Virtual Institute for I/O has placed WekaIO Matrix in first place on the IO-500 10 Node Challenge list, beating out massive supercomputer…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Jen Rexford Receives CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award
The following is from the CRA Bulletin. Congrats, Jen! The Education Committee of the Computing Research Association (CRA-E) is proud to announce two recipients of the 2019 CRA-E Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentoring Award…
From Schneier on Security
Using Gmail "Dot Addresses" to Commit Fraud
In Gmail addresses, the dots don't matter. The account "[email protected]" maps to the exact same address as "[email protected]" and "[email protected]" -- and so on. (Note: I own none of those addresses…
From insideHPC
SC19 Chair Michela Taufer Selected to Receive 2019 IBM Faculty Award
Professor Michela Taufer from the University of Tennessee has been selected to receive a 2019 IBM Faculty Award. "This $20,000 USD award is highly competitive and recognizes her leadership in High Performance Computing and its…