Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
February 2024
From insideHPC
IT Survey: Multiple Hurdles for AI Implementation but Funding Is There
Implementation of AI has its own challenges, and according to a new survey, proving the value of AI solutions to businesses might be the biggest one. According to data presented by NoKyc.com, 42 percent of IT professionals think…
From insideHPC
Synopsys Says it Has First 1.6T Ethernet IP Solution for AI and Hyperscale Chips
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 29, 2023 – Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today delivered what it said is a dramatic increase in bandwidth and throughput for data-intensive AI workloads with the industry’s first complete 1.6T Ethernet…
From insideHPC
Green Mountain Data Centers to Host HPE AI and HPC in Norway
Norwegian data center company Green Mountain announced it is working with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to host high-demand artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC) workloads to customers across two…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Report Released: Future of Pandemic Prevention and Response
CCC held a visioning workshop on the Future of Pandemic Response and Prevention in September 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was organized by the CCC Council’s Computational Challenges in Healthcare Task Force, and a Steering…
From Schneier on Security
How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration will drive the next era of growth, wealth, and human flourishing. It’s a scary metaphor. Throughout …
From insideHPC
Riverlane and Rigetti Partner with Oak Ridge Lab on HPC-Quantum Integration
Riverlane and Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) today announced their participation in a project led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to explore the challenges of integrating a quantum computer…
From insideHPC
HPC System Analyst Jackie Scoggins Reflects on Her Time at NERSC
As part of cthe 50th anniversary celebrations for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), “In Their Own Words” is a Q&A series featuring voices from across the NERSC landscape, past and present, about…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Reminder: Join a Roundtable to Discuss the Next Grand Challenges in Computing
The Computing Community Consortium’s (CCC) Grand Challenges task force is engaging in a new visioning activity to identify the next grand challenges that will shape the future of our field. We’re seeking visionary thinkers and…
From Computational Complexity
A Quantum State
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| Illinois' most famous citizen working on a quantum computer |
The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, unveiled his budget last week including $500 million for quantum computing research. Is this the best way to spend my tax dollars…
From insideHPC
SambaNova Says its First with Trillion-Parameter GenAI Model
Feb. 28, 2024 — AI technology company SambaNova Systems said today its Samba-1 is the first 1 trillion (1T) parameter generative AI model. “This past fall, we announced the SN40L, the smartest AI chip (rivaling Nvidia), and today…
From Schneier on Security
A Cyber Insurance Backstop
In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetyadrug…
From insideHPC
Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI, machine learning and deep learning…
From insideHPC
NTT and Red Hat Fuel AI Analysis at the Edge with IOWN Technologies
MWC BARCELONA – February 26, 2024 — As part of the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN) initiative, NTT Corporation (NTT) and Red Hat, Inc., in collaboration with NVIDIA and Fujitsu, have jointly developed a solution…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Alphabet? What alphabet?
I used to start a talk on internationalization of code with the question “How many letters are in the alphabet?” Once I had several people say “26” I would ask “Shouldn’t you ask ‘what alphabet’ first?” I would then discussToday…
From insideHPC
DOE: E4S for Extreme-Scale Science Now Supports Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper GPUs
E4S, the open source Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack for HPC-AI scientific applications, now incorporates AI/ML libraries and expands GPU support to include the Nvidia Grace and Grace Hopper architectures. E4S is a community…
From Schneier on Security
China Surveillance Company Hacked
Last week, someone posted something like 570 files, images and chat logs from a Chinese company called I-Soon. I-Soon sells hacking and espionage services to Chinese national and local government.
Lots of details in the news …From Yoshua Bengio
Towards a Cautious Scientist AI with Convergent Safety Bounds
What can’t we afford with a future superintelligent AI? Among others, confidently wrong predictions about the harm that some actions could yield. Especially catastrophic harm.…
L’article Towards a Cautious Scientist AI with Convergent…From insideHPC
TSMC Opens JASM Chip Fab Subsidiary in Japan
KUMAMOTO, Japan, Feb. 24, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) held an opening ceremony for its majority-owned subsidiary Japan Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing, Inc. (JASM) in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, bringing together…
From insideHPC
Micron Announces Volume Production of HBM3E
BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 26, 2024 — Memory and storage company Micron Technology, Inc. today announced it has begun volume production of its HBM3E (High Bandwidth Memory 3E) solution. Micron’s 24GB 8H HBM3E will be part of NVIDIA H200…
From insideHPC
Advanced Clustering Launches New ClusterVisor Edition
KANSAS CITY, MO. (Feb. 23, 2024) – ClusterVisor, a HPC cluster management software solution from Advanced Clustering, is now available with a new edition that includes a redesigned web user interface, role-based access control…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Expands Portfolio for 5G
San Jose and Barcelona — February 26, 2024 – Supermicro, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a provider for AI, cloud, storage, and 5G/edge solutions, announced an expanded portfolio of purpose-built infrastructure solutions to accelerate performance…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240226: Intel Foundry Bash, Nvidia Earnings and AI Inference, HPC in Space, ISC 2024
A happy Monday of Leap Year Week to you! We offer a rapid run-through of the latest in HPC-AI, including: Intel Foundry bash, Gelsinger talks up the “Systems Foundry Era," Wall Street hangs on Nvidia earnings, AI Training vs
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From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Software for Justice
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London (originally published in 2011) A jury is given misleading information in court by an expert witness. An innocent person goes to prison as a result. This shouldn’t happen, but unfortunately…
From Schneier on Security
Apple Announces Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms for iMessage
Apple announced PQ3, its post-quantum encryption standard based on the Kyber secure key-encapsulation protocol, one of the post-quantum algorithms selected by NIST in 2022.
There’s a lot of detail in the Apple blog post, andsecurity…From Computational Complexity
When is it worth the time and effort to verify a proof FORMALLY?
(This post was inspired by Lance's tweet and later post on part of IP=PSPACE being formally verified.)
We now have the means to verify that a proof (prob just some proofs) is correct (one could quibble about verifying the verifier…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Book review: Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen
When I was young, science fiction was the genre of choice for many engineers and scientists. But the genre declined significantly in recent years. Part of the problem is the rise dystopian fiction. In the imagined future, weContinue…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Structure of Polynomials
A feature in the current AMS Notices issue highlighting women in mathematics Marie-Françoise Roy is a French mathematician, emerita of the Institute for Mathematical Research of the University of Rennes, where she has been since…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid and Climate Change
There are correlations between the populations of the Illex Argentines squid and water temperatures.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog…From insideHPC
NCSA Aids Researchers with AI on Multiple Fronts
NCSA is the caretaker and manager of the Delta supercomputer, but that means more than just making sure the machine is running. The Center recently worked with the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) on their research using AI
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From insideHPC
Charles Wuischpard Names Nvidia VP North America Latin America Sales
HPC industry veteran Charles Wuischpard, formerly of Intel and silicon photonics startup Ayar Labs, announced recently on his LinkedIn page that he has joined Nvidia as vice president of North America Latin America (NALA) sales…