Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2015
From insideHPC
Video: Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark and Memcached
"Using the publicly available software packages in the High-Performance Big Data (HiBD) project, we will provide case studies of the new designs for several Hadoop/Spark/Memcached components and their associated benefits. Through…
From insideHPC
A Letter to the Lustre Community
This letter to the Lustre Community was submitted by Brent Gorda, GM, Intel High Performance Data Division Another year has passed and, with it, more growth for Lustre and the community around it. This year, as well as welcoming…
From insideHPC
EPFL Unleashes Deneb, a Scalable HPC Architecture for Researchers and Students
EPFL launches Denab: a scalable HPC architecture for researchers and students. "Working with ClusterVision and Intel has proved to be a wise and productive decision for EPFL as we continue to grow our computational capabilities…
From Schneier on Security
Brute-Forcing iPhone PINs
This is a clever attack, using a black box that attaches to the iPhone via USB: As you know, an iPhone keeps a count of how many wrong PINs have been entered, in case you have turned on the Erase Data option on the Settings |…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 30 March 2015
March is almost over and the snow in my backyard is measured in inches not feet. So spring appears to be coming albeit a bit late. The school year is progressing and a lot of my friends in the south spent last week on springDawn…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Real Time Data Analytics at Pinterest
Short case study of the use of analytics on streaming data, using Spark. " ... Pinterest, the company behind the visual bookmarking tool that helps you discover and save creative ideas, is using real-time data analytics for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sales by Kaizen
Kaizen: Continuous improvement in sales. " ... It's in sales that I am most intrigued by the possibilities of a kaizen strategy. A slim majority of sales people make or exceed quota -- in recent years, 58 percent, plus or minus…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How will the Internet of Things Work?
SAP community on how the IOT will really work. I like their speculation about what the killer App might be. I think it is doing something that we are doing haphazardly today that can be systematized with segmentation analytics…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Learning to See Data as Art
In the NYT: The art and science of data visualization. " ... Advanced computing produces waves of abstract digital data that in many cases defy interpretation; there’s no way to discern a meaningful pattern in any intuitive…
From insideHPC
Diablo Technologies to Resume Shipments of Memory Channel Storage after Court Ruling
This week Diablo Technologies announced that the company will resume shipments of its MCS based chipsets. The news comes on the heels of ruling by a federal jury in favor of Diablo in a lawsuit brought by Netlist, Inc.
The post…From insideHPC
Video: Multipath RDMA
The main motivation for Multipath RDMA is to support three types of features: Failovers and High Availability Support, Bandwidth Aggregation, and L3 datacenter support.
The post Video: Multipath RDMA appeared first on insideHPC…From The Eponymous Pickle
Big Data Blurring Industry Lines
In Forbes, Morphing of analyses and businesses. Expect more of this. And the partnership aspects, note the book Reciprocity Advantage , by colleagues Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn previously mentioned, on this topic" .. By…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Architecture for Self Service Analytics
Increasingly important. Also important is the metadata required for current needs, and predicted future needs of the firm. A forecast.Architecture for Self Service AnalyticsThe adoption of self-service BI and analytics tools…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Architecture and Why of Neural Nets
A good overview of the concepts and key characteristics of neural nets by Stuart Reid. We used these methods in the enterprise to replace some stat methods, especially when we wanted more control of the method involved. They…
From My Biased Coin
Links: HBR article on Women in STEM and AAUW Report
A latest article on bias issues for women in STEM by Harvard Business Review. A slide presentation by AAUW related to their report: Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing. The full…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Steps Up to HPC
In this special guest feature, Tom Wilkie from Scientific Computing World reports how the launch of its HPC innovation centre in Stuttgart yesterday shows the company’s commitment to HPC.
The post Lenovo Steps Up to HPC appeared…From insideHPC
High Throughput Data Acquisition at the CMS experiment at CERN
"The CMS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN underwent a replacement of its data acquisition network to be able to process the increased data rate expected in the coming years. We will present the architecture of the…
From Putting People First
More from Gov.uk on the role of ethnography and prototyping in policymaking
Two inspiring posts by Dr. Lucy Kimbell, a visiting Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellow at the UK-based Policy Lab, an experimental policy innovation center within the Open Policy Making team of the UK Cabinet …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Polinode: Leveraging Visual Enterprise Networks
Polinode was brought to my attention because we also looked at using visualized networks to understand how our company worked, and could be simulated in its adaptation to changes over time and context, both slow and rapid. " Polinode…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Who Owns Big Data?
Invitation to the discussion. Which brings us back to the value of data and its ultimate view as an asset. Ans as an asset in particular contexts of process. As we have also seen, it remains a risk as well.
From The Eponymous Pickle
IRI on Speed in Marketing
Speed will be key in future of CPG marketingThe future of shopper marketing lies in how fast consumer packaged good companies can act on market and consumer insights, according to Information Resources President and CEO Andrew…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Unified Sensor Interface
For Windows 10: With implications for a number of systems. Sensors are a form of augmentation, so it is a natural step." ... Microsoft is building a unified sensor interface and universal driver for Windows 10 that will support…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Using Squid Proteins for Commercial Camouflage Products
More research. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco Beacon Management System
In RFIDJournal. Includes a screen shot of how the beacons are managed." ... Several companies, including sports arenas, hotels and shopping areas, are piloting a new beacon-management dashboard provided by network technology…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the Mass Difference of Neutron and Protons
Researchers using the JUQUEEN supercomputer have computed the small mass difference between protons and neutrons. The fact that the neutron is slightly more massive than the proton is the reason why atomic nuclei have exactly…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CAREER Awards Given To Two CS Education Researchers
The follow is a guest blog post by Ran Libeskind-Hadas, R. Michael Shanahan Professor and Computer Science Department Chair at Harvey Mudd College. This year, NSF CISE made its first CAREER awards for research in computer science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DARPA Promoting New Tracking Methods
What are the broader implications of these new methods commercially? What comes to mind are technologies that will be more precise and reliable inside buildings, notably for retail applications and emergency response.In CWorld…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extracting Data from PDF Documents
Could have used this idea a number of years ago. In projects meant to gather and archive enterprise knowledge. Data tables are often embedded in PDF documents, and extracting these systematically, in volume, sometimes ends up…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Misunderstanding Social Media
Via Knowledge@Wharton, Podcast and text by Nancy Rothbard and Amanda GaileyWhen Using Social Media, Beware the Invisible AudienceSocial media has augmented our ability to communicate, but it has also made it easier to misunderstand…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Learning Assessment: Sero!
Brian Moon is a collaborator, he writes:Our company is currently competing in Destination Innovation, a program hosted by the Northern Virginia Technology Council and Capital Business @ The Washington Post. Next week, from Monday…