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
World’s Most Energy Efficient Supercomputer Powered by AMD FirePro™
AMD powers the L-CSC cluster at the GSI research facility which achieved the number one position for most energy efficient supercomputers on the latest Green500™ List. The L-CSC cluster is installed at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum…
From insideHPC
Livestream: GTC Keynote by Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang at 9:00am PT
This week insideHPC will be streaming live keynotes from the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose. Today's opening keynote will feature Jen-Hsun Huang, Nvidia CEO and Co-Founder and Elon Musk, founder and CEO of the Tesla Motor…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
2015 CSTA Administrator Impact Award Nominations Open
Dear CSTA Community, Nominations are currently open for the 2015 CSTA Administrator Impact Award! This prestigious award is given by CSTA to recognize an administrator who has made an outstanding contribution to K-12 computer…
From Putting People First
Research on being “good with money” in Silicon Valley
FAIR Money, a small research collective consisting of anthropologists and design researchers based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has just published its first report, Good with Money: Getting by in Silicon Valley. The report,…
From My Biased Coin
Power of Randomness at Georgia Tech
I'm spending (part of) the week at "The Power of Randomness in Computation Workshop", an IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications) workshop at Georgia Tech. Here's the schedule. I'm told slides will eventually be…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF CISE Distinguished Lecture –The Future of Computing-Mediated Research and Innovation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) is pleased to announce a Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 1:30 pm (ET) by Dr. Daniel Reed titled…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Graph Analytics to Understand Bigger Data
A way to visually and systematically examine how your Big Data is interconnected. Here recently in Infoworld, We used this for a number of projects in the enterprise. The software is catching up with the volume and complexity…
From insideHPC
LANL Reduces Water Consumption for Supercomputer Cooling
Today Los Alamos National Laboratory announced that it decreased its water usage by 26 percent in 2014, with about one-third of the reduction attributable to using reclaimed water to cool its supercomputing center.
From insideHPC
Interview: Why Software Defined Infrastructure Makes Sense for HPC
In a software-defined datacenter, application workloads such as big data, analytics, simulation and design are serviced automatically by the most appropriate resource, whether running locally or in the cloud. To learn more, we…
From Putting People First
Workshop_40/Wild energies: wind, fire and people in movement
For those in Torino: Workshop_40/Wild energies: wind, fire and people in movement Conducted by Marguerite Kahrl e Marjetica Potrč Friday, March 20 3.30 – 5.30, meeting with stakeholders Saturday, March 21 10.00 – 4.00, Participatory…
From Putting People First
EPIC conference calls for papers and tutorials
EPIC, the premier international gathering on the current and future practice of ethnography and design in the business world, will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil this year. The EPIC 2015 program committee is now calling for …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Echo and the IOT
This also made me think of the Amazon Echo effort. With possible applications in store and in enterprise. Possibly doing a better job of integrating the two as part of an Internet of Things. Another way to connect people into…
From insideHPC
Florida Polytechnic University to Host #TECHTalks on Exascale and IoT
This week Florida Polytechnic University will host online #TECHTalks, their second virtual event in a three-part series.
From Putting People First
Better Health and Wellbeing: Giving the elderly in Singapore sparkling golden years
Invitation: sharing session, Singapore, 30 March 2015 What are the hopes and fears of the elderly in Singapore? How can designers offer solutions that support the elderly in managing their health and wellness? What can healthcare…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Taskwatch takes Wearables to Focus Workflow
Local firm Hipaax works with Samsung Wearables. Love to see wearable ideas that link to enterprise applications. This links people to focus on work process.We need more innovation in that area. Like the broad idea, but will…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Other useless school trivia: the quadratic formula
I have two young boys and I have decided to pay attention to what they are learning in school. Beside basic writing and reading skills, mathematics feels like the next most important academic topic. I realize that relatively…
From insideHPC
IBM Platform Computing Delivers New HPC Cloud Offerings
Clusters that are purchased for specific applications tend not to be flexible as workloads change. What is needed is an infrastructure that can expand or contract as the workload changes. IBM, a recognized leader in High Performance…
From insideHPC
Earthquake Researchers at SDSC Win Nvidia Global Impact Award
Today Nvidia announced that researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center have won the inaugural Global Impact Award and its $150,000 prize. The researchers were honored for their work using high performance computing to …
From insideHPC
Preparing for Advanced Manycore Architectures – and Implications on the Interconnect
In this video from the 2015 OFS Developer's Workshop, Katie Antypas from LBNL describes preparations for the Cori supercomputer. "We need to emphasize here that the Knights Landing processor is self-hosted, and so that means …
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 16 March 2015
Last week I was not at SXSWedu. There were not as many tweets about it in my stream as there were from SIGCSE. I still want to go some day though. With progress reports due last week I had more than enough to keep me busy though…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data School for Machine Learning
DataSchool: Free Stanford based videos, slides, book, exercises and more about machine learning and statistical methods. Complete practical examples in R code. Technical, but quite accessible to anyone with beginner to intermediate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sentient Robotics
From USA TODAY: Sirius founder Martine Rothblatt envisions world of cyber clones, tech med ... The founder of Sirius satellite radio is eager for a future where many of our chores are handled by sentient robots
From Computational Complexity
Has anything interesting every come out of a claimed proof that P=NP or P ≠ NP?
When I was young and foolish and I heard that someone thinks they proven P=NP or P ≠ NP I would think Wow- maybe they did!. Then my adviser, who was on the FOCS committee, gave me a paper that claimed to resolve P vs NP! He…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Python Introduction
Working with some students to get them up to speed in the computing language Python. Here from Infoworld on other programming resources, a nice, free PDF on getting started with Python. This is probably most useful for people…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exploring Service Economics
Interesting talk given in the ISSIP series on Services Economics by Doug Morse, on 12/17/14, Slides here.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Space Time Insight
Brought to my attention .... Situational Intelligencevia Correspondent Paul Hofmann CTOBreakthrough Off-The-Shelf SolutionsSpace-Time Insight’s industry solutions include off-the-shelf applications that have already been proven…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gathering Television User Sentiment
Gathering Television Viewer Sentiment ... Case study: Learn how Hong Kong–based TVB uses social media to analyze audience sentiment ... "
From insideHPC
DDN Shows Strong Momentum for 2015
As our 2014 results and momentum into the first quarter of 2015 demonstrate, DDN’s product strategy to offer integrated end-to-end solutions for large scale data problems is in high demand. DDN is leading the industry with innovation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tableaus Free Visualization Tool
I have been a subscriber to Tableau for so long, I had forgotten about their free data visualization tool. It has been enhanced." ... Tableau Desktop Public, the Tableau Public client app now available for the Mac and Windows…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Omni Channel benefit to Ship from Store
In Retailwire: Is ship-from-store a proven omnichannel benefit? " ... Many retailers are now using their stores as fulfillment centers to ship a small portion to upwards of 20 percent of the product they sell online. ... " …