Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2020
From insideHPC
Video: OSS Showcases AI on Fly at GTC Digital
In this video, Jaan Mannik from One Stop Systems gives a tour of the company's virtual booth at GTC Digital. "OSS is the leader in specialized high-performance computers for vertical markets requiring the fastest processing and…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS 2020 – Using Computing to Sustainably Feed a Growing Population
As the global population continues to grow, and climate change and pollution lead to environmental degradation, ensuring the future of agriculture and food production becomes increasingly imperative. What role can computing research…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Accelerates AI and Deep Learning with NGC-Ready Servers
Today Supermicro announced the industry’s broadest portfolio of validated NGC-Ready systems optimized to accelerate AI and deep learning applications. Supermicro is highlighting many of these systems today at the Supermicro GPU…
From insideHPC
Call for Papers: Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing
The 13th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place August 24 - 28 in Warsaw, Poland in conjunction with Euro-Par 2020. "Resilience is a critical challenge as high…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Approach of Running Simulations to Train Analyses
We did versions of the same thing to get data that would create more detailed and thus useful models of industrial scenarios. Especially useful if it hard to get enough running-sensing examples. One value of all simulations…
From insideHPC
Video: The Cray Shasta Architecture for the Exascale Era
Steve Scott from HPE gave this talk at the Rice Oil & Gas Conference. "With the announcement of multiple exascale systems, we’re now entering the Exascale Era, marked by several important trends. This talk provides an overview…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scaling AI Training
Scaling training costs. Technical.
Google open-sources framework that reduces AI training costs by up to 80% By Kyle Wiggers
Google researchers recently published a paper describing a framework — SEED RL — that scales AI model…
From Schneier on Security
Internet Voting in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is considered allowing for Internet voting. I have joined a group of security experts in a letter opposing the bill. Cybersecurity experts agree that under current technology, no practically proven method exists to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teaching AI to be Better at Second-Guessing
Intent is a element of context that humans frequently use in adapting to conversation.
How humans are teaching AI to become better at second-guessing
by Lachlan Gilbert, University of New South Wales
One of the holy grails in the…
From insideHPC
Czech supercomputers at IT4Innovations ready to combat coronavirus
The IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava has offered its users from academic institutions priority access to its computational resources to solve problems regarding COVID-19 disease…
From insideHPC
PolarisQB and Fujitsu Launch Drug Discovery Platform
Polarisqb has partnered with Fujitsu to create a ground-breaking drug discovery platform combining quantum-inspired technology, machine learning, hybrid quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics simulations (QM/MM). This new
…
From Computational Complexity
What do do while ``stuck'' at home/Other thoughts on the virus
Lance had a great post on what to do while you are stuck at home, which is of course relevant to whats happening now. Lance's post is here.
I will add to it, and then have other comments.
1) In our current electronic society…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowdsourcing Creativity
Spent much time on broad the idea, like the direction of the process.
Crowdsourcing Plot Lines to Help the Creative Process
Penn State News
Jessica Hallman
March 13, 2020
Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Partners for Coronavirus Research
Interesting directions for collaborating on technology.
IBM Partners with White House to Direct Supercomputing Power for Coronavirus Research
CNN
Clare Duffy
March 22, 2020
IBM will help coordinate an initiative to supply more than…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Big Data
A frequent question I have received, is what is the difference between Big Data and AI? My answer is DB is a means of using much more available data to perform analytical methods. While AI uses a particular set of machine learning…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
White House Announces New Partnership to Unleash U.S. Supercomputing Resources to Fight COVID-19
From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for immediate release. Today, The White House announced the launch of the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium to provide COVID-19 researchers worldwide with…
From Yoshua Bengio
Peer-to-peer AI-tracing of COVID-19
Social distancing works but in its simplest form it is brutal and economically very damaging. We have already seen how tracing and testing can greatly…
L’article Peer-to-peer AI-tracing of COVID-19 est apparu en premier sur Yoshua…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching From Home–Day 6
Boring post title I know. But I am not really concerned about attracting eyes in these crazy time. Over the weekend I found out that my international students (two from China and one from South Korea) are heading home. I sure…
From insideHPC
GTC Digital Kicks off Tuesday with Free Registration
GTC Digital begins this week as virtual event with free registration. While the annual GPU Technology Conference typically packs hundreds of hours of talks, presentations and conversations into a five-day event in San Jose, NVIDIA's…
From Putting People First
Imaging the world after coronavirus, part 2
Here are some more features and articles on what my lie ahead.
From insideHPC
AiMOS Supercomputer at Rensselaer to Battle COVID-19
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is enlisting AiMOS, one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Rensselaer is reaching out to the research community, including government…
From insideHPC
Efficient AI Computing for the Planet
In this keynote talk from the 2020 HiPEAC conference, Alesssandro Cremonesi from STMicroelectronics describes how artificial intelligence (AI) is the central nervous system of an increasingly connected world. He sets out both…
From insideHPC
Is Your Storage Infrastructure Ready for the Coming AI Wave?
In this new whitepaper from our friends over at Panasas, we take a look at whether your storage infrastructure is ready for the robust requirements in support of AI workloads. AI promises to not only create entirely new industries…
From Schneier on Security
Hacking Voice Assistants with Ultrasonic Waves
I previously wrote about hacking voice assistants with lasers. Turns you can do much the same thing with ultrasonic waves: Voice assistants -- the demo targeted Siri, Google Assistant, and Bixby -- are designed to respond when…
From insideHPC
IBM & DOE Launch COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium
Today, IBM, in collaboration with the DOE, launched the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. "The consortium bring together an unprecedented amount of supercomputing power—16 systems with more than 330 petaflops, 775…
From insideHPC
Free Registration: Supercomputing Frontiers Europe Conference this Week
Today the organizers of Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2020 announced that it has waived registration for their virtual conference this week. "Over twenty outstanding keynote and invited speakers at Supercomputing Frontiers
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI at the Edge
Some useful thoughts about the use of AI in devices, enabled by faster ubiquitous connections like 5G.
AI at the Edge Enabling a New Generation of Apps, Smart Devices By AI Trends Staff
Enabling an edge-computing architecture…
From insideHPC
NOAA seeks proposals to help develop world’s best weather forecast model
NOAA is seeking a technology partner to help design and build the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC). This extramural center will accelerate scientific research and engineering to create the world’s most accurate and reliable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fractal Uncertainty and Quantum
Intriguing but technical view:
Finding solutions amidst fractal uncertainty and quantum chaos
Math professor Semyon Dyatlov explores the relationship between classical and quantum physics.
Jonathan Mingle | MIT News correspondent…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Star-Free Regular Languages and Logic
Part 1 of a two-part series Daniel Winton is a graduate student in mathematics at Buffalo. He did an independent study with me last semester on descriptive complexity. Today we begin a two-part series written by Daniel on a foundational…