Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2021
From insideHPC
DevGraph CloudFix Designed to Cut AWS Costs
Austin, TX – DevGraph has released CloudFix AWS cost optimization software, built to automatically analyzes AWS accounts and find cost-savings opportunities and automatically deploy fixes at scale. “As a heavy AWS user ourselves…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Receives Growth Investment
Calgary, Alberta. March 4, 2020 – CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable direct liquid cooling technology (DLC), has announced the completion of an undisclosed eight figure investment led by BDC Capital (BDCC), the investment arm …
From insideHPC
10 Teams Slated for 1st Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition
Dan Olds, chief research officer at HPC industry analyst firm Intersect360, provides this update on the Winter Classic Invitational Student Cluster Competition that he is organizing. Back up NCAA, check yourself March Madness…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Launches tools to Manage Workflows
We were mainly looking at how to manage work flows in general, but the same goal really. Replace some of the resource components with robots, people, analytics external flows. Like to see the examples of how and measures…
From insideHPC
Leopard Imaging Teams with Socionext, Hailo, AWS for AI Video Analytics
FREMONT, CA, YOKOHAMA and TEL AVIV, Israel, March 3, 2021 — Leopard Imaging Inc., provider of embedded camera design and manufacturing, is collaborating with three leading companies to deliver EdgeTuring: an artificial intelligence…
From insideHPC
Fabless Semiconductor Startup Xsight Labs Closes Series D Led by Valor and Atreides, Joined by Fidelity
TEL-AVIV and SAN JOSE — March 3, 2021— Xsight Labs, a fabless semiconductor startup company, today announced the closing of its Series D funding. The round was led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management and was joined…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems in Agreement with nVent for High Density Rack-level Liquid Cooling
Calgary, Alberta – March 3, 2020 – CoolIT Systems Inc., a global leader in modular, scalable data center liquid cooling technology, has announced a strategic agreement with nVent Electric plc (NYSE:NVT) (“nVent”), a global leader…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Cardboard VR is Gone
I used to recommend these in classes. Still have some around, somewhere .... Too bad. Downward trend in VR signaled?
Google stops selling its Cardboard VR goggles after seven years
The affordable headset helped bring virtual…From insideHPC
Intel Achieves AWS High Performance Computing Competency Status
Intel has announced it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency status. This designation recognizes that Intel has demonstrated deep experience helping customers optimize their HPC workloads…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Publix Pandemic Sales Increase
Interesting numbers, starting with increased sales. A kind of behavioral measure of interest. Much more at the link.
Publix Super Markets: For the full fiscal 2020 year, Publix saw net earnings rise by $1 billion to $4 billion…From insideHPC
Pure Storage and Equinix Collaborate to Deliver ‘Physical Infrastructure at Software Speed’
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — March 3, 2021 — Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), which delivers storage as a service in a multi-cloud world, and Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the digital infrastructure company, announced Pure Storage…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea – Smartmedia: Adapting Streamed Content to Fit Location and Context
The following Great Innovative Idea is from Yaron Kanza (AT&T Labs-Research), David Gibbon (AT&T Labs-Research), Divesh Srivastava (AT&T Labs-Research), Valerie Yip (AT&T Labs-Research), and Eric Zavesky (AT&T Labs-Research).…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Retrain Your Model, Update the Data
Such an obvious thing, but often forgotten. I make a point to include such updating instructions in everything I delivered. No data, except from physics, is static. Estimate, at least, the risk involved in not updating a model…
From insideHPC
Ungaro Departs: New Leadership Blood as HPE and Dell Drive for No. 1 in HPC
HPE and Dell, engaged in a neck-and-neck struggle for superiority in HPC servers, also are engaged in a reshuffling of their HPC leadership teams that may reflect similar visions of HPC’s broadening adoption across IT. Last week…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Security Problem with Common PLCs
We worked actively with PLCs, 'Programmable Logic Controllers' in the enterprise. Small, dedicated computers used to control industrial process. They reliably do both simple and complex tasks in the lab and plant. I see…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Detecting Earthquakes and Waves
A favorite topic, detecting pattern. Its a big part of our intelligence. Here using new kinds of sensor data.
Google Uses Underwater Fiber-Optic Cable to Detect Earthquakes By New Scientist
A submarine fiber-optic cable owned…From insideHPC
Rescale’s 2021 State of Cloud HPC Report Reveals Major Cloud Adoption Trends in Research and Science
SAN FRANCISCO, March 02, 2021 — Rescale, a hybrid HPC cloud platform enabling intelligent computing for digital R&D, today published its inaugural State of Cloud HPC Report. The report shares aggregate cloud adoption trends in…
From insideHPC
EIB Provides $9.1M to AI Software Company Cortical.io
San Francisco – March 3, 2021 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing $9.1 million to Cortical.io AG, an Austrian software company with offices in San Francisco, developing artificial intelligence technology based on…
From The Eponymous Pickle
WIkibon Research
Brought back to my attention and of interest.
The Wikibon 2021 research focus is based on a community-based approach to deliver in-depth research and analysis across a broad range of enterprise technology…From The Eponymous Pickle
Spending in a Solarwinds and COVID Context
Interesting to see the specific implications of security and supply chain contexts.
Breaking Analysis: How the SolarWinds Hack & COVID are Changing CISO Spending Patterns By David Vellante FEBRUARY 13 2021 in WikiBon
Top security…From The Eponymous Pickle
TripleBlind raises $8.2 million Encrypted Data Science Platform
Most interesting Application here, note interaction of compliance.
TripleBlind raises $8.2 million for its Encrypted Data Science platform
Kyle Wiggers @Kyle_L_Wiggers, March 1, 2021 6:00 AM
TripleBlind, a Kansas City, Missouri…From insideHPC
Purdue Engineers Developing Switch for Quantum Internet
Purdue University says engineers there have made progress on a new switch designed to enable a quantum internet supporting powerful quantum computers of the future. The method, demonstrated in a paper published in Optica, could…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Decentralized Finance
Notable look at where this might be going. Getting some reading that it is being much more broadly applied than expected. But there remains some strongly based skepticism.
Traditional Centralized Systems in Business & Finance…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Melanie E. Moses Article in Nautilus: How to Fix the Vaccine Rollout
Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Member, Professor of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico and External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute, Melanie E. Moses, recently published an article in Nautilus…
From insideHPC
Core Scientific Achieves AWS HPC Competency Status
BELLEVUE, Wash., March 1, 2021 — Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for artificial intelligence and blockchain that is led by CEO Kevin Turner, the former COO of Microsoft, announced today that…
From insideHPC
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Picks WekaIO Data Platform for Drug Discovery
CAMPBELL, Calif., March 2, 2021 – WekaIO (Weka), maker of fastest-growing data platform for artificial intelligence/machine learning, life sciences research and high performance data analytics (HPDA), today announced that the…
From insideHPC
Getting More Quantitative Analysis Modeling and Backtesting by Fixing Your Storage
HPC storage is under strain to deliver fast, shared dataset access for backtesting quantitative trading strategies. One solution is Panasas’ ActiveStor Ultra – a scalable, parallel, data storage system for reduced backtest times…
From insideHPC
Deloitte Teams with Nvidia on Deloitte Center for AI Computing
Consulting firm Deloitte today announced the launch of the Deloitte Center for AI Computing, designed to accelerate development of artificial intelligence solutions for Deloitte clients. Built on NVIDIA’s DGX A100 systems , the…
From insideHPC
ECP Announces 2021 Community Birds-of-a-Feather Days
March 1, 2021 – The US Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) has announced the ECP 2021 Community BOF Days, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions for the high performance computing (HPC) community. BOFs offer various …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Space Hotel being Planned for 2025
Cost details lacking but plans starting.
World's first space HOTEL to begin construction in low Earth orbit in 2025 complete with restaurants, cinemas and rooms for up to 400 guests
Experts from Orbital Assembly Corporation plan…