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
José Correia, University of Porto, Wins PRACE Best Poster Award at EuroHPC Summit
PRACE has selected the winner of the PRACE Best Poster Award at PRACEdays21 during the EuroHPC Summit Week 2021 Digital from 22 to 26 March. The winner is José Ricardo Correia, a PhD student in the group of Carlos Martins at …
From insideHPC
Intel Announces 5 CERN-Argonne oneAPI Challenge Winners
Intel has announced the winners of the Great Cross-Architecture Challenge, a collaboration with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Argonne National Laboratory, and run by CodeProject. Winner of a summer…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Potato Masher
A squid potato masher for only $11.50.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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From Schneier on Security
Hacking Weapons Systems
Lukasz Olejnik has a good essay on hacking weapons systems.
Basically, there is no reason to believe that software in weapons systems is any more vulnerability free than any other software. So now the question is whether the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Lip Reading Software for Messaging
Intriguing idea. An air gap indeed, but secure?
Lip-Reading Software Helps Users of All Abilities to Send Secure Messages
University of California News, Lorena Anderson, March 18, 2021
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu…From The Eponymous Pickle
Technology Will Create Many Jobs, Can we fill them?
The considerable challenge. Adaptable workers, processes and systems will be required.
Technology Will Create Millions of Jobs. The Problem Will Be to Find Workers to Fill Them
ZDNet, Daphne Leprince-Ringuet, March 19, 2021
Economic…From insideHPC
cPacket Networks Delivers 100Gbps Packet Capture and Analytics for Network Observability
SAN JOSE – cPacket Networks, a leading provider of intelligent observability for hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud networks, today announced a new addition to its cStor series packet capture appliances in support of the latest data…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Computing for Chemical Characteristics
An local example of the use of quantum simulation.
UC Chemists Use Supercomputers to Understand Solvents
University of Cincinnati News, Michael Miller, March 19, 2021
University of Cincinnati (UC) chemists Thomas Beck and Andrew…From The Eponymous Pickle
Enhancing Exoskeletons
Interesting approaches to add AI to exoskeletal robotics solutions. Broad applications?
Engineers Combine AI, Wearable Cameras in Self-Walking Robotic Exoskeletons
University of Waterloo News (Canada), March 15, 2021
Researchers…From Computational Complexity
The key to my Taylor series problem: Buddy can you spare a penny, nickel, dime, or quarter
In my last blog post I posed a question about finding the coeff of x^100 in a particular Taylor Series. The question and answer are given here:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Lookout for Metrics
This was just pointed out to me today 'Amazon Launches Lookout for Metrics in AWS '. As described this seems quite useful. Detecting anomalies can be done with AI style methods, here Machine Learning, which is a form ofAmazon…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Battlefield History Training and Simulation
Certainly not a new thing, saw and participated in such wargaming simulations as early as the late 70's with very advanced graphics. But was clearly not what we would call 'virtual reality' today, but what might be something…
From insideHPC
Aliro Quantum Partners with HQAN to Build Distributed Quantum Networks
BOSTON, March 24, 2021 – Aliro Quantum and the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Hybrid Quantum Architectures and Networks (HQAN) have joined forces in building the foundational technology for distributed quantum networks…
From insideHPC
Pure Storage: FlashBlade Nears $1B in Sales
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — March 25, 2021 — Today Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), which offers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, announced growth milestones to mark the five-year anniversary of FlashBlade. Unveiled in March…
From insideHPC
Amazon and Red Hat Announce GA of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS
SEATTLE and RALEIGH, N.C. — March 24, 2021 — Amazon Web Services, Inc (AWS) and Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Goods Simulation and Digital Twins
This article points out that simulation can be essential in dealing with the understanding of consumer goods. Even mentions the idea of 'digital twins' as a model design approach for simulations. Simulation was originallyMaking…
From insideHPC
AiDANT Picks Core Scientific for GPU-as-a-Service
BELLEVUE, Wash., March 25, 2021 – Core Scientific, an infrastructure and software solutions provider for artificial intelligence and blockchain, announced it will provide AiDANT, an AI computer vision technology company, full…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Coindesk Crypto Newsletter
New State of Crypto weekly newsletter, which covers both cryptocurrency and blockchain global usage, events, regulation and technology. From the Coindesk folks. Good scannable content. Link below to subscribe.
State of Crypto…From The Eponymous Pickle
Digital Clothes
Because the company I worked for is one of the largest manufacturer of detergents, we got lots of questions about the future of the design, use, manufacture and care of clothing. Got the feeling that none of this ever went…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Delivers World Record Performance
Supermicro's latest range of H12 Generation A+ Systems and Building Block Solutions®, optimized for AMD EPYC™ processors, offers new levels of application-optimized performance per watt and per dollar, delivering outstanding
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From insideHPC
Samsung: First HKMG-Based 512GB DDR5 Memory Targets Bandwidth-Intensive Applications
Samsung today announced it has expanded its DDR5 DRAM memory portfolio with what the company said is the first 512GB DDR5 module based on High-K Metal Gate (HKMG) process technology, designed to support next-gen computing systems…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor
When benchmarking software, we often start by measuring the time elapsed. If you are benchmarking data bandwidth or latency, it is right measure. However, if you are benchmarking computational tasks where you avoid disk andContinue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Advances for Reinforcement Learning
Very interesting, The very first para below does a good job of 'why' this could change RL methods, the rest of the article then carries on more technically. Supporting images are at the link . Is this a big deal? Humans…
From insideHPC
Continuous Integration: The Path to the Future for HPC
By Rob Farber on behalf of the Exascale Computing Project The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is investing heavily in software for the forthcoming exascale systems as can be seen in the many tools, libraries and software components…
From insideHPC
March 30: CHIPS Alliance and RISC-V International Invite the RISC-V Community to Update Unified Memory Architecture Standard
SAN FRANCISCO, March 24, 2020 – RISC-V International, a non-profit corporation controlled by its members to drive the adoption and implementation of the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA), and CHIPS Alliance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Successful AR Solutions for the Enterprise
Took some long hard looks at AR for the Enterprise, but with little success. Are we there yet? Here a good piece, with some directions.
How Augmented Reality Fits into AR IoT
Last year, we decided to add the German IoT company…From insideHPC
Meet the Frontier Exascale Supercomputer: How Big Is a Quintillion?
Are all comparisons so odious, really? Some can illuminate, some can awe. HPE-Cray has put out an infographic about its Frontier exascale supercomputer, the U.S.’s first, scheduled to be shipped to Oak Ridge National Laboratory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame.
A long list with images from the 60s to the present of consumer electronic devices that can be seen as forerunners of those we use today. And some we still use today. An inspirational list. Made me think of what to expect…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Curbing Traffic Accidents in Cities
Analysis of patterns from city images recommends changes to decrease accidents.
How AI Can Help Curb Traffic Accidents in Cities
By Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain), March 19, 2021
A research project at the Universitat…From insideHPC
Red Hat Announces Change Data Capture Capabilities for Streaming Applications with Integration Release
Red Hat has announced that the latest release of Red Hat Integration is available, designed for building out cloud-based, event-driven applications for varieties of streaming data and processing information as it’s created. Red…