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
Pure Storage Brings Its Block Storage to Microsoft Azure
Mountain View, Calif. – March 16, 2021 — Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), which offers storage as-a-service for multicloud environments, announced the general availability of Pure Cloud Block Store on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. With…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Walgreens Automates Vaccine Scheduling with AI Bot
Interesting example here of integrating basic interactions and more complex data based decisions.
Walgreens automates COVID-19 vaccine scheduling By Dan Berthiaume - 03/10/2021 in Chainstorage
Walgreens is extending access…From insideHPC
Micron Updates Memory and Storage Strategy – Commits to CXL, Ends Development of 3D XPoint
BOISE, Idaho, March 16, 2021 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced updates to the company’s portfolio strategy to focus on memory and storage for the data center. Micron will increase investment in new memory…
From insideHPC
Clacc – Open Source OpenACC Compiler and Source Code Translation Project
By Rob Farber, contributing writer for the Exascale Computing Project Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP) PROTEAS-TUNE project to develop production OpenACC compiler…
From insideHPC
Sandia’s Open-access Quantum Computer Is Operational, Available to Scientists
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A new Department of Energy open-access quantum computing testbed is ready for the public. Scientists from Indiana University recently became the first team to begin using Sandia National Laboratories’ Quantum…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Accountable Algorithms, Use and Misuse
Useful nontechnical piece, some good thoughtful graphics. Yes a clear and increasing issue that needs to be regulated. But it is not true that such systems and their developers are not considering accountability. Been the…
From insideHPC
Los Alamos Teams with Fungible for Processing Offloading to Network and Storage for Complex Simulations
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) and Fungible Inc., a data-centric computing company, today announced a collaboration targeting complex physical simulation problems. The collaboration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Contact Tracking Failing
I have read in other places it is not only a failure in the US. Is it merely a measure of trust? Having enough people buy into the capability, without clear direct indication of value to the user. Could it have used a game…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Makes a TV Stick
Interesting choice. To control and tailor some of the ads and resulting data? Certainly a possibility.
Walmart is making an Android TV stick under its Onn brand By S. Shah @eightiethmnt in Engadget
The basic dongle features…From insideHPC
10 Research Projects Granted Access to Pawsey Centre for Extreme Scale Readiness Program
Perth, Australia – March 16, 2021 – Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, the Tier1 supercomputing research facility located in Perth, Western Australia, is establishing the first Australia’s research platform for extreme scale computing…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Launches Edge-to-Cloud Solutions with AMD EPYC 7003 CPUs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC – March 16, 2021 – Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) Data Center Group (DCG) announced ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions to support edge-to-cloud computing…
From insideHPC
Immersion Cooling Data Center Provider Asperitas Names Andy Young CTO
Amsterdam – March 16, 2021 – Immersion cooling specialist Asperitas has promoted Andy Young to CTO. He previously was director of research and development and after earlier positions at Ansys and Iceotope. “I am thrilled to have…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Stefanie Tompkins Appointed 23rd DARPA Director
The Biden administration today appointed Stefanie Tompkins to run the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its 23rd Director. DARPA is a $3.5 billion a year research and development agency of the United States…
From insideHPC
Nominations Open for ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowships for Diversity in Data and Computational Science
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (ACM SIGHPC) has created the Computational and Data Science Fellowships, a continuation of the program started with Intel to increase…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Live Streaming by Retailers
Getting attention on the Web via immediate and continuous retail content. Removing our attention from the Pandemic. How long can we take it?
Livestreaming, Still Niche, Grows as a Tool for Retailers
By The New York Times…From insideHPC
TYAN Offers AMD EPYC 7003 Processor Powered Systems
Newark, Calif. – March 15, 2021 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation subsidiary, today introduced AMD EPYC 7003 Series Processor-based server platforms featuring efficiency…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scanning License Plates
The capability is well know, but the ability to save and 'mine' large libraries of the data makes some concerned.
License-Plate Scans Aid Crime-Solving But Spur Little Privacy Debate By The Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2021…From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Celebrating Technology Leaders – Women in Robotics
Wednesday, March 31st at 3:00 PM ET/12:00 PM PT, a panel discussion featuring Laura Stelzner(Principal Robotics Software Engineer, RIOS Corporation), Sarah Gibson, Ph.D. (Senior Engineering Manager Robotics, Unity Technologies)…
From BLOG@CACM
AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education?
Applications of artificial intelligence to education are spreading and intensifying, but we have the acronym backwards. Building ethical, equitable applications in education will require emphasizing intelligence augmentation …
From Schneier on Security
Illegal Content and the Blockchain
Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command-and-control server. With nowhere to go for instructions, the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Game Theory Modeling Vaccine Rollout
Excerpt, Found Game Theory to be useful, as the article suggests, when you are modeling problems that include potentially competing and cooperative players. Most difficult were establishing varying payoffs. Full article…
From insideHPC
GIGABYTE Launches 1st Wave of Servers for AMD EPYC 7003 Series Processors
Taipei, Taiwan, March 16th 2021 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), a maker of high-performance servers and workstations, today announced over 40 servers and server motherboards ready for the new AMD EPYC 7003 Series processors…
From insideHPC
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Unveils Portfolio of AMD EPYC-based Solutions
HOUSTON – March 15, 2021 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced what the company said is record-breaking performance on a wide range of demanding workloads, surpassing competitors by up to 39 percent with its…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mechanism has been solved, again.
This has been announced many times, a long time interest.
Scientists May Have Solved Ancient Mystery of 'First Computer' By The Guardian (U.K.) March 15, 2021
From the moment it was discovered more than a century ago, scholars…From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Zero Indexing Considered Harmful
As the old computer geek joke goes. the three hardest things in programming are naming things and off by one errors. Lately I have been thinking about off by one errors and wondering if having array and similar indexes startI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech Firms Train Voice Assistants to Understand Atypical Speech
Summary piece on the topic. Fundamental aspect of accessibility, good to see that many of the big players are examining. Recall our own enterprise effort quickly ran into this.
Tech Firms Train Voice Assistants to Understand…From The Eponymous Pickle
File Integrity Monitoring
Certainly an element of security and a means of detecting anomalous behavior that pints to a threat.
How FIM Is More Than Just About Maintaining Compliance
Tripwire Guest Authors
The purpose of every security team is to provideSome…From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Gamification Example
Intriguing example, where can gamification work in supply chain? Our own efforts in the space were often not taken seriously?
Amazon expands gamification program that encourages warehouse employees to work harder
The program…From insideHPC
AMD Launches ‘Milan’ EPYC Series, Upping Price/Performance Ante for HPC, Data Center CPUs
Striving to continue on its path back to HPC and data center processor market prominence, AMD this morning introduced a new series of EPYC “Milan” CPUs that industry analysts and customers say looks to be a price/performance
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From insideHPC
Ambiq and AP Memory Partner for Intelligent Endpoints
TAIPEI, March 15, 2021 — Ambiq, maker of ultra-low power microcontrollers (MCU), System-on-Chips (SoC), and Real-time Clocks (RTC), together with AP Memory Technology Corporation (AP Memory, TWSE: 6531), the world’s leading supplier…