Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2022
From insideHPC
Quantum: Rigetti Announces Nasdaq SPAC
In what may be another indication of quantum viability, for the second time in less than a month, a quantum computing company has gone public. Hybrid quantum-classical computing startup Rigetti Computing (Nasdaq: RGTI) and special…
From CERIAS Blog
It’s been 30 years—time to celebrate!
Prolog
In 1975, the illustrious Dorothy Denning received her Ph.D. from Purdue’s CS Department. Thereafter, she became an assistant professor, and then associate professor in 1981. Her most notable advisee was Matt Bishop,…From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Reports Record Annual Revenue
Calgary, Alberta. March 2, 2022 – CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable direct liquid cooling technology (DLC) for desktops and data centers, is reporting a record-breaking 2021. CoolIT’s progress in 2021 was led by their data center…
From insideHPC
Black Engineer Awards Distinguish Sandia Labs
ALBUQUERQUE — Ten Sandia National Laboratories engineers received Black Engineer of the Year Awards this year, including Most Promising Scientist in Government, Research Leadership, Science Spectrum Trailblazers and Modern-Day…
From insideHPC
SiPearl Selects Ansys’ Power Signoff Solution for European Supercomputer Chip
March 01, 2022 — SiPearl today said the Ansys multiphysics platform has been selected by SiPearl, Europe’s exascale supercomputer chip project for development of its high performance computing (HPC) microprocessor family as part…
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Issues Final Assessment on PathForward Program for U.S. Industry
The PathForward element of Exascale Computing Project, established to prepare the US industry for exascale system procurements and generally improve US competitiveness in the worldwide computing market. The report is available…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Data Science
Long, insightful piece, good insights, somewhat technical, but useful. A favorite topic we experimented with since very early days.
Home/Magazine Archive/March 2022 (Vol. 65, No. 3)/Automating Data Science/Full Text
By Tijl…From insideHPC
Kao Data Expands Harlow Campus with 10MW Data Center
London, 1st March 2022 – Kao Data, the operator of high-performance data centers for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, today announced the expansion of its Harlow data center campus, with construction underway on its second 10MW…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Adversarial Collaboration
In the Edge:
Adversarial Collaboration: In the Edge
Intro below. worth reading. Ultimately robotics and AI need to be able to do this. - FAD
[EDITOR'S NOTE: In marking this year's 25th anniversary of Edge, we are presenting original…From The Eponymous Pickle
Defeating Ransomware
Still booming, some general thoughts on protection.
Three Ways to Defeat Ransomware, By Jeff Orloff on March 01, 2022 in SecurityWeek
Ransomware is very difficult to stop, mostly because the attackers are adept at locking up a…From insideHPC
NSF: Goodbye XSEDE, Hello ACCESS
The National Science Foundation today issued a statement about the ending of the XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) project this coming August 31, giving way to Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating 3D cells
Simulating cell behavior with Nvidia GPUs
Researchers Simulate Behavior of Living 'Minimal Cell' in Three Dimensions
University of Illinois News Bureau, Diana Yates, January 20, 2022
Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana…From insideHPC
CEA and Spectronite Develop Software Radio for Spectrally Efficient Backhaul 5G Solutions
GRENOBLE and SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France – March 1, 2022 – CEA, a French R&D organization, and Spectronite, a developer wireless backhaul technology, today announced they have adapted CEA-Leti’s spectrally efficient waveform with…
From insideHPC
Quantum Corp. Announces Hyperscale Tape Storage System
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 1, 2022 — Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) today announced the availability of a new tape storage system designed for hyperscale archive environments, the Scalar i6H. The Scalar i6H is a modular tape…
From insideHPC
WEKA Appoints Nilesh Patel as Chief Product Officer
CAMPBELL, Calif., March 1, 2022 – Data platform for AI company WEKA today announced that Nilesh Patel has joined as its first Chief Product Officer. Reporting to CEO and co-founder Liran Zvibel, Patel will be responsible for developing…
From insideHPC
OmniSci Rebrands as HEAVY.AI
SAN FRANCISCO – March 1, 2022 – Advanced analytics company OmniSci announced its rebrand to HEAVY.AI with the intent of helping enterprises face a new era of challenges in leveraging their big location and time data to visualize…