Communications of the ACM
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March 2022
From The Eponymous Pickle
State of AI Graphs
Some graphical lnsight on AI and its direction.
ACM NEWS
12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2022, Summary of Stanford HAI report ,
By IEEE Spectrum, March 24, 2022
Every year, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered…From The Eponymous Pickle
Towards Robot Trucking
A move to better supply chains? Competing with Rail?
Robot Truckers Could Replace 500K U.S. Jobs
By Bloomberg Quint, March 24, 2022
Autonomous driving engineers are developing driverless trucks for long-haul freight that runs…From The Eponymous Pickle
Sonification of Data, Down Here and High Above
We experimented with using a data sonification which represented sales results and breakthough types of cases. Below is not the same thing, but I always fondly think of the use of sound, properly designed, can give incentive…
From insideHPC
Classiq Collaborates With NVIDIA on Quantum
TEL AVIV, Israel — Classiq, provider of a platform for creating quantum software, today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to bring large-scale quantum circuits to customers. Now, businesses and other organizations can prepare…
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for ALCF HPC Computational Performance Workshop: May 24-26
March 24, 2022 — Registration is now open for the virtual ALCF Computational Performance Workshop, May 24-26, 2022, an opportunity to work with staff and industry experts to achieve computational readiness on ALCF computing resources…
From insideHPC
ORNL and UChicago Launch Workflows Community Platform
A volunteer team of researchers led by Rafael Ferreira da Silva of the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Kyle Chard of the University of Chicago (UChicago) has launched the Workflows Community…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Acquires MGM
News to me, would seem to lead to less creativity.
MGM’s Amazon Era Begins With Big, Unanswered Questions by Alex Weprin
As the $8.5 billion deal closes, insiders debate how autonomous MGM operations may be, how quickly Amazon…From insideHPC
Quantum: CEA and C12 Partner for Multi-Qubits at Wafer Scale
GRENOBLE & PARIS – March 24, 2022 – CEA, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, and C12 Quantum Electronics, a startup developing quantum computers using carbon nanotubes, today announced a partnership…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Maintaining Neural Networks
Models will degrade, how do you maintain them?
Researchers Discover How to Predict Degradation of Neural Network
DiariDigital URV Activ@, February 16, 2022
Researchers at Spain's Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) have identified…From insideHPC
Solving AI Cluster Design Challenges with a Building Block Approach
[SPONSORED POST] When considering a large complex system, such as an AI cluster, supercomputer, or compute cluster, you may think you only have two options—build from scratch from the ground up, or buy a pre-configured, supercomputer…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research: 2021 HPC Market Growth Up 13.8% Over Previous Year
HPC industry analyst firm Hyperion Research today announced overall spending for HPC grew from $30.6 billion (USD) in 2020 to $34.8 billion (USD) in 2021, counting both on-premises and cloud spending, an increase of 13.8 percent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Russian Drones Emerge
No claims made for Russian drone use and integrated AI capabilities. Currently reading Henry Kissinger et al's 2021 book: "The Age of AI and Our Human Future". which talks AI and military applications, and how it fitsRussia's…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Dan Reed on the Challenges to U.S. Global Supercomputing Competitiveness
In a recently published paper, "Reinventing High Performance Computing: Challenges and Opportunities," three HPC luminaries have started an important discussion about the future of HPC and its impact on American competitiveness…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is a Warp Drive Possible?
Possible? Outrageous? Or does the science say we can exceed the speed of light if we just don't accelerate though it from a speed below it?
Warp Drive News. Seriously! By Sabine Hossenfelder, 441K subscribers
You can help…From The Eponymous Pickle
MITR Examines Attack Threat Techniques
In the past worked with Mitre corp to support US Defense systems, here they offer a white paper on threat detection and related practical use cases.
Using MITRE ATT&CK™ Techniques in Threat Hunting and Detection
A Preface to…From The Eponymous Pickle
What Northrop Grumman is Doing with Quantum Tech
What Northrop is doing in the space:
Disruptive Concepts and Technologies: Quantum Technology By Kelly McSweeney (intro below)
Second wave of quantum technology is on the way. Quantum mechanics was discovered a century ago,Until…From BLOG@CACM
How Scripting Misses the Mark
Scripting languages promise easy automation but prove difficult to learn. Let's stop focusing on simplified syntax and instead focus on understandability and learnability.
From insideHPC
Alphabet Spinoff: AI and Quantum Startup Sandbox Launches
Palo Alto, CA, March 22, 2022 – Sandbox AQ, an enterprise SaaS company delivering solutions that leverage quantum tech and AI, officially launched today and announced its investors, board chair, partners, advisors and initial…
From insideHPC
Khronos Calls for Participation in SYCL Safety-Critical Exploratory API Forum
Beaverton, OR – March 23, 2022 6 AM PT – Today, The Khronos Group, an open consortium of companies creating advanced acceleration interoperability standards, has announced a call for participation in a new exploratory forum to…
From insideHPC
HPC Open Source Container Company Sylabs Appoints Adam Hughes CTO
Reno, NV – March 23, 2022 – Sylabs, the global leader in providing tools and services for performance-intensive container runtime technology, today announced that it has appointed Adam Hughes to the position of Chief Technology…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Announces Universal GPU System – Supports CPU, GPU and Fabric Architectures
San Jose – Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), an enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology company, has announced a revolutionary technology that simplifies large scale GPU deployments…
From insideHPC
Agnostiq Releases Quantum Hardware Benchmarks — ‘Heading in the Right Direction’
TORONTO, March 22, 2022 — Agnostiq, Inc., the quantum computing SaaS startup, today announced its latest benchmark research which analyzed the state of quantum computing hardware to determine its current and future practicality…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Helps Power NVIDIA’s Data-Center-Scale Omniverse Computing System for Industrial Digital Twins
March 22, 2022 – RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Today, at NVIDIA GTC, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) announced its extended work with NVIDIA to deliver industry 3D simulation and design collaboration capabilities by providing…
From BLOG@CACM
The Mesm: Ukraine Beats Russia
The Mesm is considered the first stored program digital computer in Continental Europe.
From insideHPC
Nova Southeastern Univ. Wins $1.94M In National Defense Authorization Act Community Projects
Fort Lauderdale, FL — March 22, 2022 — Nova Southeastern University (NSU) has been awarded $1.94 million in National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Community Projects Funding (CPF), as requested by Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Teradata Tests it Cloud
Have no theard from this direction of late.
Teradata Puts New Cloud Architecture to the 1,000-Node Test By Alex Woodie
Teradata says the recent 1,000-node test that it ran on AWS not only shows the scale that its new cloud architecture…From Universal Acceptance Steering Group
UA Insights from ICANN73: Measuring UA Progress and Celebrating New Collaborations
By Dr. Ajay Data, UASG Chair During the ICANN73 Virtual Community Forum (7-10 March) and Prep Week (22–24 February), the global Internet community came together for two Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) sessions that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
TopQuadrant: Data Fabric Management Webinar
Had to miss this one, of particular interest, worked with TopQuadrant :
... Sorry that you were not able to attend our recent webinar: " How Metadata Management Must Evolve to Support Data Fabric".
The recording and slides from…From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces DGX H100 ‘AI Infrastructure’ Systems
San Jose, March 22, 2022 — NVIDIA today announced the fourth-generation NVIDIA DGX system, which the company said is the first AI platform to be built with its new H100 Tensor Core GPUs. DGX H100 systems deliver the scale demanded…
From insideHPC
DDN at GTC Says Storage Appliance Doubles NVIDIA DGX Performance
CHATSWORTH, Calif. – March 22, 2022 – AI and multi-cloud data management company DDN today announced flash and hybrid data platforms for NVIDIA DGX POD and DGX SuperPOD AI, analytics and deep learning computing infrastructure…