Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2015
From insideHPC
Video: Cray’s Peg Williams on How Supercomputing Propels Science
In this video, Peg Williams from Cray describes how Supercomputing propels science.
The post Video: Cray’s Peg Williams on How Supercomputing Propels Science appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Automated Analytics
In CW: The idea has long been considered, now many vendors are emerging. Here more add ons to Excel.
From XRDS
CHI day 4 aka the end!
The last day of CHI in Seoul left everyone with that bittersweet taste of ending mixed with nostalgia and, was still a great day to see great research! For me, the day started off with Augmented & Virtual Reality in …Continue…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Timing and Decision Making
Its not only the decision, its about its timing. Brought to mind how decisions and their timing are linked with data. Data that is available, that which is forecast,and that which we can acquire on demand or at cost. The…
From Schneier on Security
Federal Trade Commissioner Julie Brill on Obscurity
I think this is good: Obscurity means that personal information isn't readily available to just anyone. It doesn't mean that information is wiped out or even locked up; rather, it means that some combination of factors makes…
From The Eponymous Pickle
MindMeld and Documents
Voice Drive content discovery from MindMeld. " .... You can index documents by crawling a website or by using our API -- and we’ve just open-sourced a new way to post documents to the MindMeld API! Using our new Node.js poster…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Insight from Innovation
Interesting piece that pulls together data about the insight achieved from innovation. An area we also researched, looking at the path from ideas to actionable insight.
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
More With TouchDevelop
The more I use TouchDevelop the more I learn about it. The more I learn about it the more I want to use it. For example, groups. I’ve known about groups for a while. I’ve played with them a bit on my own in the past. Today I…
From insideHPC
Steve Oberlin on How NVLink will Power Coral Supercomputers
NVlink will be the backbone of 150 Petaflop Coral supercomputers coming to ORNL and LLNL. As the world’s first high-speed GPU interconnect, NVLink will let data move between GPUs and CPUs 5-12 times faster than possible today…
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for XSEDE15 Conference in St. Louis
Registration is now open for the 4th annual XSEDE15 conference. The event takes place July 16-20 in St. Louis.
The post Registration Opens for XSEDE15 Conference in St. Louis appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Deploying Hadoop on Lustre Storage: Lessons Learned and Best Practices
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, J.Mario Gallegos from Dell presents: Deploying Hadoop on Lustre Storage: Lessons Learned and Best Practices. "Merging of strengths of both technologies to solve big data problems permits…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Connecting RFID Readers to Smartphones
In RFID Journal: Not quite the same thing as integrating RFID reading directly from within a smartphone, but clever integration. Good sensor idea. Applications in retail and many inventory control areas. Connecting it to"…
From Schneier on Security
The Further Democratization of QUANTUM
From Data and Goliath: ...when I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose was QUANTUM. This is the NSA's program for what is called packet…
From insideHPC
PSC Brings Big Bandwidth to Eight Pennsylvania Schools
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center is using Comcast Business Ethernet for secure, private network connections to eight associated colleges.
The post PSC Brings Big Bandwidth to Eight Pennsylvania Schools appeared first on insideHPC…From Computational Complexity
Fifty Years of Moore's Law
Gordon Moore formulated his famous law in a paper dated fifty years and five days ago. We all have seen how Moore's law has changed real-world computing, but how does it relate to computational complexity? In complexity we typically…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC User Services Analyst at LSU
Louisiana State University is seeking an HPC User Services Analyst in our Job of the Week.
The post Job of the Week: HPC User Services Analyst at LSU appeared first on insideHPC.
From CERIAS Blog
Initial Thoughts on the RSA 2015 Conference
One again I have submitted myself to a week of talks, exhibits, walking, meetings, drinking, meetings, and more with 40,000 close associates (with one more day of it tomorrow). It’s the annual RSA conference in San Francisco.…
From CERIAS Blog
Initial Thoughts on the RSA 2015 Conference
One again I have submitted myself to a week of talks, exhibits, walking, meetings, drinking, meetings, and more with 40,000 close associates (with one more day of it tomorrow). It’s the annual RSA conference in San Francisco.…
From CERIAS Blog
Initial Thoughts on the RSA 2015 Conference
One again I have submitted myself to a week of talks, exhibits, walking, meetings, drinking, meetings, and more with 40,000 close associates (with one more day of it tomorrow). It’s the annual RSA conference in San Francisco.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM and Design Thinking
Fascinating piece on design at IBM. Have never thought of them as design oriented. More marketing oriented, like my previous enterprise. Is that changing? Be careful too, what expertise you hire as design. Technical…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Compute Stick
Another example of a device that can be connected to an HDMI port of a big screen TV to turn it into a Windows 8.1 computer for about $150. Connects to Internet with Wifi. You likely also need a mouse and a keyboard. Nice…
From insideHPC
SGI Powers Earthquake Research in Japan
Today SGI announced that the Earthquake and Volcano Information Center of the Earthquake Research Institute (ERI) at the University of Tokyo, has deployed a large-scale parallel computing solution from SGI for leading-edge seismological…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Human in the Loop Planning
Attended excellent CSig talk today by Subbarao Kambhampati and Kartik Talamadupula of ASU and IBM Watson on Human-in-the-Loop Planning and Decision Support.Human in the Loop Planning (HILP) is a classic example of studying how…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machines and the Connected Supply Chain
A long time goal is getting closer. In SupplyDemandChain: " ... Machines Are Finally Earning their Way in the Connected Supply Chain .... ". Lots of new opportunities for analytics.
From insideHPC
Accelerating the Piz Daint Supercomputer with Allinea
Today Allinea Software released details on partnership that is helping scientists in research and industry to exploit Piz Daint - Europe's most powerful supercomputer.
The post Accelerating the Piz Daint Supercomputer with Allinea…From insideHPC
AutoTune – Automated Optimization and Tuning
AutoTune is a European Commission (EC) funded FP7 research project comprised of an international consortium of scientific institutions and industrial partners coordinated by Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany. It started…
From insideHPC
PRACE Celebrates Fifth Anniversary
Today the PRACE Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe celebrated its fifth anniversary. In the past five years, PRACE has come a long way, growing from a project-based consortium into a fully-fledged international association…
From insideHPC
Univa Rolls Out Universal Resource Broker
Today Univa announced the Universal Resource Broker, an enterprise-class workload optimization solution for high performance, containerized and shared data centers.
The post Univa Rolls Out Universal Resource Broker appearedinsideHPC…From insideHPC
Dell’s GDAP Delivers an Integrated Genomic Processing Infrastructure
Dell has teamed with Intel to create innovative solutions that can accelerate the research, diagnosis and treatment of diseases through personalized medicine. The combination of leading-edge CPUs from Intel and the systems and…
From Schneier on Security
An Incredibly Insecure Voting Machine
Wow: The weak passwords -- which are hard-coded and can't be changed -- were only one item on a long list of critical defects uncovered by the review. The Wi-Fi network the machines use is encrypted with wired equivalent privacy…