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
Success Stories in Personalized Medicine
Universities and hospitals like TGen and NMTRC are seeing an entirely new reality in patient care leveraging HPC clusters. Here are some success stories on on advances in personalized medicine.
The post Success Stories in Personalized…From Schneier on Security
Metal Detectors at Sports Stadiums
Fans attending Major League Baseball games are being greeted in a new way this year: with metal detectors at the ballparks. Touted as a counterterrorism measure, they're nothing of the sort. They're pure security theater: They…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Supercomputing Synthetic Transporter Proteins
articleIn this podcast, Michael Grabe from the University of California - San Francisco describes how scientists designed completely from scratch a protein molecule that behaves like a slice of life.
The post Podcast: Supercomputing…From insideHPC
Video: There and Back Again – The Battle of Lustre at LANL
"A little over a year ago LANL’s HPC Division purchased and fielded our first general purpose InfiniBand-based Lustre parallel file system. This new Lustre deployment, being the first of several similar planned deployments, gave…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Segmentation
The Science of Segmentation: What Questions Should You Be Asking Your Data? Attended this webinar. Sponsored by Pivotal. As the webinar suggests, segmentation is an analytics need that most every company can use, and is an…
From Putting People First
The woes of a corporate anthropologist [Novel]
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Satin Island: A novel by Tom McCarthy Knopf, 2015 From the author of Remainder and C (short-listed for the Man Booker Prize), and a winner of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, comes Satin Island, an unnerving novel that …
From insideHPC
Video: Cray’s Storage History and Outlook – Lustre+
In this video from LUG 2015 in Denver, Jason Goodman from Cray presents: Cray’s Storage History and Outlook – Lustre+. "As a leader in open systems and parallel file systems, Cray builds on open source Lustre to unlock any industry…
From Schneier on Security
John Oliver Interviews Edward Snowden
Wow, what an amazing segment and interview....
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Why Would You Do That?
Students ask interesting questions. One of the more frequent questions they ask is “why would you do that?” Often it comes, not because you didn’t already explain why one would do something, but because the answer doesn’t really…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger and Omnichannel Balance
Feedback in general is always a key interest, it can exist at many levels and sources. It still remains difficult thing to combine different levels of feedback. This is becoming more interesting as social data is integrated…
From Computational Complexity
Baseball is More Than Data
As baseball starts its second week, lets reflect a bit on how data analytics has changed the game. Not just the Moneyball phenomenon of ranking players but also the extensive use of defensive shifts (repositioning the infielders…
From insideHPC
Learn HPC Cluster Administration at LCI workshop
Early bird registration rates end soon for the LCI workshop in Oklahoma. If you are a Linux system administrator new to HPC, this is the workshop for you!
The post Learn HPC Cluster Administration at LCI workshop appeared first…From Computer Science Teachers Association
Computer Science in Other Disciplines
Many people argue against the teaching of Computer Science by saying that we shouldn’t create a bunch of programmers/computer scientists. I find this argument frustrating because we still teach Math, English, and even Biology…
From insideHPC
Video: SDSC’s Data Oasis Gen II: ZFS, 40GbE, and Replication
"The second generation of SDSC’s Data Oasis Lustre storage is coming online to support Comet, a new XSEDE cluster targeted at the long tail of science. The servers have been designed with Lustre on ZFS in mind, and also update…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet of Things Security
Security writer Bruce Schneier on problems with IOT security. " ... Security expert Bruce Schneier has looked at and written about difficulties the Internet of Things presents -- such as the fact that the “things” are by and…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 13
April 14 Markup: The House Homeland Security Committee will markup legislation. Scheduled for this session is H.R. 1731, The National Cybersecurity Protection Advancement Act of 2015. 11 a.m., 311 Cannon Office Building Hearing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowbucks
Bought to my attention: Crowdbucks." ... CrowdBucks is intended to help bring about meaningful change to our failing monetary and financial systems. ... From helping communities to develop and integrate flexible "digital currencies"…
From insideHPC
OCF Deploys Lenovo Arcus Cluster at University of Oxford
Today the University of Oxford unveiled its new Arcus Phase B cluster. Integrated by OCF in the UK, the 5000 core Lenovo cluster will support research across all four Divisions at the University; Mathematical, Physical and Life…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Data Science Resources
Quite a long list in DataScience Central.. Yes, its all too much to deal with. But as one who both ingest this and adds to the talk, here is some more. Imagine that before the Internet getting half of this would have taken…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Magnetic Brain Stimulation
From MIT: "... Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magnetic nanoparticles — a technique allowing direct stimulation of neurons, which could be an effective…
From Schneier on Security
Two Thoughtful Essays on the Future of Privacy
Paul Krugman argues that we'll give up our privacy because we want to emulate the rich, who are surrounded by servants who know everything about them: Consider the Varian rule, which says that you can forecast the future by looking…
From insideHPC
Video: OpenSFS Update
In this video from LUG 2015, Charlie Carroll from Cray presents an OpenSFS update.
The post Video: OpenSFS Update appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung's Gear, VR in Business
CW on Samsung Gear: A Virtual reality Solution that has been around for some time. For games, yes ... now what are the clear business applications lined up for driving decision driven Apps? Have not seen a live demonstration…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Washington News – Alerts and Updates
* ACM named Michael Stonebraker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recipient of the 2014 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems. *…
From insideHPC
Interview: Software Defined Storage for Bridging HPC and Big Data Analytics
Recently, insideHPC featured an interview with IBM's Jay Muelhoefer on the topic of software defined infrastructure. To learn more about the storage sign of that coin, we caught up with Jim Gutowski and Scott Fadden from IBM.
…From insideHPC
Final SC15 Technical Papers due Friday, April 17
Full paper submissions for SC15 Technical Papers are due by Friday, April 17.
The post Final SC15 Technical Papers due Friday, April 17 appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre Development Update from LUG 2015
Lustre Development Update
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From insideHPC
Hurry! Enter SC15 Student Cluster Competition by April 17
The clock is ticking down for teams to submit their applications for the SC15 Student Cluster Competition. The deadline to apply for a spot in this year’s competition is Friday, April 17.
The post Hurry! Enter SC15 Student Cluster…From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Data Mining Books and Distinction Advice
From Data On Focus. A list of links for free data resources. Nicely done. No excuse these days for not getting lots of information on the subject. Likely lots of variance in value and need for preparatory information. Is…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rapid Changes in Programming Languages
Via the ACM: Encountered this during several interactions about what coding methods are being used and taught today in University. Includes statistics about how people are learning new coding methods. Self taught is becoming…