Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2017
From insideHPC
Mark III Systems Becomes Cray Solutions Provider
Today Cray announced it has signed a solutions provider agreement with Mark III Systems to develop, market and sell solutions that leverage Cray’s portfolio of supercomputing and big data analytics systems. "We’re very excited…
From insideHPC
Video: HPC Trends for 2017
In this video from Switzerland HPC Conference, Michael Feldman from TOP500.org presents an annual deep dive into the trends, technologies and usage models that will be propelling the HPC community through 2017 and beyond. "Emerging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Assistants Control GE Air Conditioning
Another example of voice control being pushed to common home devices that need control. A simple example. Been testing the idea in our home
Don’t get up to turn on your AC unit from GE — just ask Alexa to do it instead By…
From insideHPC
Intel® HPC Orchestrator – Simplifying HPC
"Like OpenHPC on which it is based, Intel HPC Orchestrator is a middleware stack for HPC environments that sits on top of the base operating system and provides everything needed to run a variety of HPC applications from independent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Changes its Agreement with You
A look at how Microsoft is altering the Linkedin user agreement you are very likely to say OK to. Evan Schuman points out some of the risks. Linkedin is a place where you are likely to voluntarily offer lots of personal and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Team Stress Levels
In the enterprise saw much lip service given to this kind of issue, but few solutions other than cautions, here an attempt at measure. In the HBR:
An Early Warning System for Your Team’s Stress Level
Thomas Hellwig, Caroline…
From Schneier on Security
Analyzing Cyber Insurance Policies
There's a really interesting new paper analyzing over 100 different cyber insurance policies. From the abstract: In this research paper, we seek to answer fundamental questions concerning the current state of the cyber insurance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Augmented Reality
Israel and Scoble in a Podcast on the near future of Augmented and Virtual reality. Suggesting that Apple is about to push this strongly. Via my colleague Walter Riker.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Manufacturing Robotics with Watson
Interesting play, had never thought of Watson in terms of Robotics. Note the wide variety of things ABB manufactures, which could lead to efficiency considerations, regarding scheduling and supply chain interactions.
Watson could…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Oracle Wants Advanced Tech
Oracle looking to AI and VR initiatives.
Oracle Launches New In-House 'Startup'
The company wants to stay ahead of the tech game by working on new, cutting-edge initiatives.
By Julie Bort Business Insider ...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cheap not Deep Learning is the Future
Had not heard of the term 'cheap-learning' before, but have been thinking of the concept for a long time. Building higher levels of abstraction is a matter of better leverage. Only a few people need to know the low level math…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quickly pruning elements in SIMD vectors using the simdprune library
Modern processors have powerful vector instructions. However, some algorithms are tricky to implement using vector instructions. I often need to prune selected values from a vector. On x64 processors, we can achieve this result…
From Schneier on Security
Advances in Ad Blocking
Ad blockers represent the largest consumer boycott in human history. They're also an arms race between the blockers and the blocker blockers. This article discusses a new ad-blocking technology that represents another advance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Channels Process for Intelligence
This sounds remarkably like using/building a process model for given tasks. We experimented with this do define and decompose jobs-tasks. Like the idea that these exist and can be re-purposed to make things that look intelligent…
From insideHPC
Paula Stephan and Paul Morin to Keynote PEARC17 in New Orleans
Today the PEARC17 conference announced their lineup of keynote speakers. The conference takes place in July 9–13 in New Orleans.
The post Paula Stephan and Paul Morin to Keynote PEARC17 in New Orleans appeared first on insideHPC…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Home Tracks Health
Great thought, but its still a bit of an effort to set things up just to turn the lights on and off. Our own smart home demonstrations made it clear that most homes had to be wired and outfitted during construction to makein…
From insideHPC
Panel Discussion on Disruptive Technologies for HPC
In this video from the HPC User Forum, Bob Sorensen from Hyperion Research moderates a panel discussion on Disruptive Technologies for HPC. "A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network…
From XRDS
Top 3 Winning Articles of the “The Time is Write 2.0” Competition
Here are the three winners of our The Time is Write 2.0 competition! You can read the three articles below, but first: congrats to Dipika Rajesh, Aditi Balaji and Pratyush Singh. The Time is Write is an article writing competition…
From insideHPC
Echelon Code on Minksy Servers Sets Record for Oil & Gas Simulation
IBM and Stone Ridge Technology have announced a new performance milestone in reservoir simulation that will improve efficiency and lower the cost of production. Working with Nvidia, the companies reported that they had beat previous…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Announces New Council Members
The Computing Research Association (CRA), in consultation with the National Science Foundation (NSF), has appointed six new members to the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council: Nadya Bliss, Arizona State University Elizabeth…
From insideHPC
Your Workload Manager is Your Latest X Factor
Enterprise customers consistently demand improved performance from every component in their HPC infrastructure, including their workload manager. Ian Lumb, Solutions Architect at Univa Corp., speaks on the importance of an innovative…
From Schneier on Security
Faking Domain Names with Unicode Characters
It's things like this that make phishing attacks easier. News article....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Thoughts on Data Engineering
All analytics is data engineering. Manipulating data content in context to achieve useful results, using a proven process.
A Data Engineer's Guide To Non-Traditional Data Storage by Irina Papuc:
Data Engineering
With the rise…
From Computational Complexity
I was at the March for Science on Saturday
(Will blog on Harry Lewis's 70th Bday next week-- Today's post is more time sensitive.)
I was on the March for Science on April 22. Here are some Kolmogorov random comments
1) Why should I go to it? One less person there would…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Announces Watson Marketing Insights
Just announced, looked at this in beta form. IBM continues to apply Watson learning to different expertise domains, following retail applications. Likely to continue see such specialized applications in the future, a reasonable…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Which ML Algorithms to Use?
A somewhat unusual thing to see from SAS. In the SAS blog, a cheat sheet for using machine learning algorithms for the beginner. Largely non technical. Nicely done piece that worth linking to. See also many such cheat sheets…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Congressional Briefing on Cybersecurity for Manufacturers Recap
CCC Council Member Kevin Fu from the University of Michigan contributed to this post. On April 12th, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) and MForesight: Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight (MForesight), in conjunction…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Wants to Handle Your Subscription Replenishment
Pushing the subscription model used to be one of the biggest futurist conversations in CPG enterprise, I am sure the conversation continues. Assure your sales volume with quality product, and automatic replenishment. You can…
From insideHPC
Argonne Seeking Proposals to Advance Big Data in Science
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Data Science Program (ADSP) is now accepting proposals for projects hoping to gain insight into very large datasets produced by experimental, simulation, or observational methods. The…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Catches Up with the Exascale Computing Project
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a recent update on the Exascale Computing Project by Paul Messina. “The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) was established with the goals of maximizing the benefits of HPC for the…