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
Avere Powers Active Archive Object Storage at University of Warsaw
"One of the challenges we face in enabling big data science is providing safe and affordable storage at petabyte scale,” said Dr. Marek Michalewicz, deputy director of ICM. “When the Avere and Western Digital team arrived, we…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Software Developer for Exascale at General Atomics
General Atomics in San Diego is seeking a Software Developer for Exascale Computing at General Atomics in our Job of the Week. "This position independently leads the design, development and verification of novel scientific software…
From insideHPC
Call for Proposals: LAD’17 in Paris
The LAD'17 Lustre Administrators and Developers Conference has issued their Call for Proposals. The event takes place Oct. 3-4 in Paris. "We are inviting community members to send proposals for presentations at this event. No…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Drawing for Everyone
This is always something I wanted, something that turned me into a graphic artist. A Clever AI experiment by Google:
Fast Drawing for Everyone
Dan Motzenbecker, Creative Technolohist, Google Creative Lab
From The Eponymous Pickle
Infographics and Data Science Visual Resources
DSC does its usually good job of pulling together lots of interesting visual resources. " ... They come in various shapes: infographics, cheat sheets, periodic tables, one-picture articles, and even maps. They cover everything…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic License Plates for Drones
In IEEE Spectrum
Electronic License Plates for Drones
In late 2015, mandatory drone registration went into effect in the United States. Since then, anyone who wants to fly a drone (or model aircraft) weighing over 0.55 pounds (0…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH TALK- The Jekyll and Hyde of Smart Contracts
The next WATCH talk, called The Jekyll and Hyde of Smart Contracts is Thursday, April 20th, from 12 – 1 PM ET. The presenter is Ari Juels, a Professor of Computer Science at the Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech in New York City…
From insideHPC
Eni in Italy fires up 5.8 Petaflop HPC3 Cluster for Oil & Gas
During the first week of April, Eni fired up its new HPC cluster in the Green Data Center in Ferrera Erbognone, Italy. Known as HPC3, the new 5.8 Petaflop cluster will allow Eni to fully support all the activities in the Energy…
From insideHPC
High-Performance and Scalable Designs of Programming Models for Exascale Systems
"This talk will focus on challenges in designing programming models and runtime environments for Exascale systems with millions of processors and accelerators to support various programming models. We will focus on MPI+X (PGAS…
From insideHPC
DDN Adds Cost-Effective Data Protection to WOS Object Storage
Today DDN announced new feature enhancements to its WOS object storage platform that include increased data protection and multi-site connectivity options. With its newest capabilities, DDN WOS provides the lowest data protection…
From insideHPC
Next-Generation Sequencing Improving Precision Medicine
Genomic sequencing has progressed so rapidly that researchers can now analyze the genetic profiles of healthy individuals to uncover mutations that will almost certainly lead to a genetic condition. These breakthroughs are demonstrating…
From Schneier on Security
New Destructive Malware Bricks IoT Devices
There's a new malware called BrickerBot that permanently disables vulnerable IoT devices by corrupting their storage capability and reconfiguring kernel parameters. Right now, it targets devices with open Telnet ports, but we…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CPG Companies and Data Assets
Good to see this push, complex and deep data assets point towards the need for better analytics. The idea of data as an asset has been much mentioned here, and experimented with. See the Data Assets tag below.
Playing catch-up…
From insideHPC
Tesla P100 GPUs Speed Cloud-Based Deep Learning on the Nimbix Cloud
"Nimbix has tremendous experience in GPU cloud computing, going all the way back to NVIDIA’s Fermi architecture,” said Steve Hebert, CEO of Nimbix. “We are looking forward to accelerating deep learning and analytics applications…
From Putting People First
[Book] Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design
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Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design By Jeff Johnson and Kate Finn Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, March 2017 258 pages > First chapter Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Assistant Competitors to Alexa
Rumors out about assistant oriented competitors to Amazon Echo. The latest being a collaboration between Harman-Kardon and Microsoft. In Neowin: " .. .Harman Kardon is working on a Cortana-powered speaker for a 2017 release…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saving Shopping Malls by Tracking?
We looked to this kind of tracking for better personalization, but not much has happened in the last decade.
Will customer tracking help save shopping malls? by Matthew Stern In Retailwire:
With shopping malls not performing…
From Computational Complexity
What is William Rowan Hamilton know for- for us? for everyone else?
I found the song William Rowan Hamilton that I used in my April fools day post because I was working on a song about Hamiltonian Circuits to the tune of Alexander Hamilton
Circuit Hamiltonian
I want a Circuit Hamiltonian
And…
From Schneier on Security
Fourth WikiLeaks CIA Attack Tool Dump
WikiLeaks is obviously playing their Top Secret CIA data cache for as much press as they can, leaking the documents a little at a time. On Friday they published their fourth set of documents from what they call "Vault 7": 27…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Captioning Images with Tensorflow
Below, Nicely done and instructive piece on captioning using neural methods. Captioning as a means of multi tagging of images. Now this we could have used when captioning copy images and documents for retrieval, analysisIn…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Removing duplicates from lists quickly
Suppose you have lists of numbers where some values are repeated (e.g., 1,1,2,3,3,3,4). You want these duplicates to be removed (e.g., 1,2,3,4). To avoid potentially expensive memory allocations, we want to solve the problemContinue…
From insideHPC
Video: Advancing Open Fabrics Interfaces
Sean Hefty from Intel presented this talk at the OpenFabrics Workshop. "With its initial release two years ago, libfabric advanced the state of fabric software interfaces. One of the promises of OFI was extensibility: adapting…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Congressional Briefing on Cyber Security for Manufacturers
The Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight (MForesight) and the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), in conjunction with the House Manufacturing Caucus, are hosting a Congressional Briefing on Cyber Security for Manufacturers…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Science Encyclopedia
Data Science Central continues to publish a free online data science and machine learning encyclopedia. Now with over 4000 entries. Worth a look. Also, they point to their 'Hitchhikers Guide' of simplified introductions to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Addressing Brand Trust
In Chiefmarketer: Increasing examples of eroding brand trust, good ideas about addressing the problem:
How to use Influencers to Improve Erording brand trust
Posted on April 10, 2017 by Karen Koslow ....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Location Based Shopping Insights
Via Insights with Google, intriguing and detailed graphs of US shopping behavior and trends.
Weekly Thought-Starter:
From product trends to city-level insights, make more informed marketing decisions with Shopping Insights from…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Customized Digital Boosting
Assistants are rising, but we have not yet figured out full how to usefully collaborate with them
How Digital Media Will Bring Out Our Best Selves in the Workplace
by Michael Schrage
Tomorrow’s most effective individuals will combine…
From insideHPC
Asetek Lands Another RackCDU D2C Order for New HPC Installation
Today Asetek announced an order from one of its existing OEM partners for its RackCDU D2C (Direct-to-Chip) liquid cooling solution. The order is part of a new installation for an undisclosed HPC customer.
The post Asetek Lands…
From insideHPC
Visionary Perspective: Foundations of Cognitive Computing
Costas Bekas from IBM Research Zurich presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conference. "IBM Research builds applications that enable humans to collaborate with powerful AI technologies to discover, analyze and tackle the…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Previews the MSST Mass Storage Conference
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the upcoming MSST Mass Storage Conference with Program Chair Matthew O'Keefe from Oracle. "Since the conference was founded by the leading national laboratories, MSST has been…