Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
April 2018
From insideHPC
Exploiting HPC Technologies for Accelerating Big Data Processing and Associated Deep Learning
DK Panda from Ohio State University gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. "This talk will provide an overview of challenges in accelerating Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached on modern HPC clusters. An overview of RDMA-based
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From insideHPC
Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu wins 2018 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Today PRACE announced that Prof. Dr. Xiaoxiang Zhu, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany, is the winner of the 2018 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC for her outstanding contributions…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Voice Separation
Simple but powerful idea. Have gone through voice training on several assistants. This takes it further. Note the idea of separating components of a conversation.
Google AI can pick out voices in a crowd
It could boost audio…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Location Analysis
They may differ on the value, but its almost always done and reviewed closely. Sure there are differences in its use among different kinds of retailers. Consider at very least the capital investment involved.
Retailers Differ…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
For greater speed, try batching your out-of-cache data accesses
In software, we use hash tables to implement sets and maps. A hash table works by first mapping a key to a random-looking address in an array. In a recent series of blog posts (1, 2, 3), I have documented the fact that precomputing…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF WATCH TALK- In the Eye of the Storm: Biometrics, Security and Privacy
The next WATCH talk, called In the Eye of the Storm: Biometrics, Security and Privacy, from Dr. Arun Ross at Michigan State University, is Thursday, April 26th 2018, Noon-1PM EST. Arun Ross is a Professor in the Department of…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pizza and a Game?
Pizza and game? There have always been attempts to find multiple value contexts to deliver to a customer. Loyalty, and delivering it via the internet, is one. But too easily duplicated. Is this another? Is the reward the
Will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Siemens and Process Mining
Note always the potential connection between process mining and business process modeling, to set the stage for more value, and to guide future process mining.
Siemens and Process Mining By Lindsay Clark in Computer Week
German…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data as Feature
Good approach, start with and feature the data as it exists in value producing context.
“Data as a feature” is coming. Are product managers ready?
By packaging and delivering actionable data in applications, product managers can…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Jupyter and Data Science
Agree, good overview, your analytics people should be there. To discover methods and ook towards reproducibility, aid with maintainability. Even as a manager, you should be looking on.
Jupyter is where humans and data science…
From insideHPC
New Types of Memory, their support in Linux, and how to use them via RDMA
Christoph Lameter from Jump Trading LLC gave this talk at the OpenFabrics Workshop. "Recently new types of memory have shown up like HBM (High Bandwidth Memory), Optane, 3DXpoint, NVDIMM, NVME and various "nonvolatile" types
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From insideHPC
Developing Faster Algorithms for Earthquake Simulation with OpenACC
In this video from the 2018 GPU Technology Conference, Prof. Taisuke Boku from the University of Tsukuba & JCAHPC and Duncan Poole, President of OpenACC describe how OpenACC is accelerating science. "The team obtained 8x speedup…
From insideHPC
The Transformation of HPC: Simulation and Cognitive Methods in the Era of Big Data
Dave Turek from IBM gave this talk at the Swiss HPC Conference. "There is a shift underway where HPC is beginning to be addressed with novel techniques and technologies including cognitive and analytic approaches to HPC problems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning
Lengthy musings on the capabilities of Reinforcement Learning. Which in one way feels very attractive, but as a former classical optimization oriented analyst, I have my doubts. Still intriguing piece about the challenge.…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can We Afford a Digitally Illiterate Congress?
Like many people I found the Zuckerberg Congressional Hearings disturbing on several levels. Yes, there are some serious issues with Facebook and other Internet services with regards to privacy, security, and social impact. We…
From insideHPC
Agenda Posted for Mass Storage Conference in Santa Clara
The 34th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2018) has posted their Speaker Agenda. The event takes place May 14-16 in Santa Clara, California. "Join the discussion on webscale IT, and the…
From Schneier on Security
Cybersecurity Insurance
Good article about how difficult it is to insure an organization against Internet attacks, and how expensive the insurance is. Companies like retailers, banks, and healthcare providers began seeking out cyberinsurance in the…
From My Biased Coin
Sublinear Algorithms Workshop
I was asked to post to announce the workshop/bootcamp on Sublinear Algorithms, June 10-13 at MIT. I plan to be there and possibly talk about some new work.
From the web page (which you should go to to register, if you plan to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bots in the Twittersphere
A quite interesting view of Bots in the twittersphere. From PEW below. Useful definitions. Which points out that they are not close to mostly out to make mischief, but also a useful part of the infrastructure. Call them…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Supercharging Simulations with GPUs
Makes lots of sense since machine learning utilizes lots of simulations to train, check and deliver results. So why not use the same hardware to simulate real complex process, systems or design? Or choices of parameter.
How…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Great Innovative Idea- Levels of Learning in General Autonomous Intelligent Agents
The following Great Innovative Idea is from John E. Laird from the Unversity of Michigan. Laird was one of the Blue Sky Award winners at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference (AAAI-18) for…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Blockchains
(This post will be updated with more information before the talk)
Tomorrow, April 11 2018, at 10:30 AM ET
Cognitive Systems Institute
Speaker: Awa Sun Yin
Talk: “Breaking Bad: De-Anonymising Entity Types on the Bitcoin Blockchain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Update: Blockchain Applications Classification
Slides and recording of the talk given on April 5, 2018:
Excellent talk on effort that seeks to classify and track practical applications.
“Assessing the application landscape of blockchain applications”
SDA Bocconi School of Management…
From insideHPC
Intel FPGAs Goes Mainstream for Enterprise Workloads
Today Intel announced top-tier OEM adoption of Intel’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration in their server lineup. This is the first major use of reprogrammable silicon chips to help speed up mainstream applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
European Nations Agree in AI Deal
European nations agree AI deal In Innovators Mag.
A number of European nations today signed a declaration of cooperation on artificial intelligence (AI) as part of the continent’s Digital Day activities.
The 25 countries which…
From insideHPC
ARI-400 Series Features Declustered RAID Technology
Today RAID Incorporated updated its ARI-400 Series of storage solutions. The newest release features declustered RAID, which allows for mixing and matching of multiple disk capacities and greatly reduces rebuild times, a much…
From insideHPC
Reduce Costs with Adaptive Computing’s NODUS Cloud Bursting Solution
"HPC organizations that utilize cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, Google, Oracle, etc.) in conjunction with Adaptive Computing’s NODUS Cloud Bursting Solution can significantly reduce their on-premise cluster sizes and costs…
From insideHPC
Intel’s Bill Magro Presents: Software Foundation for High-Performance Fabrics in the Cloud
Bill Magro from Intel gave this talk at the 2018 OpenFabrics Workshop. "Artificial Intelligence and High Performance Data Analytics workloads in the cloud are being fed by a deluge of data emanating from the Internet-connected…
From insideHPC
ISC 2018 Launches Travel Grant Program for Students
Today the ISC Group rolled out their new ISC High Performance Travel Grant Program to enable university students and young researchers to attend the conference in Germany. "Starting this year, ISC Group will select two individuals…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fear of Evolving AI Technology
In Think with Google. On the future role of marketing.
AI and machine learning have many wondering about marketers’ future role. GroupM’s Rob Norman says ‘fear not’
By Rob Norman Mar 2018 Emerging Technology, Search, Video
Rob…