Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2020
From insideHPC
Video: New Dell EMC PowerStore platform is performance-optimized with Intel Optane SSDs
Today Dell Technologies launched Dell EMC PowerStore, a modern infrastructure platform built from the ground up with superior technology and expertise to address the challenges of the data era. "PowerStore is seven times faster…
From insideHPC
Slidecast: The Sad State of Affairs in HPC Storage (But there is light at the end of the tunnel)
In this video, Robert Murphy from Panasas describes the current state of the HPC storage market and how Panasas is stepping up with high performance products that deliver economical performance without risk. "According to a recent…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is AI Already Conscious?
Regards the definition of consciousness,and its necessity for intelligence.
Is AI already conscious?
Nicole Gray in ThenextWeb
The ultimate goal of most high-level AI research is the development of a general artificial intelligence…
From insideHPC
New Study Exposes Hidden Costs of HPC Storage including Downtime and Labor Costs
Total cost of ownership (TCO) now rivals performance as a top criterion for purchasing HPC storage systems, according to a new study published by Hyperion Research. "While performance still ranked first (57%), TCO tied with purchase…
From Schneier on Security
ILOVEYOU Virus
It's the twentieth anniversary of the ILOVEYOU virus, and here are three interesting articles about it and its effects on software design....
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. releases version 1.1 of Mukai middleware
Quantum Computing Inc has released version 1.1 of its Mukai middleware with new capabilities delivering higher performance and greater ease of use for subject-matter experts developing quantum-ready applications needing superior…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tailoring Intelligent Tutoring
Quite interesting approach, will like to see some measures about how it achieves teaching goals.
AI Enables Teachers to Rapidly Develop Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences
The ACM-W Scholarship for Attendance of Research Conferences program provides support for women students in Computer Science and related programs who wish to attend research conferences.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W North America
As we ramp up our regional committee, we are anxious to start sharing news and activities of many women in computing across North America. We will highlight more in our next newsletter.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Researchers Respond to COVID-19: Virtual Conferences; A Guide to Best Practices
About a month ago, at the beginning of this pandemic, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) blogged about Running a Virtual Conference and highlighted Blair MacIntyre, a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Interactive Computing…
From insideHPC
HPE GreenLake Central brings self-service experience on-prem
Today HPC announced that HPE GreenLake Central is now generally available. This advanced software platform provides customers with a consistent cloud experience for all their applications and data, through an online portal and…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Can Online Teaching Really Work?
There is already a lot of discussion about schools and the fall semester. Will we be in physical spaces again? Will we be online again? Will there be some mix?
[Dallas Texas] District preparing for three possible scenarios to…From insideHPC
NERSC Finalizes Contract for Perlmutter Supercomputer
NERSC has moved another step closer to making Perlmutter — its next-generation GPU-accelerated supercomputer — available to the science community in 2020. In mid-April, NERSC finalized its contract with Cray — which was acquired…
From insideHPC
The Incorporation of Machine Learning into Scientific Simulations at LLNL
Katie Lewis from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory gave this talk at the Stanford HPC Conference. "Today, data science, including machine learning, is one of the fastest growing areas of computing, and LLNL is investing
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From insideHPC
Xilinx Establishes FPGA Adaptive Compute Clusters at Leading Universities
"We will build novel, experimental FPGA-centric compute systems and develop domain-specific compilers and system tools targeting high-performance computing. We will focus on several important application domains, including AI…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cisco and IBM Team at the Edge
Considerable piece on the Cisco Blog. The participants in the work make sense. Mention of AI and machine learning but no Watson.
Cisco and IBM: Teaming at the Edge
By Keith Dyer in the Cisco Blog
The convergence of 5G, Edge computing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Second Hands Project
Ideal place to start with robot collaboration.
EU robotics project gives maintenance workers a ‘second pair of hands’
By PAUL SAWERS@PSAWERS in Venturebeat
A five year European Union (EU) project to develop a collaborative humanoid…
From Schneier on Security
Malware in Google Apps
Interesting story of malware hidden in Google Apps. This particular campaign is tied to the government of Vietnam. At a remote virtual version of its annual Security Analyst Summit, researchers from the Russian security firm…
From insideHPC
Shaheen II Supercomputer to power COVID-19 research
KAUST has opened a call for proposals for COVID-19 research to be run on the Shaheen II supercomputer and related resources. Shaheen II joins many supercomputers around the world that have recently reallocated a portion of their…
From Computational Complexity
Why is there no (d,n) grid for Hilbert's Tenth Problem?
Hilbert's 10th problem, in modern language is:
Find an algorithm that will, given a poly over Z in many variables, determine if it has a solution in Z.
This problem was proven undecidable through the work of Davis, Putnam,…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Amazon–National Science Foundation Collaboration on Fairness in AI
In March 2020, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the first ten recipients of the NSF Program on Fairness in Artificial Intelligence in Collaboration with Amazon (FAI). From the solicitation: NSF and Amazon are…
From insideHPC
ARL Awards Maui High Performance Computing Center contract valued up to $75M
The University of Hawaiʻi has been awarded a four-year contract valued at up to $75 million by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to operate the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) via the Applied Research Laboratory…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sabrewing Cargo Drone Announced for Airforce
Example of a heavy lift cargo drone built for the US Air Force.
Sabrewing Cargo Drone Rises to Air Force Challenge
The Rhaegal cargo drone pivots to new possible military missions under a U.S. Air Force contract
By Jeremy Hsu
Sabrewing…
From insideHPC
Tenstorrent ships Grayskull high performance AI processor
Canadian startup Tenstorrent has launched its new Grayskull high performance AI processor. According to the company, Grayskull provides a substantial performance and power efficiency advantage over all existing inference solutions…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA to acquire Cumulus Networks
Today NVIDIA announced plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, a pioneer of hyperscale networking. According to the company, the move will bolster NVIDIA's networking software capabilities and usher in a new era of the accelerated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Arrows of Time
Fascinating report on how we think about time and its implication for culture and science. Time measurements are part of any analytics. Does this apply to our domain? Have often seen it not considered, for example how do
Arrows…
From insideHPC
Supercomputing the San Andreas Fault with CyberShake
With help from DOE supercomputers, a USC-led team expands models of the fault system beneath its feet, aiming to predict its outbursts. For their 2020 INCITE work, SCEC scientists and programmers will have access to 500,000 node…
From insideHPC
Modernizing and Future-Proofing Your Storage Infrastructure – Part 4
Data—the gold that today’s organizations spend significant resources to acquire—is ever-growing and underpins significant innovation in technologies for storing and accessing it. In this technology guide, we’ll show why different…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rail Supply Chain Opportunity
Recalls an examination of opportunity we saw.
North American Rail Is Missing a Growth Opportunity in Supplychainbrain
Robert Sabath, SCB Contributor, Steven Fox, SCB Contributor, and Ben Connelly, SCB Contributor
Many blame precision…
From Schneier on Security
Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France SIGINT Alliance
This paper describes a SIGINT and code-breaking alliance between Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France called Maximator: Abstract: This article is first to report on the secret European five-partner sigint alliance…