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: NVIDIA Launches Ampere Data Center GPU
In this video, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announces the first GPU based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the NVIDIA A100. Their fastest GPU ever is in now in full production and shipping to customers worldwide. “NVIDIA A100 GPU…
From insideHPC
How HPC is aiding the fight against COVID-19
In this special guest feature, Dr. Rosemary Francis writes that HPC is playing a massive part in the fight against Covid-19 through modeling, genomics, and drug discovery. "Thanks to the work in labs and HPC centres around the…
From insideHPC
New NVIDIA DGX A100 Packs Record 5 Petaflops of AI Performance for Training, Inference, and Data Analytics
Today NVIDIA unveiled the NVIDIA DGX A100 AI system, delivering 5 petaflops of AI performance and consolidating the power and capabilities of an entire data center into a single flexible platform. "DGX A100 systems integrate
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Blockchains are Hackable
I have heard it in presentations that blockchains provide a hack proof environment since they are walled-off. This article suggests its not the case, especially depending ow you define the 'hack', for example if it is Denial…
From Schneier on Security
US Government Exposes North Korean Malware
US Cyber Command has uploaded North Korean malware samples to the VirusTotal aggregation repository, adding to the malware samples it uploaded in February. The first of the new malware variants, COPPERHEDGE, is described as a…
From insideHPC
Atos delivers Quantum Learning Machine to Japan
Today Atos announced that it has sold its Atos Quantum Learning Machine (QLM), the world’s highest-performing commercially available quantum simulator, through its APAC distributor Intelligent Wave Inc. (IWI), in Japan. This
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From BLOG@CACM
The World's Largest Commercial Cylindrical Slide Rule has a Scale Length of 24m
The world's largest mass-produced cylindrical slide rules come from Loga-Calculator AG in Zurich/Uster, Switzerland.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Women in Theory Presents – I Will Survive
The following is a guest blog from CCC Chair Mark D. Hill. In these troubled times of COVID-19, it is especially helpful to remember a joie de vivre. The Women of (Computer Science) Theory (WIT) convincingly demonstrate this…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Stressed, not Broken Food Supply Chain
Good piece in Supermarket News. Been following closely, and my observations are that though the shelves are less full, and variety may have been hit, there is still lots to buy..
Supply chain is not broken — but it’s definitely…
From insideHPC
MemVerge Introduces Big Memory Computing
Today MemVerge introduced Big Memory Computing. This new category is sparking a revolution in data center architecture where all applications will run in memory. Big Memory Computing is the combination of DRAM, persistent memory…
From insideHPC
TMGcore teams with OnPoint Warranty for OTTO Immersive Cooling Platform
Today TMGcore announced it has partnered with OnPoint Warranty Solutions, a warranty administrator, to construct and administer its OTTO data center platform warranty program. "TMGcore’s key focus is on building our technology…
From insideHPC
AMD Rolls out Radeon Pro VII Workstation Graphics Card
Today announced the AMD Radeon Pro VII workstation graphics card for broadcast and engineering professionals, delivering exceptional graphics and computational performance, as well as innovative features. The new graphics card…
From insideHPC
Quantum StorNext Makes Cloud Content More Accessible, Speeds Data Retrieval
Today Quantum Corp. announced new advancements for its StorNext file system and data management software designed to make cloud content more accessible, with significantly improved read and write speeds for any cloud and object…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Methods of Text Summarization
Ultimately a powerful concept. We examined its use with group meetings and focus groups, to gather important topic information, a kind of more focused crowdsourcing of information. Often aimed at specific goals. Also was…
From insideHPC
Video: The Future of Quantum Computing with IBM
In this video, Dario Gil from IBM shares results from the IBM Quantum Challenge and describes how you can access and program quantum computers on the IBM Cloud today. "Those working in the Challenge joined all those who regularly…
From Schneier on Security
New U.S. Electronic Warfare Platform
The Army is developing a new electronic warfare pod capable of being put on drones and on trucks. ...the Silent Crow pod is now the leading contender for the flying flagship of the Army's rebuilt electronic warfare force. Army…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On the Future of Machine Learning Engineers
Agreed, and it will be rolled into data management, statistical and simulation methods. And will be converting to automated methods.
Machine Learning Engineers Will Not Exist In 10 Years. By Towards Data Science
The role
Machine…
From The Eponymous Pickle
McKinsey on Next Steps of Crisis
From McKinsey
Getting ahead of the next stage of the coronavirus crisis
First the virus, now the economic fallout—you need to launch your plan-ahead team... "
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple and Google will not Allow Use of Location Tracking in Tracing System.
Does seem to be a minimal embedded restriction to Location Privacy.
Apple, Google Ban Use of Location Tracking in Contact Tracing Apps
By Reuters
May 12, 2020
Can contact tracing apps be trusted?
Apple and Google will not allow the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2020 Knuth Prize is awarded to Cynthia Dwork
The Donald E. Knuth Prize is awarded yearly for outstanding contributions to the foundations of computer science over an extended period of time. This year the Donald E. Knuth Prize will be awarded to former Computing Community…
From insideHPC
OFA and Gen-Z Consortium to advance industry standardization of open-source fabric management
The OFA and Gen-Z Consortium recently entered a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to advance the industry standardization of open-source fabric management. "Potential activities outlined in the agreement include joint…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Streamlined Data Science through Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Enterprise Gateway
"Jupyter is a free, open-source, interactive web tool known as a computational notebook, which researchers can use to combine software code, computational output, explanatory text and multimedia resources in a single document…
From insideHPC
Novel Liquid Cooling Technologies for HPC
In this special guest feature, Robert Roe from Scientific Computing World writes that increasingly power-hungry and high-density processors are driving the growth of liquid and immersion cooling technology. "We know that CPUs…
From insideHPC
New Gordon Bell Special Prize announced for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research
Today ACM announced the inception of the ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research. The new award will be presented in 2020 and 2021 and will recognize outstanding research achievements that use high performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI and Spatial Biology
A term I had not hear before, though the work on protein folding might be included? Also sounds somewhat like process mapping, applied to genes and protein activity. With visual hints to bring in the human researchers to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Using Federated Learning to Preserve Privacy of Brain Tumor Training Data
The importance of such a method, is noted, and also the ability to use 'Federated learning' to preserve the privacy of the large amount of data being used to train the method. See Google's efforts on this at the tag below.
Intel…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Blockchain to Offer Smart Contract Options
This was the kind of direction we were looking at recently, and had indications that IBM was playing in the space.
IBM Blockchain to Offer Decentralized Smart Contract Option in Coindesk
IBM is implementing the Hyperledger Fabric…
From Schneier on Security
Attack Against PC Thunderbolt Port
The attack requires physical access to the computer, but it's pretty devastating: On Thunderbolt-enabled Windows or Linux PCs manufactured before 2019, his technique can bypass the login screen of a sleeping or locked computer…
From insideHPC
Time-lapse Video: Installing an Immersion Cooling System at Zelendata Centar in Serbia
In this time-lapse video, technicians install a 336U high-density ICEraQ immersion cooling system from GRC at Zelendata Centar in Serbia. "Only three days were required to completely prep, install, and test two ICEraQ Quads —…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Catalyzing Computing Podcast Episode 21 – Ice Cores and Chaos Theory with Liz Bradley (Part 1)
A new episode of the Computing Community Consortium‘s (CCC) podcast, Catalyzing Computing, is now available. In this episode Khari Douglas interviews Dr. Liz Bradley, the current Vice-chair of the CCC Council. Bradley has been…