Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
May 2024
From insideHPC
AMD Showcases HPC at ISC High Performance 2024
SANTA CLARA, Calif., – AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its ongoing high performance computing (HPC) capabilities at ISC High Performance 2024. For the third year in a row, the Frontier supercomputer housed at Oak Ridge National Lab…
From insideHPC
GigaIO Launches SuperNODE with AMD MI300X GPUs
Carlsbad, California – GigaIO, provider of open workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing, today announced that its flagship product, the 32-GPU single node server SuperNODE, is now shipping with AMD Instinct…
From insideHPC
ORNL and SLAC Team Up for Breakthrough Biology Projects
Under DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure initiative, Frontier will provide high-speed analysis for LCLS-II’s structural biology data output Plans to unite the capabilities of two cutting-edge technological facilities funded…
From insideHPC
Summit Helps Forge Stronger Flights
Simulations helping to cut through time and expense of certifying new materials by digitally customizing the ideal alloy Titanium alloys serve as cornerstone materials for the aerospace industry — stronger and lighter than steel…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Addressing harms: Moving beyond intent
The following blog post was written by CCC’s Addressing the Unforeseen Deleterious Impacts of Technology (AUDIT) Task Force Computing technologies of all stripes have brought enormous benefits to people’s lives, but also significant…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m giving a webinar via Zoom on Wednesday, May 22, at 11:00 AM ET. The topic is “Should the USG Establish a Publicly Funded AI Option?“
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Learning from the object-oriented mania
Back when I started programming professionally, every expert and every software engineering professor would swear by object-oriented programming. Resistance was futile. History had spoken: the future was object-oriented. It is…
From Schneier on Security
Another Chrome Vulnerability
Google has patched another Chrome zero-day:
On Thursday, Google said an anonymous source notified it of the vulnerability. The vulnerability carries a severity rating of 8.8 out of 10. In response, Google said, it would be releasing…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: An Analysis of the New Top500 List
In this episode of @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo, Shahin and Doug discuss the big news on the Monday of each annual ISC conference in Germany, the release of the new Top500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Forwarding references in C++
In C++, there are different ways to pass a value to a function. Typically, at any given time, an object in C++ ‘belongs’ to a single function. The various ways to call a function differ in who owns the object, the caller or the…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Addressing the Unforeseen Deleterious Impacts of Technology
Recent years have seen increased awareness of the potential negative impacts of computing technologies, and yet these harms are often unforeseen when the technology is first deployed. The CCC Council formed a task force on Addressing…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240513: ISC 2024 Starts, Quantum Investments, China-Taiwan-TSMC Scenario Planning, Electricity Supply Running Low
Let's take a quick (6:21) run through new developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: ISC 2024 begins today, substantial new investments in quantum continue, U.S. Commerce ....
The post HPC News Bytes 20240513: ISC 2024 Starts…
From insideHPC
Nvidia Announces Installations of 9 Grace Hopper-Powered Supercomputers
May 12, 2024 — Nvidia has announced nine new supercomputers using Nvidia Grace Hopper Superchips that combined deliver 200 exaflops, or 200 quintillion calculations per second, of AI processing power. The new supercomputers include…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Announces AI Advisory Committee
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 13, 2024 – HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has launched an expanded AI focus with the announcement of the Hyperion Research AI Advisory Committee, designed to help the community better understand…
From insideHPC
New Top500 List: Aurora Joins Frontier in the Exascale HPC Club
Aurora, the Intel-HPE Cray problem-child supercomputer, has officially received the blessing of the Top500 organization as having surpassed the exascale (a billion billion calculations/second) milestone, but barely. According…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Pac-Man and Games for Girls
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London In the beginning video games were for boys…and then came Pac-Man. Before mobile games, game consoles and PC based games, video games first took off in arcades. Arcade games were…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Peer review is not the gold standard in science
Peer review as we know it today was introduced very late, over a century after the scientific revolution. It happened after Einstein’s time… arguably the most productive era in science. Current scientists often equate a success…
From Computational Complexity
What is Closed Form? The Horse Numbers are an illustration
In the book Those Fascinating Numbers by Jean-Marie De Konick they find interesting (or `interesting') things to say about many numbers. I reviewed the book in a SIGACT News book review column here. The entry for 13 is odd: 13…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Just Jim
James Harris Simons just passed away—he preferred Jim so we will use that here. I know that there will be here articles, posts, and special places to read about his wonderful life and work. So I thought I might add something…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Mating Strategies
Some squids are “consorts,” others are “sneakers.” The species is healthiest when individuals have different strategies randomly.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that …From Schneier on Security
New Attack Against Self-Driving Car AI
This is another attack that convinces the AI to ignore road signs:
Due to the way CMOS cameras operate, rapidly changing light from fast flashing diodes can be used to vary the color. For example, the shade of red on a stop …From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
COMPUTATION, LOGIC, AND INFORMATION
The organizers of a conference on this topic is on July 3-5, 2024 at Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland are: Wojciech Szpankowski the Director of the Center for Science of Information at Purdue University Marek Zaionc (UJ…
From Schneier on Security
How Criminals Are Using Generative AI
There’s a new report on how criminals are using generative AI tools:
Key Takeaways:
Adoption rates of AI technologies among criminals lag behind the rates of their industry counterparts because of the evolving nature of cybercrime…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Members Spark Attention at Senate Robotics Showcase and Demo Day
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is excited that three members were exhibitors at the Senate Robotics and Demo Day. Holly Yanco (Chair, Distinguished University Professor, NERVE Center Director, UMass Lowell), Melanie…
From insideHPC
Lenovo Is on a Mission to Transform HPC & AI for All
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] High performance computing (HPC) systems run workloads to perform complex calculations to get answers to some of humanity’s toughest questions. The output from these calculations can result in game…
From insideHPC
CGG Launches AI Cloud Solution with Nvidia for AI and HPC Workloads
Paris, May 9, 2024 — Technology and HPC company CGG has announced the launch of its AI Cloud, designed for data-intensive industries, including life sciences, digital media, manufacturing and geoscience, that seek to optimize…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $60-70M Quantum Information Science Funding Opportunity
May 9, 2024 — The DOE SC program in High Energy Physics (HEP) announced its interest in receiving interdisciplinary applications for open scientific research on Quantum Information Science (QIS) Enabled Discovery (QuantISED)
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From insideHPC
Financial Services Company Optiver Selects AMD for Data Center, AI
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 07, 2024 — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced that Optiver – a market maker trading on 100+ exchanges – is using AMD chips for its new data center infrastructure. Using AMD EPYC processors, AMD Solarflare…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can construct small list of strings in C for Python?
Python is probably the most popular programming language in the world right now. Python is easy to extend using C code. You may want to return from Python a small data structure. When crossing from C to Python, there is an overhead…
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Dichotomy
A constraint satisfaction problem has a group of constraints applied to a set of variables and we want to know if there is a setting of the variables that make all the constraints true. In CNF-Satisfiability the variables are…