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
Preparing for ISC 2024: HPC Luminaries on Sessions, Trends and News to Watch for in Hamburg
The center of the HPC-AI world shifts next week to Hamburg and the ISC 2024 Conference, Sunday, May 12 – Thursday, May 16. The theme of this year’s event is “Reinventing HPC,” and indeed, HPC has been made over during the past…
From insideHPC
Nvidia NIM Integrated Support on Red Hat OpenShift AI
DENVER – May 7, 2024 — Open source solutions company Red Hat today announced coming integration support for Nvidia NIM microservices on Red Hat OpenShift AI to enable inferencing for artificial intelligence (AI) models backed…
From insideHPC
Panasas Is Now Vdura for AI and HPC Data Storage
Long-time HPC data storage company Panasas (formed 1999) is now Vdura. The new brand "signifies the company’s shift to a software company operating under a software subscription-based business model," Vdura said in its announcement…
From The Noisy Channel
Is Targeted Advertising Ethical
Is Targeted Advertising Ethical?
Targeted advertising is a huge industry with a massive branding problem. On one hand, nearly all of the “free” digital products and services used by millions rely on targeted advertising as their…From The Noisy Channel
Is Targeting Advertising Ethical?
Is Targeted Advertising Ethical?
Targeted advertising is a huge industry with a massive branding problem. On one hand, nearly all of the “free” digital products and services used by millions rely on targeted advertising as their…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Launches New LinkedIn Showcase Page
Have you ever heard of LinkedIn showcase pages? Well we have been secretly working on one to bring you exclusive CCC news. Our goal is to share content that is both informative and new. Looking forward to more content? Here’s…
From Schneier on Security
New Attack on VPNs
This attack has been feasible for over two decades:
Researchers have devised an attack against nearly all virtual private network applications that forces them to send and receive some or all traffic outside of the encrypted…From insideHPC
Cabinet Technology is Bridging the Efficiency of Air Cooling with the Performance of Liquid Cooling for HPC and AI Workloads
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Data center operators need to modernize and future-proof their facilities, so they don't get left behind as AI and HPC deployments expand. While the industry is exploring several liquid cooling solutions…
From insideHPC
IBM Launches Power Server for AI Workloads, Core-Cloud-Edge
Today IBM introduced the IBM Power S1012, a 1-socket, half-wide Power10 processor-based system that IBM said delivers up to 3X more performance per core versus Power S812. [2] It is available in a 2U rack-mounted or tower deskside…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes: ASML and China Trade Wars, TikTok, HPC-AI 2023 Market Size, WHPC at ISC
A good May morning to you! Here’s a rapid (6:10) run through recent developments in HPC-AI, including: ASML’s new CEO and US-China trade wars, the TikTok ban, Intersect360 Research sizes the HPC-AI market, Women in HPC at ISC…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Women in HPC Leader Cristin Merritt Talks Diversity and Strategies for Organizational Change
A leading – and highly energetic – advocate for diversity in HPC, Cristin Merritt of Women in HPC, joins Shahin and Doug in this episode of the @HPCpodcast, sponsored by Lenovo. Cristin discusses WHPC’s goals and mission (it
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From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Frontiers in Complexity Theory
This summer DIMACS will hold an advanced workshop for graduate students in complexity theory. It is on July 29 till August 1. The organizers are: Lijie Chen, Roei Tell, Ryan Williams. Their goal is to bring together up-and-coming…
From Schneier on Security
New Lawsuit Attempting to Make Adversarial Interoperability Legal
Lots of complicated details here: too many for me to summarize well. It involves an obscure Section 230 provision—and an even more obscure typo. Read this.
From Computational Complexity
May the fourth be with you. To many -days?
(This post was inspired by Rachel F, a prior REU-CAAR student, emailing me wishing me a happy Star Wars Day.)
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Purses
Squid-shaped purses for sale.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS: How Big Trends in Computing are Shaping Science – Part Five
CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we are recapping each session. This week, we are summarizing the highlights of the session, “How…
From Schneier on Security
My TED Talks
I have spoken at several TED conferences over the years.
- TEDxPSU 2010: “Reconceptualizing Security”
- TEDxCambridge 2013: “The Battle for Power on the Internet”
- TEDMed 2016: “Who Controls Your Medical Data?”
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
1968 vs 2024
As we know, the last few days, have been tough times for certain groups of students at our universities. The groups have rioted, were then arrested by police, and then been handcuffed and led away to jail. Mass arrests among…
From Schneier on Security
Rare Interviews with Enigma Cryptanalyst Marian Rejewski
The Polish Embassy has posted a series of short interview segments with Marian Rejewski, the first person to crack the Enigma.
Details from his biography.
From insideHPC
Quantum: Photonic Adds to its Executive Management Team
VANCOUVER, May 2, 2024—Quantum in silicon company Photonic today announced it is adding to its executive leadership team in the areas of research and development, materials science, quantum technologies, marketing, human resources…
From insideHPC
Australian Government Invests $940M AUD in PsiQuantum
April 29, 2024 — The Australian government has announced a $940 million AUD — about $617 million US — investment in PsiQuantum, a Silicon Valley start-up with Australian roots, in a bid to build the world’s first commercially…
From insideHPC
INCITE Proposal Writing Webinar May 7
May 2, 2024 — The Department of Energy’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is the principal means for the scientific community gains access to DOE’s leadership-class supercomputers…
From insideHPC
GigaIO and Valkyrie Announce AI Readiness Services
Carlsbad, California, May 2, 2024 – Composable infrastructure company GigaIO and AI engineering firm Valkyrie today announced the launch of their joint AI readiness assessment service, a hardware/software/services solution for…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS: How Big Trends in Computing are Shaping Science – Part Four
CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we are recapping each session. This week, we are summarizing the highlights of the session, “How…
From insideHPC
Intersect360 Research Announces HPC-AI User Organization
SUNNYVALE, CA—May 2, 2024 — Intersect360 Research has announced the launch of the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO), a geographically diverse end-user organization designed to bring “together a worldwide community of forward…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Should Node.js be built with ClangCL under Windows?
Under Windows, when using Visual Studio to build C++ code, there are two possible compiler strategies. The Visual Studio compiler (often referred to as MSVC) is the default compiler provided by Microsoft for Windows development…
From insideHPC
Eviden Launches AI Computing Portfolio
Eviden today announced the BullSequana AI product line that includes five AI server ranges for inferencing AI models at the edge, tuning existing models in enterprise data centers, and training foundation models with AI supercomputers…
From Schneier on Security
The UK Bans Default Passwords
The UK is the first country to ban default passwords on IoT devices.
On Monday, the United Kingdom became the first country in the world to ban default guessable usernames and passwords from these IoT devices. Unique passwords…From Computational Complexity
Our Obsession with Proofs
Bullinger's post on this blog last week focused on Vijay Vazirani's public obsession of finding a proof for the 1980 Micali-Vazirani matching algorithm. But why does Vijay, and theoretical computer science in general, obsessYou…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC @ AAAS: How Big Trends in Computing are Shaping Science – Part Three
CCC supported three scientific sessions at this year’s AAAS Annual Conference, and in case you weren’t able to attend in person, we are recapping each session. This week, we are summarizing the highlights of the session, “How…