Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2017
From insideHPC
HPC Innovation Excellence Awards announced by Hyperion Research
At ISC 2017, Hyperion Research announced the newest recipients of the HPC Innovation Excellence Award. The program's main objectives are to showcase return on investment (ROI) and success stories involving HPC; to help other
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From insideHPC
Intel HPC Orchestrator – Now with Altair PBS Pro Inside
In this video from ISC 2017, Bill Nitzberg from Altair describes how PBS Pro adds powerful workload management capabilities to Intel HPC Orchestrator.
Offering PBS Professional as the preferred workload manager for Intel’s HPC…
From insideHPC
Liquid Cooling for HPC Gains Momentum with Asetek at ISC 2017
"Liquid cooling is becoming the new norm in the face of skyrocketing wattages by CPUs, GPUs and cluster nodes. Asetek cooling solutions are currently provided by OEMs such as Cray, Fujitsu, Format, Penguin. Liquid cooling for…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How Many Times Can You Teach Loops?
Suppose you have students learning computer science from first grade to high school. How many times can you teach loops? Maybe you start with blocks using Scratch or Alice and they learn counter loops and perhaps loop forever…
From Schneier on Security
Girl Scouts to Offer Merit Badges in Cybersecurity
The Girl Scouts are going to be offering 18 merit badges in cybersecurity, to scouts as young as five years old....
From Blog@Ubiquity
In Praise of Spaghetti Code
Spaghetti code is not getting any respect. Software experts denigrate it; coding classes avoid it like the plague; and when students go out into the world, they spend inordinate amounts of time trying to follow their mentors’…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Buy Partners with Amazon, Google for Smart Home
Happened into Best Buy recently, for the first time in over a year, and saw this. Well done. Could have used some better live help provided with the display. Some tech help is still needed. Mapping out the customer experience…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tertill Weeds Gardens
Really like the premise. From my IdeaConnection affiliation. I have decades of experience managing garden plantings, big and small, so pardon me for having considerable skepticism about the practical application. Even more
The…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Digital Grid: Transforming the Electric Power Grid into an Innovation Engine for the United States
In a world where digital Internet technology (Amazon, Ebay, Uber, Airbnb) is transforming traditional industries, the traditional electric energy market is lagging significantly. A move towards a true digital grid is needed.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bezier Curves for the Grocery Shelf
A quite technical and visual point in O'Reilly. And just to note how such methods can interact with the mundane, we used Bezier Curves for designing packaging for supermarket products. A nice example of Python too.
Overlaying…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon vs Wal-Mart
In Knowledge@Wharton: A considerable look at the question. Both now as omnichannel giants.
Amazon vs. Walmart: Which One Will Prevail?
Recent M&A deals by both Amazon and Walmart have set the two firms on a direct collision course…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI as the Face of Your Brand
A useful informed survey. We attempted to use AI as brand equity. When does it work? Particularly in the case of assistants, we often anthropomorphize. Why or why not?
When AI Becomes the New Face of Your Brand
H. James Wilson…
From insideHPC
Bring your workloads to Iceland: Verne Global adds powerDIRECT+
Today Iceland-based co-hosting provider Verne Global announced powerDIRECT+, a reduced-cost compute environment engineered specifically for the next generation of power intensive computing. With the addition of powerDIRECT+,
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From Schneier on Security
CIA Exploits Against Wireless Routers
WikiLeaks has published CherryBlossom, the CIA's program to hack into wireless routers. The program is about a decade old. Four good news articles. Five. And a list of vulnerable routers....
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Recognizes Bright Computing for their Integration with Azure
Today Bright Computing announced that it has been selected by Hyperion Research for a 2017 HPC Innovation Award for its ability to provision and manage virtual servers in Microsoft Azure. "Helping organizations easily create
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From insideHPC
Video: Towards the Decoding of the Human Brain
Katrin Amunts from Jülich presented this keynote at the PASC17 conference. "The human brain has a multi-level organization and high complexity. New approaches are necessary to decode the brain with its 86 billion nerve cells,…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bonsai AI Gears
Of interest, with somwhat different purpose it would appear, than approaches like Algorithmia. Gears seems to address the problem of having a Python based code running on multiple devices. And further testing implementation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Algorithmia
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
After ISTE–More Questions Than Answers
One of the great things about ISTE is a chance to talk to people face to face. When that happens a lot of things come up. Yesterday and today, along with walking the exhibit hall and attending sessions, I had some good conversations…
From Schneier on Security
Article on the DAO Ethereum Hack
This is good....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tracking, Measuring AI Research
From The Eponymous Pickle
Apple and Cisco in the Enterprise
Worked with Cisco in the innovation space, they are impressive for infrastructure. Saw this same goal for companies to take a look at their digital operations at a recent talk by GE.
With Cisco, Apple weaves itself into enterprise…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analog Brains
We tend to think of 'analog' as an ancient technology, long superseded by digital. So businesses are constantly figuring out how to 'go digital'. And thus become better, faster, smarter. I learned analog computing before…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing and Retail
Most interesting for the examples and discussions here. As I have suggested, still a niche market.
How will 3-D printing take hold at retail? by Tom Ryan
According to a survey from Interactions, 95 percent of shoppers are looking…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Big Data, Data Science, and Civil Rights
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has been working hard on various white papers over the past couple of months and slowly releasing them. You can see all of them here. Today, we highlight another paper, called Big Data…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing doubles down on Asetek Liquid Cooling
Today Asetek announced an additional order from Penguin Computing for an undisclosed HPC installation. "This repeat order reflects our strong partnership with Penguin Computing. It is also another confirmation of the increasing…
From insideHPC
RSC Group from Russia Brings Hot Water Cooling to HPC
Last week at ISC 2017, the Russian RSC Group showcased its ultra high-dense scalable and energy efficient RSC Tornado cluster solution as well as a full set of components for modernizing HPC systems to become 100% hot liquid
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From Schneier on Security
Fighting Leakers at Apple
Apple is fighting its own battle against leakers, using people and tactics from the NSA. According to the hour-long presentation, Apple's Global Security team employs an undisclosed number of investigators around the world to…
From insideHPC
Video: New Mellanox SHIELD Technology Enables Self Healing Networks
“The CPU-centric data center architecture has come to an end and new data centers are now built based on a data-centric architecture. These systems require an intelligent interconnect that can deliver In-Network Computing and…
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Steps up with Cloud Bursting for Azure at ISC 2017
In this video from ISC 2017, Bill Wagner from Bright Computing describes the company's new capabilities for Cloud Bursting to Microsoft Azure. “Cloud bursting from an on-premises cluster to Microsoft Azure offers companies an…