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
E4 Engineering Powers CERN with Quanta Cloud Technology
Over the last two years, E4 Computer Engineering and QCT have worked in close collaboration to supply CERN with thousands of server systems, cores and Petabytes of storage. "E4 has successfully supplied us with reliable and performant…
From insideHPC
10 Things Not to Miss at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt
In this special guest feature, Kim McMahon checks in from Frankfurt to give us a preview of ISC 2017. There is much in store this week, so be sure not to miss a beat!
The post 10 Things Not to Miss at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt appeared…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squids from Space Video Game
An early preview. 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 Schneier on Security
NSA Links WannaCry to North Korea
There's evidence: Though the assessment is not conclusive, the preponderance of the evidence points to Pyongyang. It includes the range of computer Internet protocol addresses in China historically used by the RGB, and the assessment…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Implications of Amazon Buying Wholefoods
Discussion: http://www.retailwire.com/discussion/what-happens-now-that-amazon-is-acquiring-whole-foods/
From insideHPC
Is Aurora Morphing into an Exascale AI Supercomputer?
The recently published Department of Energy FY 2018 Congressional Budget Request has raised a lot of questions about the Aurora supercomputer that was scheduled to be deployed at Argonne ALCF next year. "As we covered in our
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From insideHPC
Persistent Memory Programming: The Current State of the Ecosystem
"In this presentation, Andy Rudoff from Intel reports on the latest developments around persistent memory programming. He’ll describing current discussions in the SNIA NVM Programming Technical Work Group, the current state of…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 16th, 2017)
How much bandwidth do we have? It seems that each of our eyes has 1 megabyte per second. That’s about 100GB per day assuming you close one of your eyes and you never sleep. I found a fascinating article on “academic urban legends…
From insideHPC
Allinea to Showcase V7.1 Performance Tools at ISC 2017
Today Allinea software, now part of ARM, announced plans to preview the latest update to its powerful tool suite for developing and optimizing high performance and scientific applications at ISC17 in Frankfurt. "Eliminating performance…
From insideHPC
Atos to Build 9 Petaflop Supercomputer for GENCI
Today Atos announced that the company has won a contract with GENCI to deliver one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, planned for the end of 2017. A successor of the Curie system installed at the TGCC, the Bull…
From insideHPC
NEC LX Supercomputer coming to Czech Hydrometeorological Institute
Today NEC Corporation announced that the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI) will soon deploy an NEC LX series supercomputer for weather forecasting. "We are very happy that CHMI has selected NEC to deliver an HPC solution…
From insideHPC
Kyushu University Orders Fujitsu Supercomputer
Today Fujitsu announced an order from the Research Institute for Information Technology at Kyushu University for a new supercomputer system for deployment in October 2017. "This system will consist of over 2,000 servers, including…
From Schneier on Security
Gaming Google News
Turns out that it's surprisingly easy to game: It appears that news sites deemed legitimate by Google News are being modified by third parties. These sites are then exploited to redirect to the spam content. It appears that the…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing FrostByte adds BeeGFS Storage
Today Penguin Computing announced FrostByte with ThinkParQ BeeGFS, the latest member of the family of software-defined storage solutions. FrostByte is Penguin Computing’s scalable storage solution for HPC clusters, high-performance…
From insideHPC
Video: DoE Taps HPE Memory-Driven Computing for Exascale
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it has been awarded a research grant from the DoE to develop a reference design for an exascale supercomputer. “Our novel Memory-Driven Computing architecture combined with our deep
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Utilizing the Data Lake
Clearly, use the data you already have. All business assumes valid prediction. How good the prediction is, for a given business model. is key.
Drowning in the data lake, companies seek out predictive analytics tools by Mark…
From insideHPC
Podcast: DoE Awards $258 Million for Exascale to U.S. HPC Vendors
Today U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that six leading U.S. technology companies will receive funding from the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP) as part of its new PathForward program, accelerating…
From insideHPC
Vectorization with AVX-512 Intrinsics
"With the Intel compilers, intrinsics are recognized and the instructions are generated in-line which is a tremendous advantage. Since the Intel Xeon Phi processor when using the AVX-512 intrinsics can perform a tremendous number…
From insideHPC
Considerations for Applications to Transition to a Cloud
This is the third entry in an insideHPC series that explores the HPC transition to the cloud, and what your business needs to know about this evolution. This series, compiled in a complete Guide, covers cloud computing for HPC…
From insideHPC
Exxact Corporation offers NVIDIA DGX Station and DGX-1 for Deep Learning
Today Exxact Corporation announced that it will offer the new NVIDIA DGX Station and DGX-1 systems featuring the NVIDIA Tesla V100 data center GPUs based on the NVIDIA Volta architecture. "NVIDIA’s DGX portfolio is paving the…
From Schneier on Security
Millennials and Secret Leaking
I hesitate to blog this, because it's an example of everything that's wrong with pop psychology. Malcolm Harris writes about millennials, and has a theory of why millennials leak secrets. My guess is that you could write a similar…
From insideHPC
Bright Computing Adds Cloud Bursting Support for Microsoft Azure
"We are pleased to offer this new integration to our customers and we are confident that the solution will be very popular with our user base," said Martijn de Vries, CTO at Bright Computing. "Cloud bursting from an on-premises…
From BLOG@CACM
CS Education on Tablets For CS for All (#Tablets4CS For #CSforAll)
If we design CS education for tablets, everyone will learn better.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Patents Smart Home System
In BizJournals.com You don't often think of a CPG company innovating in this space. See other posts here on reordering systems.
P&G invents smart home system ...
Procter & Gamble Co. has patented a method of forming a wireless…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
QuickSelect versus binary heap for top-k queries
In a previous post, I considered the problem of finding the k smallest (or k largest) elements from a stream of values. The naive approach is to collect all the values in an array, sort the array, and return the first k values…
From Schneier on Security
Data vs. Analysis in Counterterrorism
This article argues that Britain's counterterrorism problem isn't lack of data, it's lack of analysis....
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
AI Now Initiative Symposium on July 10th, 2017
The AI Now Initiative is hosting a symposium on July 10th, 2017 at the MIT Media Lab to “address the biggest challenges we face as AI moves further into our everyday lives.” Leaders from industry, academia, civil society, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wheel of Retailing?
Admit I had not heard the term 'Wheel of Retailing'. HBS talks this. I will include the explanation, more at the link below. Comments also interesting at link. Implications for Amazon v Wal-Mart?
In HBS Working Knowledge.…
From insideHPC
PBSCloud.io – A new SAS platform for Deploying HPC Appliances in the Cloud
In this video, Jérémie Bourdoncle from Altair describes the company's innovative PBSCloud.io, which is a new SAS platform to for deploying HPC Appliances in Public and Private Clouds. "PBScloud.io is a cloud platform that lets…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
How To Teach Computer Science
I always read articles like this one - The 5 Worst Ways to Teach Computer Science – with some trepidation. I always expect to find out that I’m doing it all wrong. The other thing that always concerns me is that the author will…