Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2019
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Small Business
HBR's take. A little too wordy for my taste. These kinds of things would work for small business if they are well packaged, easy to set into precise personal context, easy to interact with (assistant style) to indicate…
From insideHPC
Joliot-Curie Supercomputer from Atos Powers Research at GENCI
GENCI in France has inaugurated their new Joliot-Curie supercomputer. Based on the Atos BullSequana architecture, the system is rated at 9.4 petaflops of peak performance. The system boasts 4.5X increase in computing capacity…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Ponders Amdahl’s Law, GPUs, and the ASC19 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results of the ASC19 Student Cluster Competition and HPC workshop in China. "For the first time, a non-mainland-Chinese team wins the top spot. Taiwan takes the gold in part…
From insideHPC
AMD Verifies Vega20 GPU in Record Time on Azure
AMD engineers executed a physical verification pass of the Radeon Instinct Vega20 – its largest 7nm chip design – in ~10 hours on Microsoft Azure. The job used the TSMC-certified Calibre nmDRC software platform from Mentor, running…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Slothbot For Forestry Management
When we were involved in Forestry management, something like this could have been useful to better predict growth and management. We did imagine sensors on a moving platform, but nothing was workable at the time. Probably more…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Betrayed by GPS and Assistants
What does this mean? Can it also imply that visualizations are more trusted than they should be? I have only been betrayed by GPS/Maps a couple of times in a long history of using them. By my own navigation skills many
Been…
From insideHPC
Exascale for Everyone
The exascale hype has been gaining a lot of steam in the press lately, and for good reason. Ever since the petascale barrier was broken in 2008, technology users, companies and research institutions have set their ‘sites’ on
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI for Intelligent Sensing
Makes lots of sense to use AI type approaches to find patterns in data from sensors.
AI’s Role in Unleashing Intelligent Sensing
by Daniel Gutierrez
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is unlocking a wave of new sensor applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Better Alerting
Seems an obvious thing, but the use of alerts has come up in recent interactions as being key to getting things done effectively. How, How often and Followups. Interaction with Risk and Trust of the system and its resource
Reduce…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intelligence Cards
Had not heard of the term in particular. We repeat that Recorded Future has been acquired by Insight Partners.
Recorded Future Has Over 1 Billion Intelligence Cards in the RF Blog: By Zane Pokorny
Recorded Future’s database…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Permissioned vs Permissionless Blockchains
Was asked this question some time ago, and here a useful comparison via the Netis Group.
The difference between permissionless and permissioned networks and the implications.
From Schneier on Security
The Importance of Protecting Cybersecurity Whistleblowers
Interesting essay arguing that we need better legislation to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers. Congress should act to protect cybersecurity whistleblowers because information security has never been so important, or so challenging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microbots
Smaller and more of them to swarm to a problem.
The Microbots Are on Their Way By The New York Times
A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania has developed tiny robots.
Credit: Marc Miskin/University of Pennsylvania and
Marc…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Healthcare Company Anthem Transforms Digitally
Heathcare application is about numbers, analytics, resources, .... So it makes sense to tie it closely to technology for improvement. Here an example from McKinsey:
An insurance company transforms itself by putting technology…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Achieving Low Latency with the SPDK Storage Performance Development Kit
In this Intel Chip Chat podcast, Dr. Felipe Franciosi from Nutanix and Nate Marushak from Intel describe how the open source reference library called SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) brings higher performance to the…
From insideHPC
Benchmarking MPI Applications in Singularity Containers on Traditional HPC and Cloud Infrastructures
Andrei Plamada from ETH Zurich gave this talk at the hpc-ch forum on Cloud and Containers. "Singularity is a container solution that promises to both integrate MPI applications seamlessly and run containers without privilege
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Monitoring and Improving Process by Trusted Measuring and Adapting
Considerable article brought to my attention my Alex Renz. Connecting Distributed Ledgers and Operations Technology, Ultimately my closest goal. How do we improve process by measurement, goals and analytics? Here a novel
“OT…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What Do We do With AI?
William Vorhies at DSC does a good job of addressing this,
Now that We’ve Got AI What do We do with It?
Posted by William Vorhies
Summary: Whether you’re a data scientist building an implementation case to present to executives…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (June 1st 2019)
The DeepMind engineers built an artificial intelligence (a software program) that can learn to play 3D shooter games at super-human levels. Researchers have found a way to grow large quantities of cells that can generate blood…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Managing Bad Data
Self correcting data is a good idea, but want to see some examples. Its similar to removing outliers. It depends on the context and often metadata involved. Have seen it improperly used.
Researchers Develop AI Tool Better…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Life Stories Can be Told to a Google Home
A colleague and I talked this recently. Everyone with a family has a history, can this effectively record them?
How AI could be used to record our life stories
Everyone has a story to tell. But not everyone has someone to listen…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots and Work
Overstated, but good points are made. No doubt we will have to adjust to how we work, and the face of that will be automated.
For Lower-Paid Workers, the Robot Overlords Have Arrived
By The Wall Street Journal
May 6, 2019
Companies…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Senses from States
The use of simple states would suggest we could do some interesting things here.
Spidey Senses’ Could Help Autonomous Machines See Better
Purdue University News
By Kayla Wiles
Researchers at Purdue University, Nanyang Technology…
From insideHPC
Storage Advances for HPC and AI
In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, Robert Roe looks at storage technologies being developed to suit both AI and HPC workloads. The storage market is in a unique position, in that there is demand from…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Computer Scientist at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre
The Jülich Supercomputing Centre in Germany is seeking a Computer Scientist in our Job of the Week. "You will directly support and independently advance the code development of existing and new parallel scientific software. The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automated Trust?
From recent MIT conference.
Enterprise level trust
At MIT Technology Review’s recent Blockchain conference, we explored the notion of automating trust of “assets in motion” through the convergence of blockchain with other emerging…