Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2022
From insideHPC
Ericsson Group CIO Joines Board of HPC Colo Provider atNorth
Stockholm – 16 June 2022 – atNorth, a Nordic data center operator based in Iceland, today announces the appointment of Mats Hultin to its board of directors. As CIO and head of Group IT at Ericsson, Mats is responsible for Ericsson…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Shows Annealing Quantum Prototype
PALO ALTO, Calif. & BURNABY, B.C. — June 16, 2022 — Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems today announced it is showcasing an experimental prototype of the next-generation Advantage2 annealing quantum computer in the Leap
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Basic Robotic task, Rummaging?
Task of everyday life.
Robot Can Find Keys in a Bag by Listening as It Rummages
New Scientist, Jeremy Hsu, June 13, 2022
.Stanford University's Maximilian Du and colleagues have trained a microphone-outfitted robotic arm to locate…From The Eponymous Pickle
Using the Craft of the Pitch
Having worked with a company that was well known for pitches of all sorts.
Persuasion, Hollywood style in Strategy-Business
Professors Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis explain how leaders can enhance their persuasive skills by…From insideHPC
Jülich Supercomputing Center to Be 2023 Home to JUPITER, Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer
Jülich, Germany — June 15, 2022 – At yesterday’s inauguration of the pre-exascale LUMI supercomputer in Kajaani, Finland, EuroHPC in decided that Forschungszentrum Jülich Supercomputing Center will be home to JUPITER, slated
…
From insideHPC
Avery Design Systems Announces Verification Support for New Chiplet Interconnect Standard
Tewksbury, MA – June 15, 2022 – Avery Design Systems, a functional verification solutions company, today announced its support for the new UCIe (Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express) standard, providing an efficient approach…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Once Again: Smart Shopping Carts
Experimented with similar approaches in the 90s in our retail labs. Will it work now? Still needs a really clear reason to play.
Will smart shopping carts transform the shopping experience at Albertsons? In Retailwire byCustomers…From The Eponymous Pickle
Next Generation Weather Reporting/Prediction
We now all have increasingly good phone based weather systems. Adding better sensors.
Next-Generation Weather Reporting: Versatile, Flexible, Economical Sensors, By Osaka Metropolitan University (Japan)
May 20, 2022
The versatile…From insideHPC
Registration Opens for Open Compute Project Summit, Oct. 18-20
Registration for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit, October 18-20 in San Jose, is now open. Registration information can be found here. The summit is a gathering of technologists looking to apply the benefits of open source…
From insideHPC
Women in HPC Returns to In-Person Events at ISC 2022 in Hamburg
June 15, 2022 — The Women in HPC (WHPC) organization released this report on its activities at the ISC 2022 conference earlier this month in Hamburg. Members, allies and friends gathered together for the 13th Annual WHPC Workshop…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Calgary to become Canada Quantum City Hub
Canada using regional hubs for emerging tech.
ACM TECHNEWS
Alberta Investing C$23 Million Toward U of C's Quantum City, By Calgary Herald (Canada), June 14, 2022
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced that the Canadian province…From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI Can Invent in the US?
Related to some of the work I did with the DOD on intellectual property definition and rights. How will this influence use? How will the invention be assigned? Will follow up on the ruling.
U.S. court will soon rule if AI…From The Eponymous Pickle
Metaverse, Reality and Myth
We worked with the Metaverse in some of its earliest forms, like Second Life. And integrated it with gaming systems. Wrote about all that here.
Probing reality and myth in the metaverse June 13, 2022 | Article in McKinsey…From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeking Hyperautomation?
Should be started by addressing key processes. Automating and checking the results, while putting in place a means of re-checking the results over time. Schedule re-checks in context. Make sure all stake-holders get a serious…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Simulating a Faster Path to Quantum Computing
Impressed by the number of efforts underway regarding quantum ...
Simulating a Faster Path to Quantum
By Tim Hornyak, Commissioned by CACM Staff, June 14, 2022 in ACM
In a bid to accelerate the development of quantum computingQuantum…From The Eponymous Pickle
How Do Quantum Computers Work?
Here a non technical view, intro here, more at the link:
What Is Quantum Entanglement? Skip the heady and abstract physics lectures. Let’s talk about socks By DAN GARISTO in IEEE Spectrum
When pushed to explain why quantum…From The Eponymous Pickle
Having Your Very Own Digital Twin
Beyond Alexa or Meta Avatars. Likely healthcare applications early on. New realm of plug in simulations to model the possibilities.
Why you may have a thinking digital twin within a decade By Jane Wakefield, BBC Technology…From The Eponymous Pickle
Types of Visibility That Boost Supply Chain Resilience
With Ukraine examples,
The Two Types of Visibility That Boost Supply Chain Resilience in SupplyChain Brain
The pandemic and war in Ukraine have caused serious disruption to supply chains. Analysis by Interos shows that more than…From insideHPC
Quantinuum: Hardware Upgrade Completed with 20 Connected Qubits
BROOMFIELD, Colo., June 14, 2022 – Quantinuum today announced an upgrade to its System Model H1 technology that includes expanding to 20 fully connected qubits and increasing the number of quantum operations that can be completed…
From insideHPC
At ISC: Panasas Spotlights New Products for High Performance HPC/AI and Enterprise Storage
At ISC 2022, we caught up with Panasas Chief Operating Officer Brian Peterson, who caught us up on the high performance storage company’s latest product and market developments. Peterson, who joined Panasas last November, said…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Food Prices Going Up
Inflation is real
Food prices are going up, up, up. Inflation is tough, tough, tough. in RetailWire
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday reported that food-at-home prices rose 11.9 percent over the last 12 months, the largest…From insideHPC
Synopsys Work Flows Certified for Next-Generation Mobile and HPC Designs on TSMC N3E and N4P Processes
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 13, 2022 — Aiming to help customers optimize performance, power and area (PPA) for next-generation system-on-chips (SoCs) used in mobile and high-performance computing applications, Synopsys, Inc. …
From insideHPC
EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Launches LUMI, Europe’s Top HPC System
June 13, 2022 — LUMI was inaugurated today, with the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking calling it the organization’s first pre-exascale supercomputer and now Europe’s most powerful supercomputer. It was launched in Kajaani, Finland. …
From insideHPC
insideHPC’s Exclusive ISC 2022 Video Interviews
Check out our exclusive video interviews from the ISC 2022 conference! You can find them on the right side of our home page. They include: AMD – An update on the EPYC CPUs and Instinct GPUs powering the new no. 1 supercomputer…
From insideHPC
Sentient AI? Google Suspends Engineer over Claims LaMDA AI Is a Person with Rights
It’s commonly said AI is being overhyped, but even so, some claims can get you in trouble. That’s the irony of a situation Google finds itself in. The company has suspended one its software engineers who claimed its natural
…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Transport
My long term interest and application, especially rail and truck. And related to logistics and maintenance management
Here’s what’s driving the future of transport from McKinsey
Nearly every element of our lives has a digital…From insideHPC
Two Key Considerations of a Composable Infrastructure Cluster
In this sponsored post, our friends over at Silicon Mechanics indicated that these days, they’re getting a lot of interest from clients about composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI), including what the most critical elements…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deploying Deep Learning
Most interesting article...
Lessons From Deploying Deep Learning to Production
By The Gradient May 18, 2022
Peter Gao is the co-founder and CEO of Aquarium, and he previously worked on machine learning for self-driving cars,In…From The Eponymous Pickle
Algae Powered ARM Chips for Low Energy
Note low energy specification. How practical at this time?
Scientists Create Algae Computer Powered by Photosynthesis By The Verge, May 17, 2022
Scientists have used algae to power a low-energy computer chip for six months.
…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Sorting and Proving
A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts—Morris Kline Tony Hoare is also known informally as Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare. He has made key contributions to programming languages, algorithms, operating systems, formal…