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 The Eponymous Pickle
About Xerox Parc
Worked some with and met at PARC early on. As a group that wanted to create the architecture of information, always wondered what happened to them. They did own the computing infrastructure. Were they really scalped…
From insideHPC
At ISC 2022: HPE Offering the High Performance Storage Used in Frontier – the No. 1 Supercomputer
In this interview with high performance storage enthusiast Ulrich Plechschmidt, worldwide product marketing HPC Storage at HPE, he updates us developments and milestones for the company’s storage product line. Included is the…
From insideHPC
SK hynix to Supply HBM3 DRAM to NVIDIA
Seoul, June 9, 2022 – SK hynix announced that it began mass production of HBM3, high-performance memory that vertically interconnects multiple DRAM chips “and dramatically increases data processing speed in comparison to traditional…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G and Microsoft Collaborate for Advanced Digital Manufacturing
My former employer goes for advanced digital manufacturing with Microsoft.
P&G and Microsoft co-innovate to build the future of digital manufacturing
Microsoft company logo. (PRNewsFoto/Microsoft Corp.) (PRNewsfoto/Microsoft Corp…From BLOG@CACM
AI as (an Ersatz) Natural Science?
The emergence of large learned models is changing the nature of artificial intelligence research in fundamental ways.
From BLOG@CACM
Machine Learning: Out! Data Science: In!
We propose to stop teaching machine learning courses to populations whose core discipline is neither computer science nor mathematics and statistics.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quantum Chip Comparisons and Claims
Supremacy of the Quantum Chip
Quantum Chip Takes Microseconds to Do a Task a Supercomputer Would Spend 9,000 Years On By Shelly Fan -June 7, 2022 in the SingularityHub
Are quantum computers overhyped?
A new study in Nature says…From insideHPC
Pure Storage Introduces FlashBlade//S for Unstructured Data and Application Growth
Los Angeles – June 8, 2022 — Today at Pure//Accelerate techfest22, data storage technology and services company Pure Storage announced the FlashBlade//S family of products with what the company described as a new modular architecture…
From The Eponymous Pickle
NFTs as a Tangled Thought
Good overview....
The Tangled Truth about NFTs and Copyright
If code is law, countless NFTs are built on buggy code
By James Grimmelmann, Yan Ji, and Tyler Kell Cornell Jun 8, 2022, in TheVerge
A long-running meme at The…From The Eponymous Pickle
Manhattan Project for Cyber Needed
Agree to this, will be a tough effort. How much will AI help us, versus helping the threats?
U.S. Needs New 'Manhattan Project' to Avoid Cyber Catastrophe By Newsweek, May 19, 2022
While the U.S. has maintained its primacyMuch…From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Hallucinates?
Intriguing thought. Helpful explanatory images at the link.
A machine-learning method hallucinates its way to better text translation by Lauren Hinkel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Overview of VALHALLA ArchitectureAs…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: On the Scene at ISC 2022 – HPE, AMD Make TOP500 News; Intel Makes News of Its Own
ISC 2022 in Hamburg was notable for a number of reasons – it was not only the first in-person ISC since 2019, it also provided a plethora of major news. This included big changes at the top of the TOP500 list of the world’s most…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Memory-level parallelism : Intel Ice Lake versus Amazon Graviton 3
One of the most expensive operation in a processor and memory system is a random memory access. If you try to read a value in memory, it can take tens of nanosecond on average or more. If you are waiting on the memory content…
From insideHPC
At ISC 2022: Inspur’s Jay Zhang on the Inspur-MEGWARE GPU Cluster at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
In this interview at ISC 2022, we spoke with Jay Zhang, Vice President of Inspur Global Business and CEO of Inspur Europe, about recent company developments and its joint development with European HPC solutions provider MEGWARE…
From insideHPC
At ISC 2022: AMD Talks TOP500-GREEN500 Double Win, Public Cloud HPC Instances, EPYC and instinct Chip Updates and What’s New for Xilinx FPGAs
At ISC 2022, the AMD booth was a constant beehive of activity – after all, AMD CPUs and GPUs are powering the new no. 1 supercomputer, Frontier, which is also the first HPC system to be exascale-certified. In this interview, …
From insideHPC
StorONE: Single Platform Integrates HDDs into NVMe-oF
NEW YORK – June 7, 2022 – Today, StorONE said it is the first company to enable hard disk drive (HDD) connectivity to NVMe-oF infrastructures, “dramatically reducing the cost of an NVMe solution by 10X or more,” according to …
From insideHPC
Quantum Computing Inc. Unveils Software Built to Expand Quantum Processing Power By Up to 20x
LEESBURG, Va., June 07, 2022 — Quantum Computing Inc. today unveiled QAmplify, a suite of quantum software technologies designed to expand the processing power of current quantum computers by up to 20x. QAmplify is intended to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
UT, Meta Create Digital Humans That Learn Complex Movements
Movements for interaction.
UT, Meta Create Digital Humans That Learn Complex Movements
University of Twente (Netherlands), May 23, 2022
Researchers at Meta's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Laboratory and at the University…From insideHPC
Sandia Researcher Ray Tuminaro Named SIAM Fellow
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ computational scientist and applied mathematician Ray Tuminaro has been named a 2022 Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics for “contributions in iterative…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Chip Supply Chain
ACM NEWS
Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage By Wired. June 6, 2022
McKinsey has tapped into the sense of urgency by creating a team dedicated to sourcing chips for the companies it consults for. Wiseman…From The Eponymous Pickle
Eye Biometrics
We experimented with in Retail settings.
The Eyes Have It By Samuel Greengard, Commissioned by CACM Staff, May 19, 2022
One of the things that makes biometrics so powerful is that it links humans and machines in a natural way…From The Eponymous Pickle
Very Small, An Insectothopter
Always been interested in very small biomimicy. Here mimicing insects, no longer around, or is it?
Meet the CIA’s Insectothopter Sadly, the 1-gram spy craft couldn’t withstand a gentle breeze, but later dragonfly-inspired UAVs…From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Laws and Laughs
Rules are a great way to get ideas. All you have to do is break them—Jack Foster Roy Amara was a researcher and president of the Institute for the Future. Among things he is known for is coining Amara’s law on the effect of technology…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Data structure size and cache-line accesses
On many systems, memory is accessed in fixed blocks called “cache lines”. On Intel systems, the cache line spans 64 bytes. That is, if you access memory at byte address 64, 65… up to 127… it is all on the same cache line. The…
From insideHPC
ALCF Developer Session June 30: Profiling Deep Learning Applications with NVIDIA Nsight
On Thursday, June 30 from 1-2 pm Centeral Time, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold a developer session on performance analysis techniques for deep learning applications using the NVIDIA Nsight Systems profiling…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Deep Sentinel Speaks to Suspicious Activiity.
Brought to my attention. Using voice to interact with detected suspicious activity. AI enabled.
California Security Surveillance Company curbs crime through AI, real-time human intervention, CEO says ... California-based security…From The Eponymous Pickle
PC and GPU Shipments Declined in Q1 2022
General slowdown or specific to device market?
PC and GPU Shipments Declined in Q1 2022 By Josh Norem on June 2, 2022 in ExtremeTech
Jon Peddie Research (JPR) has released its Q1 2022 analysis of the global PC and GPU market,…From The Eponymous Pickle
Guaranteed Smart Home Privacy?
Well tested in open contexts?
Peekaboo! A System to Guarantee Smart Home Privacy
Carnegie Mellon University CyLab Security and Privacy Institute
Daniel Tkacik, May 31, 2022
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's CyLab Security…From insideHPC
Inspur Information and MEGWARE Build GPU Cluster for Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Stuttgart, Germany — Inspur information, an IT infrastructure solutions provider, and MEGWARE, a high-performance computing (HPC) solutions provider in Europe, combined efforts for the scientific research capabilities of the …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Vint Cerf Invents a Company
Good process thoughts on digital, below only an excerpt, full at the link.
Digital Synergy, By Vinton G. Cerf
Communications of the ACM, June 2022, Vol. 65 No. 6, Page 9 10.1145/3534934
Google Vice President …