Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
June 2024
From insideHPC
The Growing Interest in On-Prem Quantum Computing
By Yuval Boger, QuEra Computing -- Companies and research institutions are leveraging early-stage quantum computers to experiment and serve as invaluable research and learning tools. By engaging with quantum computing today,
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From insideHPC
NCSA Names Chuck Pavloski Associate Director of Engagement
June 14, 2024 — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has named Chuck Pavloski, Ph.D., its new Associate Director of Engagement. The role was recently vacated by John Towns, who was promoted to Deputy Director of…
From insideHPC
DOE CSGF Announces Incoming 2024-25 Class
Ames, Iowa, June 14, 2024 — A record 40 students on the path to achieving doctorates in fields that emphasize use of computing and mathematics are now being welcomed into the Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate…
From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m appearing on a panel on Society and Democracy at ACM Collective Intelligence in Boston, Massachusetts. The conference runs from June 26 through 29, 2024, …From Schneier on Security
Demo of AES GCM Misuse Problems
This is really neat demo of the security problems arising from reusing nonces with a symmetric cipher in GCM mode.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Rolling your own fast matrix multiplication: loop order and vectorization
If you must multiply matrices, you should use dedicated libraries. However, we sometimes need to roll our own code. In C++, you can quickly write your own Matrix template: template <typename T> struct Matrix { Matrix(size_t rows…
From insideHPC
Quobyte Software-Defined Storage Brings Its HPC and Hyperscaler Heritage to AI Workloads
Quobyte comes from an HPC heritage as well as providing storage solutions for hyperscalers. “We wanted to bring HPC to the enterprise with the software approach that made the hyperscalers grow,” Kolbeck told us. “Quobyte is a…
From insideHPC
Argonne HPC Webinar July 17: Getting Started on Polaris and Nvidia Developer Tools Bootcamp
On Wednesday, July 17, 2024, 11 amf-1 pm Central Time, the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will hold an online webinar to introduce attendees to the Polaris computing environment. Aimed at participants who have experience…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Systems and Applications Challenges for the Emerging Bazaar of Accelerators Report Release
The CCC held the Systems and Applications Challenges for the Emerging Bazaar of Accelerators workshop in August of 2023 in Washington, DC. The workshop was organized by Catherine Schuman (University of Tennessee, Knoxville and…
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Algebraic Circuits
Most of my favorite theorems tell us something new about the world of complexity. But let's not forget the greatest technical challenges in our area: proving separations that are "obviously" true. Here's the most exciting such…
From Schneier on Security
AI and the Indian Election
As India concluded the world’s largest election on June 5, 2024, with over 640 million votes counted, observers could assess how the various parties and factions used artificial intelligence technologies—and what lessons that…
From insideHPC
Rambus Unveils PCIe 7.0 IP Portfolio for Data Center and AI SoCs
June 12, 2024 — Chip and silicon IP provider Rambus today announced the launch of its PCI Express(PCIe) 7.0 IP portfolio, a suite of IP solutions including: PCIe 7.0 Controller designed to deliver the high bandwidth, low latency…
From insideHPC
Scality RING Advances AI-Powered Genomic Research at SeqOIA Lab
SAN FRANCISCO – June 11, 2024 – Scality, a cyber-resilient storage for the AI era, today announced a large-scale deployment of its RING distributed file and object storage solution to optimize and accelerate the data lifecycle…
From insideHPC
Cerebras to Collaborate with Dell, and AMD, on AI Model Training
Specialty AI processor company Cerebras Systems today announced a collaboration with Dell Technologies to deliver AI compute infrastructure for generative AI. It includes a new memory storage solution powered by Dell and AMD
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Addressing the Unforeseen Harms of Technology Whitepaper Release
The CCC Council’s Addressing the Unforeseen Deleterious Impacts of Technology (AUDIT) task force, composed of Nadya Bliss, Kevin Butler, David Danks, Ufuk Topcu, and Matthew Turk, synthesized the two blog posts they released…
From Schneier on Security
Using AI for Political Polling
Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the successes and the flaws of public…
From insideHPC
Ayar Labs Names Intel Veteran Pooya Tadayon VP of Packaging and Test
SAN JOSE – June 11, 2024 – Optical interconnect company Ayar Labs today announced the appointment of Pooya Tadayon as its Vice President of Packaging and Test. Tadayon was formerly a Fellow and Director of Assembly & Test Pathfinding…
From insideHPC
Oak Ridge Lab: Researchers Use AI for Autonomous Discovery and Optimization of Materials
Researchers are developing ways to accelerate discovery by combining automated experiments, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. A novel tool developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory that leverages those
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From insideHPC
Viridien Joins with Ranch Computing on Digital Media
Paris | Jun 11, 2024 — Viridien, formerly CGG, has announced a high-performance computing (HPC) agreement with Ranch Computing, a French rendering farm based in Paris, to pursue innovation in the digital media industry. Viridien…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Council Member Pamela Wisniewski Appointed to DARPA ISAT Study Group
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) continues to be amazed by the accomplishments of our council members. On May 31, Pamela Wisniewski was appointed to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Science…
From Schneier on Security
LLMs Acting Deceptively
New research: “Deception abilities emerged in large language models“:
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are currently at the forefront of intertwining AI systems with human communication and everyday life. Thus, aligning…From insideHPC
Quantum: OTI Lumionics Selects Nord Quantique to Test Materials Science Applications
TORONTO and SHERBROOKE, Quebec (June 11, 2024) – OTI Lumionics, developer of advanced materials for consumer electronics, and Nord Quantique, a quantum computing company with advanced error correction, today announce a partnership…
From The Noisy Channel
Bags of Documents and the Cluster Hypothesis
My writing on AI-powered search promotes the “bag-of-documents” model, which represents a search query as a distribution of vectors for relevant documents. When the document vectors are available (i.e., for frequent queries),…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: A Deep Dive into the Stanford AI Index Report
For an analysis of the state of AI, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) produces an annual AI Index that breaks down the industry into key thematic areas. In this Lenovo-sponsored episode of the @HPCpodcast, Shahin…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC responds to National Institute of Justice on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Imagine a situation where an AI system labels someone as high risk without taking into account important factors like their low income, family responsibilities, and parental duties. It’s crucial to realize that most defendants…
From insideHPC
Sigma2 Collaborates with Iris.ai on Research through Access to HPC in Europe
Trondheim, Norway June 10 – Sigma2 AS, Norway’s official provider of national e-infrastructure resources for research, has announced its collaboration with Iris.ai, providing substantial levels of High-Performance Computing capacity…
From insideHPC
Synopsys Announces PCIe 7.0 IP for HPC-AI Chip Design
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 10, 2024 — Synopsys (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced what it said is the industry’s first PCIe 7.0 IP solution consisting of controller, IDE security module, PHY, and verification IP. The company said the…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240610: Clinical Trials for HPC-Discovered Drug, New Liquid Cooling Technique, CHIPS Act Update, Low Memory-Low Power AI
Good June morning! It’s been an interesting week in HPC-AI, here’s a quick (6:53) review of the latest news and trends: Clinical trials for cancer fighting drug discovered with Livermore HPC, Sandia Labs and Submer immerse entire…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Welcoming Suzhou ACM-W Professional Chapter
As we celebrate the establishment of the new ACM-W professional chapter, we are all thrilled to envision what lies ahead for the founders and members in the coming year. The Vice Chair Jia Wang (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)…
From Schneier on Security
Exploiting Mistyped URLs
Interesting research: “Hyperlink Hijacking: Exploiting Erroneous URL Links to Phantom Domains“:
Abstract: Web users often follow hyperlinks hastily, expecting them to be correctly programmed. However, it is possible those links…