Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2015
From The Eponymous Pickle
Making Store Data Meaningful
In the Cisco Blog: Somewhat obvious, but deserves to be thought through. For origin and comparison of data. Consider also related metadata that will make it meaningful. " .... As an omnichannel retailer, you are probablyBut…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 13
Senate Floor: Every Child Achieves Act, S. 1177 Education legislation relevant to K-12 computer science courses and teachers. Tuesday, July 14, 2015 Hearing: Oversight of the United States Department of Homeland Security House…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CISE Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) Webinar
The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Research Initiation Initiative (CRII) program is for research and teaching faculty in the first two years of their appointments. In 2014-15, the first year of the program…
From insideHPC
Seagate Adopts IBM Spectrum Scale GPFS
Today Seagate announced it is integrating IBM Spectrum Scale software with its ClusterStor HPC storage to deliver a new software defined storage appliance. The new appliance will help users manage the demands of data-intensive…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
What is real programming?
I’m tempted to just leave the question there, get some popcorn and watch sparks fly. A lot of discussion on more or less that topic in the comments on a blog post Mark Guzdial wrote recently Do blocks equal “making” and text …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marianos Supermarket Experience
I am used to Jungle Jim's nearby, which does provide experience, but here is yet more.Via Steve Frenda, The Path to Purchase Institute:Mariano's latest... A supermarket experience like I've never seen - ta •Mariano's latest..…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Zen of the Apple Store Experience
Agreed, have a number of times visited an Apple store and asked myself, How could a retailer match this? Its a novel experience, linked to some novel offerings. Like the Marianos supermarket experience? But is the tech novelty…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talk on the Digital Age
Recent talk by my colleague Suna Polat from CimData on innovation in a digital age. As it relates to PLM. Slides and audio. Nicely done. Also some interesting details about how P&G worked in this area. They write about"…
From insideHPC
Latest HPCG Performance List Complements TOP500
The latest High Performance Conjugate Gradients (HPCG) Benchmark list will be announced in a special session this week at ISC 2015. This is the third list produced for the emerging benchmark designed to complement the traditional…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 13 July 2015
Usually I write these up on Sunday so it will be ready first thing in the morning on Monday. This week I am at the annual CSTA Conference and I was in networking events and a great workshop by Mark Guzdial and Barbara Ericson…
From Computational Complexity
Is there an easier proof? A less messy proof?
Consider the following statement: BEGIN STATEMENT: For all a,b,c, the equations x + y + z = a x2 +y2 + z2 = b x3 + y3 + z3 = c has a unique solution (up to perms of x,y,z). END STATEMENT One can also look at this with…
From insideHPC
Numascale Sets New World Record on STREAM Benchmark
Today Numascale announced record-breaking results from a shared memory system running the McCalpin STREAM Benchmark, a synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth and the corresponding computation rate…
From insideHPC
IBM and NVIDIA Launch Centers of Excellence at ORNL and LLNL
Today IBM along with Nvidia and two U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories today announced a pair of Centers of Excellence for supercomputing – one at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the other at the Oak…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Study Confirms Critical Need for Computer Science Evaluation Tools
A recent study released by the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) highlights the need for valid and reliable source assessment of student learning and calls upon the computer science education community to assist in…
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Boosts Tundra Open Compute Servers with ThunderX Processors
Today Penguin Computing announced the availability of their Open Compute Project (OCP) compliant Tundra server family based on Cavium’s 64-bit ARMv8 ThunderX workload optimized processors.
The post Penguin Computing Boosts Tundra…From insideHPC
Slidecast: HPC & Big Data Update from HP
"As data explodes in volume, velocity and variety, and the processing requirements to address business challenges become more sophisticated, the line between traditional and high performance computing is blurring,” said Bill …
From insideHPC
HP and Intel Team on Scalable System Framework
HP is bringing Intel's Scalable System Framework to its HP Apollo servers.
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From Putting People First
Why are microwave ovens all so difficult to use?
The first ‘science oven’, launched in 1967, was simple to use but then digital interfaces came along and made things worse. The real problem, according to Charles Arthur, is that microwave ovens live too long. “In the end, I …
From insideHPC
Allinea Releases ARM 64-bit Development Tool Suite
Today Allinea Software announced that their Allinea Forge development tool suite is now available for ARM platforms. The tool suite, renowned for its ability to master multi-process and multi-threaded Linux applications, includes…
From insideHPC
TACC to Acquire Cray XC40 Supercomputer
Today Cray announced the Company has been awarded a contract to provide a Cray XC40 supercomputer to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). This contract marks the first ever Cray supercomputer to be installed at TACC.
The…From insideHPC
Offload vs Onload: How Mellanox Champions Flexibility and Scalability
In this video, Gilad Shainer from Mellanox discusses how the company's off-load model of InfiniBand reduces overhead on the CPU and provides maximum application performance.
The post Offload vs Onload: How Mellanox ChampionsinsideHPC…From insideHPC
OpenACC Toolkit is now Free for Academia
Over at the Nvidia Blog, Paresh Kharya writes that the company is releasing its OpenACC Toolkit as a free download for Academia.
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From insideHPC
Latest Xeon Processors come to SGI UV In-Memory Supercomputers
Today SGI announced a 30 percent increase in TOP500 systems and new additions to their SGI UV family of large-memory supercomputers.
The post Latest Xeon Processors come to SGI UV In-Memory Supercomputers appeared first on insideHPC…From insideHPC
NICE Releases EnginFrame 2015
Today Nice Software in Italy announced the release of EnginFrame 2015, the most powerful and easy-to-use web-based front end for accessing technical and scientific applications in the cloud.
The post NICE Releases EnginFrame…From insideHPC
10 Fastest Machines Look Familiar on New TOP500 List
The latest TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released this morning at the ISC 2015 conference in Frankfurt, Germany. And while there was little change in the upper ranks of the list, the TOP500 continues to…
From insideHPC
E4 Computer Engineering Accelerates ARM with GPUs
Today E4 Computer Engineering announced their first orders for Cavium ThunderX-based ARKA servers.
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From The Eponymous Pickle
New Google Glass for Enterprise
A new Google Glass. More focused is good. Rumored. Like I have mentioned here a number of times, we examined and tested similar methods for manufacturing maintenance applications. Will this succeed where the VR glasses as…
From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Open Source Commitment
In SiliconAngle: SAP's commitment to open source. " .... SAP SE is dedicated to helping businesses respond to market demands around the clock, according to Steve Lucas, president of Platform Solutions at SAP. Its partnership…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
The Long Reach of Reachability
Workshop on Infinite State Systems at the Bellairs Institute on Barbados Cropped from source Joel Ouaknine is a Professor of Computer Science at Oxford University and a Fellow of St. John’s College there. He was previously a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Do Data Visualization Right to Promote Data Asset Value
This Forbes piece suggests further that you should visualize data only when you need to. I disagree, it is so easy and cheap today, all data should be visualized. At very least it can alert you to later unexpected changes that…