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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Washington News – Alerts and Updates
General Announcements * Nominations for ACM Distinguished Member are due by August 3. Security * The U.S. Department of Commerce is accepting public comments on proposed revisions to definitions in the Export Administration Regulations…
From insideHPC
Transtec Powers Remote Visualization at ISC 2015
In this video from ISC 2015, Oliver Tennert from Transtec describes how the company's Remote Visualization solutions are empowering customers with flexibility for their computing workloads. "We have a lot of customers from the…
From insideHPC
JMI Breaks LINPACK Record with CoolIT Systems
Today CoolIT Systems announced that the Jamia Millia Islamia University (JMI) of New Dehli has been awarded first place in the LINPACK test at the ISC Student Cluster Competition 2015 in Frankfurt using a liquid cooled configuration…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Enabling vs Controlling
In HBS Working Knowledge. Thoughtful distinction. Traditional v Platform mode.Enabling Versus Controllingby Andrei Hagiu and Julian WrightWidespread adoption of Internet and mobile technologies has made it possible to build…
From insideHPC
Video: AMD Firepro S9170 GPU Speeds HPC Applications
"The AMD FirePro S9170 server GPU can accelerate complex workloads in scientific computing, data analytics, or seismic processing, wielding an industry-leading 32GB of memory. We designed the new offering for supercomputers to…
From insideHPC
Univa Joins CNCF Cloud Native Computing Foundation
Today Univa joins Google, IBM, and other world-class companies founding members of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The new CNCF organization will accelerate the development of cloud native applications and services…
From insideHPC
Cray XC40 Coming to Bureau of Meteorology in Australia
Today Cray announced the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia has awarded the Company a contract worth up to $53 million to provide a Cray XC40 supercomputer and a Cray Sonexion 2000 storage system. This further strengthens Cray…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
We need to go beyond the web
Cegłowski, a web designer, wrote a beautiful essay called “Web Design: The First 100 Years“. His essay starts with a review of the aerospace industry… Back in 1965, it looked like aerospace was the future. Each successive plane…
From insideHPC
High Performance Computing in Defense Intelligence
Technological advancements in hardware and software products allow analysts to process larger amounts of data rapidly, allowing them time to apply human judgment and experience to intelligence problems. This article examines …
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 20
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 Hearing: Protecting the Electric Grid from the Potential Threats of Solar Storms and Electromagnetic Pulse Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee 10 am | 342 Dirksen Senate Office…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Speed, Context, Functionality
Some obvious and useful things to consider.Analytics Leaders Target Speed, Context, FunctionalityAmong the emerging trends in the data analytics business is the desire for faster access to business insights with improved context…
From The Eponymous Pickle
HR Algorithms
HR Analytics Algorithms - The Insightful HR Executive Route To Top Corporate Leadership! by Raja Sengupta
From The Eponymous Pickle
PepsiCo R&D
PepsiCo overhauls R&D to innovate, boost salesA major research and development overhaul helped PepsiCo innovate with new products, including Tostitos Cantina and Mountain Dew Kickstart, which have earned the company more than…
From XRDS
What is topic modeling?
Topic modeling is an Information Retrieval (IR) technique that discovers representative topics from a collection of documents. Thus, we expect that logically related words will co-exist in the same document more frequently than…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Charleston Teach Meet Day One
This week I am in Charleston SC at Porter-Gaud School meeting with about a dozen teachers from around the US and two teachers from Scotland. It’s a bit unusual in several ways. First the small size of the group. Secondly the …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cortana Voice Assistant
Will be shipped with Windows 10. Connected with analytics, but it is unclear still what that will look like. This with compete with a number of other assistant systems like Siri. See my previous note which includes a list…
From insideHPC
Altair Moves forward with PBS Pro 13 at ISC 2015
In this video from ISC 2015, Bill Nitzberg from Altair describes why PBS Professional 13.0 is the biggest release yet for the company. "The industry needs to accomplish a lot in the coming years to deliver a working, useful exascale…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Target's Innovation and Technology Center
Retailer Target's innovation Center. Sounds like what we were up to in 2000, see tags on that below. An innovation center for home and store. So what is retail's 'next thing'? Good details and pics" .. This scene and others…
From insideHPC
HPC Gives Oil and Gas a Companies Edge
As worldwide demand for energy continues to rise, the oil industry is working to satisfy demand for the hydrocarbon part of that equation. High performance computing is becoming critical to companies that are seeking new sources…
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Shape of Data
In O'Reilly: The Application of mathemtical topology to data architecture. " ... Data has a shape ... Using topology to uncover the shape of your data: An interview with Gurjeet Singh. ... "
From insideHPC
Russians Enhance RSC Tornado Cluster Solution
At ISC 2015 last week, Russian supercomputing vendor RSC Group showcased its next generation RSC Tornado cluster solution. Enhanced with higher computing density, energy efficiency, and operational stability "hot water" mode,…
From insideHPC
Video: Asetek Showcases Liquid Cooling at ISC 2015
In this video from ISC 2015, Steve Branton from Asetek describes a series of high profile supercomputing upgrades that show the growing momentum of Asetek liquid cooling in the HPC market. "Asetek customers are using the company's…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Seeks Public Comments on Privacy Risk Management Framework for Federal Information Systems
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is accepting public comments on a draft report, Privacy Risk Management for Federal Information Systems, which describes a privacy risk management framework for federal…
From insideHPC
Dr. Eng Lim Goh on Important HPC Trends at ISC 2015
Dr. Eng Lim Goh from SGI discusses important trends in HPC including pending changes coming to processors/accelerators, memory hierarchy, and interconnects. "SGI, the trusted leader in high performance computing, is focused on…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Interesting Links 20 July 2015
If this is Monday it must be Charleston. Seriously though I am in Charleston SC for a two day mini conference with a small group of great educators. More on that when I get home in a few days. Last week was the CSTA Conference…
From Schneier on Security
Google's Unguessable URLs
Google secures photos using public but unguessable URLs: So why is that public URL more secure than it looks? The short answer is that the URL is working as a password. Photos URLs are typically around 40 characters long, so…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Looks to Isotope for Liquid-cooled Switches
Today Iceotope announced that it has developed the first fan-less Mellanox-based InfiniBand and Ethernet high-performance network and interconnect switch for HPC. Combined with Iceotope’s technology, Mellanox’s high-performance…
From The Eponymous Pickle
PLM Industry Summary
From CIMdata: News and I am reviewing this technology area. As it relates to the PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Economy. I am reviewing this technology as it connects to both innovation and data architecture choices…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Strong a Culture?
In KelloggInsight: A topic I have been long been intrigued with. But can a culture's strength be measured in context? A podcast. " ... Is Your Company Culture Too Strong? A diversity of viewpoints can help organizations…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
EAC Technical Guidelines Development Committee Will Meet July 20-21
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission announced the members of the renewed Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC). The Committee will hold its first meeting on July 20-21 at the NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg,…