Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
July 2018
From insideHPC
TIGER Supercomputer Spins Up at Princeton
Princeton’s new flagship TIGER supercomputer is now up and running at their High-Performance Computing Research Center (HPCRC). As a hybrid system, TIGER is built from a combination of Intel Skylake chips and NVIDIA Pascal P100…
From insideHPC
Video: Whamcloud is Back – Lustre Today and Future
In this video from the DDN User Group at ISC 2018, Robert Triendl from DDN presents: DDN Acquires Lustre Business from Intel. With their new Whamcloud Business Unit, DDN has already brought key Lustre developers on board to accelerate…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Saturday Data Science Reading from DSC
Good Saturday Analytics and Data Science Reading from DSC
Always interesting, at various levels of complexity, join the DSC
Posted by Vincent Granville
Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Times Series with RNN Neural Nets
Been re-examining neural networks for time series models and forecasting. In the long ago work of modeling with neural nets we had determined it was not useful, but new architectures of ecurrent Neural nets RNN make it worth…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Talking about and Measuring Emotions
Way back when we worked with MIT on measuring emotions when people interacted with our products, we discovered the difficulty of measuring this consistently. Later when we looked at 'neuromarketing' methods, things were not…
From The Eponymous Pickle
GoToMeeting Links to Alexa, Voice Transcription
Like to see the closer integration between voice intelligence and meetings. A very obvious place to improve meeting efficiency and creating links for meeting supporting knowledge. But all this needs to be very transparent…
From insideHPC
What would you do with a Million cores?
Ian Colle from AWS gave this talk at the Univa Breakfast Briefing at ISC 2018. "To demonstrate the unique ability to run very large enterprise HPC clusters and workloads, Univa leveraged AWS to deploy 1,015,022 cores in a single…
From insideHPC
Mike Bernhardt Joins HPC User Forum Steering Committee
We are pleased to report that Mike Bernhardt has joined the membership of the HPC User Forum Steering Committee. Established in 1999, the HPC User Forum has a mission to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (July 6th, 2018)
In the United Kingdom, only a tiny minority of high school female students take computer science (0.4% in 2017). Physics is ten times more popular. Russians once drilled a 12-km deep hole. Apparently, it gets very hot as youContinue…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Unexpectedly Playing a Part in US/China Trade War
Chinese buyers are canceling orders to buy US squid in advance of an expected 25% tariff. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Autonomous Trucks in Logistics Centers
Makes lots of sense to experiment with this kind of approach where you have the most control.
Autonomous Trucks for Logistics Centers
By Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
The Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems…
From The Eponymous Pickle
On AI and the Erosion of Reality
This gets back to the whole question of transparency. Yes humans have long been manipulating this. The drawings on the cave walls to start with. I remember my earliest days in marketing asking the question, what is the
The…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft and Marks & Spenser
Not many details, but another example of retail likely using advanced machine learning pattern recognition approaches. Particular mention of optimizing operations, which would imply process, but not sure whose words these are…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Penn on Blockchains
A long 12 page article in my alumni Mag on Blockchains. With considerable emphasis on 'Smart Contracts'. Uses in Medicine and Law and elsewhere. Quite non technical. Could be good for executive browsing on the topic, with…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Thoughts Before #CSTA2018
My bags are packed. Normally I pack the night before a trip but my suitcase has been packed for days for my trip to the annual CSTA Conference. I even got a haircut this morning. I cleaned out my computer backpack and loadedSure…
From Schneier on Security
The NSA's Domestic Surveillance Centers
The Intercept has a long story about the NSA's domestic interception points. Includes some new Snowden documents....
From insideHPC
Network Switch Configuration with Dell EMC Ready Nodes
Storage networks are constantly evolving. From traditional Fibre Channel to IP-based storage networks, each technology has its place in the data center. IP-based storage solutions have two main network topologies to choose from…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at CIRC in Washington
The Center for Institutional Research Computing at Washington State University seeks exceptional applicants for the position of High-Performance Computing Systems Administrator. This position will play a vital role in the administration…
From insideHPC
New Rocket Supercomputer Powers HPC at Newcastle University
Researchers at Newcastle University are benefitting from a new HPC machine, called Rocket. "Workloads are driving an ever-growing set of data intensive challenges that can only be met with accelerated infrastructure,” said Werner…
From insideHPC
Microsoft Powers the Move to the HPC Cloud at PASC18
In this video from PASC18 in Basel, Dr. Lukasz Miroslaw from Microsoft describes how the company is helping customers move HPC & Big Compute workloads to the Cloud. "High performance computing, artificial intelligence, and other…
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Guide to Ensemble Learning, with my Cautions
Nicely done. Ensemble methodology means using a number of different solution methods to solve a problem, and finding the best individual or combination of methods. Caution must be taken to ensure that the assumptions for each…
From Putting People First
Problem solving desperately needs systems thinking
“If we want to overcome the systemic issues behind today’s problems, then we need to change the thinking that led to them to begin with, writes Dr. Leyla Acaroglu, award winning designer, UNEP Champion of the Earth, social scientist…
From Putting People First
People are your data
New York based writer Carrie Neill interviews tech ethnographer Tricia Wang on why the digital age means everyone (even non-researchers) should understand ”thick data”. Any modern person who calls themselves an ethnographer or…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How quickly can you compute the dot product between two large vectors?
A dot (or scalar) product is a fairly simple operation that simply sums the many products: float sum = 0; for (size_t i = 0; i < len; i++) { sum += x1[i] * x2[i]; } return sum; It is nevertheless tremendously important. You know…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35 2018
MIT Technology Review publishes an annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35, and they recently released their list of innovators for 2018. The list features over 20 innovators who are solving problems related to or using…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Was there a GE Model, and What Killed it?
I was impressed by what I saw at GE in a number of interactions, they have been mentioned in this blog from a tech perspective a number of times. Is it just because the tech has not yet clicked? This piece was enlightening
Who…
From BLOG@CACM
A Software Architect Is the Person You Blame
How efficient is your current software project, and could it potentially benefit from the addition of a software architect?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Income, wealth, intelligence and the fall of the American empire
Arcand‘s latest movie (the Fall of the American Empire) depicts a young man (Pierre-Paul Daoust) who is supposedly very intelligent, but not very wealthy. The movie begins with the character explaining that intelligence actually…
From Computational Complexity
Happy 90th Juris!
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Uncovering the Details
Good, detailed piece in the Tableau blog. Have used Tableau in two large enterprises, and its a great tool. But I further like the broader implication of the title. Analytics of any level of sophistication and 'intelligence'…