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
Podcast: Deep Learning for Scientific Data Analysis
In this NERSC News Podcast, Debbie Bard from NERSC describes how Deep Learning can help scientists accelerate their research. "Deep learning is enjoying unprecedented success in a variety of commercial applications, but it is…
From insideHPC
Extreme Scale Deep Learning at NERSC
Thorsten Kurth from LBNL gave this talk at the PASC18 conference. "We present various studies on very large scale distributed deep learning on HPC systems including the ~10k node Intel Xeon-Phi-based Cori system at NERSC. We
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From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Connections – July 2018
Letter from ACM-W Chair News from ACM-W Celebrations News from ACM-W Europe Welcome from the ACM-W Chair The projects of ACM-W have reduced activity during the months of June, July and August. This gives us an opportunity to…
From insideHPC
Legendary Magnum InfiniBand Switch comes to Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley recently added a piece of TACC's history into their permanent historical collection — sealing its place as a milestone in computing.
We're always searching around the world for new…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: System Administrator at DE Shaw Research
DE Shaw Research in New York is seeking a System Administrator in our Job of the Week. Ideal candidates should have strong fundamental knowledge of Linux concepts such as file systems, networking, and processes in addition to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predicting Drug Side Effects
AI Helps Stanford Computer Scientists Predict Side Effects of Drug Combinations
Stanford News
By Nathan Collins
Stanford University's Marinka Zitnik, Monica Agrawal, and Jure Leskovec have developed an artificial intelligence system…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Says Data, Utility Key to Voice
Having been involved in a test of IBM voice systems, this view is interesting. Its a new channel that many people are using, so marketers must understand it.
IBM says data and utility are the keys to brand success in voice
Chief…
From BLOG@CACM
Algorithms Have Been Around for 4,000 Years
For some years now, the terms "algorithms", "digitization" and "artificial intelligence" have become commonplace. However, these terms are rarely explained. One has the impression these achievements are new, which is by no means…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skill Development for Prime Day
The latest for Amazon Skills developers, with particular attention paid for how to use skills for up coming Prime day. Insightful:
How to Prime Your Skill for Prime Day:
Prime Day is one of the biggest shopping days of the year…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Data Catalogs, Approaches, not new
Yes, we know this, and just because some call it AI, does not mean we won't have to gather the data consistently and continually to solve real problems.
Analytics Industrial Revolution- From The Occult to the Ordinary
By Snehamoy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Chemistry Lessons via VR
And also supporting experimentation with a biochemistry simulation environment, say for Pharma research. Human augmentation.We did some related research, reported on here.
It's Time for a Chemistry Lesson. Put on Your Virtual…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning Data Catalogs
Makes sense, also connecting the data to its actual meaning, semantic ontologies, is also good to do in the same place. It should be a broader aspect of governance. It is also an important fundamental aspect of interpretability…
From insideHPC
Moab Cloud for the HPC Suite Adds New Capabilities
Today Adaptive Computing Enterprises announced that it has changed the name of its flagship software product “Moab” to “Moab Cloud for the HPC Suite.” The new name more accurately reflects the product’s additional cloud-bursting…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Demonstrates Large-Scale Programmable Quantum Simulation
Today D-Wave Systems announced the publication of a significant scientific result in the peer-reviewed journal Science. The article, titled “Phase transitions in a programmable spin glass simulator,” details how a D-Wave 2000Q…
From insideHPC
ISC 2018: NVIDIA DGX-2 — The World’s Most Powerful AI System on Display
In this video, Satinder Nijjar from NVIDIA describes the new DGX-2 GPU supercomputer. "Experience new levels of AI speed and scale with NVIDIA DGX-2, the first 2 petaFLOPS system that combines 16 fully interconnected GPUs for…
From insideHPC
Supermicro Workstation Optimized for Intel’s New Xeon E-2100 Processors
Today Supermicro introduced first-to-market workstation optimized for the new Intel Xeon E-2100 processors. "From professionals to content creators, our customers will benefit from the performance and reliability that these
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From insideHPC
DDN Steps Up to HPC & AI Workloads at ISC 2018
In this video from ISC 2018, James Coomer from DDN describes the company's latest high performance storage technologies for AI and HPC workloads. "Attendees at ISC 2018 learned how organizations around the world are leveraging…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Trash Cans Again
We saw a related device and tested it in our lab smart home, it was designed to detect what you threw away, and then reorder that item. Or it least put it on your shopping list. It was not reliable. It depended on accuracy…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Offers Framework to Solve AI System Challenges
At the recent NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2018, Jensen Huang, NVIDIA President and CEO, during his presentation focused on a new framework designed to contextualize the key challenges using AI systems and delivering…
From BLOG@CACM
Mainstream Enough For Me
The worst possible choice of e-mail recipient.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurala Building Ways to Deliver Machine Learning
Have not seen or tried this, making training, use and validation of such models is very useful.
Neurala launches its Brain Builder to speed up neural network data preparation By Mike Wheatley
Artificial intelligence startup…
From Schneier on Security
Gas Pump Hack
This is weird: Police in Detroit are looking for two suspects who allegedly managed to hack a gas pump and steal over 600 gallons of gasoline, valued at about $1,800. The theft took place in the middle of the day and went on…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Antifungal Squid-Egg Coating
The Hawaiian bobtail squid coats its eggs with antifungal bacteria. 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 guidelines here....
From The Noisy Channel
A/B Testing for Search is Different
A/B testing is a critical tool for improving search products. While A/B testing has limitations and shouldn’t be the only analytical method you use, it’s the single most valuable and versatile tool for determining whether the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Power of Small Independent Teams
We did this in the AI space. Yes, provided they are not siloed and have connections to the right resources to build and validate their work. They also have especially good value when connecting to outside the company resources…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More on Kroger Fashions, Marketplace Experience
Toured and Wandered the Kroger Marketplace experience yesterday. Impressive, my only argument was against the sheer sizeof it. Everything seems to be there, but where? Will their new edge system include a navigation capability…
From insideHPC
Video: Kathy Yelick from LBNL Testifies at House Hearing on Big Data Challenges and Advanced Computing
In this video, Kathy Yelick from LBNL describes why the US needs to accelerate its efforts to stay ahead in AI and Big Data Analytics. "Data-driven scientific discovery is poised to deliver breakthroughs across many disciplines…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Conversation with Chris Eliasmith
Another good conversation about AI. I don't always report these but they are all out at the link.
Voices in AI – Episode 58: A Conversation with Chris Eliasmith
By Byron Reese, Podcast and transcript
Episode 58 of Voices in AI…
From insideHPC
Video: Lustre / ZFS at Indiana University
Steve Simms from Indiana University gave this talk at the DDN User Group meeting in Frankfurt. "ZFS backed OST’s can be migrated to new hardware or to existing reconfigured hardware by leveraging ZFS snapshots and ZFS send/receive…
From insideHPC
Podcast: Evolving MPI for Exascale Applications
In this episode of Let's Talk Exascale, Pavan Balaji and Ken Raffenetti describe their efforts to help MPI, the de facto programming model for parallel computing, run as efficiently as possible on exascale systems. "We need to…