Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2017
From insideHPC
Dell EMC Joins Atos Global Reseller Alliance
Today Atos in Europe announced a new reseller agreement in which Dell EMC will resell Atos’ high-end 8 to 16 sockets x86 Bullion servers. "Over the last few years, Dell EMC and Atos have been working together to combine Bullion…
From insideHPC
SC17 Invited Talk Preview: High Performance Machine Learning
Over at the SC17 Blog, Brian Ban begins his series of SC17 Session Previews with a look at a talk on High Performance Big Data. "Deep learning, using GPU clusters, is a clear example but many Machine Learning algorithms also
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From insideHPC
Gabriel Broner on Why Cloud is the Next Disruption in HPC
"Like the previous disruptions of clusters vs. monolithic systems or Linux vs. proprietary operating systems, cloud changes the status quo, takes us out of our comfort zone, and gives us a sense of lack of control. But the effect…
From insideHPC
Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Speed Altair RADIOSS with Hyperworks
In this video, Piush Patel describes how Intel Xeon Scalable Processors speed up Altair RADIOSS structural simulations with Hyperworks. "RADIOSS is a leading structural analysis solver for highly non-linear problems under dynamic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Samsung Bixby Rolling to 200 Countries
Virtual Assistant Bixby is interesting to watch for the large number and types of devices that Samsung can use it for. Still no indication of how 'AI' it is, please point me to somewhere I can test.
Samsung's Bixby rolled out…
From insideHPC
Machine Learning Technology: A Guide to Scaling Up and Out
Frameworks, applications, libraries and toolkits—journeying through the world of deep learning can be daunting. If you’re trying to decide whether or not to begin a machine or deep learning project, there are several points that…
From insideHPC
Unlike Oil and Water, Legacy and Cloud Mix Well
Despite the cloud hype, legacy HPC apps are alive and well. While it may seem like they can’t mix, the process of bursting these applications to the cloud is bringing these staples to cloud table. Avoiding rewrites can efficiently…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biology of the Evolution of Cooperation
Very old problem in Biology. Why should organisms cooperate? A solution? Could this same technique be used when solving genetic algorithms? Or say the collaborative genetic evolution of intelligent swarms?
New Model of Evolution…
From The Eponymous Pickle
An AI with Imagination
Google's DeepMind creates an AI with 'imagination'
The AI firm is developing algorithms that simulate the human ability to construct plans By Libby Plummer
" ... The real world is complex, rules are not so clearly defined and…
From Computational Complexity
The Crystal Blogaversity
A joint post from Lance and Bill
This blog started fifteen years ago today as "My Computational Complexity Web Log". Bill came on permanently in 2007 after Lance retired from the blog, a retirement that didn't even last a year…
From Schneier on Security
Insider Attack on Lottery Software
Eddie Tipton, a programmer for the Multi-State Lottery Association, secretly installed software that allowed him to predict jackpots. What's surprising to me is how many lotteries don't use real random number generators. What…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kroger Begins Home Delivery in Cincinnati
Have been watching Kroger assemble online orders in their Sharonville Ohio store for some time now as I shopped. These were for packing lot pickup.. Now they are starting to provide an option to directly ship the orders to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Camera Obscura Eclipse
91% Eclipse, Camera Obscura, Pinhole effect, filtered through a Maple,
dramatically reflected on our front porch.
From The Eponymous Pickle
NYC Algorithms and Optimization Site
Some interesting writeups. In the Google Research Blog:
Announcing the NYC Algorithms and Optimization Site
Monday, August 21, 2017
Posted by Vahab Mirrokni, Principal Research Scientist and Xerxes Dotiwalla, Product Manager,
New…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Using the Blockchain to Clean Up the Niger Delta
This seemed new, and wondered how it worked, gets back to how a Blockchain is a database. And here connected to an online sensor database of participants.
Using the Blockchain to Clean Up the Niger Delta
“We’re on the cusp
“We…
From The Eponymous Pickle
What do Customers Want from VR or AR?
What do consumers want when using AR or VR to shop? by George Anderson in RetailWire
It no longer seems like a question of if but when retailers will begin using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology to…
From insideHPC
Video: Baidu Releases Fast Allreduce Library for Deep Learning
In this video, from Andrew Gibiansky from Baidu describes baidu-allreduce, a newly released C library that enables faster training of neural network models across many GPUs. The library demonstrates the allreduce algorithm, which…
From insideHPC
Fayetteville State University Leverages Bright Cluster Manager for AI Research
Fayetteville State University is using Bright Cluster Manager for use in ground-breaking Artificial Intelligence research. Bright Cluster Manager enables the University to deploy complete clusters over bare metal and manage them…
From insideHPC
PRACE Offers Supercomputing 101 Course
PRACE is offering an online Supercomputing 101 course through the Future Learn program. This free online course will introduce you to what supercomputers are, how they are used and how we can exploit their full computational
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From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at Eclipse Simulations
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the eclipse and how researchers are using supercomputers to simulate the corona of the sun at eclipse time. After that, look at the the top Technology stories in our Catch of…
From Schneier on Security
iOS 11 Allows Users to Disable Touch ID
A new feature in Apple's new iPhone operating system -- iOS 11 -- will allow users to quickly disable Touch ID. A new setting, designed to automate emergency services calls, lets iPhone users tap the power button quickly five…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Coco for Enterprise Blockchain
Announcing the Coco Framework for enterprise blockchain networks
by Mark Russinovich CTO, Microsoft Azure
Blockchain is a transformational technology with the potential to extend digital transformation beyond a company’s four walls…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: Senior HPC Administrator at DownUnder GeoSolutions
DownUnder GeoSolutions (America) is seeking a Senior HPC Administrator in our Job of the Week. "If you are passionate about leading edge technology you will love this role. What you will receive, along with a fantastic group
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From insideHPC
Video: What is Wrong with Convolutional Neural Nets?
Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto gave this talk at the Vector Institute. "What is Wrong with 'standard' Convolutional Neural Nets? They have too few levels of structure: Neurons, Layers, and Whole Nets. We need
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Changing the Face of Retail
Not enough detail thoughts in this CustomerThink piece, but surely we will be doing increased automation and thus augmentation of how we buy and sell. In part depends on how we define AI. Points here are worth considering
How…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Category Management
Admit its been a long time since I have heard of digitized category management prescription. It deserves much better analytic method application. More discussion below:
Is it time to reinvent category management? In Retailwire…
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Replenishment
More looks at the retail replenishment angle, with discussion, also see Amazon's use of this idea:
Will the ‘SmartStockUp’ program drive replenishment sales for Boxed? by Matthew Stern
Consumers buy staple products in bulk
Boxed…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Introduction to GAN Engine, Applications
Good piece I have sent forward as an introduction to Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Especially with regard to useful applications.
Posted by Luba Belokon in DSC:
GAN Engine and Applications:
Generative adversarial networks…
From insideHPC
Video: Customers Leverage HPE & Intel Alliance for HPC
"Meeting the Enterprise Challenges of HPC System developers and users face obstacles deploying complex new HPC technologies, such as: energy efficiency, reliability and resiliency requirements, or developing software to exploit…
From insideHPC
NeSI in New Zealand Installs Pair of Cray Supercomputers
The New Zealand Science Infrastructure (NeSI) is commissioning a new HPC system with the main computation and storage infrastructure. "The new systems, provide a step change in power to NeSI’s existing services, including a Cray…