Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2023
From insideHPC
Groq Selects Samsung Foundry
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 15, 2023 — AI systems company Groq today announced it has contracted with Samsung’s US-based foundry business to be its silicon partner for Groq’s product roadmap. Groq said its next-gen silicon, to…
From insideHPC
Zadara Partners with Node4 to Support Veeam BaaS Offering
IRVINE, Calif. August 21, 2023 – Edge cloud services company Zadara today announced it has partnered with Node4, a leading digital transformation and managed services provider (MSP), to deliver a multi-tenanted immutable and
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From insideHPC
DOE Announces $70M in Research Training for Students and Faculty from Historically Underrepresented Institutions
Aug. 21, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $70 million in funding to support research by historically underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to diversify leadership…
From insideHPC
Lenovo and VMware Partner on NVIDIA-Powered Generative AI and Multi-Cloud Solutions
August 22, 2023 — Today at VMware Explore 2023, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced a turnkey solution from their joint Edge and Cloud Innovation Labs, delivering hybrid multi-cloud capabilities…
From insideHPC
Cornelis Partners with Penguin and Panasas on New HPC-AI Reference Design
WAYNE, PA. — August 22, 2023 – Cornelis Networks, a provider of high-performance networking solutions for data-intensive technical computing (HPC and AI) applications, today announced a partnership with Penguin Solutions, a provider…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $112M for Research on Computational Projects in Fusion Energy Sciences
Aug. 15, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science (SC), announced $112 million in funding for 12 projects that focus on collaborations among fusion scientists, applied mathematicians, and computer…
From insideHPC
atNorth Names Erling Gudmundsson COO
Reykjavík, Iceland – August 15th, 2023 – atNorth, a Nordic colocation, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence service provider, has announced the appointment of Erling Gudmundsson as chief operating officer (COO)…
From Computational Complexity
Turning Sixty
I turn sixty today, spending my birthday reviewing a computer science department in Asia. Sixty is a good time to look back and reflect in a rambling way.
I started grad school in 1985. The P v NP problem was only 14 years old…From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20230814: Linux Wars, China and Chips, Intel AVX, Gordon Bell Prize Finalists
A happy August Monday morning to you. It was an interesting week for supercomputing news, and Shahin and Doug share the highlights of recent developments: Linux Wars continue: Oracle, SUSE, and CIQ form Open Enterprise Linux
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From Yoshua Bengio
Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI Catastrophic Risks
On May 31st, 2023, a BBC web page headlined: “AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio feels ‘lost’ over life’s work.” However, this is a statement I never…
L’article Personal and Psychological Dimensions of AI Researchers Confronting AI…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Transcoding UTF-8 strings to Latin 1 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512
Most strings online are Unicode strings in the UTF-8 format. Other systems (e.g., Java, Microsoft) might prefer UTF-16. However, Latin 1 is still a common encoding (e.g., within JavaScript runtimes). Its relationship with Unicode…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: NIWA Annual Squid Survey
Results from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Limited annual squid survey:
This year, the team unearthed spectacular large hooked squids, weighing about 15kg and sitting at 2m long, a Taningia—which has…From insideHPC
NOAA Supercomputing Capacity Expanded for Advanced National Weather Forecasting
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The computing capacity of twin supercomputers used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been expanded by 20 percent, according to General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT)…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Do You Remember Struggling to Learn?
Dave Largent, a CS professor at Ball State University, had an important reminder on his blog -Dave's not here, or is he?: Teachers need to struggle to learn (davidlargent.blogspot.com) Our students often (usually?) struggle to…
From Schneier on Security
The Inability to Simultaneously Verify Sentience, Location, and Identity
Really interesting “systematization of knowledge” paper:
“SoK: The Ghost Trilemma”
Abstract: Trolls, bots, and sybils distort online discourse and compromise the security of networked platforms. User identity is central to the…From The Eponymous Pickle
Copyling with Microdirectives
Complying with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Copying with Microdirectives
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $11M Awarded for Extreme-Scale Science
Aug. 10, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $11 million in funding for 15 projects in exploratory research for extreme-scale science intended to leverage emerging trends and advances in high-end computing…
From insideHPC
TSMC: July Revenue Down 4.9% YoY, Up 13.6% MoM
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Aug. 10, 2023 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2023: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2023 was approximately NT$177.62 billion, an increase of 13.6 percent…
From insideHPC
Red Hat Riposte: CIQ, Oracle and SUSE Create Open Enterprise Linux Association
The ongoing Linux open source controversy took a turn today with the announcement by CIQ, Oracle and SUSE to form the Open Enterprise Linux Association (OpenELA), described by the companies as a collaborative trade association…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Reports Second Quarter Results
BURNABY, B.C. & PALO ALTO, Calif. – August 10, 2023 – Commercial quantum computing systems, software and services company D-Wave Quantum Inc., (NYSE: QBTS) today announced financial results for its fiscal second quarter ended…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
TIP Quarterly Update – One year anniversary of the CHIPS and Science Act getting signed into law
NSF Assistant Director of TIP, Erwin Gianchandani, and NSF Deputy Assistant Director for TIP Gracie Narcho wrote a letter to the community marking the one year anniversary of the authorization of TIP through the signing of the…
From Schneier on Security
Cryptographic Flaw in Libbitcoin Explorer Cryptocurrency Wallet
Cryptographic flaws still matter. Here’s a flaw in the random-number generator used to create private keys. The seed has only 32 bits of entropy.
Seems like this flaw is being exploited in the wild.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Threads & Yarns – textiles and electronics
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London, from June 2011 At first sight nothing could be more different than textiles and electronics. Put opposites together and you can maybe even bring historical yarns to life. That’s…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Coding of domain names to wire format at gigabytes per second
When you enter in your browser the domain name lemire.me, it eventually gets encoded into a so-called wire format. The name lemire.me contains two labels, one of length 6 (lemire) and one of length two (me). The wire format starts…
From Computational Complexity
The Acting Professor
When I taught Programming for Engineers at Northwestern in 2008, the textbook gave access to PowerPoint slides I could use to teach the class. Since C++ is not a specialty of mine, I tried using the slides for the course. ItThe…
From insideHPC
LLNL: 9,000 Exascale Nodes for Power Grid Optimization
Ensuring the nation’s electrical power grid can function with limited disruptions in the event of a natural disaster, catastrophic weather or a manmade attack is a key national security challenge. Compounding the challenge of…
From Schneier on Security
Using Machine Learning to Detect Keystrokes
Researchers have trained a ML model to detect keystrokes by sound with 95% accuracy.
“A Practical Deep Learning-Based Acoustic Side Channel Attack on Keyboards”
Abstract: With recent developments in deep learning, the ubiquity…From insideHPC
Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers Featured with NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH
Aug. 8, 2023 – Today, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 was featured on stage at SIGGRAPH as an NVIDIA OVX server that will soon include the newly announced NVIDIA L40S GPUs. Lenovo said these servers will help professionals worldwide…
From insideHPC
MindsDB AI Company Secures Funding from NVIDIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8, 2023 — MindsDB, an artificial intelligence virtual database, today announced an investment from NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, bringing total seed funding raised to $46.5 million. The latest round…