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
NVIDIA Unveils GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip Platform with HBM3e Processor
NVIDIA today at the SIGGRAPH conference announced the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper platform — based on a new Grace Hopper Superchip with the first HBM3e processor, according to NVIDIA — built for accelerated computing and generative…
From insideHPC
Exxact Corporation Systems to Feature NVIDIA Ada Generation GPUs
Fremont, CA, August 8, 2023 — Exxact Corporation today announced it will feature new NVIDIA RTX professional GPUs in its configurable workstations, servers, and clusters to offer computational performance edge in real-time rendering…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Challenge Problems Requiring AI/OR Collaboration
The CCC, in collaboration with INFORMS and ACM SIGAI, will be hosting the final workshop of a three-part series titled, Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Operations Research (OR), in late February or early March 2024, to set a course…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH: DGX Integration with Hugging Face for LLM Training; Announcement of AI Workbench
At the the SIGGRAPH conference this morning in Los Angeles, NVIDIA made several generative AI-related announcements, including a partnership with Hugging Face intended to broaden access to generative AI supercomputing (NVIDIA…
From insideHPC
Applied Digital and ZEDEDA Form Partnership for On-Demand Transmutable AI Cloud Service
SAN JOSE and DALLAS — August 8, 2023 — Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD) (“Applied Digital”), a designer, builder, and operator of next-generation digital infrastructure designed for High-Performance Computing (“HPC”)…
From insideHPC
Multiverse Computing Partners with Tech Mahindra on Quantum Solutions
SAN SEBASTIÁN, SPAIN, August 8, 2023 – Multiverse Computing, a quantum computing solutions company, announced a partnership to deliver its quantum computing software to the customers of Tech Mahindra, a provider of digital transformation…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Generative AI Coast-to-Coast Webinar Series
A number of institutions are coming together to discuss how researchers are using generative AI as a tool for research in The Generative AI Coast to Coast webinar series. Co-hosted by Johns Hopkins University; the Ohio State…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Quantum Company and Davidson Technologies Collaborate on National Defense Efforts
BURNABY, B.C., PALO ALTO, Calif. and HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — August 7, 2023 — D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a quantum computing systems, software and services; and Davidson Technologies, Inc., a technology services company that…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
The Computing Community Consortium Responds to PCAST Working Group on Generative AI Invites Public Input
In May 2023, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) published a Request for Public Input to help assess key opportunities and risks and provide input on how best to ensure that these GenAI technologies…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $4.7M for Research on Integrative Computational Tools for Systems Biology Research
Aug. 7, 2023 — Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4.7 million in funding for five new research projects in computational biology. These projects will develop new software and analytical tools to manage the
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From insideHPC
Micron Launches Memory Expansion Module Portfolio for CXL 2.0 Adoption
BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 07, 2023 — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today announced sample availability of the Micron CZ120 memory expansion modules to customers and partners. The Micron CZ120 modules come in 128GB and 256GB
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From insideHPC
Hyperion: Applications Open for HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Aug. 7, 2023 — Hyperion Research and the HPC User Forum Steering Committee announced that applications are open for the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards, to be presented during SC23 in Denver this November. 11-17 Applications…
From BLOG@CACM
Federated Learning: How Private Is It Really?
Just when it looks like Federated Learning is able to keep local data private, out comes a study to deflate us.
From insideHPC
PEAK:AIO Partners with Stormgrid on High Performance AI Solutions
Manchester, England, Aug. 7, 2023 — PEAK:AIO, a provider of a software defined storage platform designed for artificial intelligence, today announced a partnership with Stormgrid, a provider of hybrid AI solutions. Together,
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From The Noisy Channel
Semantic Equivalence of e-Commerce Queries
I am proud to share the slides for “Semantic Equivalence of e-Commerce Queries”, which my eBay colleague Aritra Mandal presented this morning at the KDD 2023 Workshop on E-Commerce and Natural Language Processing (ECNLP).
Ourquery…From BLOG@CACM
ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: Freshmen's Perceptions
Exploring freshmen's conceptions of the impact of ChatGPT on computer science education.
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes Podcast 20230807: PCIe over Optical, Quantum at Oak Ridge, Domain-Specific Architectures, Intel Expands Oregon Fabs
https://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/HPCNB_20230807.mp3 Kicking off the week with a fast (4:17) review of the latest HPC news: McKinsey reported on the rise of domain-specific architectures that quantifies the slowdown…
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese
A bunch of networks, including US Government networks, have been hacked by the Chinese. The hackers used forged authentication tokens to access user email, using a stolen Microsoft Azure account consumer signing key. Congress…
From insideHPC
HPC and AI Workloads Drive Storage System Design
Many organizations are tied to outdated storage systems that cannot meet HPC and AI workload needs. Designing high‑throughput, highly scalable HPC storage systems require expert planning and configuration. The Dell Validated
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From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
3D models in motion
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of Londonbased on a 2016 talk by Lourdes Agapito The cave paintings in Lascaux, France are early examples of human culture from 15,000 BC. There are images of running animals and even primitive…
From Computational Complexity
Permutable Primes and Compatible Primes
This post is about an open problems column by Gasarch-Gezalyn-Patrick so they can be considered co-authors on this post. The column is here.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (August 6 2023)
In an extensive study, You et al. (2022) found that meat consumption was correlated with higher life expectancies: Meat intake is positively correlated with life expectancies. This relationship remained significant when influences…
From Apophenia
Still Trying to Ignore the Metaverse
Perhaps surprisingly, I don’t particularly like technology. And certainly not technology for technology’s sake. My brother was always the one who picked up every new gadget to see what it did. I tended to shrug and go back to…
From BLOG@CACM
Automated Tests Are the Safety Net
Automated testing in software development significantly diminishes routine work and saves time, allowing programmers to work more effectively.
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Should These Quantities Be Linear?
Drastic proposals for revamping the chess rating system Jeff Sonas is a statistician who runs a consulting firm. He also studies skill at chess. He has advised the International Chess Federation (FIDE) about the Elo rating system…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 2023 Squid Oil Global Market Report
I had no idea that squid contain sufficient oil to be worth extracting.
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 insideHPC
IT Services Company phoenixNAP Expands AI and Cloud Services with HPE Ampere-based Servers
HOUSTON – Aug 3, 2023 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced that phoenixNAP, a global IT services provider, is expanding its Bare Metal Cloud platform with cloud-native HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 servers, using…
From insideHPC
DOE Awards $135M for Research by 93 Early Career Scientists
Aug. 4, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of 93 early career scientists from across the country who will receive a combined $135 million in funding for research covering a wide range of
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From Schneier on Security
Political Milestones for AI
ChatGPT was released just nine months ago, and we are still learning how it will affect our daily lives, our careers, and even our systems of self-governance.
But when it comes to how AI may threaten our democracy, much of the…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Frequency Analysis for Fun
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Frequency Analysis, a technique beloved by spies for centuries, and that led to the execution of at least one Queen, also played a part in the development of the game Scrabble,Continue…