Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
August 2024
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports July Revenue up 45% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Aug. 9, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for July 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for July 2024 was approximately NT$256.95 billion, an increase of 23.6 percent…
From insideHPC
NSF National Quantum Virtual Lab Initiates 5 Pilot Projects
Aug. 9 2024 — The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced the initial $5 million investment across five pilot projects taking the first steps toward creating the NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL), a first…
From insideHPC
Palantir and Microsoft Partner on AI for National Security
Aug. 8, 2024 — Palantir Technologies Inc. (NYSE: PLTR) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a next step in their partnership to bring cloud, AI and analytics capabilities to the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community…
From Schneier on Security
People-Search Site Removal Services Largely Ineffective
Consumer Reports has a new study of people-search site removal services, concluding that they don’t really work:
As a whole, people-search removal services are largely ineffective. Private information about each participant on…From insideHPC
Preparing Networks for the Increasing Demands of HPC and AI
(We need) ... smarter networks that use software to identify areas of congestion and potential outages — and which can automatically respond, self-configure, self-optimize, and self-heal as needed. This next-level, coherent network…
From insideHPC
AMD Announces ROCm 6.2 Software Stack for GPU Programming
AMD has released a version 6.2 of its ROCm software stack for GPU programming. Global AI GPU Product Marketing Manager Ronak Shah wrote a blog in support of the announcement: Whether you’re working on cutting-edge AI models,
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Catalyzing Interdisciplinary Computing Research Task Force Releases New CRA Best Practices Document
In a series of six engaging roundtable discussions led by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), 40 computing research experts from academia, industry, and government explored the complexities of interdisciplinary computing…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
A project making it easier for disabled people to be involved in the design of new ICT tools and devices
"Inclusive Public Activities for information and Communication Technologies" is an EPSRC-funded project to make sure the voices an opinions of disabled people are included in ICT design.
From The Noisy Channel
Where Do LTR Labels Come From?
The most common goal that my search clients express is a desire to improve their ranking. I always start by managing their expectations and helping them understand the limitations of what they can learn from their data. Thislearning…
From insideHPC
IonQ Awarded Awarded $5.7M for DOD Quantum System Design
COLLEGE PARK, MD – AUG. 6, 2024 – IonQ announced today it has won a contract through a competitive solicitation with the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) to design a first-of-its-kind, networked…
From insideHPC
Quantum Error Correction Company Riverlane Raises $75M Series C
Aug. 6, 2024, Cambridge, UK and Boston, MA — Quantum error correction company Riverlane announced it has raised $75 million in Series C funding to deliver its quantum error correction (QEC) roadmap. The company said the funding…
From insideHPC
Laser-Based Startup LightSolver Wins €12.5M from European Innovation Council
TEL AVIV, Israel – August 6, 2024 – LightSolver, maker of a laser-based computing paradigm, today announced that it has been selected for the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Program. The company will receive an
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From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Finding work experience, or a job in computer science
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From insideHPC
Vectra AI Expands XDR Platform to Monitor Attack Exposure
SAN JOSE, August 6, 2024 – Vectra AI, Inc., the leader in AI-driven XDR (extended detection and response), today announced the expansion of its Vectra AI Platform, which now equips security operations center (SOC) teams with
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From Schneier on Security
A Better Investigatory Board for Cyber Incidents
When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and impartial body to investigate CrowdStrike’s faulty update that recently…
From insideHPC
NIH Funds $3.15M for Anton HPC at PSC
Aug. 5, 2024 — The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center announced today that a third-generation Anton supercomputer (Anton 3), developed by D. E. Shaw Research (DESRES), will soon arrive at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC)…
From insideHPC
AI Inference Chip Startup Groq Raises $640M
Amid the gloom of the technology industry meltdown on Wall Street, AI inference chip startup Groq announced today it has secured a $640 million Series D round at a valuation of $2.8 billion. Groq also announced that Stuart Pann…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240805: Intel Woes, Blackwell Delay, Energy Efficient Programming Languages, Exascale Software Kicks In
A good August morning to you! Here's a rapid (6:52) run though of recent news from the roiling world of HPC-AI, including: Intel's financial results and other woes, reported delays for Nvidia Blackwell chips, which programming…
From insideHPC
Microchip Introduces PCIe Gen 5 SSD Controllers
CHANDLER, Ariz., August 5, 2024 — Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has released the Flashtec NVMe 5016 Solid State Drive (SSD) controller. The 16-channel, PCIe Gen 5 NVM Express (NVMe) controller is designed to offer higher…
From insideHPC
EPICURE Offers Support for EU HPC End Users
Aug. 5, 2024 — The EPICURE project is a European-led initiative that seeks to provide support services (Level 2 and Level 3) to EuroHPC supercomputers’ users with the intent to build a knowledge-sharing platform for continuous…
From insideHPC
QuEra Survey Says Quantum Is Developing Faster than Expected
Boston, 7th August 2024 – New research from neutral atom quantum compuing company QuEra Computing says that over half of quantum academics, scientists, and professionals (51 percent) believe the technology is making faster progress…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Former CCC Council Member Chad Jenkins Receives 2024 Richard Tapia Achievement Award
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is excited to announce that former council member Chad Jenkins has been awarded the 2024 Richard A. Tapia Achievement Award by the Center for Minorities and People with Disabilities in…
From Schneier on Security
New Patent Application for Car-to-Car Surveillance
Ford has a new patent application for a system where cars monitor each other’s speeds, and then report then to some central authority.
Slashdot thread.
From Computational Complexity
Determing which math problems are hard is a hard problem
I was wondering what the hardest math problems were, and how to define it. So I googled
Hardest Math Problems
The first hit is here. The 10 problems given there bring up the question of what is meant by hard?
I do not think the…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Converting ASCII strings to lower case at crazy speeds with AVX-512
AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5, as well as server-side recent Intel processors, support an advanced set of instructions called AVX-512. They are powerful SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) instructions. Importantly, they allow ‘masked…
From insideHPC
HPC4EI Workshop to Be Held Aug. 20-22 at Livermore
In collaboration with U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), HPC4EI will hold an in-person workshop to review…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Treating Squid Parasites
A newly discovered parasite that attacks squid eggs has been treated.
From insideHPC
Chip Sector under Fire: DOJ Probes Nvidia, Big Intel Layoff
It’s been a roiling week for Big Tech, both on Wall Street and at the U.S. Department of Justice, with share prices in the chip sector taking major hits and, now, the DOJ opening two antitrust probes into Nvidia, according to…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Weekly Computing News: HPCWire Inaugural 35 Legends List Features Council Member Bill Gropp
To celebrate its 35th anniversary, HPCwire has introduced a new annual recognition called the HPCwire 35 Legends. This initiative honors 35 influential figures who have significantly shaped the high-performance computing (HPC)…
From The Noisy Channel
How to be a Search Consultant
If you have thought about hiring a search consultant or working as one, you may have asked yourself what exactly search consultants do. This post offers an opinionated perspective based on my experience.