Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2016
From insideHPC
Accelerating Finite Element Analysis with Intel Xeon Phi
With the introduction of the Intel Scalable System Framework, the Intel Xeon Phi processor can speed up Finite Element Analysis significantly. Using highly tuned math libraries such as the Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Electronic Tongue Tastes Wine
An area we explored on the coffee blending business. Was still very primitive in capabilities at the time. Some advances are seen here. How can resulting data be connected to blending or manufacturing data? In New Scientist…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reinforcement Learning for Process Intelligence
Nvidia blog writes about deep learning and reinforcement learning with examples. Once again, I like considering the approach because it can have similarities to real world process. See previous notes on the topic.
From The Eponymous Pickle
A New Partnership on AI
Newly formed, The Partnership on AI: (could use a snappier name)
" ... Established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion…
From Schneier on Security
The Cost of Cyberattacks Is Less than You Might Think
Interesting research from Sasha Romanosky at RAND: Abstract: In 2013, the US President signed an executive order designed to help secure the nation's critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. As part of that order, he directed…
From Writing
An Introduction to Terraform
In Part 1 of the Comprehensive Guide to Terraform series, we explained why we picked Terraform as our IAC tool of choice and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, or CloudFormation. Today, we are releasing Part 2 of the series…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Heat Mapping in Brick and Mortar
An approach we used widely in our laboratory. A kind of augmented pictured reality to show changes in context that is very effective. Good to animate in the time dimension. Discussion. In Retailwire:
Could heat mapping …
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ohio Supercomputing Center
I was reminded of the Ohio Supercomputing Center, and their blog.
Notable is AweSim:
Manufacturing modeling and data analytics collaboration: What does the future hold? By Robert Graybill on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 8:30am
For…
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Still Loves Facebook
In Adage:
P&G, GM and Facebook Agree: Big Is Beautiful By Jack Neff.
Facebook has drawn unwanted scrutiny of late over how it counts video viewership and the usefulness of its ad targeting, but a Town Hall panel discussion with…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Learning and Customer Loyalty
Integrating data and linking it to real business process is always key:
How Data Integration and MachineLearning Improve Customer Loyalty - Part 1 and Part 2 By Bob Hayes
In this Big Data world, a major goal for businesses is…
From insideHPC
E4 Computer Engineering Rolls Out GPU-accelerated OpenPOWER server
Today Italy’s E4 Computer Engineering announced generalavailability of the E4OP206, a GPU-accelerated OpenPOWER system designed to propel deep learning, artificial intelligence, high performance data analytics and other data
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From insideHPC
Nvidia Releases Cuda 8
Today Nvidia announced the general availability of CUDA 8 toolkit for GPU developers. "A crucial goal for CUDA 8 is to provide support for the powerful new Pascal architecture, the first incarnation of which was launched at GTC…
From insideHPC
Allinea Adds CUDA 8 Support for GPU Developers
Today Allinea Software announces availability of its new software release, version 6.1, which offers full support for programming parallel code on the Pascal GPU architecture, CUDA 8 from Nvidia. "The addition of Allinea tools…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NSF Announces New Program Solicitation in Smart and Connected Communities
As part of the White House’s expansion of the Smart Cities Initiative, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a new program solicitation on Smart and Connected Communities. The following Dear Colleague Letter from…
From insideHPC
Video: Nvidia Unveils ARM-Powered SoC with Volta GPU
Today at GTC Europe, Nvidia unveiled Xavier, an all-new SoC based on the company's next-gen Volta GPU, which will be the processor in future self-driving cars. According to Huang, the ARM-based Xavier will feature unprecedented…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Sorting already sorted arrays is much faster?
If you are reading a random textbook on computer science, it is probably going to tell you all about how good sorting algorithms take linearithmic time. To arrive at this result, they count the number of operations. That’s aContinue…
From insideHPC
Mellanox Roll Out New Innova IPsec 10/40G Ethernet Adapters
"Our customers are looking for a highly integrated server adapter that solves their pressing need for network performance, efficiency and security, said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing, Mellanox Technologies. The Innova…
From insideHPC
Video: An Optimized Entry Level Lustre Solution in a Small Form Factor
In this video from LUG 2016 in Australia, Chakravarthy Nagarajan from Intel presents: An Optimized Entry Level Lustre Solution in a Small Form Factor. "Our goal was to provide an entry level Lustre storage solution in a high
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From The Eponymous Pickle
SAP Buys More IoT Presence
SAP buys startup Plat.One, part of $2B IoT investment
SAP's $2 billion, five-year plan is to to extend its reach into the internet of things. SAP has bought IoT software developer Plat.One, marking the start of a plan to invest…
From Schneier on Security
Malware Tries to Detect Test Environment
A new malware tries to detect if it's running in a virtual machine or sandboxed test environment by looking for signs of normal use and not executing if they're not there. From a news article: A typical test environment consists…
From Phys.org Technology News
Pilots, air traffic controllers shifting to text messaging
Airline pilots and air traffic controllers are on schedule to switch to text communications at most of the nation's busiest airports by the end of the year, a milestone that holds the potential to reduce delays, prevent errors…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Snapchat Spectacles
Still skeptical that the typical person will use these. I can remember testing Glass at a coffee shop and felt we were being closely watched. But perhaps these are whimsical enough to get by with their use. People raise their…
From insideHPC
IBM Unveils Project DataWorks for AI-Powered Decision-Making
"We are at an inflection point in the big data era, said Bob Picciano, senior vice president, IBM Analytics. We know that users spend up to 80 percent of their time on data preparation, no matter the task, even when they are
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From The Eponymous Pickle
UPenn's Lab Flies Drones Through Windows
In IEEE Spectrum, some remarkable things that drones can now be programmed to do, like fly through half open windows. Out of UPenn's labs. Demonstrated in video at the link. Gives me considerable pause about what our drone…
From insideHPC
Registration Opens for HP-CAST at SC16
Registration is now open for HP-CAST at SC16. The event takes place Nov. 11-12 in Salt Lake City.
The post Registration Opens for HP-CAST at SC16 appeared first on insideHPC.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google's Allo delivering Messaging AI
We are seeing that messaging systems will be the place that consumer facing AI will reside, acting as a bot to enhance everyday communications with intelligence. How good that intelligence will be remains to be seen. Recall…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
2 Computer Scientists in the 2016 MacArthur Fellows
The MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2016 MacArthur Fellows, a list that features 23 individuals who are breaking new ground in areas of public concern, in the arts, and in the sciences. The Fellowship grants each recipient…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mapping Experiences
Book on order. We used mapping, both concept based and journey based, in the enterprise. We developed many, many maps. It was always a useful approach. I recommend it for any interaction, with client, employee,customer or…
From insideHPC
Rogue Wave Improves Support for Open Source Software with IBM
Today Rogue Wave Software announced it is working with IBM to help make open source software (OSS) support more available. This will help provide comprehensive, enterprise-grade technical support for OSS packages. "With our ten…
From insideHPC
D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum Computer
Today D-Wave Systems announced details of its most advanced quantum computing system, featuring a new 2000-qubit processor. The announcement is being made at the companys inaugural users group conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico…