Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2018
From insideHPC
Rigetti Rolls Out Quantum Cloud Services
Over at the Rigetti Blog, Chad Rigetti writes that the company just rolled out Quantum Cloud Services (QCS), the "only quantum-first cloud computing platform." With QCS, for the first time, quantum processors are tightly integrated…
From insideHPC
Radio Free HPC Looks at IDC Server Market Numbers Reflecting Remarkable Growth from Cloud
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the latest server watch numbers from IDC. The takeaway? The Server industry up 43 percent year over year. Component prices have gone up, so there may be multiple contributing
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From insideHPC
Scale Your HPC Environment for AI Workloads
In this guest post, Intel Data Center Group's Trish Damkroger covers how to scale your HPC environment for AI workloads.
The post Scale Your HPC Environment for AI Workloads appeared first on insideHPC.
From insideHPC
Video: Suitability of Commercial Clouds for NASA’s HPC Applications
Bob Hood from InuTeq gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "NASA’s High-End Computing Capability Project is periodically asked if it could be more cost effective through the use of commercial cloud resources. To answer the question…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Inspecting and Picking up Objects
Would seem to lead to the ability to generalize picking up objects in a complex domain, such as the home or office. I had thought this was solved long ago, but when we looked at this for picking systems, discovered it was not…
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Improving Education
I think its mostly showing how we can find patterns, then isolate those patterns for better and faster solutions. Education then is a means for better using the patterns. More efficient.
32 Ways AI is Improving Education In…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Proposal for Quantum Foundries
I usually think of quantum as the world of the very small, a foundry as the a big thing so this proposal struck me.
NSF Proposes $25 Million in Grants to Set Up Quantum Foundries
FedScoop By Carten Cordell
The U.S. National Science…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmentation Fallacy?
Interesting piece, which uses the chess example to understand what AI can do now, and how it might be used to improve the workforce. In the past the use of Chess as an 'unsolveable' problem for AI was common. Now it rarely…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Go Continues to Expand: NYC Next
Will check free start to become the standard? Other retailers cannot ignore this. Major ones are already testing it. Implications for store behavior when money or credit cards don't have to be used? Will this create a new…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Machine Translation vs Human
Been reexamining he process of language translation, especially as it relates to real time assistant interaction. This points out that full document translations still are better using humans, which implies document-contextual…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Getting Your TV to Understand You
Its the ultimate challenge, understanding complex context. Good direction.
Understanding in Context University of Waterloo News
Researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada, the University of Maryland, and the Comcast…
From insideHPC
Gaining a Competitive Edge with HPC Cloud Computing at Dow
William Edsall from Dow gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "At Dow, Information Research provides leading edge information technology capability and information resources to meet strategic R&D initiatives. IR delivers…
From insideHPC
Workhorse Conte Cluster at Purdue goes to Pasture
Over at Purdue, Adrienne Miller writes that the university’s powerful Conte supercomputer, which retired on August 1 after five years of service, was crucial to the development of powerful nanotechnology tools. "Conte was simply…
From insideHPC
Leadership Computing and NSF’s Computational Ecosystem
Irene Qualters gave this talk at the HPC User Forum in Detroit. "For over three decades, NSF has been a leader in providing the computing resources our nation's researchers need to accelerate innovation," said NSF Director France…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (September 8th, 2018)
Most research articles are not available for free to the public, even when the research was fully funded by the public. To legally access research articles, one typically needs to go through a college library which pays for access…
From insideHPC
Job of the Week: HPC Specialist at New York University
New York University is seeking an HPC Specialist in our Job of the Week. "The selected candidate will be responsible for supporting the NYU High Performance Computing (HPC) systems as a member of the HPC Services team. This will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sinapore Broadens AI Skills,Training
Will be interesting to see how this works. We had some interaction with University groups there and they were impressive at the time.
Singapore Broadens Access to AI Skills
In ComputerWeekly.com By Aaron Tan in ACM
Singapore…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Sliding-Scale Problems
Issues AlphaZero doesn’t need to deal with ETS source Frederic Lord wrote a consequential doctoral dissertation at Princeton in 1951. He was already the director of statistical analysis for the Educational Testing Service, which…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Loyalty and Amazon Dominance
Hmm, quote something to worry about for big CPG. All that money they have spent over the years in establishing loyalty can be overridden, depending on product category? Meaning of band equity?
How Amazon’s dominance in consumer…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: 100-kg Squid Caught Off the Coast of Madeira
News. 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 The Eponymous Pickle
Working Together
Collaboration is occurring.
Russian and American Scientists Collaborate to Create Faster Internet By Shelby Rogers
Researchers at Samara Oblast University in Russia and the University of Missouri have created an algorithm that…
From Schneier on Security
Reddit AMA
I did a Reddit AMA on Thursday, September 6....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Wants to Kill the URL
This really struck me .... I remember reacting to my first understanding of the concept. Aha, they are universal locators! That's very good. So why are they not good anymore? The basic argument is that they continue to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
General Idea of a Blockchain is Older
Intriguing snippet of information management history.
The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record."
.... In fact, the world’s oldest blockchain…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gaming AI
Have not heard this discussed much of late, but integrating human skills a favorite idea of mine. We had it succeed in some cases. Sometimes it did not work because it required the integration of more human resources which
Why…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
AVX-512: when and how to use these new instructions
Our processors typically do computations using small data stores called registers. On 64-bit processors, 64-bit registers are frequently used. Most modern processors also have vector instructions and these instructions operate…
From insideHPC
New Modular Lenovo ThinkSystem Accelerates Ai Performance
Over at the Lenovo Blog, the company has unveiled a new ThinkSystem based on a modular infrastructure targeted at Ai workloads. "By developing the ThinkSystem SR670 platform with integrated modularity, Lenovo has recognized that…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Framework for Enterprise Blockchain Networks
Some of the big players continue to build infrastructure. Note emphasis on ownership and control of assets.
Announcing the Coco Framework for enterprise blockchain networks
By Mark Russinovich CTO, Microsoft Azure
Blockchain is…
From insideHPC
Jack Dongarra Awarded 2019 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
Dr. Jack Dongarra has been selected to receive the 2019 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering. The award will be presented at the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) in February,…
From insideHPC
HPC Cloud Drives Innovation & Accelerates Time to Results
HPC applications and workloads have been constrained by limited on-premises infrastructure capacity, high capital expenditures and the constant need for technology refreshes. But there may be an answer: running your HPC workloads…