Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2019
From insideHPC
Exascale Computing Project Update
Doug Kothe from the Exascale Computing Project gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) is focused on accelerating the delivery of a capable exascale computing ecosystem that delivers 50 times…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Goes to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2019
Last year Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Senior Program Associate, Helen Wright, attended the 6th Annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Heidelberg, Germany as part of their international blog team (read those blog posts…
From insideHPC
IBM Brings World’s Largest Fleet of Quantum Computing Systems Online
Today, IBM announced the opening of the IBM Quantum Computation Center in New York State. "To meet growing demand for access to real quantum hardware, ten quantum computing systems are now online through IBM's Quantum Computation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon and Conquest Advertising
A term I had not heard in a very long time. Only Amazon and Google might be in place to do this.
Amazon Rewrites the Conquest Advertising Textbook in ECOmmerce Times By Alasdair McLean-Foreman
Amazon has powerful tools to
You've…
From Schneier on Security
Revisiting Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787
I previously blogged about a Black Hat talk that disclosed security vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787 software. Ben Rothke concludes that the vulnerabilities are real, but not practical....
From The Eponymous Pickle
AI Ethics Multi Country Partnership
Note the mention of human-centered AI, which reading on seems to be about bias/fairness. But its really also about how humans use/interact/are influenced by AI systems. I would suggest this later aspect will become much more…
From Schneier on Security
I'm Looking to Hire a Strategist to Help Figure Out Public-Interest Tech
I am in search of a strategic thought partner: a person who can work closely with me over the next 9 to 12 months in assessing what's needed to advance the practice, integration, and adoption of public-interest technology. All…
From The Eponymous Pickle
DOE Unveils AI and Tech Office
Another vote of confidence for the current emergence of AI, depending upon how you define it.
DOE Unveils AI and Technology Office
NextGov.com
Brandi Vincent
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has established an Artificial Intelligence…
From The Eponymous Pickle
China Suggests a Global Grid
Interesting idea, but I wonder if we can predict the future stability and/or trust of other countries to build and manage our power grid? Would require some evolution beyond where we are today.
China’s Grid Architect Proposes…
From insideHPC
Aiden Lab Chooses WEKA to Accelerate Genomics Research
Today WekaIO announced that Aiden Lab at the Baylor College of Medicine, a leading genome research facility, has selected the Weka File System (WekaFS) to accelerate its genomics research. "WekaFS has delivered a 3x improvement…
From insideHPC
Exxact looks to BeeGFS Parallel Storage for HPC, AI, and Life Science Workloads
Today Exxact Corporation announced that it has become a North America Gold Partner of ThinkParQ, the company behind the BeeGFS parallel file system. "BeeGFS offers the usability, flexibility, and performance that our HPC and
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From insideHPC
New Liquid Cooled AMD EPYC 7H12 Processor Breaks Performance Records
Today AMD announced a new addition to the 2nd Generation AMD EPYC family, the AMD EPYC 7H12 processor. The 64 core/128 thread, 2.6Ghz base frequency, 3.3Ghz max boost frequency, 280W TDP processor is specifically built for HPC…
From insideHPC
DOE Funds Quantum Computing and Networking Research
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $60.7 million in funding to advance the development of quantum computing and networking. "We are on the threshold of a new era in Quantum Information Science and quantum computing…
From insideHPC
Research Findings: HPC-Enabled AI
Steve Conway from Hyperion Research gave this talk at the HPC User Forum. "AI adds fourth branch to the scientific method, inferencing. Inferencing complements theory, experiments and established simulation methods. Essentially…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Perspective about AI
No doubt Google is doing lots of internal and external work with AI, so their perspective about use is useful. Non technical and fairly balanced.
CIOs: Here’s How Google is Approaching AI
A team of experts learned from their
Artificial…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CS for Social Good Award Announcement!
Earlier this summer, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) announced a joint white paper competition with Schmidt Futures on the future of “CS for Social Good.” Schmidt Futures, founded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, is a philanthropic…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Assistant Advances Languages
Have now been using Google assistant bilingually for about a year, with multiple voices as I explore them. Impressive work, everybody needs language assistance.
Google Assistant gets new voice options in nine more languages…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Where Blockchain Will be Delivered
Starting to see this trend, since the data involved is already in ERP and CRM.
Gartner: Blockchain will be nothing more than an add-on for ERP, CRM software
The distributed ledger technology has already become highly fragmented…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Breaking Things Productively
Have never used Chaos engineering, but the idea is interesting. Second read about the concept:
How to Use Chaos Engineering to Break Things Productively by Sam Bocetta in Infoq
More people connected to more servers, increased…
From Schneier on Security
Cracking Forgotten Passwords
Expandpass is a string expansion program. It's "useful for cracking passwords you kinda-remember." You tell the program what you remember about the password and it tries related passwords. I learned about it in this article about…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Translators
I did this kind of thing for some time in the enterprise, we did not call it a translator, but helped execs and other decision makers understand the results of analytics, interface with our contractors and also to commission
Mckinsey…
From insideHPC
NSF Grant to help develop cyberinfrastructure across Midwest
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.4 million grant to a team of experts led by Timothy Middelkoop, assistant teaching professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering in the University of Missouri’s…
From insideHPC
NVIDIA TensorRT 6 Breaks 10 millisecond barrier for BERT-Large
Today, NVIDIA released TensorRT 6, which includes new capabilities that dramatically accelerate conversational AI applications, speech recognition, 3D image segmentation for medical applications, as well as image-based applications…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reminder: Talk Today: Mixed integer Programming and Machine Learning
Highly recommended! We used Mixed Integer Programming optimization methods for many years in the enterprise. Especially for complex combinatorial decision making. Nice to see this upcoming Webinar presenting it as complimentary…
From insideHPC
Dell EMC step up with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors
Dell EMC has launched new Ready Solutions for HPC with 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors, offer improved performance for workloads such as computational fluid dynamics, climate and weather modeling. In recent testing, the PowerEdge…
From insideHPC
Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory comes to Oracle Exadata X8M
Today Oracle announced that it is incorporating the high performance capabilities of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory into its next-generation Oracle Exadata X8M. "Oracle and Intel have integrated cutting-edge persistent memory…
From insideHPC
Gadi — Australia’s Newest Supercomputer
Allan Williams from NCI gave this talk at the Perth HPC Conference. "With 3,200 nodes, Gadi will power some of Australia’s most crucial research, seeking to solve some of the most complex and pressing challenges facing the world…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Health Data for Personal Use
Just heard this podcast, was on my reading list, regarding https://Doc.AI an interesting model about using health data. Some good thoughts in the podcast. Creating health models based on personal data. And offering to
Similarly…
From The Eponymous Pickle
In China: Smile to Pay
Seeming to be expanding in China. Payment here, but to what degree also product recognition and tallying?
Smile-to-Pay: Chinese Shoppers Turn to Facial Payment Technology in the Guardian
China is embracing facial payment technology…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Book Review: "Tools and Weapons"
"Tools and Weapons" by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne is a look at some important computing issues through a Microsoft lens. It is a pretty revealing look as the authors write seriously about the thinking behind Microsoft’sI…