Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2021
From The Eponymous Pickle
UpComing EmTech MIT
Upcoming EmTech MIT Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - Thursday, September 30, 2021
Technology, trends, and the new rules of business: Immerse yourself in bold thinking and innovation. Discover which breakthrough technologies…From insideHPC
Qumulo Launches Recover Q Ransomware Defense
SEATTLE – Sept. 22, 2021 – Qumulo, maker of enterprise file data management across hybrid cloud environments, today unveiled Qumulo Recover Q, a business continuity and disaster recovery solution that bolsters existing strategies…
From insideHPC
Why HPE Cray EX Is the Supercomputer of Choice at Leading Weather Centers
For decades, compute resources used for weather forecasting have tracked with advances in state-of-the-art supercomputing. Which is to say that the weather segment demands systems with the greatest data ingest and storage capacity…
From The Eponymous Pickle
How Fast do Algorithms Improve?
Could be a way to track where effort should be expended. Matching quality and value of solutions to effort.
How Quickly Do Algorithms Improve?
MIT News, Rachel Gordon, September 20, 2021
Massachusetts Institute of Technology…From Schneier on Security
ROT8000
ROT8000 is the Unicode equivalent of ROT13. What’s clever about it is that normal English looks like Chinese, and not like ciphertext (to a typical Westerner, that is).
From insideHPC
Hitachi Vantara Tackles Cloud Cost Paradox with New Cloud FinOps Services
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – September 23, 2021 – Hitachi Vantara, the digital infrastructure, data management and analytics, and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today introduced Hitachi’s Cloud FinOps Services…
From Computational Complexity
Why Conferences?
An undergrad thesis from North Carolina State University tries to tackle the question as to why computer science has used conferences as its main and most prestigious publication venues. The author Elijah Bouma-Sims gives a synopsis…
From insideHPC
CoolIT Systems Reports 43% YTD HPC Growth
Calgary, Alberta. September 22, 2021 – Privately held CoolIT Systems, maker of scalable liquid cooling technology for desktop and data centers, today reported 43 percent YTD revenue growth in HPC markets. CoolIT Systems said …
From insideHPC
DOE Funds $17.5M for 3 ORNL-led Quantum Research Projects
September 22, 2021 — Of the $61 million recently announced by the U.S. Department of Energy for quantum information science studies, $17.5 million will fund research at DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. These projects will…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Conversational AI and Healthcare Chatbots
Used Eliza. Still need to see better studies of chatbots in complete and varying contexts. And comparison to having a professional available. And also compared to professional in the room where they can watch reactions toConversational…
From insideHPC
Dihuni OptiReady CognitX DL Servers and Workstations Powered by NVIDIA Ampere Architecture-based GPUs
MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 21, 2021 — Dihuni, an artificial intelligence (AI), data center and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions company, today announced increased adoption of its Dihuni OptiReady CognitX Deep Learning server and workstation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reservoir Computing from Ohio State
OK, mostly new to me, sounds useful. Following up.
Scientists Develop the Next Generation of Reservoir Computing
By Ohio State University, September 22, 2021
Researchers have found a way to make reservoir computing, a machine learning…From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing a Quantum Computer
in ACM TECHNEWS Implications?
Quantum Computer Helps Design Better Quantum Computer By New Scientist, September 22, 2021
Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China in Shanghai used a quantum computer to…From insideHPC
MLCommons Releases MLPerf Inference v1.1 Results
San Francisco – September 22, 2021 – Today, MLCommons, an open engineering consortium, released new results for MLPerf Inference v1.1, the organization’s machine learning inference performance benchmark suite. MLPerf Inference…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beware Food and Architecture
In ZDNet:
FBI warns of ransomware attacks targeting food and agriculture sector ...
In addition to the May attack on JBS, the FBI listed dozens of ransomware incidents that have taken place over the last six months targeting…From Schneier on Security
FBI Had the REvil Decryption Key
The Washington Post reports that the FBI had a decryption key for the REvil ransomware, but didn’t pass it along to victims because it would have disrupted an ongoing operation.
The key was obtained through access to the servers…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Qubits and Quibbles
Khari Douglas will be covering the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) on the CCC blog all week. Stay tuned and check out the HLF blog for more coverage of the event. On the opening day of the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Scott…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Podcast: Future of the Office
How well did working at home really accomplish things?
What’s the Future of the Office?
Wharton’s Peter Cappelli talks about his new book, ‘Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face.’
…From The Eponymous Pickle
Unlimited Digital Sensing
Not following this yet, but intriguing suggestion ...
Unlimited Digital Sensing Unleashed for Imaging, Audio, Driverless Cars
Imperial College London (U.K.), Caroline Brogan, September 17, 2021
A new method devised by researchers…From insideHPC
NNSA in $40M Deal for 40PFLOPS of Dell HPC Clusters
Sept. 21, 2001 — The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA’s) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced the awarding of a subcontract to Dell Technologies for additional supercomputing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Printing Gas Sensors
New sensor capability. Small, cheap, monitoring for the smart home and elsewhere.
Scientists 3D-Print Microscopic Gas Sensors
Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), September 15, 2021
Scientists at Ireland’s Trinity College Dublin, the…From insideHPC
LLNL Reports on Inaugural ML for Industry Forum
LLNL held its first-ever Machine Learning for Industry Forum (ML4I) on Aug. 10-12. Co-hosted by the Lab’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center (HPCIC) and Data Science Institute (DSI), the virtual event brought together…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Spot Robot Dog Gets an Upgrade
Considerable look from Venturebeat on the Boston Dynamics Robot Spot:
Boston Dynamics has just released the latest update for its famous quadruped robot Spot, giving it better capability to make inspections and collect data without…From insideHPC
Call for participation: HPC PRACE Winter School
The Inter University Computing Centre (IUCC) in Israel and Amazon Web Services have joined forces to train researchers and research software engineers (RSEs) in the use of AWS for high performance computing (HPC) at the PRACE…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Now we are Cooking with Lasers
A long time amateur chef
Now We're Cooking With Lasers By Columbia Engineering, September 20, 2021
Researchers at Columbia Engineering have digitized food creation and cooking processes, using 3D printing technology to tailor…From insideHPC
Rose Technology Raises $5.5M Seed Round
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2021 — Rose Technology, founded by data scientist and former global macro investor Alexander Campbell, raises $5.5m to change the way data-driven companies collect, analyze, and generate revenue from data.…
From insideHPC
Analytical Biosciences Named Finalist in IDC’s Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure North America Awards
SAN FRANCISCO – Analytical Biosciences today announced it has been named a finalist in the inaugural IDC Future Enterprise Best in Future of Digital Infrastructure North America Awards in the Cloud-Centric Computing category.…
From Schneier on Security
Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services Hack
Apparently, a nation-state hacked Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services.
Not sure why Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services is of any interest to a nation-state, but that’s probably just my failure of…From insideHPC
NEC and Aramco Enter Into HPC R&D Collaboration for Joint Application
Düsseldorf, 20 September, 2021 – NEC Deutschland GmbH announced a collaboration with Aramco Europe with the aim of joint development and optimization of various applications for resource exploration and seismic imaging. Aramco…
From insideHPC
TACC’s Stampede2 HPC Simulations Reveal How Cells Regulate Themselves
Supercomputer simulations run on the Stampede2 system of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) have helped scientists studying how cells work understand the way in which protein molecules in a sense dance with a partner
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