Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
September 2024
From insideHPC
BQP Reports on Aircraft CFD Simulations with Quantum Computing
New York, September 12, 2024 – BQP, a startup developing quantum-based engineering simulations, today announced what it said is a research milestone for simulating computational fluid dynamics. The milestone was achieved using…
From insideHPC
Aramco and Cerebras Sign AI MoU
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Cerebras Systems today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Aramco under which they aim to bring high performance AI inference to industries, universities, and…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Part 2)
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London In Part 1, we spoke to Stephen Parry about his experiences of working in computer science as an autistic person. In this second part, we discuss with him his change from this stressful…
From insideHPC
Kong Updates Its Cloud API Platform for AI
SAN FRANCISCO, September 11, 2024 – Kong Inc., a developer of cloud API technologies, today announced the launch of the latest version of Kong Konnect, its API platform for AI, at the API Summit 2024 conference. As organizations…
From insideHPC
IonQ and the University of Maryland in $9M Quantum Partnership
COLLEGE PARK, MD – Sept. 11, 2024 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and the University of Maryland today announced an agreement to expand their partnership to provide quantum computing access at the National Quantum…
From insideHPC
Oracle Announces Zettascale Cloud Supercomputing Cluster with 131,000 Nvidia Blackwells
Oracle today announced what it said is the first zettascale cloud HPC cluster, powered by Nvidia’s forthcoming Blackwell GPUs, scheduled for shipment in the first half of 2025. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be available with…
From Computational Complexity
Natural Proofs is Not the Barrier You Think It Is
If there's a position where I differ from most other complexity theorists it's that I don't believe that natural proofs present a significant barrier to proving circuit results. I wrote about this before but I buried the lead…
From Schneier on Security
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Reward Modeling of Generative AI Systems
New research evaluating the effectiveness of reward modeling during Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF): “SEAL: Systematic Error Analysis for Value ALignment.” The paper introduces quantitative metrics for evaluating…
From insideHPC
Qumulo Announces Cloud Native Unstructured Data System on AWS
SEATTLE – 10 September 2024 – Cloud data platforms company Qumulo today announced the availability of Cloud Native Qumulo (CNQ) on Amazon Web Services. This release delivers a multi-protocol system designed to manage unstructured…
From insideHPC
Gates Launches Data Master Hose for Data Center Cooling
DENVER, Sept. 10, 2024 — Power transmission and fluid power product maker Gates (NYSE: GTES) announced the launch of the Data Master Data Center Cooling Hose. This fluid conveyance solution, a result of Gates Eco-Innovation process…
From insideHPC
ISC 2025 Is Open for Submissions
The ISC 2025 Contributed Program is now open for submissions. Scientists and engineers from academia, industry and government are invited to submit proposals. The contributed program comprises research papers, posters, birds
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From insideHPC
SambaNova Launches AI Inference Cloud Platform
PALO ALTO, CA — Sept. 10th, 2024 — AI chips and models company SambaNova Systems announced SambaNova Cloud AI inference service powered by its SN40L AI chip. The company said developers can log on for free via an API today —…
From insideHPC
DDC Expands Engineering Leadership Team
Sept. 10, 2024 – San Diego – DDC Solutions, formerly DDC Cabinet Technology, maker of hybrid liquid-air cooling cabinet technology and dynamic monitoring and management DCIM software, announced the expansion of its engineering…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
5 Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Fight Against Human Trafficking
In March 2020, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) partnered with the Code 8.7 Initiative to bring together over fifty experts from the computing research community, along with anti-slavery practitioners and survivors. The…
From The Noisy Channel
All Else Equal
In The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin describes how an alien species drives scientists to suicide by making it impossible for them to produce consistent experimental results. Some might find it difficult to relate to the scientists…
From Schneier on Security
New Chrome Zero-Day
According to Microsoft researchers, North Korean hackers have been using a Chrome zero-day exploit to steal cryptocurrency.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Replace strings by views when you can
C++ programmers tend to represent strings using the std::string class. Though the implementation might vary, each instance of an std::string might use 32 bytes. Though it is not a large amount of memory, it can add up. In the…
From insideHPC
DOE Announces $68M for AI for Scientific Research
September 5, 2024, WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy announced $68 million in funding for 11 AI for science multi-institution projects, comprising 43 awards lasting up to three years, with $20 million in Fiscal…
From Schneier on Security
Australia Threatens to Force Companies to Break Encryption
In 2018, Australia passed the Assistance and Access Act, which—among other things—gave the government the power to force companies to break their own encryption.
The Assistance and Access Act includes key components that outline…From Computational Complexity
Very few problems are in NP intersect coNP but not known to be in P. What to make of that?
Someone once told me:
I was not surprised when Linear Programming was in P since it was already in \( NP \cap coNP \), and problems in that intersection tend to be in P.
The same thing happened for PRIMALITY.
However FACTORING…From Putting People First
[Book] Code Dependent
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"A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, revealing the perils and inequities of our growing reliance on automated decision-making"
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Part 1)
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Autism is a condition with many associated challenges, but for some people it presents some benefits. This distinction is greatly apparent in the workplace, where autistic people…
From Schneier on Security
Live Video of Promachoteuthis Squid
The first live video of the Promachoteuthis squid, filmed at a newly discovered seamount off the coast of Chile.
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Scilly cable antics
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London From the archive Autumn 1869. Undersea telecommunications cables let the world communicate and led to the world spanning Internet. It was all started by the Victorians. Continents…
From insideHPC
CoreWeave Partners with Run:ai on AI Inference
Sept. 6, 2024 — AI cloud hyperscaler CoreWeave announced an integration with AI workload and GPU orchestration company Run:ai that the companies say is designed to offers AI enterprises and labs options for deployment of AI inference…
From Schneier on Security
YubiKey Side-Channel Attack
There is a side-channel attack against YubiKey access tokens that allows someone to clone a device. It’s a complicated attack, requiring the victim’s username and password, and physical access to their YubiKey—as well as some…
From insideHPC
Nominations Open for 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
Sept. 5, 2024 — HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research and the HPC User Forum announced that nominations are open for the 2024 HPC Innovation Excellence Award. Winners will be announced at the Hyperion Research AI/HPC…
From insideHPC
Nvidia and Others Invest $160M in HPC Data Center Company Applied Digital
DALLAS, Sept. 05, 2024 — Applied Digital Corporation, a builder of digital infrastructure designed for high performance computing applications, today announced it has entered into definitive agreements for a $160 million private…
From insideHPC
HPE Introduces Private Cloud AI Co-Developed with Nvidia
HOUSTON – September 5, 2024 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announces HPE Private Cloud AI is available to order and introduces new solution accelerators to automate and streamline artificial intelligence applications…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Trustworthy Intelligent Systems From An Interdisciplinary Lens
CCC spoke with one of its council members, Rachel Greenstadt about her work in trustworthy intelligent systems and her approach to this research through an interdisciplinary lens. What interests you about trustworthy intelligence…