Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2024
From insideHPC
Dell Technologies: AI for Enterprises with Dell AI Factory
SC24, ATLANTA – November 18, 2024 — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announced its new AI portfolio designed to make enterprise AI adoption easier with the Dell AI Factory, for AI workloads and data management. “Getting AI up and…
From insideHPC
Penguin Solutions Accelerates Time to Value for AI Factories
Fremont, Calif., – November 18, 2024 – Penguin Solutions (Nasdaq: PENG), today announced its collaboration with Dell Technologies to deliver AI solutions designed to accelerate customers’ time to value through validated, high…
From insideHPC
Algorithmiq Paired with Nvidia on Quantum Computing
HELSINKI Nov. 18, 2024: Algorithmiq today announced a venture to accelerate error mitigation techniques for near-term quantum devices. Algorithmiq’s quantum software solutions, paired with NVIDIA-accelerated supercomputing, are…
From insideHPC
New Update of the Extreme Scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S)
November 17, 2024, ATLANTA: The PESO Project, a community-driven effort to promote the development and use of scientific software as an ecosystem, and the Extreme Scale Scientific Software (E4S) development and support team,…
From insideHPC
Quantum Brilliance Announces Purchase of Room-Temp Quantum Accelerator, Powered by NVIDIA CUDA-Q
Canberra, Australia and Stuttgart, Germany – Nov. 18, 2024 – Quantum Brilliance (QB), a diamond-based quantum technology company, today announced the first purchase of a room temperature quantum accelerator in the European market…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20241118: On the Scene at SC24, TSMC and the CHIPS Act, Cerebras at Sandia
Good morning to you from SC24 in Atlanta. Here’s a quick (5:33) run-through of recent developments in the world of HPC-AI, including: The SC24 conference starts today; TSMC, the CHIPS Act and semiconductor demand; Sandia National…
From The Noisy Channel
Categories are Fundamental for Search
As a search consultant, I have learned to be flexible about structured data. However, I do insist on content being classified into categories.
What are categories? Here are a some dictionary definitions:
a class or division ofone…From insideHPC
Livermore Lab and Oxide Computer Team on Advancing Cloud and HPC Convergence
SAN FRANCISCO – November 18, 2024 — Oxide Computer Company and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced a plan to bring on-premises cloud computing capabilities to the Livermore Computing (LC) high performance…
From insideHPC
Altair Now Supported on NVIDIA Grace Hopper and Grace CPU Architectures
TROY, Mich., Nov. 18, 2024 – Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational intelligence, announced that several products from the Altair HyperWorks® design and simulation platform now support NVIDIA Grace CPU and Grace…
From Computational Complexity
For what d is the following true: for all 2-colorings of \(R^d\) there is a mono unit square (Asking the Question)
In this post I give a question for you to think about.
My next post will have the answer and the proof.
1) The following are known and I have a set of slides about it here
a) For all 2-colorings of \(R^2\) there exists two points…From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Female Gonatus Onyx Squid Carrying Her Eggs
Fantastic video of a female Gonatus onyx squid swimming while carrying her egg sack.
From insideHPC
5G-6G: BeammWave Announces Second Customer
Nov. 15, 2024 — Advanced communications technology company BeammWave AB has announced that an undisclosed customer has placed an order on the Advanced Development Platform (ADP1) to evaluate BeammWave’s patented digital beamforming…
From Schneier on Security
Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies
Stuart Schechter makes some good points on the history of bad password policies:
Morris and Thompson’s work brought much-needed data to highlight a problem that lots of people suspected was bad, but that had not been studied…From insideHPC
HPC4EI: DOE Announces $3.4M Funding Opportunity and Awards $4M for Energy Innovation Projects
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a $4 million federal investment for 10 projects across 8 states that will harness the processing power of the world’s most powerful supercomputers—and the…
From insideHPC
Flex Acquires Liquid Cooling Company JetCool
Austin, Texas, November 14, 2024 – Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX) announced today it has acquired JetCool Technologies, a liquid cooling company for data centers. The acquisition is intended to bolster Flex’s data center and power portfolio…
From insideHPC
Lightmatter and Amkor Technology Partner on 3D Photonics Package
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 14, 2024 — Photonic supercomputing company Lightmatter today announced a strategic partnership with Amkor Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMKR), a provider of semiconductor packaging and test services, to…
From insideHPC
Prepping for SC24: HPC-AI Luminaries on Sessions, Trends and News to Watch for in Atlanta
With an eye toward helping attendees at SC24 maximize their time and to be on the lookout for the key trends, news, sessions and keynotes at the conference, we’ve assembled a trio of industry luminaries to share their insights…
From Computational Complexity
Favorite Theorems: Learning from Natural Proofs
I had a tough choice for my final favorite theorem from the decade 2015-2024. Runners up include Pseudodeterministic Primes and Hardness of Partial MCSP. But instead in memory of the recently departed Steven Rudich…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Visioning Workshop Review: Supporting At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing
Did you know that LGBTQ+ youth face a higher risk of exposure to potentially harmful interactions on social media than their heterosexual peers? Exposure to such interactions has been linked to negative impacts on their mental…
From insideHPC
NetBrain Updates Platform for AI-Powered Network Operations
BURLINGTON, Mass., November 14, 2024 – NetBrain Technologies, Inc., a provider of no-code network automation and dynamic mapping solutions for hybrid-cloud networks, announced the launch of Next-Gen Release 12 (R12), an update…
From insideHPC
Exascale: Univ. of Maryland Researchers Nominated for Gordon Bell Prize for Extreme Scale LLM Training Using Frontier
Oct. 12, 2024 — A research team led by the University of Maryland has been nominated for the Association for Computing Machinery’s Gordon Bell Prize. The team is being recognized for developing a scalable, distributed training…
From Schneier on Security
New iOS Security Feature Makes It Harder for Police to Unlock Seized Phones
Everybody is reporting about a new security iPhone security feature with iOS 18: if the phone hasn’t been used for a few days, it automatically goes into its “Before First Unlock” state and has to be rebooted.
This is a really…From insideHPC
Eviden Announces BXI v3 Networking Technology
Paris – November 14, 2024 – Eviden, the Atos Group advanced computing business unit, today announces the launch of BXI v3, the third generation of the European scale-out networking technology, designed for artificial intelligence…
From insideHPC
ZutaCore Unveils Waterless AI Factory Design
Nov. 13, 2024, San Jose – ZutaCore, a provider of direct-to-chip, waterless liquid cooling solutions, today announced its participation at the Supercomputing Conference (SC24) where it will be highlighting a waterless AI factory…
From insideHPC
Tenstorrent and LG Electronics Expand Chip Partnership
SEOUL, Nov. 12, 2024 — LG Electronics (LG) and Tenstorrent announces an expanded collaboration that builds on their initial chiplet project to develop System-on-Chips (SoCs) and systems for the global market. Through this partnership…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Call for Participation: Combining AI and ORMS for Better Trustworthy Decision-Making
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to share a call for participation in the Combining AI and ORMS for Better Trustworthy Decision Making Bridge Program supported by AAAI and INFORMS. This Bridge Program is being…
From Schneier on Security
Mapping License Plate Scanners in the US
DeFlock is a crowd-sourced project to map license plate scanners.
It only records the fixed scanners, of course. The mobile scanners on cars are not mapped.
The post Mapping License Plate Scanners in the US appeared first on …From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Avoiding loneliness with StudyBuddy
By Klara Brodahl, StudyBuddy and Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London University has always been a place where you make great friends for life. Social media means everyone can easily make as many online friends as they…
From insideHPC
E4S: Extreme-Scale Scientific Software Stack Discussions and Demos at SC24
Nov. 11, 2024: The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) Project is supported by the US Department of Energy Advanced Scientific Computing Research Office and is a legacy of Exascale Computing Project (ECP). The packages…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Graduate degrees are overrated
Though I have many brilliant graduate students, I love working with undergraduate students. And I am not at all sure that you should favor people with graduate degrees, given a choice. Many graduate students tend to favor abstraction…