Communications of the ACM
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November 2024
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Council Member Michela Taufer Gives Sneak Peek on Upcoming SuperComputing Panel Discussion
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) spoke with council member Michela Taufer who will be moderating a panel discussion at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference on the future sustainability of AI. Here’s what she had to say…
From Schneier on Security
Criminals Exploiting FBI Emergency Data Requests
I’ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create a mechanism for law enforcement to bypass encryption, the bad guys will use it too.
Turns out the same…From insideHPC
Transformative Potential of Confidential Computing to be Explored in SC24 Birds of a Feather Session
Atlanta – Nov. 12, 2024 – Sylabs, in collaboration with Sandia National Laboratories, will host a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session at SC24 titled Integrating Confidential Computing into High-Performance Cloud Workflows. This
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From insideHPC
Supermicro and Qubrid AI Collaborate on Nvidia GPU-based AI Server Appliances
Powered by Supermicro’s GPU sever hardware, NVIDIA GPUs and Qubrid AI’s AI Controller Software, this on-prem solution empowers businesses to develop, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI and traditional deep learning models with…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20241111: TSMC 2nm Restrictions, AMD-Fujitsu Team on Arm, AMD Passes Intel, US Data Center Green Energy Uptake
With a salute to our service men and women on this Veteran’s Day, here’s a rapid (6:07) review of recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: TSMC grows revenue and faces 2nm restrictions, AMD-Fujitsu to develop Arm superchip…
From insideHPC
Univ. of Sydney Quantum Researchers Report Advance on Error Correction
Nov. 10, 2024 — The University of Sydney has announced that quantum researchers Dominic Williamson and Nouédyn Baspin have developed what the university called “a transformative new architecture for managing errors that emerge…
From insideHPC
Cloudian Announces Support for NVIDIA GPUDirect Acceleration for Object Storage
SAN MATEO, CA – Nov 18, 2024 – Cloudian, the global leader in secure S3-compatible AI data lake platforms, today announced its integration with NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirectÒ Storage technology, delivering breakthrough performance…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Considerations When Using Data from Human Subjects
This blog highlights key points on considerations when using data from human subjects in a recent CRA whitepaper that outlined challenges and examples that computing conferences should address. Here’s what you should know. Using…
From Computational Complexity
Steven Rudich (1961-2024)
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Why is your Internet so slow?
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London. This article was originally published on the CS4FN website. It was also published in our 2023 Advent Calendar. The Internet is now so much a part of life that, unless you are over…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Global Entrepreneurship Week (18-24 Nov) – see our new Tech Entrepreneurship resource
It’s Global Entrepreneurship Week next week (18th to 24th November) and to celebrate we’ve put together a resource page (portal) on Tech Entrepreneurs to inspire you. We’ll be adding more people and companies but it currently…
From insideHPC
TSMC Reports October Monthly Revenue Jump of 29.2% YoY
HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C. – Nov. 8, 2024 – TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) today announced its net revenue for October 2024: On a consolidated basis, revenue for October 2024 was approximately NT$314.24 billion, an increase of 24.8…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-A-Rama in Des Moines
Squid-A-Rama will be in Des Moines at the end of the month.
How are they doing a…Visitors will be able to dissect squid, explore fascinating facts about the species, and witness a live squid release conducted by local divers.
From Schneier on Security
AI Industry is Trying to Subvert the Definition of “Open Source AI”
The Open Source Initiative has published (news article here) its definition of “open source AI,” and it’s terrible. It allows for secret training data and mechanisms. It allows for development to be done in secret. Since foris…
From insideHPC
Codee and Do IT Now Announce Automated Code Review Partnership for HPC
Barcelona, Thursday 7th November 2024 – Codee, provider of software developer tools for automated code review and testing for Fortran/C/C++ code, announced a partnership with Do IT Now, a provder of high performance computing…
From insideHPC
MIPS Releases AI-Enabled RISC-V Automotive CPU for ADAS and Autonomous Vehicles
SAN JOSE – November 7, 2024 – MIPS, a developer of IP compute cores, announced today the general availability(GA) launch of the MIPS P8700 Series RISC-V Processor. Designed to meet the data movement demands of advanced automotive…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Wanna Be A Rock Star?
By Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London Updated from the archive of 2007 Want to make sure your life turns out the way you want? Want to trade this life for fortune and fame? If you believe post-grunge rock band Nickelback…
From insideHPC
ATTO Technology Introduces HPC and AI Connectivity at SC24
AMHERST, NY, November 5, 2024 — ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader in network and storage connectivity solutions, announces it will show its high-performance storage and network connectivity products and solutions at SC24…
From Schneier on Security
Prompt Injection Defenses Against LLM Cyberattacks
Interesting research: “Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks“:
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being harnessed to automate cyberattacks, making sophisticated exploits…From Schneier on Security
Subverting LLM Coders
Really interesting research: “An LLM-Assisted Easy-to-Trigger Backdoor Attack on Code Completion Models: Injecting Disguised Vulnerabilities against Strong Detection“:
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed code…From Computational Complexity
Higher Education Under Trump
It feels eerie as pretty much everyone seemingly avoided talking about the election. But Trump back in the White House will likely have a profound effect on US Colleges and Universities. Trump is no fan of universities and his…
From insideHPC
IonQ Announces Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results
November 06, 2024 — COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2024. “We had yet another banner quarter at IonQ, booking $63.5 million…
From insideHPC
Exascale: Argonne Deploys Aurora for AI-Driven Protein Design
Harnessing AI and exascale supercomputing, a research team led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has developed a computing framework to speed up the design of new proteins.
The post Exascale: Argonne…
From insideHPC
BullSequana eXascale Interconnect V3: Intelligent Network Management Accelerates GPU Performance in AI-HPC
Introduction Throughout history, large-scale High-Performance Computing (HPC) has been instrumental to life-changing innovations. More recently, it has enabled disruptive technological advancements, laying the foundation for
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From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Supporting the Research Community and the Peer Review Process
When you hear supporting the research community and the peer review process, what do you think? Our recent CRA whitepaper published in July outlined key points for conferences to consider. Here’s what you should know. Encouraging…
From Schneier on Security
IoT Devices in Password-Spraying Botnet
Microsoft is warning Azure cloud users that a Chinese controlled botnet is engaging in “highly evasive” password spraying. Not sure about the “highly evasive” part; the techniques seem basically what you get in a distributed …
From insideHPC
Quantum: D-Wave Reports Calibration of 4,400+ Qubit Processor
PALO ALTO, Calif. – November 6, 2024 – D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS), a quantum computing systems, software and services company, today announced that it has completed the calibration and benchmarking of a 4,400+ qubit Advantage2…
From insideHPC
DOE Issues 2 $6M System Science Funding Opportunities
Nov. 5, 2024: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research (BER) Program announced its interest in receiving applications for research in Environmental System Science (ESS). The deadline for pre-applications…
From insideHPC
Tenstorrent Deploys Arteris Network-on-Chip IP
CAMPBELL, Calif. – Nov. 5, 2024 – Arteris, Inc. (Nasdaq: AIP), a provider of system IP designed to accelerates system-on-chip (SoC) creation, today announced Tenstorrent has licensed its network-on-chip (NoC) IP for on-chip connectivity…
From Schneier on Security
AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities
I’ve been writing about the possibility of AIs automatically discovering code vulnerabilities since at least 2018. This is an ongoing area of research: AIs doing source code scanning, AIs finding zero-days in the wild, and everything…