Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2022
From insideHPC
AWS Announces Hpc7g EC2 Instance Powered by New Arm-based Graviton3E Chip
At AWS’s re:Invent conference yesterday, Amazon Web Servicesannounced three EC2 instances powered by new Arm-based chips designed by AWS. AWS said its Hpc7g instances on EC2, powered by new AWS Graviton3E chips, offer up to 2x…
From The Eponymous Pickle
US Rail Strike Implication Studies
Looking for studies that have been done regarding the current and near future implications regarding the possible US labor rail-strike. In particular how this could could change costs of the supply chain by industry, and ultimately…
From insideHPC
Exxact Partners Offers Run:ai for GPU Clusters in AI Workloads
FREMONT, CA — Nov. 30, 2022 — Exxact Corporation, a provider of high-performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), and data center solutions, now offers Run:ai in their solutions. This groundbreaking Kubernetes-based…
From insideHPC
Jan. 20 Deadline for Abstracts for Energy HPC Conference at Ken Kennedy Institute, Rice Univ.
Nov. 30, 2022 — Friday, Jan. 20, 2023 is the deadline to submit an extended abstract for presentation at the 16th Annual 2023 Energy High Performance Computing Conference hosted by the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laying the Groundwork for Digital Twins
Thoughtful , introductory. Would prefer a view that is more a simulation-engineering basis than metaverse, but still useful.
Laying the groundwork for digital twins in Mckinsey
AWS REINVENT 2022
November 29, 2022What if you…From insideHPC
Iceotope Study with Meta on Immersion Liquid Cooling for High-Density Storage Drives
Sheffield, UK, November 30 2022 — Iceotope, a precision immersion cooling company, announced a new study with Meta that Iceotope said confirms the practicality, efficiency and effectiveness of chassis-level liquid cooling technology…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Apply for the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) recently announced the start of the application period to attend the 10th annual HLF, which will take place September 24-29, 2023 in Heidelberg, Germany. From the call for applications: During…
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM, Maersk pull the plug on blockchain-based TradeLens shipping platform
Had followed this for some time, thought it was a good example, the why seems weak. Unless the fundamentals were just not there.
IBM, Maersk pull the plug on blockchain-based TradeLens shipping platform BY KYT DOTSON
Computing…From insideHPC
Arm Announces New Board Members
Arm today announced the appointment of new board members Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, chairman and CEO of XCOM Labs and former CEO and executive chairman of Qualcomm Inc., and Rosemary Schooler, former corporate vice president and general…
From insideHPC
HPC4EI: Dec. 6 Deadline for Fall 2022 Solicitation Applications
Nov. 30, 2022 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $3 million to connect industry partners with the high-performance computing (HPC) resources and experts at DOE’s National Laboratories to tackle manufacturing…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Rethinking the Computer Chip in the Age of AI
New designs for Computer chips.
Rethinking the Computer Chip in the Age of AI, via U of Penn
Posted on September 29, 2022 Author Devorah Fischler
The transistor-free compute-in-memory architecture permits three computational…From The Eponymous Pickle
Drones on Strings as People Puppeteers?
Quite new thought to me. Though our look at group tasks for drones might have used this.
Drones on Strings Could Puppeteer People in VR
New Scientist, Matthew Sparkes, November 25, 2022
Researchers at Germany's Saarland University…From The Eponymous Pickle
Securing Software Supply Chains
From Bruce Schneier, with further commentary:
The NSA (together with CISA) has published a long report on supply-chain security: “Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices Guide for Suppliers.“:
Prevention is often…From insideHPC
PASQAL and University of Chicago Announce Neutral Atoms Quantum Computing Collaboration
Boston – Nov. 30, 2022 — PASQAL, a neutral atoms quantum computing research company headquartered in Paris, today announced a collaboration agreement with Professor Hannes Bernien at the University of Chicago to advance neutral…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Preserving the Past with Immersive Technologies
Beyond the museum. Much more to follow.
NEWS
Preserving the Past with Immersive Technologies, By Esther Shein
Communications of the ACM, December 2022, Vol. 65 No. 12, Pages 15-17 10.1145/3565978
The Skin & Bones augmentedInside…From The Eponymous Pickle
Data and Analytics in Soccer, Rise of Deeper Decision Manking
The Rise of Deeper Decision Making, Money and data driving next steps.
As the 2022 FIFA World Cup gets underway in Qatar on November 20, some of the most important action will be taking place off the…From Schneier on Security
Facebook Fined $276M under GDPR
Facebook—Meta—was just fined $276 million (USD) for a data leak that included full names, birth dates, phone numbers, and location.
Meta’s total fine by the Data Protection Commission is over $700 million. Total GDPR fines are…From Putting People First
[Book] Cloudmoney
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In Cloudmoney, Brett Scott tells an urgent and revelatory story about how the fusion of Big Finance and Big Tech requires “cloudmoney”—digital money underpinned by the banking sector—to replace physical cash.
Book is also available…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wireless Smart Bandages
Speeding healing.
New Wireless Smart Bandage Accelerates Chronic Wound Healing By Adrianna Nine on November 28, 2022 at 10:03 am in ExtremeTech
Chronic wounds are an under-acknowledged medical concern. At any given time, more…From insideHPC
Cerebras Announces 2 AI Partnerships – for Large Language Model Training and ‘Generative AI’ for Content Creation
Cerebras Systems, maker of the “dinner plate sized” AI processor, announced two alliances today, one with Cirrascale Cloud Services, provider of deep learning solutions for AVs, NLP and computer vision, and with Jasper, maker…
From insideHPC
Lenovo: Martin Hiegl, Director of HPC Customer Solutions
In this interview at SC22, Lenovo’s Martin Hiegl, Director, HPC Customer Solutions, discusses the company’s extensive experience with liquid cooling of high-performance servers in HPC cluster environments, he reviews what makes…
From insideHPC
AMD at SC22 on its Latest EPYC CPUs and Instinct Accelerators
In this interview at SC22 with AMD’s Mahesh Balasubramanian, director of product marketing, Data Center Accelerator Group, he talks about the company’s advanced new 4th Generation EPYC “Genoa” CPUs, its new Instinct MI200 accelerators…
From insideHPC
Security Industry Veteran Katie McCullough Joins Panzura as Chief Information Security Officer
SAN JOSE – November 29, 2022– Panzura, LLC (“Panzura”), a hybrid multi-cloud data management company, has appointed Katie McCullough to its newly created role of Chief Information Security Officer. McCullough will be responsible…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Is Having AI Generate Text Cheating?
Does AI give unfair advantage? It will come into general use
Is Having AI Generate Text Cheating? By Carlos Baquero
Communications of the ACM, December 2022, Vol. 65 No. 12, Pages 6-7 10.1145/3565976
Professor Carlos Baquero…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How big are your SVE registers ? (AWS Graviton)
Amazon has some neat ARM-based systems based on Amazon’s own chips (Graviton). You can access them through Amazon’s web services (AWS). These processors have advanced vector instructions able to process many values at once. These…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Andromeda Supercomputer
New Advances
New Cerebras Wafer-Scale ‘Andromeda’ Supercomputer Has 13.5 Million Cores By Jessica Hall on November 21, 2022
Cerebras unveiled its new AI supercomputer Andromeda at SC22. With 13.5 million cores across 16 Cerebras…From The Eponymous Pickle
Who is Responsible? Autopilot?
More such events to follow and to be analyzed.
Manslaughter Case Has a Strange Twist: Tesla That Killed Couple Was on Autopilot
By Futurism, November 2, 2022
A provocative manslaughter case is about to kick off in Los AngelesIt's…From insideHPC
Hyperion Research Announces Winners of 2022 HPC Innovation Excellence Awards
ST PAUL, Minn., November 29, 2022 — Hyperion Research, the globally recognized premier industry analyst and market intelligence firm covering high performance computing (HPC), AI, cloud, quantum, and associated emerging markets…
From Schneier on Security
Charles V of Spain Secret Code Cracked
Diplomatic code cracked after 500 years:
In painstaking work backed by computers, Pierrot found “distinct families” of about 120 symbols used by Charles V. “Whole words are encrypted with a single symbol” and the emperor replaced…From Computational Complexity