Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
March 2025
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Quadrennial Paper Addresses Educating the Next Generation Robotics Technology Workforce
In the near future, robots may assist humans in a near-endless variety of applications — as teaching assistants in schools, in dangerous search and rescue efforts in disaster situations, and in ocean cleanup efforts, to name…
From insideHPC
DDN Appoints 2 to Board
Chatsworth, CA – [March 12, 2025] – AI and data intelligence company DDN announced two appointments to its board of directors: Sven Oehme, DDN’s chief technology officer, and Jas Khaira, head of Americas and founding member of…
From insideHPC
CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security-Hardened Enterprise Linux
RENO, Nev—March 11, 2025— Software infrastructure company CIQ announced the availability of a preview of Rocky Linux from CIQ – Hardened, a version of Enterprise Linux that is optimized for environments with stringent security…
From Schneier on Security
Silk Typhoon Hackers Indicted
Lots of interesting details in the story:
The US Department of Justice on Wednesday announced the indictment of 12 Chinese individuals accused of more than a decade of hacker intrusions around the world, including eight staffers…From insideHPC
Data Center Report: Record-low Vacancy Pushing Hyperscalers into Untapped Markets
In a year when data centers faced their most difficult power challenges, the industry thrived nevertheless. According to the North America Data Center Year-End 2024 Report ....
The post Data Center Report: Record-low Vacancy…
From Schneier on Security
Thousands of WordPress Websites Infected with Malware
The malware includes four separate backdoors:
Creating four backdoors facilitates the attackers having multiple points of re-entry should one be detected and removed. A unique case we haven’t seen before. Which introduces another…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
An overview of parallel programming (Go edition)
In practice, the software we write runs on several processors. Unfortunately, much of what we take for granted on a single processor becomes false when there are more than one processor. For example, if two processors modifyContinue…
From Computational Complexity
Numbers that look prime but aren't
A long time ago I made up the question (are questions ever really made up?)
What is the least number that looks prime but isn't?
It was not quite a joke in that it has an answer despite being non-rigorous.
My answer is 91:
Dividing…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Hiroshi Kawano and his AI abstract artist
Piet Mondrian is famous for his pioneering pure abstract paintings that consist of blocks of colour with thick black borders. This series of works is iconic now. You can buy designs based on them on socks, cards, bags, T-shorts…
From insideHPC
Does Quantum Computing Deliver Value Now?
Despite current limitations, there is substantial value in preparing for a future where quantum computing becomes more practical and widespread. Companies are investing heavily in research and talent to be ready when quantum
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From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Piet Mondrian and Image Representation
Piet Mondrian was a pioneer of abstract art. He was a Dutch painter, famous for his minimalist abstract art. His series of grid-based paintings consisted of rectangles, some of solid primary colour, others white, separated by…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Loyalty Cards
Squid is a loyalty card platform in Ireland.
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Dr. Handel Jones on the US-China AI Race and the Shifting Technopolitical Balance
Dr. Handel Jones, an expert on the economic, cultural and technology scene in China as well as a noted technopolitical analyst, joins Doug and Shahin for a second appearance on the @HPCpodcast. Having returned from a recent trip…
From insideHPC
Report: 64,000 Nvidia GB200s for Stargate AI Data Center in Texas
A report from Bloomberg states that some 64,000 of Nvidia’s flagship Blackwell GB200 chips will be purchased by OpenAI and Oracle as part of the Stargate AI data center project announced in January at a ceremony ....
The post…
From Schneier on Security
Rayhunter: Device to Detect Cellular Surveillance
The EFF has created an open-source hardware tool to detect IMSI catchers: fake cell phone towers that are used for mass surveillance of an area.
It runs on a $20 mobile hotspot.
From insideHPC
Europe, Seeking HPC and AI Autonomy, Launches €240M DARE Project
A €240 million project has been launched to promote HPC and AI autonomy in Europe. The Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, Special Agreement 1 (DARE SGA1) project marks “a significant milestone in Europe’s journey toward
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From insideHPC
Sandia Names Laura McGill Labs Director
Laura McGill will become Sandia’s 17th Labs director, effective May 1. McGill, who has served as deputy Labs director for Nuclear Deterrence and chief technology officer since January 2021, succeeds James Peery, who is retiring…
From insideHPC
GE Vernova and AWS Announce Agreement on Data Center Energy Demand
CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 4, 2025 – GE Vernova (NYSE: GEV) and Amazon Web Services today announced a strategic framework agreement (SFA) to electrify and decarbonize data centers in North America, Europe and Asia. The agreement is…
From insideHPC
HighPoint Announces UBM/VPP Support for PCIe Gen5 and 2nd-Gen Gen4 NVMe Adapter Families
March 6, 2025 — HighPoint Technologies announced the availability of customizable UBM (Universal Backplane Management)/VPP (Virtual Presence and Power) firmware packages for its PCIe Gen5 and 2nd-Gen PCIe Gen4 NVMe adapter families…
From Schneier on Security
The Combined Cipher Machine
Interesting article—with photos!—of the US/UK “Combined Cipher Machine” from WWII.
From insideHPC
Axelera AI Wins up to EuroHPC €61.6M Grant for AI Chiplet Development
March 06, 2024 – Eindhoven, Netherlands: AI hardware maker Axelera AI has unveiled Titania, which the company described as a high-performance, low-power and scalable AI inference chiplet. To support this development, Axelera
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From insideHPC
Ceramic.ai Emerges from Stealth, Reports 2.5x Faster Model Training
SAN FRANCISCO — March 5, 2025 — Ceramic.ai emerged from stealth today with software for foundation model training infrastructure designed to enable enterprises to build and fine-tune generative AI models more efficiently. Founded…
From insideHPC
SCHEDULE VAST GTC RELEASE FOR 1PM PT ON TUESDAY, MARCH 18
VAST Data and NVIDIA Announce Enterprise-Ready AI Stack via VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA DGX Meet the industry’s first secure full-stack system for real-time data and scalable AI Remote-First-Company | NVIDIA GTC (San Jose,…
From insideHPC
Fluidstack and Eclairion to Deliver 18K GPU Supercomputer in France
AI cloud platform Fluidstack and Eclairion, a French maker of modular, high-density data centers, have partnered to build what the companies said is Europe’s largest GPU supercomputer that they will deliver in 2025 for Mistral…
From insideHPC
Argonne: ATPESC 2025 Applications Due Today
The deadline to take part in ATPESC, the 13th Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing, at Argonne is today. ATPESC will be held from Sunday, July 27 to Friday, August 8, 2025 in the Chicago area. There are no fees…
From insideHPC
VDURA Launches All-Flash NVMe V5000 for AI Factories and GPU Clouds
MILPITAS, CA – March 4, 2025 – VDURA, an AI and high-performance computing data infrastructure company, today announced the launch of its V5000 All-Flash Appliance, engineered to address the escalating demands as AI pipelines…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Maja Matarić, Previous CCC Council Member, Elected to the National Academies of Engineering
The National Academies of Engineering (NAE) recently announced their newly elected members list, and among the many distinguished new members is previous CCC Council member, Maja Matarić. Dr. Matarić, the Chan Soon-Shiong Chair…
From Computational Complexity
Taking a Stand
On February 20th we got the news from the National Science Foundation Algorithms Foundations Team that long-time NSF program director Tracy Kimbrel, was leaving the NSF, and not by choice.
Along with many others in part-time status…From Schneier on Security
CISA Identifies Five New Vulnerabilities Currently Being Exploited
Of the five, one is a Windows vulnerability, another is a Cisco vulnerability. We don’t have any details about who is exploiting them, or how.
News article. Slashdot thread.
From insideHPC
Spanish Government Announces €67M Investment in Multiverse Computing
The Spanish government announced Tuesday it will make a co-investment of 67 million euros in San Sebastian-based Multiverse Computing, developer of software inspired by quantum computing that allows AI models to be compressed…