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 CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Sonifying zebrafish biology
by the CS4FN team (from the archive) Biologists often analyse data about the cell biology of living animals to understand their development. A large part of this involves looking for patterns in the data to use to refine their…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20240930: New Intel and AMD Chips, Advanced Chip Subsidies and a Quantum Update
A happy final day of September to you! Chips news dominated most of the developments coming out of the world of HPC-AI, including: Intel Xeon 6, Gaudi 3, MRDIMM, AMX; Intel 3 Fab, TSMC, Samsung, Chip subsidies; AMD Turin and
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From Schneier on Security
AI and the 2024 US Elections
For years now, AI has undermined the public’s ability to trust what it sees, hears, and reads. The Republican National Committee released a provocative ad offering an “AI-generated look into the country’s possible future if Joe…
From Computational Complexity
Progress on R(5). Will there be more?
(I had a post a while back requesting people to submit open problems in Luca Trevisan's honor with deadline Oct 1. I am extending that to Oct 14, but that is a HARD deadline. See my original post which I have updated, here.)
…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Solving Railway Timetabling Problems with Data Visualisation
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London Train timetables are complex. When designing a timetable for railways you have to think about the physical capabilities of the actual train, what stops it needs to make, whether…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
This quantum message will self-destruct in 10 seconds…
A fuse burning
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
It is never too later to write your own C/C++ command-line utilities
Recently, I received an email from an engineer at a prominent company who shared how he managed to save his employer tens of thousands of dollars annually by developing a custom command-line utility in C++. Without delving into…
From Schneier on Security
Squid Fishing in Japan
Fishermen are catching more squid as other fish are depleted.
From insideHPC
IonQ Announces $25.5M Quantum Deal with U.S. Air Force Research Lab
IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) today announced an expanded relationship with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to deploy two barium-based trapped ion quantum computing systems for quantum networking research and application development. The…
From insideHPC
Hyperion Research to Host HPC User Forums: Barcelona Oct. 21-22, Stuttgart Oct. 24-25
HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research has announced two upcoming HPC User Forums: The 86th HPC User Forum, Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 21-22 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Barcelona, Spain. Agenda and free…
From insideHPC
Data Management Company Reltio Integrates with Microsoft Purview
Sept. 24, 2024, Redwood Shores, Calif.– Reltio, an AI-powered data unification and management company, has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft ith the intent to streamline data governance and unification across the enterprise…
From Schneier on Security
NIST Recommends Some Common-Sense Password Rules
NIST’s second draft of its “SP 800-63-4“—its digital identify guidelines—finally contains some really good rules about passwords:
The following requirements apply to passwords:
lVerifiers and CSPs SHALL require passwords to…From insideHPC
Oracle Cloud Supercluster Supports 16,000 AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs
AMD today announced that Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has chosen AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs with ROCm open software to power its newest OCI Compute Supercluster instance ... For AI models comprised of hundreds of billions of parameters…
From Computational Complexity
LeetCode and AI
I often do LeetCode problems for fun. This site mainly provides short coding problems for students and others to train for the kinds of question that come up in technical job interviews. I use the site to keep up my programming…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
ACM-W Seeks Applicants for Professional Chapters Committee
ACM-W is seeking applicants for the ACM-W Global Professional Chapters Committee. Come join us and be part of an energetic team of leaders for an organization that supports, celebrates, and advocates for women in computing around…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Grand Challenges from the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
Today is day 4 of the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, and throughout the week I have been asking the computing laureates to identify the grandest grand challenges in computing research, and extrapolating grand challenges based…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Farewell Melanie – Thank You For Your Service!
In this month’s blog post, we thank Melanie, who served ACM-W for several years in different roles. You can read more on Melanie’s journey in computer science in Rendering History, the women of ACM-W. Here is a short synopsis…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast Industry View: HPC-AI Memory-Centric Trends with Lenovo Distinguished Engineer Patrick Caporale
The @HPCpodcast “Industry View” feature delves into major issues in the world of HPC, AI, and other advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders. Today, we examine big memory-I/O dynamics and the emergence of memory…
From insideHPC
Pure Storage Announces New Platform Features
Santa Clara, CA/ London – September 24, 2024 – Data storage company Pure Storage today announced new features for the Pure Storage platform, including Real-time Enterprise File, dynamic file services that change, adapt and reconfigure…
From The Noisy Channel
Quo Vadis Nunc, Quora?
I was one of Quora’s earliest users, earned Top Writer status for a few years, and topped the leaderboard as a 9-time Knowledge Prize Winner. One of my answers earned over a million views. Although I stopped contributing to Quora…
From insideHPC
Vultr Offers AMD Instinct MI300X for AI Cloud Platform
West Palm Beach, FL – Sept. 25, 2024 – Cloud computing platform Vultr today announced that the new AMD Instinct MI300X accelerator and ROCm open software are set to be made available within Vultr’s composable cloud infrastructure…
From Schneier on Security
New Windows Malware Locks Computer in Kiosk Mode
A malware campaign uses the unusual method of locking users in their browser’s kiosk mode to annoy them into entering their Google credentials, which are then stolen by information-stealing malware.
Specifically, the…From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Insights from Computing Laureates of the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum
I am thrilled to share that I am reporting from Heidelberg, Germany this week where I am attending the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum as a member of the press. The forum brings together young researchers across mathematics and…
From insideHPC
Intel Unveils Next-Gen Xeon 6 and Gaudi 3 Aimed at AI
Amid swirling reports of billions in a capital infusion Apollo Capital Management combined with a reported acquisition attempt by Qualcomm, Intel proceeded today launches of the Xeon 6 CPU with Performance-cores (P-cores) and…
From insideHPC
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität: HPC Boosted with xiRAID and Lustre
Sept. 24, 2024 — Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), a research university in Germany, announced it has enhanced its high-performance computing capabilities through an implementation of xiRAID and Lustre
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From insideHPC
Supermicro Adds Intel-Based X14 Servers for AI, HPC, Cloud and Edge
SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept. 24, 2024 — Supermicro today announced GPU, multi-node and rackmount systems to the X14 portfolio, which are based on the Intel Xeon 6900 Series Processors with P-Cores (formerly code named Granite Rapids…
From insideHPC
SK hynix Announces CXL SDK Available on Linux
SEOUL, September 23, 2024 – SK hynix Inc. announced today that features of its Heterogeneous Memory Software Development Kit (HMSDK) software for optimizing Compute Express Link memory technology , are now available on Linux.…
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Lessons from the PhD Journey of the 2024 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Winner
By Nivedita Arora Foreword Nivedita Arora, this year’s ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award winner, candidly shares stories from her six-year Ph.D. Computer Science journey at Georgia Tech, advised by Gregory Abowd and Thad Starner…
From insideHPC
OpenLight and Epiphany Partner on Photonic Integrated Circuit Design
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 23, 2024 — PASIC chip design and manufacturing company OpenLight today announced a partnership with Epiphany, a fabless photonic design house, aimed at advancing the photonic integrated circuit (PIC)…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
The Teleporting Robot
by Paul Curzon, Queen Mary University of London What is an algorithm? It is just a set of instructions that if followed precisely and in the given order, guarantees some result. The concept is important to computer scientists…