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 insideHPC
NCSA and CliMAS to Host Climate Supercomputing Summit Sept. 29-Oct. 2
Champaign-Urbana, IL, Sept. 17, 2024 — The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the Univerity of Illinois’ Department of Climate, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences (CliMAS) will bring together more than…
From insideHPC
e6data Raises $10M for Analytics Engine
San Francisco – September 17, 2024; In today’s digital-first landscape, enterprises rely on powerful data and AI capabilities to fuel innovation, enhance customer experiences, and optimize operations. However, they are set to…
From insideHPC
ZutaCore and Munters Team on Waterless Data Center Architecture for AI Factories
SAN JOSE, Sept. 17, 2024 — ZutaCore, a provider of direct-to-chip, waterless liquid cooling solutions, and Munters, an air treatment and climate solutions company, today announced the integration of their two platforms to provide…
From insideHPC
Firebolt Introduces Cloud Data Warehouse
KIRKLAND, WA, September 17, 2024 — Today, Firebolt announced a data warehouse that the company said delivers low latency analytics with 10x more efficiency. “Built across five years of relentless development, it reflects continuous…
From Schneier on Security
Remotely Exploding Pagers
Wow.
It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered.
Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger a thermal runaway remotely? Malicious code update, or natural …From Schneier on Security
Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews
Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article
These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking…From The Noisy Channel
Cold Start, Practical Edition
If you are a search application developer or some other kind of machine learning practitioner, you have probably encountered a cold start problem: launching a data-driven application without any data to drive it. There are many…
From Schneier on Security
Legacy Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance Being Exploited
CISA wants everyone—and government agencies in particular—to remove or upgrade an Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) that is no longer being supported.
Welcome to the security nightmare that is the Internet of Things.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Q&A: Upcoming CCC Citizen Science Workshop Organizers Give A Sneak Peak
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) will be hosting the Grand Challenges for the Convergence of Computational and Citizen Science Research workshop in-person from April 8 – 9, 2025 and virtual discussions. Their goal is…
From insideHPC
Q-CTRL Delivering New Services to IBM Quantum Network
Montréal, Sept. 16, 2024 – Quantum sofware company Q-CTRL today announced that it offers two services via IBM’s new Qiskit Functions Catalog to simplify application development and performance management services. Q-CTRL’s performance…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Cooking up computer style
Use the recipe for hummus and tomato pasta to learn about creating a good computer program (and have a delicious meal at the end!).
From Computational Complexity
How will chatGPT affect Homework?
LANCE: I gave my final exam for my ugrad theory course (regular, Context Free, P, NP, Decidable, Undecidable) to the new ChatGPT o1 that claims to reason about math to see how it would do.
BILL: How did it do?
LANCE: Impressive…From Schneier on Security
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid as a Legislative Negotiating Tactic
This is an odd story of serving squid during legislative negotiations in the Philippines.
From Schneier on Security
My TedXBillings Talk
Over the summer, I gave a talk about AI and democracy at TedXBillings. The recording is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqC4nb7fLpY”>live.
Please share. I’m hoping for more than 200 views….
From insideHPC
Sept. 29 Registration Deadline for ALCF Virtual Intro to AI-driven Science on Supercomputers
Sept. 13, 2024: The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility will host a seven-week virtual training series for undergraduates and graduates on the fundamentals of applying world-class supercomputers to advance the use of AI for…
From insideHPC
Quantum Source Raises $50M Series A Funding
TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 10, 2024 — Quantum Source, an Israel-based company developing, technology for photonic quantum computers, announced today it has raised a $50M Series A investment round led by Eclipse, with participation…
From insideHPC
CIQ Launches Ledger Pro for IT Infrastructure Oversight
RENO, Nev. — September 12, 2024 — Businesses aiming to optimize IT system automation with precision and efficiency now have a solution — Ledger Pro, the newest product from CIQ. An all-in-one solution for proactive infrastructure…
From insideHPC
Samsung Announces Production of QLC 9th-Gen V-NAND Flash Memory
Sept. 12, 2024 — Memory technology company Samsung Electronics today announced it has begun mass production of its 1Tb quad-level cell (QLC) 9th-generation vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory. “With the industry’s first mass…
From insideHPC
Pete Ungaro Joins VDURA Board
SAN JOSE, Sept. 12, 2024 — AI and HPC data infrastructure software company VDURA, formerly Panasas, announced the appointment of Peter Ungaro to its company board of directors. In addition, VDURA has established a Technical
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From insideHPC
Quandela Unveils European Quantum Computer in North America
Montreal and Paris, September 12th, 2024 – Quandela, a European photonic quantum computing company, announced the launch of its Canadian subsidiary, Quandela Canada, in Montreal. This is accompanied by the deployment of the first…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
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From insideHPC
3 Max Planck-Humboldt Award Winners Named
Sept. 12, 2024 — The Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award, endowed with 1.5 million euros, goes to Geordie Williamson, professor at the University of Sydney, for his use of artificial intelligence for fundamental work in mathematics…
From Schneier on Security
Microsoft Is Adding New Cryptography Algorithms
Microsoft is updating SymCrypt, its core cryptographic library, with new quantum-secure algorithms. Microsoft’s details are here. From a news article:
The first new algorithm Microsoft added to SymCrypt is called ML-KEM. Previously…From insideHPC
BQP Reports on Aircraft CFD Simulations with Quantum Computing
New York, September 12, 2024 – BQP, a startup developing quantum-based engineering simulations, today announced what it said is a research milestone for simulating computational fluid dynamics. The milestone was achieved using…
From insideHPC
Aramco and Cerebras Sign AI MoU
SUNNYVALE, Calif. & RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Cerebras Systems today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Aramco under which they aim to bring high performance AI inference to industries, universities, and…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Working in Computer Science: An Autistic Perspective (Part 2)
by Daniel Gill, Queen Mary University of London In Part 1, we spoke to Stephen Parry about his experiences of working in computer science as an autistic person. In this second part, we discuss with him his change from this stressful…
From insideHPC
Kong Updates Its Cloud API Platform for AI
SAN FRANCISCO, September 11, 2024 – Kong Inc., a developer of cloud API technologies, today announced the launch of the latest version of Kong Konnect, its API platform for AI, at the API Summit 2024 conference. As organizations…
From insideHPC
IonQ and the University of Maryland in $9M Quantum Partnership
COLLEGE PARK, MD – Sept. 11, 2024 – Quantum computing company IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) and the University of Maryland today announced an agreement to expand their partnership to provide quantum computing access at the National Quantum…
From insideHPC
Oracle Announces Zettascale Cloud Supercomputing Cluster with 131,000 Nvidia Blackwells
Oracle today announced what it said is the first zettascale cloud HPC cluster, powered by Nvidia’s forthcoming Blackwell GPUs, scheduled for shipment in the first half of 2025. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be available with…