Communications of the ACM
The blog archive provides access to past blog postings from Communications of the ACM and other sources by date.
November 2023
From insideHPC
A New Day for the TOP500: Aurora No. 2 at 585 PFlops, 4 New Top 10 Entrants, Frontier Still No. 1
Denver -- Attendees at the SC23 conference here in Denver have been greeted by a roiled TOP500 ranking of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, along with significant news about a would-be exascale HPC system coming in at…
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Views and Insights on the New TOP500 List
The big news on the Monday of each annual Supercomputing Conference is the release of the new TOP500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputers. At this years SC23 here in Denver, the big news is that the top 10 of
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From insideHPC
AMD-based HPC Systems on TOP500 Grows 39%
SANTA CLARA, Calif., — Nov. 14, 2023 — Today, AMD said its microprocessors now power 140 supercomputers on the latest Top500 list, representing a 39 percent year-over-year increase. Additionally, AMD powers 80 percent of the …
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Announces HGX H200 Systems and Cloud Instances
DENVER—SC23—Nov. 13, 2023—NVIDIA today announced the HGX H200 that is based on the Hopper architecture and features the H200 Tensor Core GPU with advanced memory to handle massive amounts of data for generative AI and high performance…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20231113: SC23 and TOP500 Kickoff, DAOS Storage, Sandia and DDN, TSMC and SMIC Financials
As the SC23 conference heats up, we hurry ( 5:20) through the latest news from the world of HPC-AI, including: SC23 and TOP500 kickoff today; storage at scale, DAOS and the Aurora supercomputer; Sandia National Lab and DDN's
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From Schneier on Security
Ten Ways AI Will Change Democracy
Artificial intelligence will change so many aspects of society, largely in ways that we cannot conceive of yet. Democracy, and the systems of governance that surround it, will be no exception. In this short essay, I want to move…
From insideHPC
Life is Fleeting, But Data is Forever – Meet your Digital Twin
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE BY HPE AND NVIDIA] With the transformation of medicine from analog to digital, plus the rise of new data-generating devices for health tracking and genomic information, we can look forward to a new world…
From Computational Complexity
Forgetting your password is usually not a big deal. Unless....
When I forget my password I can usually reset it and get back to where I was. Of course, before I get access I am nervous that its not going to work. And there may be times (its never happened to me) where one CANNOT get back…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Science and Technology links (November 12 2023)
Vitamin K2 supplements might reduce the risk of myocardial infarction (heart attacks) and of all-cause death (Hasific et al. 2022). You find vitamin K2 in some Gouda cheeses and in eggs. Most of the water on Earth is salinated…
From insideHPC
GigaIO and Dell Expand Partnership
San Diego, Nov. 11, 2023 – GigaIO, a provider of workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing, today announced that Dell customers can now order GigaIO solutions from their Dell sales team or local Dell reseller…
From Gödel's Lost Letter and P=NP
Kurt Gödel In The Movies
And a Limited TV Series — all in 2023 Kurt Gödel—or rather the actor Chris Urbaniak portraying him—appears in one brief scene in the movie Oppenheimer. He has no lines. He is named only by Albert Einstein—played by Tom Conti—regarding…
From insideHPC
Building a Diverse HPC Workforce at the ALCF
The ALCF is engaged in several activities and initiatives that aim to increase diversity in HPC and the computing sciences. Supercomputing centers have long been recognized for driving innovation and progress in scientific fields…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: The History and Morality of US Squid Consumption
Really interesting article.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
Read my blog posting guidelines here.
From Schneier on Security
The Privacy Disaster of Modern Smart Cars
Article based on a Mozilla report.
From insideHPC
CIQ Announces Rocky Linux Solutions for CentOS Migration on Google Cloud
RENO, Nev.—November 8, 2023— CIQ Inc. today announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to help customers accelerate CentOS migrations with new Rocky Linux solutions from CIQ built for Google Cloud. With the upcoming end-of-life…
From insideHPC
SC23 Prep: HPC Experts on Sessions to See and Trends to Watch Next Week in Denver
SC23 is around the corner, and there’s an aura surrounding this year’s annual conference. With the advent of ChaptGPT, large language models and generative AI, HPC -- in combination with AI -- has truly moved to the center of…
From insideHPC
Data Days Brings Department of Energy Labs Together for Discussions on Data Management and More
Data researchers, developers, data managers and program managers from the Department of Energy national laboratories visited Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Oct. 24-26 to discuss the latest in data management, sharing
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From Geeking with Greg
Book excerpt: Table of Contents
(This is the Table of Contents from my book, "Algorithms and Misinformation: Why Wisdom of the Crowds Failed the Internet and How to Fix It")
Introduction: How good algorithms became a fountain of scams, shills, and disinformation…
From Computational Complexity
Othello. Solved.
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From Schneier on Security
Online Retail Hack
Selling miniature replicas to unsuspecting shoppers:
Online marketplaces sell tiny pink cowboy hats. They also sell miniature pencil sharpeners, palm-size kitchen utensils, scaled-down books and camping chairs so small they …From insideHPC
MLPerf Training and HPC Benchmark Show 49X Performance Gains in 5 Years
MLCommons said the results highlight performance gains of up to 2.8X compared to 5 months ago and 49X over the first results five years ago, "reflecting the tremendous rate of innovation in systems for machine learning," the
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From insideHPC
DDN Launches Infinia, Software-Defined Storage for Enterprise AI and Cloud
Aimed at cloud platform and large HPC, hyperscale and data center environments, Infinia combines multi-tenancy at scale, containerization and high performance. "The novel architecture accelerates and simplifies workflows for…
From insideHPC
Ayar Labs to Show 4 Tbps Optically-enabled Intel FPGA at SC23
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Nov. 8, 2023 – Ayar Labs, a company developing silicon photonics for chip-to-chip connectivity, will showcase its in-package optical I/O solution integrated with Intel’s Agilex Field-Programmable Gate Array…
From Schneier on Security
Decoupling for Security
This is an excerpt from a longer paper. You can read the whole thing (complete with sidebars and illustrations) here.
Our message is simple: it is possible to get the best of both worlds. We can and should get the benefits of…From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Industry Analyst Karl Freund Compares and Contrasts the Chips Driving the AI Revolution
Few people can talk in such an engaging way about the chips driving the AI revolution as Karl Freund, founder and principal analyst at Cambrian-AI Research. He joins us to discuss the, well, "Cambrian explosion" we're witnessing…
From insideHPC
Quantum Machines and QuEra Computing Win Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation Award
Tel Aviv and Boston, November 7, 2023 – Quantum Machines, the provider of quantum control solutions that accelerate the development of practical quantum computers, and neutral-atom quantum computing company QuEra Computing today…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Generating arrays at compile-time in C++ with lambdas
Suppose that you want to check whether a character in C++ belongs to a fixed set, such as ‘\0’, ‘\x09’, ‘\x0a’,’\x0d’, ‘ ‘, ‘#’, ‘/’, ‘:’, ‘<‘, ‘>’, ‘?’, ‘@’, ‘[‘, ‘\\’, ‘]’, ‘^’, ‘|’. A simple way is to generate a 256-byte array…
From insideHPC
ThinkParQ and System Fabric Works in Joint Venture
Kaiserslautern, Germany, November 7, 2023, ThinkParQ the company behind the parallel file system BeeGFS, announced today the launch ThinkinQ a new joint venture company between ThinkParQ and System Fabric Works. ThinkinQ’s primary…
From Schneier on Security
Spaf on the Morris Worm
Gene Spafford wrote an essay reflecting on the Morris Worm of 1988—35 years ago. His lessons from then are still applicable today.
From insideHPC
Optical I/O Takes Center Stage at SC23
[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] Integration of optical I/O with an FPGA is the tip of the iceberg of a new vision to enable new HPC/AI architectural advances through ubiquitous optical interconnects for every piece of compute silicon…