Communications of the ACM
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March 2025
From insideHPC
@HPCpodcast: Dr. Ian Cutress on the State of Advanced Chips, the GPU Landscape and AI Compute, Global Chip Manufacturing and GTC Expectations
Just before GTC (and for the 100th episode of the @HPCpodcast), we welcome special guest and high-powered chip industry analyst Dr. Ian Cutress, Chief Analyst at More Than Moore and host of the popular YouTube channel TechTechPotato…
From insideHPC
European Space Agency and HPE Launch HPC Space Facility
March 12, 2025 — The European Space Agency, in partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), has inaugurated its high-performance computing (Space HPC) environment at ESRIN, Italy. The opening, on Wednesday 12 March, marks…
From insideHPC
Intel Appoints Former Cadence Chief Lip-Bu Tan as CEO
SANTA CLARA, Calif.– Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) today announced that its board of directors has appointed Lip-Bu Tan as chief executive officer, effective March 18. He succeeds Interim Co-CEOs David Zinsner and Michelle…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CCC Quadrennial Paper Recommends an Approach to National Cybersecurity Based on the US Public Health System
The fields of Cybersecurity and Public Health possess many similar attributes. For one, both fields prioritize prevention over reaction in the case of cyber attacks or outbreaks, and both quickly begin focusing on tracking…
From insideHPC
Quantum vs. Classical HPC: D-Wave Reports Quantum Supremacy on Materials Simulation
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (NYSE: QBTS) today announced a quantum advance published in the journal Science, confirming that its annealing quantum computer outperformed one of the world’s most powerful classical supercomputers in solving…
From insideHPC
CoreWeave in $11.9B AI Infrastructure Deal with OpenAI
March 10, 2025 — GPU cloud company CoreWeave today announced a deal to deliver AI infrastructure to OpenAI, expanding OpenAI’s compute capacity for training and delivering its latest models at scale to its hundreds of millions…
From insideHPC
VAST Data Adds Capabilities for Agentic Applications
March 12, 2025 – VAST Data today announced enhancements to its data platform, making it the first system to unify structured and unstructured data into a single data space that scales linearly, according to the company. VAST
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From Computational Complexity
Covid and Complexity
As we hit five years from when the world shut down, lots of discussions on how Covid has changed society. What about academia and computer science?
It's a challenging question to ask as Covid is not the only major change in the…From Schneier on Security
China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea Intelligence Sharing
Former CISA Director Jen Easterly writes about a new international intelligence sharing co-op:
Historically, China, Russia, Iran & North Korea have cooperated to some extent on military and intelligence matters, but differences…From insideHPC
Photonic Fabric: Celestial AI Secures $250M Series C Funding
SANTA CLARA, CA – March 11, 2025 – Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Fabric optical interconnect, today announced that it has raised $250 million in its Series C1 funding round led by Fidelity Management & Research Company…
From insideHPC
Vertiv Introduces Heat Rejection System for Hybrid Liquid and Air Cooling for AI and HPC
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a provider of digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, today made an addition to its thermal management portfolio, with the introduction of the Vertiv CoolLoop Trim Cooler, in support…
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 Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Rethinking High School Computer Science
I love programming. I took a computer science course as an undergraduate and really fell in love with programming.While I made my living writing code for many years, my wife once wondered if I would have been happier with coding…
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…