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 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…
From insideHPC
Penguin Solutions Expands its AI Management Software Platform and Launches AI Service
Milpitas, Calif. – March 4, 2025 – Penguin Solutions, Inc. (Penguin Solutions; Nasdaq: PENG) today announced the expansion of its ICE ClusterWare software platform, (formerly Scyld ClusterWare) with multi-tenancy support, streamlined…
From Schneier on Security
Trojaned AI Tool Leads to Disney Hack
This is a sad story of someone who downloaded a Trojaned AI tool that resulted in hackers taking over his computer and, ultimately, costing him his job.
From insideHPC
TSMC to Invest $100B in 3 New U.S. Advanced Fabs, Packaging, R&D
TSMC today said it will expand its investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. by an additional $100 billion. Building on the company’s ongoing $65 billion investment in its advanced chip fabs in Phoenix, TSMC…
From insideHPC
HPC News Bytes 20250303: DOGE and Fears at U.S. Science Agencies, Cat Qubits for AWS Quantum, GPUs vs. ASICs for AI Compute
A happy start to March to you! We offer a quick (8:28) run through recent news from the world of HPC-AI, including: DOGE-led government layoffs and funding disruptions at U.S. science agencies, AWS quantum cat qubits, GPUs versus…
From The Noisy Channel
ChatGPT, Are You Just Telling Me What I Want to Hear?
These days, the Turing Test — which Turing originally called the “imitation game” — feels hopelessly outdated. With deepfakes and AI-generated content becoming increasingly sophisticated, we struggle to distinguish humans from…
From Computational Complexity
Karp recently turned 90 but there was no conference to celebrate that. Which numbers do we use and why?
Karp turned 90 in January of 2025. I searched to see if there is a 90th Birthday Conference for him. I did not find one (is there one?). For which years do we have celebratory birthday conferences?
Here are some conferencesEric…From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Maria Cunitz: astronomer and algorithmic thinker
When did women first contribute to the subject we now call Computer Science: developing useful algorithms, for example? Perhaps you would guess Ada Lovelace in the Victorian era so the mid 1800s? She corrected one of CharlesContinue…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How fast can you open 1000 files?
Jarred Sumner, the main author of the Bun JavaScript engine, commented a few days ago on X that opening many files on macOS could be slow due to thread contention: “your $5,000 computer is only capable of opening 1 file at aContinue…