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
TSMC Holds 2nm Capacity Expansion Ceremony, Volume Production Slated for Second Half of Year
TSMC today held a 2 nanometer (2nm) capacity expansion ceremony at the construction site of Fab 22 in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), bringing together representatives from government as well as construction and supplier…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
California Seeks Feedback on Draft Report Guiding Oversight of AI Frontier Models
On March 18, 2025, the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models released a draft report that could help shape how the state navigates the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI). Commissioned…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Music-making mates for Mortimer
Robots are cool. Fact. But can they keep you interested for more than a short time? Over months? Years even? Louis McCallum of Queen Mary University of London tells us about his research using Mortimer a drumming robot. Roboticists…
From insideHPC
AI Factory: AMD in $4.9 Billion Acquisition of ZT Systems
On the heels of winning a 30,000 GPU cluster deal with Oracle, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced a move into the AI infrastructure arena, reflecting a trend toward integration — or verticalization — of chip makers and the AI
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From insideHPC
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute E6 Shapes Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs
SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2025 — Today, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors power the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Compute E6 Standard shapes. 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, CPUs for enterprise, AI…
From insideHPC
Trane Announces Data Center Air-Cooled Chillers
DAVIDSON, N.C., March 27, 2025 – Trane – by Trane Technologies (NYSE: TT), announced the development of two new air-cooled chiller offerings – Magnetic Bearing chillers and Ascend chillers for facility chilled water cooling
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From Schneier on Security
The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a US attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on March 15, is seemingly now suggesting that the secure messaging service Signal has security…
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Teaching The Writing of Secure Code
One of the great problems of teaching computer science is that there is a limited amount of time to teach and an unlimited amount of things that can be taught. There is very little degree of agreement of what must be taught.Few…
From insideHPC
Pasqal Selected for 140-Qubit Quantum Computer to Be Hosted at CINECA
March 27, 2025 — Pasqal, a neutral-atom quantum computing company, announced the signing of the procurement contract with the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) to deliver EuroQCS-Italy, a quantum…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Philippa Gardner bringing law and order to a wild west
Verified Trustworthy Software The computing world is a wild west, with bugs in software the norm, and malicious people and hostile countries making use of them to attack people, companies and other nations. We can do better.Continue…
From Computational Complexity
Survey's are done stupidly/A stupid question from a survey
I have often began taking a survey and quit in the middle. Why?
1) It goes on to long. When I told the surveyors that he may get more people quitting for that reason so he should make is shorter he said, rather rudely, that he…From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Mixing ARM NEON with SVE code for fun and profit
Most mobile devices use 64-bit ARM processors. A growing number of servers (Amazon, Microsoft) also use 64-bit ARM processors. These processors have special instructions called ARM NEON providing parallelism called Single instruction…
From CS4FN (Computer Science For Fun)
Soft squidgy robots
Think of a robot and you probably think of something hard, metal, solid. Bang into one and it would hurt! But researchers are inventing soft robots, ones that are either completely squidgy or have squidgy skins. Researchers often…
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Werewolf Hacking Group
In another rare squid/cybersecurity intersection, APT37 is also known as “Squid Werewolf.”
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
From insideHPC
Fluidstack to Deploy Exascale GPU Clusters in Europe with NVIDIA, Borealis Data Center and Dell
March 25, 2025 – Fluidstack, an AI cloud platform, announced it is deploying and managing exascale clusters across Iceland and Europe in collaboration with Borealis Data Center, Dell Technologies and NVIDIA. “Our mission has
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From insideHPC
Hyperscale Data Completes First Installation of Nvidia GPUs for HPC Customer
LAS VEGAS, March 28, 2025 — Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: GPUS), a diversified holding company, today announced the successful installation of its first Nvidia GPU deployment for a new Silicon Valley-based cloud services…
From insideHPC
Gates Announces Large-Diameter Hose for Data Center Cooling
DENVER, March 28, 2025—Gates (NYSE: GTES), a manufacturer of power transmission and fluid power solutions, today announced the launch of Data Master MegaFlex, a large-diameter data center cooling hose that joins the Data Master…
From Schneier on Security
AIs as Trusted Third Parties
This is a truly fascinating paper: “Trusted Machine Learning Models Unlock Private Inference for Problems Currently Infeasible with Cryptography.” The basic idea is that AIs can act as trusted third parties:
Abstract: We often…From insideHPC
CIQ Fuzzball Federation Capabilities for Deployment of AI and HPC Workloads Across Regions, Clouds and Data Centers
March 27, 2025, Reno, Nev. – CIQ today announced the availability of federation capabilities in their Fuzzball performance-intensive computing platform. This release is designed to allow engineering teams and business analysts…
From The Noisy Channel
Precision, Recall, and Desirability: A Deep Dive
This post expands on my previous discussion of “Precision, Recall, and Desirability,” diving deeper into defining, motivating, measuring, identifying, and addressing these key search concerns.
Precision
What is precision?
Precision…From insideHPC
Upper90 Closes $225M Credit Facility to Crusoe to Expand AI Cloud Infrastructure
NEW YORK, March 27, 2025 — Upper90 Capital Management, LP, an asset-backed private credit firm, announced today the closing of an approximately $225 million credit facility for Crusoe, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure…
From insideHPC
Report: Oracle to Deploy AI Cluster with 30,000 AMD MI355X Accelerators
Nvidia, hot off the festivities of its big GTC conference last week in San Jose, dominates the GPU market with a roughly 95 percent share. But the question remains whether and how other suppliers will make inroads into the sector…
From insideHPC
Corning Launches GlassWorks Cable and Connectivity for AI Data Center Infrastructures
March 27, 2025, CORNING, NY – Corning Inc. (NYSE:GLW) today launched Corning GlassWorks AI solutions, which the company described as a one-stop shop of customized data center products and services to help operators build the
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From insideHPC
ALCF Announces CUDA to SYCL Webinar April 29
The Argonne Leadership Computing Facility has announced a webinar covering the process of porting CUDA code to SYCL, with a focus on high-performance math libraries like cuBLAS and cuFFT, to be held Tuesday, April 29. Registration…
From insideHPC
Workato Launches Platform Combining AI and Orchestration
March 27, 2025, PALO ALTO, Calif.– Enterprise orchestration platform provider Workato announced the next phase of the Agentic Enterprise with Workato One at the company’s Work to the Power of AI event in New York today. Workato…
From Schneier on Security
A Taxonomy of Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks and Mitigations
NIST just released a comprehensive taxonomy of adversarial machine learning attacks and countermeasures.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
CRA and CCC Share Best Practices to Help Funders Support Interdisciplinary Research
Interdisciplinary research in computing is vital for addressing complex societal challenges. However, despite its importance, fostering successful interdisciplinary collaborations remains a significant challenge. The Computing…
From Computational Complexity
What Happened to MOOCS?
In 2012 I wrote a blog post about the growing influence of Massively Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.
John Hennessey, president of Stanford, gave the CRA keynote address arguing that MOOCs will save universities. He puts the untenable…From Schneier on Security
AI Data Poisoning
Cloudflare has a new feature—available to free users as well—that uses AI to generate random pages to feed to AI web crawlers:
Instead of simply blocking bots, Cloudflare’s new system lures them into a “maze” of realistic-looking…From insideHPC
Phasecraft: Algorithm Improves Quantum Simulation Efficiency
Bristol, London and Washington, D.C, 26 March 2025: Quantum algorithms company Phasecraft said it has developed a novel approach to quantum simulation that improves efficiency while cutting computational costs. The method, known…